Episode Report Card Gustave: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ladies with an attitude
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.04.2002
Just as Bride is patched over to Kiefer, Eli and Rick enter the SoS, and Bride has to hide the phone again before she can exchange words with her husband. "What do you want from us?" says Bride to Eli in a loud purposeful voice, alerting Kiefer to the fact that she can't talk. "I think I left my phone in here," says Eli, trying to keep his tone casual in the hopes that Rick doesn't understand how his phone found its way into The Stable Of Sensuality in the first place. Spawn and Bride play dumb. Nina mutes the line so she and Kiefer can talk without being heard by the TerrorMinions. Spawn, always an asset in matters of subterfuge -- not! -- stares up at the rafter where Bride hid the phone. After about forty minutes of this, Rick follows Spawn's gaze and realizes where the phone is hidden. But then he's really cool about it, because he only vacillates between staring at Spawn and staring at the phone for the next hour and a half. Fortunately Eli doesn't notice any of this, because he's looking for the phone amidst all the bales of hay. Kiefer then listens helplessly while driving as Eli tries to threaten the Kieferettes into giving up the phone. Could the writers and producers of 24 inject this episode with any more tension and fear? Um, Joel Surnow? I think you're losing your magic touch, because there was this moment during the episode -- I think it was during a snack food commercial -- where I wasn't sitting on the edge of the couch and biting my nails. Could you do something about that? Oh, and I don't mean to nitpick, but only one of my dogs is having a panic attack right now and there's still some cuticle left on my right index finger. Thanks. Nina asks Milo how the trace is going. I don't understand what he's talking about, but to make a long story short, he's not able to get a trace yet.
The time is 9:09:30 AM. A helicopter is seen hovering through the smog of downtown L.A. Radio Broadcast Exposition Dude announces that Palmer is making a campaign appearance at an elementary school despite the "incident" earlier that morning. The Palmers are in a limo with Poor Man's Hume Cronyn. People are lining the streets, cheering on the candidate. Lady Mac is -- surprise, surprise -- trying to convince Palmer not to come clean about Theo right now, since the assassination attempt has bought them some time. PMHC argues to the contrary -- the assassination attempt insures them sympathy, and that now is the best time for Palmer to confess. Palmer wisely argues in turn that the story will come out eventually, so it's best that they control how it's presented. Lady Mac makes some ominous remarks about Palmer owing his success to her. "Don't go against me on this one, Sherry," says Palmer as the limo stops in front of the school. "I can't promise you anything," says Lady Mac in a tight close-up that magnifies all of her glorious bad-ass-ity. But when she steps out of the limo, she's all sweetness and light for the throngs of supporters. We love Lady Mac. Don't we? Don't we?