Episode Report Card Gustave: A- | 238 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Blondes and Bombshells
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2002.10.29
The time is 08:28:26 AM. Another non-commercial commercial break. Klockwise from the top left, Mason sits at his desk, Palmer hangs up with Kiefer, and Spawn enters the No!DaddyNo! kitchen. Spawn encounters Crazy Laura wrapping a gift with an intensity that could only suggest OCD or the threat of imminent spousal abuse. "I thought you left for work," says Spawn. Crazy Laura explains that she forgot to wrap a gift for DaddyStopTouchingMe to give to his assistant. Spawn offers to take care of it, but Crazy Laura insists that only she can wrap DaddyStopTouchingMe's present because she's Maggie the Cat and she is wrapping presents on a hot tin roof. "Could you take JonBenet upstairs to play?" asks Crazy Laura, as the theme from Back Of My Man's Hand plays in the background. Spawn is all, "Sure."
Back at CTU, Nina 2.0 swings by Soul Patch's desk, puts her face way too close to his, and tells him that she thinks something important is up, because there's been an "information flow advisory" declared. This apparently means that another agency is being brought in to advise them or something. Soul Patch tells her to call in some agents that have the day off that day, and then to go filter some information, whatever that means. Nina 2.0 draws back from Soul Patch's personal space and goes off to do his bidding, glancing back at him meaningfully and catching his eye. In yet another one of those ambiguo-shots that 24 is famous for where you don't know whether someone is up to no good or just plain horny, Darlene watches Nina 2.0 intensely as she sits down at her desk. Removing her glasses and hooking them on the neckline of her peasant top, she walks over to Nina 2.0's desk and asks her what's going on…with the "information flow advisory" and Kiefer being brought in, that is. Nina 2.0 insists that everything is going to be fine. Darlene flips her Clifford The Dog haircut in Nina 2.0's face and offers to do some Whatever programming for her. Nina 2.0 tells her to stop trying too hard. Darlene apologizes, and exposits that she's been waiting "two years for this assignment" and she's just excited.