Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The EMP Strikes Back
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.13.2005
At CTU, Lispy Skip's infrared screen is picking up the gunfire. DoDder asks how much longer before the CTU teams arrive. Curtis says it'll be at least five or six minutes. DoDder looks at Soul Patch, who looks back all, "Hey, it's not my fault nobody listened to me."
The firefight continues apace as Old MFer rolls clumsily behind a car to meet up with Handsome Black Commando. He looks ridiculous scampering around with his assault rifle like this. He says to his subordinate, "We need to end this quickly and get that document. Is that understood?" Handsome Black Commando understands.
In the store, Sirajunior is hit. But the bullet bounced off the clip in his vest. "Lookit!" he says to his amazed brother, and the camera cuts back and forth between them about nine times. Uh, guys? Shooting's not over yet. Keep denouncing and resisting already.
Kiefer orders everyone to fall back, and provides covering fire as the others retreat deeper into the store. There's a whole back section filled with clothing racks, and that's where they fall back to. Grayadder's moving at a dead run now, of course. The commandos arrive at the front door, blow it open, and swarm inside. Back among the clothes racks, Kiefer hands the brothers his shotgun and instructs them to shine a flashlight into the commandos' night-vision goggles if they get within ten feet. Shooting! Hiding! Grayadder smoothly takes down a commando with a couple of pistol shots and fades back into cover. The brothers blind one and take him out as well. Yeah! Denounce! Resist! Stand beside your fellow Americans, except for the one you just shot. Then all is quiet, except for Grayadder urgently whispering Kiefer's name.
"The gunfire's stopped," Lispy Skip says. But the CTU teams haven't arrived yet. They figure that the commandos have taken over. "I'll update Division," Bitchelle says, and goes to update Division. "If MacGuffin Factories win the firefight," DoDder asks Soul Patch, "what about Kiefer and Grayadder?" Um, DoDder? You work for the Defense Department. You should know that "winning a firefight" is not the same as "winning a hand of euchre." It generally constitutes "killing the other guys." Rather than pointing this out, Soul Patch sugar-coats, "There's no way to tell." It's 7:49:39.
Hey, Nina was on House this week. I still didn't watch it.
7:53:52. DoDder waits for word on her boys, Bitchelle waits to get fired for ignoring hers, and the brothers are standing beside their fellow Americans in denouncing and resisting all forms of terrorism, in this case by reloading their weapons. At CTU, Lispy Skip reports that field teams have arrived at the location of the shootout. Sure enough, Agent Castle's voice rings out over the CTU floor with the announcement that they've found "six hostiles down outside." Wow, six to zero. Kiefer and his three civilians are doing pretty well against MF's "trained mercenaries." By which I mean "bullet magnets." Castle hasn't yet been able to determine whether Kiefer and Grayadder are still alive, but Soul Patch tells him that no matter what happens, the bad guys mustn't get away with the evidence they're after. "Failure is not an option," he emphasizes, trying to get into the episode promo. "That information is what this whole thing's about." Castle rogers that.