Episode Report Card Gustave: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spawn, I'm going on a trip...
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.03.2003
An ad for Bringing Down Da House. Wow, Queen Latifah is really representing the sisters. You know, it used to be that the only way you could release a major motion picture about a black woman of size was to make it about a sassy maid. Well, Bringing Down Da House doesn't stoop like that. Queen Latifah doesn't play a maid. Hell no! Queen Latifah plays an ex-con who goes on a blind date with Steve Martin, moves into his house, cleans up for him, and takes care of his kids for free. That's progress! Oh, and am I the only American who doesn't think that Eugene Levy is that funny when he says, "You've got me straight trippin' boo!"?
The time is 10:52:21 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Kiefer and Mason share the cockpit, Spawn walks alone down the highway, and Palmer sits at his desk. Up in Flight 86, Mason reminds Kiefer that it's getting to be time for him to bail on the plane. "Get your chute on and get the hell out of here," he says. Kiefer insists on staying up until four minutes before impact. He calls CTU and has them send a chopper to pick him up in the desert. Soul Patch swings by Bitchelle's desk as she is briefing some visiting agents, explains to her that Mason is taking over Kiefer's suicide mission, and has her send the Kiefer-copter. On his way back to the Kiefer Kube, Soul Patch runs into PoorMan'sArmandAssante, who demands to see the results of the hard drive encryption. Soul Patch tells him that he can't have clearance. PMAA reminds Soul Patch that he's the one who gave them the location of Syed Ali's safe house in the first place. "I'm sorry," says Soul Patch. "But I can't tell you at this time." "You Americans…" says PMAA. "'We Americans' what?" says Soul Patch. "Nothing," says PMAA.
Air Force One is in the air. Rolaide walks into Palmer's in-flight office and introduces "General Bowden." General Bowden is from the Joint Chiefs, is built like a tank, and has a chest full of medals. I'm sensing a "war-like" iconography going on with this character. He's there to discuss retaliation plans against those three unnamed countries. Palmer argues that they don't know for sure if those countries were really behind the B-O-M-B. "But for planning purposes, we should proceed as if they were," says Bowden, asking Palmer to activate the plan to invade these three countries. "'Activate'?" asks Palmer, surprised that there are already plans in effect. Bowden explains that there are plans drawn up for "every conceivable contingency." Palmer gives Bowden the okay to activate the plan, but warns him that the military can not implement the plan without direct authorization from him. Bowden exits. "We may be talking about World War Three," says Palmer to Rolaide.