Episode Report Card Gustave: A- | 238 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Blondes and Bombshells
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2002.10.29
Mason calls for an emergency meeting of all the department heads. Soul Patch, Nina 2.0, Darlene, and eight other super-chic and multi-racial extras gather around Mason at the foot of the stairs leading to Ye Olde KieferKube. These people are all department heads? What departments? Personal shopping? Visual display? Anyway, instead of going into a conference call and, say, closing the door and having a private meeting, Mason tells everyone gathered about the nuclear bomb right then and there on the main floor of CTU. Yeah, try keeping that top secret. Mason insists that they all stop communicating with anyone outside of their division, and that there are to be no calls or emails to family, friends, or otherwise. They are to find the bomb and defuse it without creating a panic. Jack, Nina 2.0, and Darlene are horrified, while the extras look like they're getting lecture on folding and stacking sweaters properly. The "meeting" breaks up, and Soul Patch asks Mason if the kall to Kiefer has anything to do with this emergency and why Kiefer is the one they need. Mason replies that Kiefer's kallback is related to the nuclear emergency and has something to do with an underkover assignment he did a long time ago.
Back at NSA, KreepyEric is with Palmer's staff, going over each kind of bomb that could be detonated that day and the casualty scenarios for each type. For instance, a "dirty bomb" will kill lots and lots of people, and an actual stolen Soviet nuclear warhead would kill mega lots and lots of people. For each scenario, KreepyEric has a smart-looking big yellow chart with a map, a 3-D rotating globe, and everything. Like, who had time to put an audiovisual presentation together since they tortured all this information out of someone less than half an hour ago? The table of presidential advisors gasps. Apparently, they didn't realize that nuclear bombs are really really destructive and deadly if detonated. KreepyEric once again asks Palmer to meet with the Pentagon to discuss military action. Palmer insists that this is not a military matter, and that he will approach things his way. The meeting is over. Everyone leaves the table except for Lynne. She and Palmer exchange meaningful glances, as if contemplating what kind of nasty sex they could get into with each other if the end of the world was really near.