Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unlovely Rita
By M. Giant | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.11.2007
Under the bridge, McCarthy gives Rita the gun, gets out of his car and runs between a couple of parked cars. He looks inside them before finding one he likes, and then uses a handy concrete fragment to smash the window of a silver extended-cab pickup. In the process, he unwittingly escalates the "peeing-Calvin-sticker" wars, but he probably doesn't care.
While McCarthy's scampering around up ahead, Morris is getting to work on Rita's head back in the parked McCarthyMobile. She's facing forward in the driver's seat while holding the gun pointed vaguely back over her shoulder, which is the least scary way imaginable to threaten someone with a firearm. Morris tells Rita what's going on: they're taking him to Fayed, the guy who nuked Valencia, so that Morris can make Fayed's other four nukes work and kill tens of thousands more people; he exhorts, "And all you have to do to stop that from happening is to uncuff me." He says that McCarthy's right; CTU doesn't know Rita exists. "All those people's lives are on you," he begs. Well, for now they are. Then they'll be on Morris. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Kiefer's pilot sets the chopper down with the skids positioned across a couple of parked semi trailers. I'm not sure that's allowed. But at 1:08:33, Kiefer hops out and bounds down to the ground. Meanwhile, McCarthy drags Morris to the pickup he's just broken into, rushing Rita along and telling her to leave her luggage behind. Let's hope she didn't pack anything worth more than $7 million. As McCarthy cuffs Morris to the inside of the truck's back seat, Rita complains to her boyfriend, "You did not tell me this is about nuclear bombs." "What this is about," says McCarthy, "is seven million dollars." Rita gets into the truck with McCarthy, Morris staring holes into her conscience the whole time, and they all drive off.
Kiefer arrives on the spot seconds too late. All he finds is an empty McCarthyMobile and a small pile of broken glass next to an open curbside parking space. That tells him all he needs to know, and he calls Milo on his cell phone to say that McCarthy switched vehicles. Milo says that, from there, they could have merged to any one of six roads, which means that there's no way to track them. "Dammit, Milo, they could be anywhere!" Kiefer bitches, like Milo didn't just say that. "Find them and get back to me!" He hangs up just as the CTU TAC teams arrive. Glad you could make it, boys. Kiefer hops in the lead car and tells the driver to head south.