Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Find Kyle Singer!
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.24.2003
They hang up, and Bitchelle gets in touch with Potato Face on her interoffice videophone. Potato Face is aware of the prison riot from some interoffice memo, and is all, "What the hell is happening?" "I don't know all of the details," says Bitchelle, "but Kiefer's behind it." She orders Potato Face to search Kiefer's office and look at his phone logs, emails, et cetera. "What am I looking for?" asks Potato Face. "Anything that will help us figure out why he's doing this," says Bitchelle. "Do you really want me snooping in his office?" asks Potato Face. Bitchelle pauses for a moment and finally answers "yes." They hang up, and Bitchelle dials another number. The hospital. She asks about Soul Patch, and once again she's told that no information is available to her until he comes out of surgery. She asks the nurse what room he's in. The nurse tells her that he's in "Operating Room Four." She hangs up and calls someone in IT, who hooks her computer up to an "OR feed." Well, it turns out that an "OR feed" is literally a cam that's in the same operating room as Soul Patch, recording his operation. Ew. She watches, fights off a wave of nausea, and then starts to cry. Finally she turns the camera off. And cries some more.
Back at the prison, Special Agent Charlie Brown and a team of riot guards gather in a room near the laundry room. They find an impossibly large -- even by network television standards -- air duct that leads them close enough to the laundry room for them to monitor the activity inside with their fiber optic spy technology. They arrive just in time for "round two" of Russian Roulette. Mista Clean selects Felipe Hartmano as Kiefer's new challenger. Hartmano protests that he's not a guard, but a prisoner. Kiefer vouches for him, and admits while doing so that he's a federal agent. Great move, Kiefer. Mista Clean announces the next round of Russian Roulette: Federal Agent Jack Bauer against Felipe Hartmano. And this time, it's a battle to the finish. One of them will die. Gee, do you think it will be Kiefer? Or do you think it will be this year's principal villain? Or will this scene play out just like the scene that it's ripped off from in The Deer Hunter with Kiefer using the bullet to shoot himself out of trouble? Kiefer goes up. Click. Hartmano goes up. "If I die," he warns Kiefer. "My brother will…" He's cut off by the shouts of the rioting prisoners urging him to "Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!" Click. Kiefer notices the optic camera peeping through the air vent. There's one bullet left. Kiefer pulls the gun on Mista Clean. Mista Clean goes down. Hartmano grabs a gun in the confusion. The laundry room is stormed by the riot guards. Bullets are flying everywhere. When the dust settles, Kiefer is nowhere to be found. Neither is Hartmano. "Kiefer?" shouts Special Agent Charlie Brown. "Kiefer!" The time is 05:38:49 PM.