Episode Report Card Gustave: A- | 226 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The final hour
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on 2002.05.21
Okay, so more or less, everything's fine now, right? He's just going to reunite with his family and everything's going to be okay. Well, that's kind of lame. Oh wait, we've got a couple more minutes to go. Kiefer enters CTU and reunites with Spawn, who could really use some deep conditioning after that swim. They embrace and cry and tell each other they love each other. Kiefer asks where Bride is, and goes off in search of her. Hey, what's with this creepy music? Hello? Kiefer passes by a video monitor, where a newscaster is announcing that a CTU agent named Kiefer is a hero for saving Palmer's life. Kiefer keeps walking, and discovers a lot of dead bodies in the hallway being attended to by other CTU agents. "Have you searched the floor yet?" asks Kiefer in a desperate velvety growl. They haven't. Kiefer runs straight for The Infotronic because he has SuperKieferPerceptionPower, and finds Bride tied to the chair. She's unconscious. He picks her up. Her head falls back. She's dead. There's an exit wound in her abdomen. Oh my God, they killed Bride! Damn you, Fox show! You fucked with me again! Kiefer tries to resuscitate her in vain as a split screen shows us flashbacks to earlier that "day" before Spawn snuck out of the house and they were just having garden-variety crappy-ass family problems. "I'm so sorry!" says Kiefer over and over again. The time is 11:59:58…11:59:59…12:00:00 PM.