Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Take These Secondary Characters, Please!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.20.2005
4:21:52. As AIIIEEEE!sha rolls down her shirtsleeve so she can put that flight attendant jacket of hers back on, she's explaining to Curtis that getting the computer files shouldn't take long: "Five minutes to get up to his office, five minutes to download the data." "So we're looking at a fifteen-minute operation?" Curtis says. He really doesn't want to go out there, does he? He warns her that he'll "take action" if he thinks she's stalling. She looks less nervous than I would, considering he just picked up a pair of pliers from the table. He tells her to "raise your leg. Don't make me do it for you." She obeys. You think he's going to take a toe? No, it turns out that the pliers are used to attach a locator to her ankle. She makes some noises about his trusting her, and trying to reassure him that she's feeling all helpful-like inside now, but he's not hearing it. He just wants to "retrieve the data your boyfriend hid and put you in jail for treason." She overplays her shitty hand by laying one on his shoulder. "Get your hand off me," he rumbles. She does, wondering why none of the usual stuff is working on this guy. Try "he wasn't my boyfriend." That always gets people on your side.
DaD approaches DoDder at her temporary workstation to passively-aggressively tell her that the local DoD office is shorthanded at the moment, but he can't go over there himself. She volunteers to head over in his place. Whatever; it's just a cheap way to get DoDder out of the office. After what she did to Curtis, she deserves no better.
You know who does deserve better? Lispy Skip, who welcomes Special Agent Breck back to her desk and gets a fairly chilly greeting in return. She must not be aware of his role in getting her sprung, or she'd bypass her chair and dive right under his desk. Instead, she just wants to be brought up to speed. Skip does so. It's nothing you don't already know, except that although Special Agent Breck is still pretty shaky, her ponytail and bitchface continue to be fully functional.
The Kiefer brigade arrives at the address TerrorMom gave, and Kiefer, Soul Patch, and Agent Castle jump out of their trucks to meet the armed teams that are already there. In the CTUMobile, TerrorMom shifts herself in her seat in the weirdest way possible to watch what's going on. Kiefer introduces himself to the riot-geared head of the advance team, and also disingenuously introduces Soul Patch as "Agent Almeida." I can't wait to see the inevitable blow-up when Driscoll and DaD find out that Kiefer's drafted Soul Patch for the day. They're going to be pissed. That's going to be a great scene. Kiefer says he wants to "keep this as surgical as possible" (read: keep the extras' salaries low this week), so it's just going to be the three of them going in. Kiefer and Soul Patch lead the way up the yard to a ratty stucco house and go in the front door at 4:25:06.