Episode Report Card Gustave: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In the back seat
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.11.2002
Back at The Stable Of Sensuality, the camera focuses on Spawn of Kiefer reclining languidly with her head in her mother's lap. They don't know if CTU traced the call or not before the cell battery went dead, but Bride of Kiefer feels it's important to remain optimistic. Rick enters, apologizes about the phone, and stares outside through a hole in the wall. Bride thanks him for his help and begins to explain who they were calling, but he cuts her off, telling her that it's better if they don't tell him anything. Apparently Eli sent him into the SoS to gather information, and the less he knows, the better. "What are they going to do to you?" asks StockholmSyndromeSpawn. Rick exits before answering. Spawn looks out through the same hole in the wall that Rick was using and sees Eli beat Rick up for "holding out" on him. No, Eli still hasn't figured out that the man who warned him about touching his "wife and daughter" last week is Spawn's father and Bride's husband. Funny, though, how Eli is beating Rick up in a spot that is perfectly visible from the hole in the SoS wall. Makes you wonder what Rick is really up to, eh? Spawn gets upset that her apologetic kidnapper is getting hurt, and hugs her mommy. Bride makes an ambiguous facial expression.
Back at CTU, Nina furtively looks up some information about Cofell, which she hides just as SubstituteKiefer approaches her desk. Everyone who has ever had an office job in this day and age can relate to what Nina is going through right now with the screen toggle. I myself have hidden many a game of Tetris in a similar fashion. They discuss the discrepancy that Soul Patch discovered earlier between the crashed flight's manifest and its passenger list, and conclude that the real Martin Belkin was the missing passenger in question and that the assassin at the breakfast was a faux-tographer. No one has determined, however, how Faux-tographer got RealMartin's ID. Kiefer calls. Nina answers and tries to pretend for SubstituteKiefer's benefit that the caller is someone from the "bureau." SubstituteKiefer is about to take the call herself since it's someone she's expecting a call from, but Soul Patch saves the day by distracting her with some internet porn…I mean, "some information that connects all of this to Eastern Europe." While SubstituteKiefer is out of earshot, Nina tells Kiefer all she could find out about Cofell -- oldest of three children, lost his father while still a boy, passive-aggressive control freak, overachieving entrepreneur with a heart condition. "Just a hunch," says Nina. "But people who are this tightly wound are more frightened by the thought of pain than the actual pain itself." Kiefer thanks her for the info. Nina apologizes for not having "more." They hang up. Kiefer exits the limo. An establishing shot ascertains that they have parked at Thunder Road from the movie Grease. Kiefer rolls up his sleeves, checks his gun, and makes an assortment of other grandstanding tough-guy gestures while Cofell watches him nervously from inside the limo. The time is 10:13:05 AM.