Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Terrorist Leader: 2. Bloated Government Bureaucracy: 1.
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.27.2005
ImhoTerror calls Poor Man's Eric Stoltz: "What's your status?" PMES: "I should be airborne in thirty minutes." ImhoTerror: "Very well." He hangs up. Now that was a short call. It's 9:35:52. "Get Kiefer," ImhoTerror orders a pair of goons.
Kiefer, meanwhile, has gotten to the point where he's striking sparks off of the wires he's messing with. He hears the approaching voices just as he's finishing up, and adopts a more innocent pose. As the goons approach him, Kiefer starts tripping and kicking. I don't know why he bothers. As ImhoTerror comments on the action in Arabic, Kiefer is subdued and…freed. See? That's why I don't know why he bothered. As Kiefer is dragged away, we zoom in on the wires he was messing with. A tiny spark flashes. Man, it's going to take forever to burn the place down that way. It's 9:36:42.
9:41:03. ImhoTerror, Potato Face, Soul Patch, and Bitchelle have a little Brady Bunch opening sequence moment. Meg approaches a very harried Lispy Skip with that red CD-ROM from earlier. Skip tells her to put it on his desk, and she nervously obeys, placing it atop a pile of other multicolored CDs with a judgmental look. Get off your high horse, lady. It took you, like, nine minutes to walk that over. Kiefer could have driven to Culver City in that time.
In the hallway outside the CTU clinic, DoDder's getting all kinds of news. First, a woman in scrubs tells her that Grayadder will be out of surgery within the next hour. Then Soul Patch arrives to update her on the exchange for Kiefer, which, as we know, is going ahead. DoDder figures it's not that simple. "These things never are quite as simple as you are," says Soul Patch, except he stops halfway through. He assures her that ImhoTerror has no reason to hurt Kiefer if he really wants the kid back. "And if he doesn't and it's just a trap?" DoDder asks. Soul Patch says they'll be ready. She asks if he'll be there, but he won't; he'll be running the show from CTU, but Curtis will be there. Well, DoDder should be happy about Curtis having another chance to get himself killed. "Is the operational objective to get Kiefer?" she asks. Soul Patch says it isn't; the point is to "create an exposure point for ImhoTerror," and Kiefer's expendable. Which is what the promos have been telling us all week, of course. DoDder looks sad, then says, "Thank you for being straight with me." She has to say that, in light of all the men she's turned gay. Soul Patch says that since Kiefer's about the only friend he has left, he's going to do everything he can. He leaves her alone before she can hug him. It's 9:43:15.