Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT ImHoudini
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.24.2005
CTU. Now that DoDder's done trying to make Kiefer feel bad, she's free to come rip a strip off of Buchanan, charging across the floor and yelling at him like she owns the place. He ushers DoDder into the conference room, insisting that "it had to be done." Which I still don't agree with, but there's not much to do about it now besides move on. She's pretty pissed about the contravention of the Veep's order, but Buchanan says in this case he'd rather ask for forgiveness than permission. That only works if you haven't already been denied permission, I think. "I hope this does not come back to haunt you or Kiefer," she says, so angrily that I'm pretty sure she's lying. Buchanan, to his credit, says that if it nets them ImhoTerror, they'll live with it. At least he's not trying to weasel out of his responsibility. And thanks, show, for making an irritating character the only one who agrees with me on this. At least I can take comfort in the fact that she's agreeing with me for the wrong reasons.
It's 11:11:06 as PHMC comes out of the Undal Office to face the Veep. Took his sweet time, didn't he? PMHC nervously reports that CTU located ImhoTerror and has a tactical team on the way. "That's good news," the Veep says suspiciously. He quickly figures out that force was used, and PMHC doesn't bother trying to deceive him, although he gives up Kiefer's name only reluctantly. The Veep is pissed off at Kiefer's insubordination, and orders Kiefer arrested. PHMC is like, sure, after we have ImhoTerror. But the Veep Veruca Salts that he wants Kiefer arrested now. Now, Daddy! PHMC tries to talk the Veep out of his tree, but the Veep picks up the phone himself, demanding to talk to Secret Service. To…protect him extra hard from Kiefer or something? I don't know.
At CTU, Buchanan wraps up some busywork while we give PMHC time to get away from the Veep and give CTU a call. He warns Buchanan that the Veep is pretty pissed off. Buchanan says the Veep can bring charges against him tomorrow, but PMHC tells him that what the Veep wants is to have Kiefer arrested, and right now. Buchanan steps into a room and tells PMHC that Kiefer's in charge of the ImhoTerror-nabbing team. Well, here's a thought, Buchanan: maybe you shouldn't have assigned that to someone who had a pretty good chance of becoming a fugitive some time in the next ten minutes. PMHC says the Veep is adamant. Now that he's finally made a decision, he won't be talked out of it. Although he leaves out that last part. Buchanan rants at PMHC, but it doesn't do any good. As PMHC says, the Veep has already called the Secret Service and they're on their way to get Kiefer now. "I suggest you warn him immediately." It's 1:13:52.