Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast?
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 01.14.2002
From the archive room, which you know is some crappy junk room because the brand-new furniture inside looks totally affordable, Nina watches Jalapeno squirm over the security cameras. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that this "junk room" that everyone has forgotten about has a giant konsole of monitors hooked up to the security cameras so that Soul Patch and Nina can monitor everything that's happening at CTU. And yes, that includes the bathrooms. No wonder Soul Patch knew about this room. I bet he installed a hidden lube and tissue caddy somewhere. The phone rings. It's Head Secret Service Guy getting back to Soul Patch. SP tells HSSG that Kiefer is at the breakfast and might be "compromised." HSSG remembers giving Kiefer "klearance," and promises to take appropriate action. Meanwhile, Nina sees Jalapeno leaving her desk over the security cameras, and gives Soul Patch a heads-up. Jalapeno enters the ladies' room and gets into a stall. Nina gives Jalapeno's location to Soul Patch over some headsets they're now wearing. Soul Patch pretends to be reading some files outside the ladies' and waits for Nina's okay. When the security cameras, which are on a "twenty-second loop," are blinded to the ladies' room, Nina gives the go-ahead. Soul Patch enters the ladies room, gets into the stall next to Jalapeno, spies her trying to contact Gaines over her Palm Pilot, pulls a gun on her, and drags her ass out of there. Gaines checks the KieferKonsole, doesn't see a thing, and turns his attention back to the Palmer breakfast, where…
…Palmer, accompanied by Lady MacPalmer, is mingling with the crowd and defending a future tax hike to a pony-tailed hardhat. I guess that means he's a Democrat. Hee! Head Secret Service Guy, a.k.a. Political Party Pooper, takes Palmer aside and tells him that they've got a situation on their hands involving a compromised CTU agent. Palmer refuses to cancel his speech. Instead, he tells PPP to take care of Kiefer kwietly. "There's something I have to say this morning," says Palmer. PPP insists, but Palmer is unmoved. He gets on his wrist mike and orders all the Secret Service agents to kontain Kiefer. Intense Black Secret Service Guy reports into his wrist-mike that he has a "twenty" on Kiefer. The search begins.
Soul Patch throws Jalapeno into the archive room. "Hi Jamey," says Nina, emerging from a shadowy corner. Heh! Jalapeno tries to hide her shock and play dumb until Nina throws her up against a control panel and tells her to start talking. "They told me no one would get hurt," says Jalapeno, crumbling like a store-bought El Paso cornmeal taco shell. She tells Soul Patch and Nina that she was only helping them tap into the CTU security cameras at first, and then she started sending them messages from inside. Soul gets rough too and demands that Jalapeno explain to them who "they" are. Jalapeno shuts up as tight as a tamale and refuses to speak without a lawyer present. They handcuff to her a desk.