Episode Report Card Gustave: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What a riot!
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.07.2003
Back at District, Palmer and his staff continue to watch Fox News, which is reporting that the rioting is getting worse, complete with fires and looting. Rolaide has the National Guard on hold. They want the President to advise them on how they should proceed. "What are they on now?" asks Palmer. Rolaide explains that they are on "containment only" and therefore allowing misdemeanors to go unchallenged. "That's unacceptable," says Palmer. "I want the law enforced." PMHC points out that if the president enacts a curfew, they have all the justification they need to start making widespread arrests. Palmer orders a curfew, and tells Rolaide to pass along a message to the National Guard that they should not be afraid to take action. Okay, get ready for the second schlockiest line of the entire evening. It belongs to PMHC. Okay. Here it is. "What will help more than anything is your voice," says PMHC. "You need to talk directly to the people!" Palmer considers this and then has PMHC call Asian Patty, presumably to set up a press conference. What's the schlockiest line of the evening, you ask? Oh, it's coming. Don't worry.
CTU. Soul Patch hobbles onto the floor and tells Lesbo-Carrie that the LAPD are reporting military-grade gunfire just outside of a warehouse in Studio City. He has her check the location against what Bitchelle pulled from the satellite. "Is that the location, Bitchelle, is it?" taunts Soul Patch, hobbling over to Bitchelle's workstation. Bitchelle is busted. She even acknowledges it. Soul Patch wants to send agents over, but Bitchelle protests that Kiefer can only get his proof if CTU doesn't get involved. "We don't even know if he's still alive," shouts Soul Patch as Carrie listens intently from across the floor. Bitchelle calls Kiefer on her cell phone. The number won't be traceable, according to Bitchelle, but Soul Patch can at least talk to Kiefer. Kiefer's cell phone rings inside the Kiefmobile. He answers it, expecting to be talking to Bitchelle, but it's Soul Patch. "You need to stay out of this," says Kiefer in a distressed velvet roar. He explains that he's gathering evidence on Palmer's orders and that the man who has proof of the tape's inauthenticity, SeventhCoralSnake, is only going to deal with Kiefer, not CTU. "How do you know he's not using you?" asks Soul Patch. Kiefer replies that he couldn't be using Kiefer to escape, because commandos are trying to kill him for making this deal and giving Kiefer this information. Soul Patch insists that Kiefer bring SCS into CTU. "This is way too big for one person to handle," says Soul Patch. "Sorry," says Kiefer. "I can't do it." The time is 01:34:06 AM.