Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.26.2004
He goes up to where Adam is monitoring the satellite feed and pulls him away. Adam doesn't want to move, but Soul Patch assures him that Potato Face will watch the feed. When will she watch it, Soul Patch? Because right now she's just standing where you left her, looking wounded, nowhere near a computer monitor. Soul Patch tries to lead Adam to a conference room, but he's all in a twist to get back to work and insists that Soul Patch tell him what's up right now. Soul Patch does. Adam doesn't take it too well. I'm thinking that if three per cent of the city is in quarantine, everyone at CTU is likely to know somebody who's behind a plastic curtain. Adam's in denial, but Soul Patch assures him that Potato Face confirmed it. Maybe that's something Soul Patch should confirm himself? I'm just saying. Adam is frozen in shock. I guess he doesn't hate all women. Soul Patch asks whether Adam can pull it together long enough to get through the day, and Adam spacily nods. Soul Patch leaves him standing there on the mezzanine. Chloe continues to stand in the spot where Soul Patch left her, looking all scrunchy-faced. Adam stands there some more.
8:44:35. Saunders is telling someone on the phone that he's completely surrounded. Where does he find all of these empty buildings, anyway? Of course, he doesn't know that nobody is watching the satellite feed of his building at the moment. He does know that the security guard a block away missed his last patrol, which tells Saunders that CTU is in the house. He tells the person he's talking to that he's going to wait for Kiefer. Too bad he shot Fauxbayashi; otherwise he could still be doing all of this expository dialogue face-to-face.
A block away, Special Agent Charlie Brown is briefing a team of agents on the situation with the perimeters and snipers and whatnot. Kiefer hops out of an approaching car. Wow, twenty-two minutes to travel the ninety-some miles back from Santa Barbara? He must have had a stiff headwind on the return trip. Kiefer is on the scene for all of twelve seconds -- long enough to confirm that they haven't jammed Saunders's communications or been able to get an infrared reading on him through the building's walls -- before a reflection in a laptop monitor lights up his Kiefer-sense and tells him that Saunders knows they're there. "What makes you say that?" asks Special Agent Charlie Brown. Kiefer says, "Because I would." However, Kiefer doesn't know why Saunders isn't trying to escape, and he doesn't care. I guess that Kiefer-sense isn't always a hundred percent. He gives the order for the teams to move into position. Cops and agents, including Agent Baker, swarm around the building, guns ready. Kiefer and Charlie Brown ride into place while hanging out the side doors of an SUV, which, I'm sorry, looks like just about the dorkiest thing ever. Hey, remember two hours ago when Special Agent Charlie Brown and two other agents stormed a building in, like two minutes, silently killing five guards? Not so much with that this time around. Apparently stealth isn't a priority when a threat deadline has already passed. Kiefer's got a bullhorn and everything. Through it, he tells Saunders that the president isn't playing ball any more, Spawnders is in CTU custody, and the only way Saunders is going to get out of this alive is "coming through the front door with your hands on your head." Cut to Saunders just sitting at his desk, wondering if he should have gone with the slate-gray turtleneck rather than the charcoal, not calling his guy in San Francisco like he said he would, and saying to himself, "That's not exactly true, Kiefer." Whatever could he mean by that?