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
In the adjoining hallway, he's approached by an IT minion. I can tell he's in IT because he's wearing suspenders. He says they have a problem: remember how they killed Poor Man's Poor Man's Eric Stoltz's whole fam damily? Well, even though they disposed of the bodies, a relative showed up at the house and called the cops, who are already looking into it. And of course, since PMPMES was a military pilot, the report will get flagged to other agencies and reach CTU "within the hour." "We have to make sure CTU is too busy to realize its significance," ImhoTerror declares. "How?" asks the IT minion. Instead of answering, ImhoTerror goes back to Kiefer to ask about TerrorTeen. Kiefer decides there's no harm in telling ImhoTerror that TerrorTeen is safely in CTU custody. ImhoTerror leaves him alone again. Kiefer notices some kind of wire junction box right near where he's chained, and tries to edge himself over in that direction.
Potato Face is having trouble doing something on her computer, so she calls Lispy Skip to ask for the password to the central server. He offers to sign her on. She declines, insisting on the password. He refuses. It quickly devolves into an argument over who outranks whom. We all have so much time for this shit right now. Girls, girls, please. You're both pretty. Well, except for both of you. Potato Face hangs up and stomps over to Curtis to get him to tell Lispy Skip that she's the boss of him. Curtis calmly tells her that since Lispy Skip took over, she's working for him. She threatens to walk, until he says she'll get a 35% increase in pay plus bonus. Damn, that's a big raise. Potato Face obviously thinks so too, but she rallies quickly: "I should be getting that anyway," she bitches. "Skip works for me." Curtis ends the discussion: "Not today." Potato Face folds and asks Curtis for the central server password, which he rattles off. It's CIS15A, in case you ever want to hack into CTU or anything.
Skip calls Curtis over, telling him that ImhoTerror's on the phone and wants to talk to the boss. Looks like the bad guy took Kiefer's advice. Curtis technobabbles at Skip about recorders and tracers, then calls Bitchelle over. She puts in her little hands-free earpiece and takes the call. ImhoTerror gets right down to business: He's got Kiefer in custody, and he wants to trade him for TerrorTeen. They have ten minutes to get clearance, and then ImhoTerror will call back with details. He hangs up, too soon for Skip to have gotten a trace. He was on the line with Bitchelle for 25 seconds, and on hold with Skip twenty seconds before that. Which is fine, because they apparently needed ninety seconds to trace a call from Saunders last season. I'm sure the show has people on staff researching this continuity stuff, aren't you? Bitchelle orders ImhoTerror's voiceprint identity from the recording confirmed, and TerrorTeen "processed" in case they need to move him. "Why is TerrorTeen worth trading for Kiefer?" Curtis wonders. Bitchelle admits she doesn't know, but she wants to meet the tactical teams in the Situation Room anyway.