Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Down with EMP?
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.06.2005
Grayadder looks out the window of his hidey-hole to see the lights of every skyscraper in sight go dark, a few floors at a time. I can't imagine that's how it would actually happen, but it looks kind of cool. Was it good for you?
It's 6:58:32 when Kiefer comes back out to the now-darkened hallway where he took out the two guards. I guess we can safely assume that Kiefer never got a pacemaker after his heart stopped a couple of seasons ago, because otherwise he'd be dead now. Although his cell phone is certainly fried, and he isn't going to be happy about that. He takes one of the guard's flashlights and turns it on; it works. Forum posters who seem to know what they're talking about say that makes sense; there's not a lot of circuitry in a flashlight, and it was off during the pulse anyway. Kiefer runs off, presumably to meet Grayadder.
Who makes it to the front lobby, just as a voice tells him, "You have nowhere to go. Doors are locked." I don't know why there's any light at all, but there is. Grayadder should really be represented as a pair of bobbing, glowing eyeballs in pitch darkness. Old MFer catches up to him and points both flashlight and gun in Grayadder's face, demanding the printout. I wonder if Old MFer turned off his flashlight during the pulse. Grayadder, though clearly frightened, says nothing, and Old MFer hauls him away as the end-of-episode splitscreens start.
ImhoTerror stalks the streets of L.A. on foot, apparently unconcerned about spy satellites, passing law enforcement officers, or muggers. Soul Patch leans over a CTU keyboard. We can't see what he's typing, but Kiefer's AFK anyway so it's not like it matters. Driscoll rides home in silence. I didn't mean to imply that Alberta Watson didn't do a good job this week; it's just that the whole DrisKid story line was, to use Sars's word, horseshit from start to finish and I'm not going to start caring about a cartoonishly obvious plot device just because she's dead now.
Lispy Skip says urgently, "One of our choppers is down." Sure, thanks for cheaping out on us and not letting us see the crash, show. Soul Patch orders medical teams sent to the crash site and all field teams sent to the perimeter of the EMP blast. Then he speed-walks over to DaD's conference room to let him know what just happened. DaD assumes that the EMP was in response to their investigation. Mighty long limb you're out on, there, DaD. Soul Patch says that Kiefer was "able to pull some information before the blast, but we don't know if it was ImhoTerror or somebody else who set it off." Their conversation is interrupted by an intercom call from Special Agent Breck with the news that Driscoll's replacement has arrived. "That was fast," Soul Patch says, not very happily. DaD says, "We got lucky," and despite the communication blackout, Contrivance pricks up its ears from all the way across town. "I'll be there in two seconds!" it says. DaD continues that Division just happened to have "someone on hand with the appropriate qualifications and CTU experience." Gosh, who could that possibly be? Soul Patch tries not to look too brokenhearted as DaD asks him to "stick around and assist Ms. Dessler." Soul Patch does a double take. "Bitchelle Dessler," DaD clarifies. "Do you know her?" Soul Patch turns around just in time to observe the entrance of a power-suited, straight-haired Bitchelle. Bitchelle! Try to contain your shock. She's flanked by a couple of Division suits, because God forbid a boss from Division should ever have to walk into the place alone. In answer to DaD's question, which DaD should already know if he knew Soul Patch's story, Soul Patch says, "I used to be married to her." It's 7:00:00. Halfway home!