Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Putting The "Curt" In "Curtis"
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.01.15
Meanwhile, Kiefer's own cell phone rings. He answers, and hears Assad telling the Handler, "I hope you're not going to let that bastard get away with this. Hit and run is a crime. You must file a police report." That is of course the least of the Handler's concerns right now. More worrisome to him is the fact that he's behind schedule; he's wrecked and abandoned his boss's car; he's had to involve other people in his activities; and he continues to suffer from a tragic affliction that renders him totally incapable of recognizing people's faces, whether it's his boss's boss or the government agent for whom his boss has had a vengeful hard-on for the better part of a decade. Kiefer puts his phone on hold and conferences in CTU to tell Buchanan that the Handler is hitching a ride with Assad. Buchanan wonders what that's about. "Suspect was involved in a traffic incident," Kiefer deadpans. He explains that Assad's phone is open in the car so that they can track his progress, but Assad's got some kind of reverse-mute thing set up so that he and the Handler can't hear Kiefer and CTU. Kiefer is off in hot pursuit, except he's going to be two miles back. Which would make it room-temperature pursuit, I suppose, if not downright nippy pursuit. CTU hears Assad telling the Handler to give them directions once they get to Newhall (even though he claims to have been going there to begin with), and Buchanan starts giving out orders for his people to be ready when the Handler arrives.