Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Together Again
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 02.06.2005
Over on the other side of the room, DoDder is stating her case to SoSP, finishing up with, "Now, I'm sure when this is all over, your boss will understand." "And if he doesn't?" SoSP asks. With no change in tone or expression, DoDder says, "I can have him killed." Hee. SoSP stares for a second, then the women share a smile as SoSP realizes she's being messed with a little. But the ice is broken. "Knock yourself out," SoSP says, and goes back to her room. About time DoDder made herself useful to someone who wasn't a terrorist.
Kiefer's already at the computer (which offends even my vestigial sense of feng shui by sitting on a desk in the middle of the living room), looking at a screen full of text. Must be the raw code from the memory stick, which he's already jammed into a port on Soul Patch's computer. "I just have to convert this so I can read it." So much for plug and play. But Soul Patch "has some software for that. Let me dig it out." Well, isn't that handy? Now that Soul Patch is ten feet away and thus on the other side of television's conversational sound barrier, Kiefer and DoDder can have a whispered confab about Soul Patch's backstory. Kiefer explains that Bitchelle left Soul Patch a couple of months after he got out of prison. DoDder echoes the boards by saying, "I thought he went to prison because of her. He saved her life and she paid him back by leaving?" Kiefer says that Soul Patch sees it that way too. But since Kiefer is briefly acting as a third-person omniscient narrator, he's able to explain that Soul Patch was angry when he got out of prison, couldn't find a job ("personally, I don't think he wanted one," he judges), and started drinking. The moral: "He pushed her away." DoDder asks what Bitchelle is up to now, and Kiefer says she's a Deputy Director at Division. That sounds like we'll be seeing her this season, which I am of course entirely in favor of. Soul Patch comes back with a CD-ROM, which Kiefer slips into the drive. A couple of screens pop up. "We're in," he says. I don't understand anything that happens on a single computer on this show.
At CTU, Scott tells DaD that Driscoll has gotten his bad info and he's headed into her briefing. "I'm surprised you felt the need to keep her in the dark about this one," Scott comments. "As long as there's a leak in CTU," DaD growls, "we're keeping everyone in the dark." And then he basically illuminates every damn corner of the place with the piercing searchlight of his 360-degree hairy eyeball.