Episode Report Card M. Giant: A- | 77 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fished In
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2010.01.14
6:17:02. Hastings comes down to the CTU floor to try to hurry Dana along with the decryption of the file. When that doesn't work, some field agent comes up to Hastings with something they just found in Meredith Reed's stuff: it's a key card to President Hassan's private residence at the U.N. I don't know if it took them this long to find it, or to figure out what it was. Unless of course it's emblazoned with the words "KEY CARD TO PRESIDENT HASSAN'S PRIVATE U.N. RESIDENCE," which doesn't seem like the best security. "We've got her," Hastings says, waving the card triumphantly as he heads back toward interrogation. Look at that moron go!
Meanwhile, Dana gets a call on her headset. It's from security at perimeter gate nine, saying she has a visitor. How many perimeter gates does a place need when so far we've only seen people go in and out via an underground tunnel? She smiles at the novelty of it, because she's not as quick as you and I are in realizing that it's her stalker. But then the guard says it's Kevin Wade. "Says he's a friend of yours." Dana's brain goes into vapor-lock, and she pulls up a video feed from that gate up on her monitor. There he is, smirking up at her on the security camera. "Tell him I'll be right there," she instructs the guard, because this subplot is so dumb it even makes Dana dumb. As she gets up from her desk, Chloe watches with suspicion, her on-and-off ability to read people currently in the "on" position. Dana puts on her blazer, gets on the blinding-white elevator by scanning her palm on the reader (fire hazard, anyone?), and rides it up. As she does so, she removes her engagement ring and drops it in her jacket pocket. So she's not smart enough to tell the guard to get rid of her stalker, but she is smart enough to not only get a high-profile gig at CTU but also find out where to get ladies' jackets with real pockets.