Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sisters in disguise
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.03.2003
The time is 06:09:45. Across from the mosque where Syed Ali has gone to pray, CTU agents have set up makeshift headquarters in an empty parking garage across the street. Now, I've spoken before about multi-level parking garages and how they are scary-ass places, but even I have never contemplated the full horror of a parking garage located across the street from an Islamic mosque with terrorist connections. I mean, we're talking about a veritable one-stop shopping district of bad shit. What else is on this block? An abortion clinic? A fireworks factory? A smallpox rehab center? A public high school? The post office? The Kiefmobile enters, and Kiefer escorts Cate out of the SUV. An agent tries to get Cate out of Kiefer's way, but Kiefer insists that although Cate is not a CTU agent, she is his love interest this season, and therefore she must be with him at all times for whatever reasons the writers can come up with. That hot Asian guy from Angel enters and briefs Kiefer on how many people are inside Our Lady of Kandahar. Apparently, there are 100-125 worshippers inside, in contrast to the thirty CTU agents deployed and ready. Thusly, Kiefer decides that they shouldn't make a move on Temple El-Kaboom just yet. "If we go in hot," explains Kiefer, "we're going to have a crowd control situation." Heh! Kiefer just said "go in hot"! Anyway, it's decided that they should wait until prayer services end, and have Cate identify Syed Ali as he exits the building so they can take him out "fast and alive." HotAsianGuyFromAngel argues that they don't even know if Syed is at this particular mosque, and they probably shouldn't wait. Cate offers to go inside and identify him herself. "I'll wear a hijab," she suggests. "It will hide my face." Kiefer is all, "I don't feel comfortable putting you in that kind of a position." Heh! Kiefer just said "position"! "From what you've told me," argues Cate. "We're all in a pretty bad 'position.'" She insists on being given a chance to help out. Kiefer asks her if she's sure she wants to do this. Oh, please -- this is the same Nosy Parker who sicced a private detective on her sister's fiancé. She's willing to snoop around in the name of democracy, all right. The time is 06:11:31 PM.
Now they're showing an ad for that Bruce Willis war movie, Tears of the Sun, which features the line "the lives of many rest in the courage of a few." I guess these marketing people figured that anyone who'd watch 24 would see just about anything that had one of those "many" vs. "few" themes…even a Bruce Willis flick that's being released in early March. Because you just know that when an action flick isn't released during the summer or the holiday season, even the studio knows how much it sucks. Oh, and "coffee's not coffee without Coffeemate"? Please. Coffeemate is the ultimate "fuck you" to people like me who can't drink black coffee. You only see Coffeemate when the coffee is being offered as some kind of hollow courtesy, like when you're applying for a job at a temp agency or taking a continuing ed class at the local community college. It's like, "Oh, we don't really care enough about you to buy milk and keep it refrigerated, so we're just going to keep this jar of hydrogenated soybean oil powder around. Enjoy!" Is it me, or is Carrot Top looking a little old? Ever since a friend of mine told me that he's forty, I've been obsessively studying his face in these Call-ATT commercials. You know, if you cut his hair and put him in a pair of Dockers, he could be a low-level vice president at Citibank.