Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast?
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 01.14.2002
Kiefer enters the Power Plant through the front and approaches security. He gives his name to Head Secret Service Guy. After a tension-filled briefcase check which ultimately reveal the contents to be a laptop -- or, most likely, a weapon kleverly kontained within a working laptop -- he is given clearance. Upon hearing that Senator Huxtable is on his way to the auditorium, Kiefer works his way through the crowd, oblivious to FauxMartin and his automatic weapons kleverly disguised within kamera equipment. He bumps into Photogenic Mary Matalin, who recognizes him. They went to high school together. I'm getting the distinct impression that Kiefer and PMM have a "history," if you know what I mean. Something about the way she all but dropped to her knees and blew him clued me in. Gaines tells him to keep away from her, so Kiefer politely exits the konversation, promising to be in touch. The next thing Kiefer has to do, according to Gaines, is to hand off the briefcase to another party. Kiefer waits for someone to approach him, and pours himself some koffee from one of those stainless steel urns you always see at AA meetings. Palmer appears onstage, and the crowd goes krazy. Various crowd reactions are seen by Gaines on the KieferKonsole. Kiefer and Palmer cross paths and make eye contact. Palmer shakes hands with Faux-tographer. The tension builds. The time is 7:25:14 AM.
The time is 7:29:26. Klockwise from the top left, Kiefer, amid hordes of spectators, watches Palmer; Spawn sleeps; FauxMartin takes faux-tos; and Lady MacPalmer puts on a future-First-Lady smile. Back at The Stable Of Sensuality, Spawn sleeps with her head resting on Bride's lap. Fortunately, there's also a big folded sweater on Bride's lap that makes it all kosher. Not that I have any idea where either of them got this big-ass heather gray cable-knit pullover. Bride extricates herself from under Spawn and decides to check the space for any escape hatches. Rick enters with breakfast in a brown deli bag. Is there a TerrorKafé on the TerrorKompound? Rick introduces himself, and Bride recognizes his name from Spawn's account of her night. "You kidnapped my daughter," says Bride, opening up a big can of whoop-ass and serving it to him with her fists. Go Bride! Unfortunately, GunWieldingMinion, the guy who considered raping Spawn last week, enters the room and breaks it up, although it appears to GWM that Rick is simply raping the mother this time. "It's better if you don't make friends," says GWM -- although the closed captioning says, "it's better if you don't make fries" -- and makes a sinister remark about the ladies not being "around much longer." Both boys exit The Stable Of Sensuality. Bride watches her daughter sleep ass upward on a bale of hay some more with an ambiguous expression on her face.
The Food-Free Palmer Breakfast. Kiefer is standing around with the other low-level politicos, trying to look like he belongs there. Gaines can see all from the Kiefer Konsole. He orders Kiefer through the earpiece to move over to the "south wall." Kiefer komplies, but bumps into Photogenic Mary Matalin on the way there and finds himself forced to make small talk about old names from high school. Pho Mo pulls out a big "agenda" bat and hits Kiefer over the head with it by telling him she heard through the grapevine that Kiefer divorced Bride. Oh, like the Pho Mos of the world ever date CIA guys! Pretending to be handing her his phone number, Kiefer tries to warn her via a note to get Palmer off the stage. Gaines sends a HardHatTerrorMinion over to bump into them and prevent the note from being passed. Kiefer gives up and walks over to the south wall. Gaines directs him into a dark unused industrial area of the building with a lot of dusty machines installed everywhere. Kiefer has to present his ID to an intense black Secret Service guy to gain entry and then, at Gaines's kommand, enters a small "medical station" at the end of corridor, where he waits for further orders.