Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blondes and Bombshells
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.28.2002
Back at CTU, Nina 2.0 swings by Soul Patch's desk, puts her face way too close to his, and tells him that she thinks something important is up, because there's been an "information flow advisory" declared. This apparently means that another agency is being brought in to advise them or something. Soul Patch tells her to call in some agents that have the day off that day, and then to go filter some information, whatever that means. Nina 2.0 draws back from Soul Patch's personal space and goes off to do his bidding, glancing back at him meaningfully and catching his eye. In yet another one of those ambiguo-shots that 24 is famous for where you don't know whether someone is up to no good or just plain horny, Darlene watches Nina 2.0 intensely as she sits down at her desk. Removing her glasses and hooking them on the neckline of her peasant top, she walks over to Nina 2.0's desk and asks her what's going on…with the "information flow advisory" and Kiefer being brought in, that is. Nina 2.0 insists that everything is going to be fine. Darlene flips her Clifford The Dog haircut in Nina 2.0's face and offers to do some Whatever programming for her. Nina 2.0 tells her to stop trying too hard. Darlene apologizes, and exposits that she's been waiting "two years for this assignment" and she's just excited.
Mason calls for an emergency meeting of all the department heads. Soul Patch, Nina 2.0, Darlene, and eight other super-chic and multi-racial extras gather around Mason at the foot of the stairs leading to Ye Olde KieferKube. These people are all department heads? What departments? Personal shopping? Visual display? Anyway, instead of going into a conference call and, say, closing the door and having a private meeting, Mason tells everyone gathered about the nuclear bomb right then and there on the main floor of CTU. Yeah, try keeping that top secret. Mason insists that they all stop communicating with anyone outside of their division, and that there are to be no calls or emails to family, friends, or otherwise. They are to find the bomb and defuse it without creating a panic. Jack, Nina 2.0, and Darlene are horrified, while the extras look like they're getting lecture on folding and stacking sweaters properly. The "meeting" breaks up, and Soul Patch asks Mason if the kall to Kiefer has anything to do with this emergency and why Kiefer is the one they need. Mason replies that Kiefer's kallback is related to the nuclear emergency and has something to do with an underkover assignment he did a long time ago.