Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch II: Electric Whatever
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2004.05.04
But enough editorializing on that. While I've been blathering, Soul Patch has gone off into a room by himself, pulled up the surveillance satellite images of Saunders leaving the building, and deleted them. I don't know whether to be more incredulous about how easy that was, or about how the angle on the satellite appeared to be from a nearby rooftop, instead of directly overhead as satellite images must be. We'll call it a tie. Soul Patch's phone rings. It's his new boss, Saunders, who's walking around in the open, having for some reason ditched the case he was carrying at the end of the last episode. Saunders wants to be sure that Soul Patch deleted the satellite images, having neglected to ask him to do so initially. I don't know why he cares; he made sure everyone knew he was in the building before he left, and the southwest exit was the one left unguarded, so I would think he'd be prepared to give CTU credit for figuring out he went southwest. Soul Patch just wants his wife back, but Saunders isn't finished; he wants his daughter back as well. Soul Patch tells him that he expects Spawnders to arrive at CTU in five minutes. As Saunders opens an unlocked metal grate to step into a yet another abandoned building (which can't be more than a couple blocks away from his previous hideout, as he's only been walking for seven minutes), he clarifies the current terms: if Spawnders is harmed or not released when Saunders orders it, Bitchelle dies. Soul Patch is just wrapping up the call when Adam rings through on another line with the news that Palmer is calling. It would be interesting to hear what would happen if Soul Patch conferenced them in together, but that's not going to happen.
When Palmer gets on the line, he sounds pretty pissed, but he manages to keep his temper and not fire Soul Patch on the spot, even when Soul Patch can't explain how they lost Saunders. Palmer just orders tight security on Spawnders when she arrives. He's such a wuss. Soul Patch is just wasting all that sweat on his forehead.
At Division, Palmer continues walking into a conference room, where Brother Palmer and Poor Man's Scott McClellan are watching a news report that tells them that Palmer's opponent in the election, Senator Keeler, has lost a couple of endorsements. Palmer asks why, and they offer their analysis that it's because of Keeler's response to Palmer dropping out of the previous night's debate. Brother Palmer remarks, "Now that the threat level has been raised to red, people realize that you weren't playing politics. He is." Which should prove nothing, as the President has, I believe, some say over this "threat level." Leaving aside the fact that it would be pretty hard for all this to happen literally overnight. Palmer breaks up the party, saying, "We don't have time to think about the election right now." Hey, Sparky, I believe you were thinking about it along with everyone else a second ago. He pulls Brother Palmer out of the room, leaving Poor Man's Scott McClellan looking nonplussed. Not that we've seen that guy looking plussed yet.