Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Cordilla Virus: Catch it!
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 11.17.2003
The time is 04:39:30 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Adam the Woman Hater and Potato Face are hanging out in a conference room, the Quaran-teens are still biding their time in the Terror-arium, and Kiefer drives the Kiefmobile toward the prison. Meanwhile, at CTU, Bitchelle enters a conference room where Adam, the Woman Hater, Potato Face, and Crystal Gael are waiting for her. "You wanted to see me?" says Bitchelle. Crystal Gael announces that they've all agreed to "cover" for Bitchelle if she wants to go to the hospital to visit Soul Patch. "Cover for me?" asks Bitchelle. "You have a lot on your mind right now," explains Crystal Gael. Then they all have this Whatever Technology conversation about twelve-hour delays and extra staffing that totally goes over my head. The end result is that Bitchelle doesn't feel she can be spared from her duties at CTU. "So let's get back to work," says Bitchelle. Everyone leaves the room except Crystal Gael and Bitchelle. Crystal Gael pulls her aside. "I agree," he says. "We can't run this place by committee. Let me step in for you." He goes on to delineate how everything will work under his command. "When I was at Langley I filled in for my bureau chief a couple of times and we got through it," he explains. "Was there a bio-threat and a president in town all in one day?" asks Bitchelle rhetorically. "Thank you anyway, Crystal Gael," says Bitchelle. He leaves the room. She rolls her eyes.
The time is 04:41:01 PM. Spawn's phone rings at CTU. It's Kiefer. "What are you doing right now?" he asks. Spawn replies that she's trying to trace that phone call from Hartmano's people. Kiefer asks her to forget about that momentarily and do something else for him. "I need you to move Felipe Hartmano," says Kiefer, instructing her to find the necessary documents filed under "Federal Transfer Authorization." Spawn, who doesn't blink when, say, stoners kidnap her, or survivalists invite her into their shacks for dinner and a shower, decides to question Kiefer, her own father, extensively about the nature of his request. "This has been given priority clearance," says Kiefer. "No one at CTU is supposed to know. That's why you're the only person I can trust to do this, so please help!" Spawn makes the necessary arrangements, and the request is submitted. "Look, Spawn," says Kiefer. "I know you tried to come up to my office earlier today and talk to me about something that was really important to you and I know I wasn't supportive…" Spawn cuts him off. "You don't have to do this, Dad," she says. Nevertheless, Kiefer apologizes for being "overprotective." Overprotective? This is someone who essentially got her own mother killed in his own workplace. I don't think "overprotective" is really the most appropriate term here. ["I'd go with 'refusing to authorize a long-overdue chlorination of the gene pool,' myself." -- Sars] He goes on to promise that he'll be supportive of anything she chooses to do, because he trusts her judgment. That's supposed to be a good thing? Okay, whatever. "Thanks," says Spawn. "That means a lot to me." They exchange "I love you"s, and Spawn forwards the document to the appropriate personnel over at the prison. Next, Kiefer wants to speak to Special Agent Charlie Brown. Spawn explains how Charlie went to interrogate Hartmano. They hang up. "Son of a bitch!" shouts Kiefer to himself.