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
2:29:34. Special Agent Breck gets held, AIIIEEEE!sha doesn't, TerrorTeen can't seem to find a damn hospital already (clue: look for signs with a large, white "H"), and Kiefer is still using up Soul Patch's bandwidth. Scott is instructing AIIIEEEE!sha to get everything off of Special Agent Breck's computer and send it to him. "We can't just do this on your authority," says Lispy Skip. Curtis steps in and tells Skip to back off, mentioning that Scott did "find" the mole and that now DaD wants him to have "joint authority." So Scott is in charge of rolling the blunts at CTU now? Curtis further suggests that Skip get back to work. Instead, Skip boots AIIIEEEE!sha out of Special Agent Breck's chair and sits down himself, demanding to know why Scott is so sure Special Agent Breck is guilty. Scott technobabbles, but Skip isn't impressed by Scott's effort to speak his language. He doesn't believe Special Agent Breck is guilty. "That's how she was able to fool everybody. She's the last person you'd expect to do it," says the first person everybody expected to do it. Scott leaves them to their work. Skip finds the illicit message, and remarks that Special Agent Breck wouldn't have just left it on her system like that. AIIIEEEE!sha reminds him that it was encrypted, but Skip says, "It's so old school it's like saying, 'Please decode me.'" "Let's face it," AIIIEEEE!sha says, "she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer." First thing she's said that I agree with.
Special Agent Cheese Spreader herself is strapped to a chair in a holding room when Driscoll comes in. Special Agent Breck insists that someone's setting her up, but Driscoll doesn't have time to hear it. "Where are the people who control the override?" she demands. Special Agent Breck doesn't know, of course. "I would never betray our country or endanger people's lives. You know that." Driscoll continues: "I learned from my mistake today with TerrorTurk, and I am no longer going to err on the side of caution in these interrogations. Do you get my meaning?" People who have never heard a word of English in their lives get her meaning. "I don't know what to say," says Special Agent Breck. Enter Eric the Torture Guy. Special Agent Breck starts crying. "Eric, no," she begs. Eric shuts her up with a taser blast to the side of the neck. Too bad about that ponytail; I'd be interested to see how far that hair would reach while standing on end. You think Eric the Torture Guy goes to the CTU company picnics? And if he does, does he, like, mingle with people by asking them about their worst fears and the most horrible pain they ever had while taking extensive mental notes, or does he just sit off by himself and stab his chicken wings with syringes? Driscoll asks about the MacGuffin again. Special Agent Breck maintains her ignorance. Driscoll nods at Eric. Special Agent Breck says, "Wait!" Eric freezes. "There's got to be an explanation for this," Special Agent Breck tries. "You've got to give me some time to think." Driscoll nods. Special Agent Breck gets zapped again. I'd love it if Driscoll said, "No, no, no! I was nodding, like, 'yes, give her some time to think'! Jeez!" And then Eric would be all, "Whoops, I thought you were nodding like 'hit her again.' That's normally why people nod to me, you know." That never happens, though. "Talk to me," Driscoll says to Special Agent Breck. Special Agent Breck just says she's not a spy. Driscoll leaves the room without another word.