Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | 217 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Kiefer Underkover
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2002.11.05
Back at Chez Crew, Cate reads her notes over the phone to Burton. Apparently, the last trip he took was to Frankfurt. Wasn't that where Nina was headed at the end of last season? Hmmmm. Burton promises to get back to her as soon as he's found out if FarsiBoy and Syed Ali were ever in the same city during these past six months. PoorMan'sReneeZellweger enters the room, so Cate has to hang up. Renee just came in because she just realized that she forgot to thank Cate for all of her help with the wedding and for being her big sister. They share a sisterly hug that makes Cate feel like a total turd for spying on FarsiBoy.
NSA. Palmer meets with PressToad in some sumptuously appointed sitting room with a fireplace and two Wassily chairs designed by Marcel Breuer that are available in two colors -- black and rust -- at DWR for $650 each. Palmer chose rust. I'd prefer black myself, but rust suits this room better, so I really can't complain. They sit facing each other on a pair of Le Corbusier sofas and get down to business. Palmer asks PressToad what his story is about. PressToad tells Palmer that his sources say the alert condition has been elevated and the White House is keeping it a secret. Palmer asks him who his sources are. PressToad refuses to divulge them, so Palmer tries to convince him that there's nothing to his story. PressToad is skeptical, due to the fact that Palmer has never granted him a private interview before today. "My twenty-two years in the business tells me I'm not barking up the wrong tree," says PressToad. Palmer tries to buy PressToad's silence by offering him a thirty-minute jump on tomorrow's briefing. This only makes PressToad more sure he's onto something. Palmer warns PressToad that news of a threat could cause mass hysteria, and that could be worse than the threat itself. PressToad gives a lukewarm promise to "consider" sitting on his story. They shake hands. Palmer picks up a cell phone and calls Armus, who turns out to be a Secret Service guy who looks like Sam Elliott in The Contender. "It looks like we're going to have to go through with this," says Palmer. As PressToad exits the lodge, Armus and two other Secret Service men stop him. "There's something the president wants you to see before you leave," says Armus. They escort him somewhere as Palmer watches from his window. D'oh!