Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spy vs. Spy
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.19.2006
Back at the suite, Kiefer opens up the WET list on his PDA and tells Theo, "I got it." Is that list not very long?
Chloe shuts down the window with the NSA info and returns her keycard to where she found it. She's just walking away when Slime comes back, his dress shirt open and his t-shirt untucked. Yeah, baby! Work it! He wipes down Edgar's chair with a paper towel before sitting down, as well as a spot on the desk. And that reminds him to check that Chloe's keycard is still in his portable cardreader. It is, but he doesn't exactly look relieved. He also doesn't ask what Chloe wanted from him in the first place. And is he going to get a fresh cup of coffee or what?
Theo is satisfied that the WET list Kiefer gave him is the real deal. Kiefer asks for the memory card back, saying that Theo can't send it to his people until Collette's in custody. Also, Kiefer has a prodigious amount of tall-girl porn on the card that he needs to upload to the CTU servers so that he doesn't lose it. Theo considers this, and then says, "Fair enough" and hands the card back. Sucker. He tells Kiefer that he's supposed to meet Collette at Van Nuys airport in under twenty minutes. Kiefer pops a fresh earpiece in, and the whole gang is on its way at 8:34:53.
Collette's in Bierko's inner sanctum, on the phone with her banker, who's ready to accept the transfer. Without hanging up, she hands Bierko a little flash drive the size of a finger. Bierko passes it to his computer guy, who fails to crack me up by asking, "You don't have a CD or a floppy, by chance?" The drive plugs right in, but the files are encrypted. Bierko asks for the decryption key, but Collette tells him to transfer the funds first. Bierko nods, and the computer moves a bunch of money somewhere. It's as thrilling as it sounds. Collette's banker notes this in real time, so once she hangs up, she checks a spare laptop and gets confirmation that $10 million has just been transferred to her account. Not a bad night's work, even though I would have charged $10,000,039.99 to cover the cost of the flash drive. Satisfied, Collette gives up the encryption code: CA39A. Oh, come on, who names their dog that? But it works, and the schematic pops up on the screen bright and clear. And Collette walks right on out of there, Bierko smirking imperceptibly at what a saucy broad she is. Please don't bother wondering why Collette got $10 million and McGill's sister and her Loser Boyfriend got bullets in their heads, because you'll just give yourself a headache. Alone with his tech guy, Bierko orders, "Torch this place. We're moving out." And I'm thinking that here is where Bierko's plan might hit its first major snag, when his guys get bogged down for four or five hours trying to get concrete to burn. It's 8:38:28.