Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT ImHoudini
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.24.2005
Inside the club, swarthy Middle Eastern guys with earpieces wander around glowering at the writhing infidels. You'd think a day of terror attacks would thin out the crowd in a place like that.
ImhoTerror's in some back room of the club, a room that's being converted into an impromptu video recording studio. He gives instructions to a Terror AV guy to have the tape he's about to record delivered to TV stations by dawn on the East Coast. Terror AV guy says that won't be a problem, and as he loads the tape into the video camera, he offers to let ImhoTerror cover his face. "I want the American people to know who did this," ImhoTerror demurs. It's 1:23:02. Wait, what? It was 1:25:12 a couple of minutes ago. Here's a hint for the editors: superimpose the ticking clocks after the order of scenes has been finalized. Although if ImhoTerror is really able to travel through time, it might explain some of the feats he's been able to pull off this season. He takes up position in front of a flag with Arabic writing on it and turns to face the camera. He says, "Ready," and a bright light illuminates his telegenic face. He starts bloviating at the lens. He's way better at it than Poor Man's Robert Davi was, even when the latter also had the killer prop of the orange-jumpsuited DaD. But he's really not any more specific than PMRD was. He's fun to watch here, anyway. All you need to know is that "One of your own nuclear weapons has been used against you." Shit, how'd I miss that? Oh, he means later. Never mind.
Kiefer inserts his robot camera into the A/C duct and starts manipulating it by remote control, while the camera's view appears on a small monitor. Handy. The camera wheels along until it gets to a vent. Kiefer pans over to look into the main room, which contains fifty civilians and what look like a couple of sentries. The video feed is also appearing live at the CTU staging area in the parking lot, and at CTU headquarters. At Curtis's suggestion, Bitchelle has Potato Face take a screen grab of one of the sentries, which the facial recognition software matches to an associate of ImhoTerror's. Soul Patch assesses that at least now they now know Prado wasn't lying. But Buchanan says they still need to confirm that ImhoTerror's actually there. Because sure, they've got all the time in the world.
As if to underscore this point, Castle, who's standing next to Curtis, gets a call on his cell phone saying that the Secret Service is on its way. I really need to come up with a nickname for those guys, and "SS" obviously isn't going to cut it. In any case, a SecServ sedan has just pulled up behind the CTU guys, and two suited agents step out flashing their badges. Kiefer gets word that the fuzz has arrived. Satisfied that their cover's not yet blown, he sends the robot camera along to the next room.