Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on November 5, 2001
Kiefer explains that Mason is holding back information, so they have to blackmail him into spilling his guts. He dispatches Nina to investigate George Mason's offshore bank accounts and see if he skimmed any money from a drug arrest he made last year. He hands Nina that chip or whatever it was that George gave him that apparently gives you super investigative powers or something to help her with the trail. He tells her to get the information before Xander wakes up in less than half an hour. In the struggle, the scrapbook of Spawn of Kiefer has fallen on the floor. I guess he pocketed it when he searched her room. Kiefer notices the scrapbook and starts to look through it. The time is 12:34:23.After a commercial break, the time is 12:38:40. The screen splits in four to reveal Eurotrash and Groupie Gal talking -- probably planning a covert blowjob in the airplane lavatory -- in the upper lefthand corner; Spawn of Kiefer, telling Rick some more about her dead father in the lower lefthand corner; Senator Palmer dictating something to his secretary in the lower righthand corner; and Kiefer making a phone call on the upper right. The phone rings at Casa Kiefer. Bride of Kiefer answers it, breaking a tea cup in the process. It's Alan York, the father of the slutty friend of Spawn of Kiefer, whose name turns out to be Janet. He's discovered his daughter missing as well and wants to know if Bride of Kiefer knows where they've gotten to. Bride of Kiefer takes Alan York's number and promises to call him if she hears anything.
Back at CTU, Nina has found George Mason's account number, but she can't get into the account because it's "encrypted." Kiefer asks Nina to get Soul Patch to get around the encryption. Apparently Nina is sleeping with Soul Patch, so Kiefer feels that Soul Patch owes her a favor. Nina is clearly irritated and surprised that Kiefer knows about this. She exits Kiefer's office and goes over to Soul Patch's desk and asks him to decode the encryption and get into George Mason's account. Soul Patch asks Nina if the favor is for her or for Jack. Nina lies and says it's for her. "I'm trying to pick up a thread," says Nina. "I'm trying to pick up a thread of my own," says Soul Patch. "Are you still sleeping with [Kiefer]?" Ooooh! Keep Nina away from the spiked eggnog at those CIA Christmas parties, y'all! Nina tries to deny it, but Soul Patch asks her how she can have an affair with someone who "turned in his own people." "They were dirty," replies Nina. "And Jack's Mister Clean, huh?" asks Soul Patch sarcastically.