Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The final hour
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.20.2002
Xander enters CTU and tells Soul Patch the great news -- by the time the tactical units arrived, Kiefer had already killed all the Drazens. The best news of all is that he's safe. Bride, who is still wandering aimlessly through the CTU building, overhears this, and so does Nina. Bride wants more details, but Xander assures her that Kiefer and Spawn are okay and that's all she needs to know. Nina starts to book out of there because her goose is cooked. Bride goes off in search of Nina -- you know, because Nina is always honest with her. Nina is practically running. She puts on a jacket and enters a special room we've never seen before; she uses some Whatever Technology to pry open a secret panel, where yet another mysterious aluminum suitcase is revealed. Nina opens the briefcase.
Meanwhile, Bride is looking for Nina in the ladies room. She even calls out Nina's name under the stall walls. She wanders down another hall. Nina taps into some fiber-optic cable in the wall so she can do treasonous things on her laptop. An Asian female lab technician enters and asks Nina if she can help her. Nina whips out a gun and shoots her. Cold! She places a call on her cell phone to someone and has a conversation with them in German. German is, after all, the second most effective scary language of villains besides Serbian. The subtitles reveal that Nina is telling a mysterious woman that her cover is blown and she's got to get out of CTU. The mysterious woman tells Nina that there is transportation being arranged for her, and that she is to erase anything that will implicate her. Bride enters. Nina starts speaking English again. The mysterious woman on the other end of the line asks Nina if she is in the presence of someone else. Nina confirms this. "You speak German?" says Bride as soon as Nina gets off the phone. Nina lies and says that she was talking to someone in the Frankfurt office. Bride wants to know what's up with Kiefer and Spawn. She heard that there was a shoot-out, but no one will tell her anything. Nina assures her that Spawn and Kiefer are all right. Her cell rings again. It's Mysterious German Lady telling Nina to collect all of her information and go to the "usual pick-up point." But now she's speaking in heavily accented English and not German. Bride notices the blood from the lab technician's body trickling out from behind some equipment, and starts to leave the room. Nina notices that Bride noticed the blood, and she whips out a gun and holds Bride in the room. "I can't let you go," says Nina, locking the door. "Not yet." She commands Bride to get on her knees against the back wall. Nina, you've just made it to Round Two of Elimidate.