Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Out of Time
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.15.2005
Now it's DiCK who's providing commentary on the season, bellowing, "This is beyond belief!" as he's dragged, kicking and screaming, onto the CTU floor. He's obviously traumatized just to be back here. And I'd like to thank the forum posters who pointed out that since we last saw DiCK, he's taken up playing Trey on The O.C. I'd like to remind you that I thought his house looked like it was in Chino way back in the season premiere. I guess the producers of The O.C. just had to cast him when they saw how excellent he is at playing no-good brothers who indignantly and self-righteously protest their innocence in the face of all available evidence. DoDder runs up to DiCK while he's freaking out and urgently explains to him about his number showing up on ImhoTerror's cell phone. DiCK's already been told this, but he maintains that "That's insane." She's walking with her brother and the agents hauling him along, until Buchanan pulls her aside and says they have to get DiCK to holding. He's dragged off, screaming his sister's name. DoDder asks Buchanan who's interrogating DiCK. "Kiefer," says Buchanan. "What?" DoDder demands coldly. And speak of the devil -- he and Curtis are just walking into CTU, about five minutes after they left the scene of ImhoTerror's most recent escape. Which is odd, because Kiefer had said before that they were ten minutes out. I guess he was counting the five minutes he planned to spend moping around during the commercials. DoDder charges right up to Kiefer, saying, "You are not going to do this. You are not going to torture my brother." I'd point out to DoDder that Kiefer knows lots of interrogation techniques besides torture, but it's been some time since we've seen any evidence of that. Longer, if you don't count the suspects who have charisma. Kiefer tells Curtis he'll be right there, and as Curtis peels off, Kiefer insists that he doesn't want to hurt DiCK, "but we're out of time. He knows something and I'm gonna find out what it is." Well, that should get DoDder on board with his plan. She thinks there's an innocent explanation for the evidence, and asks Kiefer to let her talk to him first. "You honestly believe that you can interrogate your own brother?" Kiefer sneers. DoDder says she might be able to get something out of him for just that reason. She begs him for five minutes. Kiefer struggles briefly to get his head around the concept that it may be possible to get someone to talk without physically traumatizing them. But he reluctantly agrees, and DoDder runs off like her clock just started.
The actual clock reads 4:21:42 in the White House Bunker as the Speaker comes up to PMHC to comment on the presence of Palmer. PMHC says the Veep brought Palmer in to advise. The Speaker gets in a little dig about how that's a good idea, since Palmer's experience means "he knows how to lead." PMHC leaps to the Veep's defense. The Speaker, all sneaky-innocent-like, says that since the Veep hasn't asked the Cabinet or the leadership (by which he of course means "me"), he's glad to know that the Veep's "in good hands." Ah, so the Speaker's seen Palmer's Allstate commercials like the rest of us. PMHC asks if the Speaker has anything to add, to what I'm sure will be his regret. The Speaker is pissed because he's next in the line of succession, the Veep's in over his head, and he, the Speaker, got passed over in favor of "David Palmer." PMHC assures the Speaker that the Veep "is in complete control." The Speaker nods, but he knows that the Veep is barely in complete control of his bowels. PMHC excuses himself.