Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch II: Electric Whatever
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2004.05.04
Soul Patch goes off to be alone with his cell phone, but Adam sticks his big old face in front of the camera. He's narrowed down a list of possible mole suspects, and he's got them on a disk which he's holding out to Soul Patch. I don't know why he wasted a whole disk to store a file that by rights should consist entirely of two words: "SOUL PATCH." Think about it, Adam. You offered to pull up the satellite frames, then Soul Patch said he'd do it, then he disappeared, and the next you heard about them was when Potato Face told you the frames were missing. Rather than pointing any of this out, Soul Patch tells him he's not in charge any more, and to send the list to Hammond. Adam watches him leave, his eyebrows attempting to tie themselves into a square knot.
Soul Patch finds a quieter stretch of hallway to report to Saunders that he's not the boss any more. Soul Patch, you quit being the boss ninety seconds before the end of the last episode. Saunders is completely sympathetic to Soul Patch's dilemma, and offers to put Bitchelle in a cab right away. Except he doesn't. He warns Soul Patch that nothing's changed as far as he's concerned, and that he'd better get Spawnders out of there before Kiefer finishes figuring everything out, because if he doesn't, for whatever reason, Bitchelle dies. He hangs up. Soul Patch looks like he's coming apart, and not just at the neck. It's 9:48:24.
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It's 9:52:49. Soul Patch is screwed with his pants on, Potato Face is busily disobeying his last order, and Spawnders has no one to hold her in her holding room. Kiefer comes into the conference room where Spawn is waiting for her debriefing (as are we all) and asks for her help. She says he'll have to clear it with Soul Patch, but Kiefer breaks the news that Soul Patch isn't in charge anymore; in fact, he's hiding something from Kiefer and he needs Spawn's help to find out what it is. Come on, Kiefer. You know there's a mole. You know Soul Patch is up to no good. Do you really think these two facts are unrelated? If Kiefer weren't such a softie, he would have had Soul Patch either locked up or escorted from the building already, but I imagine he'll have time to regret that later. I think he just doesn't want to believe that Soul Patch is the mole. Early Season One was a long time ago, after all, back when Soul Patch spent all his time peering suspiciously at people over his Cubs mug. And that's another thing Soul Patch is hiding! When was the last time we saw that mug? Anyway, Kiefer wants Spawn to monitor and track every damn thing going on at CTU from Field Ops, and sends her up there. It's 9:53:34. Kiefer looks up into Soul Patch's office, where he's trying to rub his upper lip off.