Episode Report Card Gustave: A- | 117 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Survivor: The Family Edition
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2003.02.11
Meanwhile, Syed Ali is indeed in that basement. While trying to avoid discovery, he calls Raggedy Marie, who is cruising down some freeway in her Blondemobile, on his cell phone. "There has been change of plans," says Ali, gesturing with his gun. He tells her that he might not make it to the "rendezvous point" in time, so if he doesn't show up, Marie will know what to do. "Do you remember what I said yesterday?" asks Ali. "I remember," says Raggedy Marie. They hang up, and Ali wanders around the basement. Kiefer finds him, sneaks up behind him, grabs him, keeps his mouth open, and yells for backup. Backup comes -- pretty fast, considering that Kiefer made them all stay upstairs. Cate shows up as well and IDs him. "That's him," says Cate. "That is Syed Ali. That is Syed Ali!" Kiefer asks that Cate be removed from the room in an unintentionally funny moment. After a bloody struggle -- one that reminds me of the struggle I have to endure every time I have to brush my dogs' teeth -- Kiefer removes the cyanide capsule from Ali's mouth. Whose blood is that? I have no idea. They also find Syed's cell phone, and Kiefer asks HAFA to find out who he just called.
Back at CTU, Papa Crew is now emotionally ready to deal with the fact that his youngest daughter -- previously thought to be merely a spoiled little anemic bitch -- is in fact a terrorist and a cold-blooded killer. Mason asks him to help CTU understand her connection to Syed Ali, the man behind the B-O-M-B, or at least give them any information about her that might be useful. Papa Crew tells Mason about how Marie ran away from home after her mother died for three to four weeks. The Crew family was living in London, where Marie was going to college. The Crew family called the police, but they eventually got a letter from her saying that she was fine. She was traveling and just needed some space. "When she came back," says Papa Crew, "I was just so grateful to see her that I stopped asking questions." When Mason asks if she was different in any way after the "trip," Papa Crew responds that she was "less politically inclined" after she got back. Before, she was one of those students who "flirted with causes…respectable causes." Mason explains that such a change is typical of someone who's been "radicalized." "Handlers train you to stop talking about anything," explains Mason. "Marie had handlers?" muses Papa Crew. What a fucked-up family: Dad's a secret CIA agent, sis is a terrorist. What happened to fathers with secret families on the side or eating disorders?