Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 4: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on January 16, 2005
Previously on 24: DaD and DoDder tried to escape, and suffered dire consequences in the form of yet another threat on DoDder's life. Kiefer held up the Velveteen-Voiced Hostile by holding up the gas station he was at. Potato Face asked Lispy Skip for help (and she gets her own little freeze-frame with her name next to it this week, which I think is a first). AIIIEEEE!sha overheard their conversation and planned to blackmail Skip as soon as she could think of something she wanted from him. Potato Face got busted messing with satellites (and she gets her "Whatever, I was going to quit anyway" line replayed over the "Counter Terrorist Unit" freeze-frame. She's so out of here). Kiefer promised Driscoll that VVH was going to lead them to DaD, and then Kiefer got nabbed by the cops. Probably something to do with that holdup he staged. The following takes place between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM.
At CTU, Driscoll asks if the satellite is still tracking VVH, roughly four minutes after she gave the order to do just that. Needless to say, it is. Driscoll asks Curtis to pull together tactical teams. As Curtis moves to do so, AIIIEEEE!sha offers to do it herself. Curtis neutrally explains that the task "requires a level-three channel. You don't have that kind of clearance." A normal person wouldn't take that personally, especially during her second hour on the job. AIIIEEEE!sha, on the other hand, sits there blinking like she's been slapped. Which, I wish.
Special Agent Breck notifies Driscoll that someone from the Sheriff's Department is on the line. "He says it's important," she adds, which is always enough to get the head of CTU on the line right away. Seriously, it is. ["And -- does anyone call Driscoll, like, just to ask for a recipe or something? She's the head of CTU; it's always important. Shut up, show." -- Sars] In this case, it actually is important, as we see the police sergeant calling from the road where Kiefer was collared. Kiefer, incidentally, has found himself living the opening passages of a particularly lurid fanfic; he's handcuffed and bent over the hood of a police car. The cop explains about Kiefer's holdup and his claim that it was part of a CTU operation. Driscoll is apparently being written by people who like her this week, so she quickly backs Kiefer's story, even the part that's clearly news to her. "It might be nice if you communicated with us a little better," the cop remarks laconically. Driscoll makes noises about national security and apologizes before asking to talk to Kiefer. And just like that, Kiefer's free.