Episode Report Card M. Giant: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mole Patch II: Electric Whatever
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.03.2004
As he leaves, Kiefer does him a favor and creates a nice little diversion for him by stepping out onto a stairway landing and asking for everyone's attention. This is Kiefer's big moment, when he announces that he's taking charge and Soul Patch isn't the boss any more. He doesn't have time to go into details, but he wants everybody not working on quarantine zones to concentrate on finding Saunders. Well, gosh, what have they been doing up to now? Whatever the case, Kiefer's words galvanize the troops into a flurry of activity while Soul Patch goes to Spawnders's holding room, zaps her guard with a taser (because in this office, tranquilizer darts and chloroform are reserved for the bosses), and leads her out a back door.
Up in Field Ops, Spawn has noticed that Potato Face hasn't done something on the system in over fifteen minutes, which alerts her, Special Agent Charlie Brown, and Kiefer that something's up with her.
9:57:42. Soul Patch leads Spawnders through CTU's back hallways. She wonders where all the guards have gone, and Soul Patch just says, "We don't need those guards any more." Good one. Spawnders is confused, but Soul Patch tells her, "We have agents on the streets." Normally they're up at the North Pole helping Santa make the toys, but they're here in L.A. now. Soul Patch and Spawnders make it to an exit.
Spawn and Special Agent Charlie Brown are trying to get the Nebuchadnezzar on camera, but Soul Patch blocked access to that channel. Kiefer orders Spawn to override the access codes -- this is a probably a bad time to ask what good an access code is if someone at Spawn's level can just override them -- and he and Special Agent Charlie Brown sprint through CTU towards the Nebuchadnezzar. Kiefer sends Charlie Brown around to the back entrance, and opens the front door to find Potato Face bent over a keyboard. Kiefer's got his gun out and he barks at her to get away from the computer. Shoot, Kiefer! Potato Face sticks her hands in the air and tells Kiefer that Soul Patch locked her in, that Saunders has Bitchelle, and he's using her to get Spawnders out. Kiefer, still covering Potato Face, pulls out his walkie-talkie and asks someone to locate Soul Patch. All he gets is word that Soul Patch is gone. He lowers his weapon. Dammit, Kiefer, next time shoot when I tell you to! He asks Potato Face when Soul Patch locked her in, and she says ten minutes ago. Going my the timer on my VCR, it was three minutes. And it seemed even shorter.