Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Edgar, Dead! Grr.
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.05.2006
6:35:07. At CTU, Fucked-up Accent Guy is fiddling with a computer terminal in his dingy back room. Apparently that stolen keycard came with McGill's system login and password, because Fucked-up Accent Guy is able to gain access to the computer application that controls the building's ventilation system and shut the whole thing down. A red warning screen pops up on the monitor. I'm sure no one will notice.
Out on the floor, someone notices almost immediately. It's Carrie, who just happened to have a schematic of the ventilation system pulled up on her monitor at the time. Confused, she gets up and walks over to Edgar, who's busy rattling off orders to his underlings. Yes, you read that right; it seemed weird to me too. Carrie interrupts him to tell him about the trouble flag that just popped up in one of the environmental systems. Edgar is too harried to care about that right now, and Carrie says, "You don't have to snap at me. I just thought someone should check it out." "Then check it out," Edgar snaps. She turns and walks out. Edgar calls out to her, but she keeps walking, making a mental note to thank Chloe for getting her reinstated. Now she's a doormat of a doormat. How could her life possibly get worse?
Although Fucked-up Accent Guy "shut down" the ventilation system, that fan in the room with him is still blowing. Perhaps in the other direction now. He's got his giant briefcase open, and if that is his lunch, it's the biggest damn Thermos full of chicken noodle I've ever seen. But I think it's more likely that I'm looking at a nerve gas canister. He affixes one of those timer thingies to the side of it and plugs in a couple of USB connectors. Then he pulls out a battery-powered screwdriver and gets to work removing the metal grate from in front of the fan.
Logan is standing outside, staring up at the night sky and looking like the task is taxing his faculties. It's 6:36:52 as he turns to find his wife wandering towards him. And then the wuss turns his back on her again as she comes closer, using the slowness of her approach to gather his courage for the impending encounter. Finally she comes up behind him and puts a hand on his shoulder. He asks for forgiveness, they make up, blah blah blah, and she tells him to get back to work. "The country needs you," she says. I don't know, I'm sure the country has plenty of amateur astronomers. Anyway, we're done with them for the hour and I can't seem to be sad about that.