Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Putting The "Curt" In "Curtis"
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.14.2007
8:41:36. In the dinky little Echo, Assad surreptitiously checks to make sure his phone is still on before asking if the Handler lives around here. The Handler isn't very forthcoming, and is in fact a bit suspicious of Assad's questions, but Assad says that he just wants to make sure the Handler can get back to his car. The Handler directs Assad to take the next right and drop him off at the end of the street. Chloe knows exactly where that is, and gives directions over Kiefer's earpiece. Nadia tells her, "Bring up the data on all commercial and residential buildings within a half-mile and then begin a pre-sort." "You mean like I'm doing already?" Chloe snots.
Assad takes a right at a corner marked "Not a Through Street." Curtis and Kiefer's little caravan comes to a stop out of sight on the corner behind, which is good, because if they'd followed Assad into a dead end, that might just have tipped off the Handler. Assad lets the Handler out of the car at the end of the street, and the Handler thanks him for his trouble before walking through a gap in a fence and out of sight. Assad picks up his phone and notifies CTU that the Handler is crossing 64th Road and heading for the commercial district. In seconds, Chloe has the Handler in the crosshairs of a surveillance satellite.
Assad turns his car around and meets up with the CTU team. Curtis gets out of the CTUmobile, hatred in his eyes, and walks slowly with everyone else to meet Assad. I'm starting to think Curtis's feelings may have something to do with Assad in particular and not just terrorists in general. Over his earpiece, Curtis tells the driver of the other CTUmobile to set up a "perimeter" on the other side of 64th Road. The fact that one car can constitute a perimeter for these people explains a great deal. Standing outside his Echo, Assad warns Curtis, "He'll be well trained. Be careful." "My men," Curtis spits at Assad, "know their job." Kiefer's nervous about Curtis's new attitude, and Assad's like, "Do I know you?" Curtis says, "No. But I know you." Oh, girls. Save it for later. Curtis tells his sidekick, a Handsome Black Agent named Borman, to take Assad and search him for weapons. Kiefer intervenes, saying that Assad's part of the operation. "Not anymore," Curtis growls, and storms off. Before Borman can follow Curtis's orders, Kiefer turns to Assad and tells him, "I'll take care of it as soon as this is over, I promise." Assad wordlessly consents to the weapons search and follows Borman to Curtis's CTUmobile. Kiefer thanks Assad for his help, already looking forward to their first conjugal visit.