Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Suddenly, Napster Doesn't Seem So Bad
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.08.2005
8:35:24. TerrorTeen drives the TerrorPickup to the chain-link gate of the TerrorDome. There's the briefest glimpse of a sign proclaiming the site to be a construction and building supply company. TerrorTeen gets out of the truck, walks to the gate, picks up the phone handset in a box there, identifies himself to the voice on the other end, and waits. A man meets TerrorTeen at the gate and takes the Briefcase. "Good job, TerrorTeen," he says, and goes back inside. TerrorTeen walks back to the truck, but as he's just about to get in, he spots a flash of red autobody through the bushes. Uh-oh. It could be government agents, or a rival terror gang, or some seriously pissed-off guys from Mossad. But no, it's worse. Much, much worse. It's his girlfriend. TerrorTeen asks what she's doing here, and she duhs that she followed him because she thought he was seeing someone else. He invites her to look around the barren desert setting and demands, "Does it look like I'm seeing someone else?" He says that TerrorDad doesn't like him socializing when he's working, which Debbie gets, but it doesn't explain why he stopped calling her. Maybe it's because she's an asshole. ["She could use a hot oil, too. Moisturizing shampoo, 24-udlians. Look into it." -- Sars] TerrorTeen tries to talk around the whole issue with his parents not wanting him to see her, and the poor dumb girl manages to extract a promise from him to get together and straighten it out later. She kisses him, and they part ways. Naturally, even though the current Briefcase Man shouldn't have been able to see this from inside the TerrrorDome due to the curve in the road, he does anyway. It's 8:38:36.
8:42:49. DoDder sweats behind the fence, as does DaD, who in a continuity boo-boo is back in his suit. Keeler paces the center aisle of Air Force One, and Witless waits to be picked up. At CTU, Curtis asks Special Agent Breck whether everything's set up for DiCK's questioning. Special Agent Breck says it is, and asks Curtis whether Driscoll knows that the Secretary of Defense's son is about to be subjected to a polygraph test. "Yep," Curtis says. Special Agent Breck asks if DiCK is a suspect. Curtis doesn't want to rule anything out. They meet up with Driscoll in the hallway, and the boss says she'll watch from behind the one-way glass. As Curtis enters the interrogation room, DiCK is unsurprisingly not too keen on being hooked up to a lie detector. Curtis tries to calm DiCK down with the classic pre-violation-of-civil-rights question, "You don't have anything to hide, do you?" DiCK says he doesn't. In the monitoring room, Special Agent Breck tells Driscoll that the lie detector is working fine. Driscoll looks duly blank. Oh, and then Curtis is fatally mauled by a bear.
TerrorDad is sitting and working at a TerrorTable in the TerrorHouse when TerrorTeen comes home at 8:44:55. "How did everything go?" TerrorDad asks without looking at his son. "It went fine," TerrorTeen asks. TerrorDad nods, and then in one motion he stands up from the chair and backhands TerrorTeen across the mush. Ow. TerrorTeen is actually named Behrooz, but we may need to start calling him "Bruise" soon. TerrorDad sits his son down and gets him to confess to having talked to Debbie outside the TerrorDome. "Where is she now?" TerrorDad asks. TerrorTeen assures him that she didn't see anything. TerrorDad says that seeing him "outside the compound" is "enough." They've spent "years" "preparing" for "this day" and now TerrorTeen has "compromised everything." He wants TerrorTeen to call Debbie and tell her to come over. Suddenly TerrorTeen doesn't seem to want to see her quite so much. TerrorDad lectures TerrorTeen about the "almost five" years they've spent "in this country" "preparing for this day." He again tells TerrorTeen to call her, and walks off, leaving him staring at the phone.