Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Terrorist Leader: 2. Bloated Government Bureaucracy: 1.
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.27.2005
At 9:20:36, people are getting ready in the observation room. This includes a nice shot of CTU's buffet of interrogation drugs. Soul Patch reminds Curtis that TerrorTeen doesn't know about TerrorMom's death, and Curtis steps inside with the kid. TerrorTeen asks what's going on, and about his mom. Curtis lies that she's fine, so he relaxes. Until Curtis grabs him up out of his chair and throws him against the wall. Ah, remodeling again. "Why are you doing this?" TerrorTeen whines. Well, kid, you're a terrorist, and you're in the Counter Terrorism Unit. Just be glad there's not a counter in there or your unit would be sitting on it. I'm sorry, that joke barely even makes sense to me. Curtis drops TerrorTeen back into his chair and grills him for what he knows about ImhoTerror. All the kid knows is that ImhoTerror is "the leader." Curtis turns and looks at the one-way glass. In the observation room, Soul Patch says. "Go ahead," to Eric the Torture Guy, who goes charging into the interrogation room with a syringe in his fist. "Sorry…we just don't have a lot of time," Curtis apologizes to a screaming TerrorTeen. Soul Patch watches dispassionately.
ImhoTerror calls CTU back. Lispy Skip announces the call, and as Bitchelle screws in her earpiece she hollers to the floor, "Everyone on this." People pick up phones all over the floor. ImhoTerror's first words to her are, "Union Conduit Dam. Thirty minutes." Bitchelle wants to know that Kiefer's still alive. ImhoTerror carries the phone over to Kiefer and holds it up to his face. "I'm being held in an abandoned warehouse somewhere downtown," Kiefer says, before ImhoTerror takes the phone back. "Satisfied?" he asks Bitchelle. Oh, come on, that could have been anyone's voice. Bitchelle asks for more time to set things up, but ImhoTerror disconnects. This call was even shorter than the first one, so of course Skip doesn't have a trace again. All of which is conveyed by a silent look between him and Bitchelle, in an uncharacteristically subtle moment. You're not lost now, are you?
Kiefer tells ImhoTerror that CTU won't make the swap. "I'm expendable," he explains. He further says that now that they know ImhoTerror wants the kid, they'll want to hold onto him just to be contrary. But he doesn't say it quite like that. Instead of making the rookie bad-guy mistake of telling the hero his plans just because he's his prisoner, ImhoTerror simply smirks and leaves the room. It's 9:23:12.
Out in the ImHideout's computer bay, the IT minion reports that the news of PMPMES's family's disappearance will reach CTU within a few minutes. "All right," says ImhoTerror, and checks his watch.