Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Terrorist Leader: 2. Bloated Government Bureaucracy: 1.
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.27.2005
Potato Face reports to Curtis that both trackers are working just fine. So far.
In the TerrorVan, one of the goons is running an electronic scanner over TerrorTeen's person. Another is on the phone, reporting that "We have the boy." For some reason, he neglects to mention that CTU was there in force and that the sniper is dead. Not his job, I suppose. ImhoTerror tells them to report back once they've found the tracking devices that he knows are on TerrorTeen. The minion agrees and hangs up. A second later, the scanner starts emitting a beeping noise near TerrorTeen's left wrist. The minion removes TerrorTeen's CTU watch as the kid asks where TerrorMom is. "Your mother is dead," the minion says calmly, then smashes the watch with a hammer. "I don't believe you," TerrorTeen freaks. You and a lot of forum posters, kid. The minion goes back to scanning, and of course gets another signal from the back of TerrorTeen's neck. He whips open a switchblade. Aw, come on, just use the hammer again. TerrorTeen is instead forced to undergo some impromptu surgery, which is almost as good. Sucks to be him. He woke up this morning with two parents, a girlfriend, a nice house, and a purpose, and now all he's got is a gullible handsome black agent who will adopt him and then immediately get killed. I'm speculating on that last bit, of course.
Potato Face reports to Curtis that one of the trackers is dead, but the other is still working. Then that one goes dead too. Curtis curses, then asks for a visual on the van. I assume he means via satellite. "Hold on," says Potato Face, then hangs up. Heh.
Lispy Skip has finally gotten to those hourlies, and Poor Man's Poor Man's Eric Stoltz's name is flashing on his monitor. He calls Potato Face to give her a heads-up, but she doesn't have time right now: "Right now we need that satellite to find TerrorTeen before they kill him." Lispy Skip agrees, then ejects the red CD into the end-of-episode splitscreen, which also shows a riding Kiefer, a bleeding TerrorTeen, and various CTU folk. Also, the music supervisor appears to have gotten a little assist from Trent Reznor and Moby, circa 1995.
Soul Patch, who's been rapidly scrolling through maps, has already found the ImHideout with the help of the phone company. He orders Lispy Skip to "download these coordinates to tactical right now." Skip hurries to comply.
ImhoTerror's talking into some crazy-looking phone, saying, "Our window's closing. We will only have this one opportunity. You've got to get into the air now." His voice is of course echoing inside the cockpit where Poor Man's Eric Stoltz is safely ensconced. "No problem," says PMES into his helmet microphone, violating any number of military communication protocols with this personal call. "I'm ready and on the move." A stealth fighter taxis out of a hangar. Which is weird, because Poor Man's Eric Stoltz spent the whole episode walking around in front of a conventional fighter plane. It's not like I know the difference between an F-14 and an F-16, but I'm not going to mistake either one of those for a stealth fighter, and this is most certainly the first time we've seen this particular aircraft. But it's too late to bitch about it now, because it's 10:00:00. Don't worry; we have all of next week.