Episode Report Card Gustave: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sisters in disguise
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 02.03.2003
When Soul Patch gets to Papa Crew's room, Papa Crew is wrestling with a couple of guards. He demands to be let go, insisting that Reza is lying and this whole thing is a set-up, et cetera. After Soul Patch threatens to hold him there all night, he finally consents to calm down and asks after his daughters. Heh! Soul Patch said "hold" and "all night." Soul Patch informs him that Marie left "a few minutes ago," but totally fails at pretending not to know where Cate is. "Did something happen to Cate?" asks Papa Crew. "She's with one of our agents," says Soul Patch. Papa Crew asks why. Soul Patch tells Papa Crew that he's just going to have to trust them.
Back at St. Anthrax, Cate is now wearing a hajib with a matching black dress. I think there should be a spin-off of 24, kind of like the same concept behind the animated Carlton Your Doorman from Rhoda. This spin-off would be about the gay stylist we've never seen who works for CTU who has to produce these ensembles for the CTU undercover operations at lightning speed. He's a burnt-out ex-fashionista who'd rather be back in New York, where he used to drape for the designer Miguel Androver until Miguel lost his backers and Serge was forced to take the CTU job. "I'd slept with everyone in Manhattan anyway," says Serge in a voice-over in the credits. "So I figured, hey, why not start over in L.A.? I've always wanted a garden." So our first episode begins with Serge and his assistant Martya, a twenty-something anorexic goth girl who never speaks, sitting in their workshop, chain-smoking Marlboro Lights and sneering at this month's InStyle. "Who is Melanie Griffith using?" asks Serge. "Because that queen needs to be taken out and shot." Martya nods and starts reapplying more liquid eyeliner. Kiefer and Cate enter. "My name is Jack Bauer. Millions of people are going to die today unless we can borrow a chador! You have one, right?" "Um, hello? Like I'd run the costume shop at CTU and not have at least a dozen chadors? Whatever! You're a size two, right?"
Anyway, Kiefer shows Cate a floor plan of the mosque and points out the separate men's and women's prayer areas. He warns her to get a good look at Syed as she enters the room, because her back will be to him once she's praying. Once she's made an ID, she'll exit, and CTU agents will be waiting for her in the alley. Kiefer gives her a Whatever gizmo that she can press and signal Kiefer's walkie-talkie if she gets into any trouble. Hey, man, all the other hot chicks who did undercover stuff like Nina and Faux-licity got fiber optic camera coverage. Cate just gets the CTU equivalent of one of those things that elderly people have to press when they've fallen and they can't get up. She covers her face with the hajib and makes her way to the mosque. Kiefer watches her back. Or is it her ass?