Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Finger Pointing
By M. Giant | Season 8 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.17.2010
At 5:28:25, Dana approaches Arlo's desk to ask for his help on decrypting a piece of that big file from Reed's computer. "And Arlo? You can stop staring at my breasts now." Okay, Dana, then you can stop walking around like you're carrying a ping-pong ball between your shoulder blades. Already having demonstrated his incapacity for shame, Arlo asks her, "When are you going to drop Captain America and find yourself a real man?" She says that she's still thinking about it, although she might just be fucking with him. "Don't take too long. I might lose interest," he "warns."
She steps away to answer her ringing cell phone. It doesn't seem like there's anyone there at first, but then we see the caller, speaking to her from outside a parked molester-van near the Brooklyn Bridge, looking scroungy and greasy in an all-denim ensemble. "Dana Walsh, I like that," he mocks. "That's actually better than the one your mama picked for you." Oh, no, tell me this isn't happening. Are you telling me that super-efficient career dynamo Dana Walsh has a secret trailer-trash past? "Whoever this is, I told you to stop calling me," Dana says. He responds, "I know what you told me, Jenny." By now, Dana has wandered off to a dark, quiet corner to continue the conversation, or possibly to scout out locations to dispose of her agent's body. She insists that he must have mistaken her for someone else, but he says she sounds just like someone from "Rock Springs" named Jenny Scott. "She was a wild thing, man, we used to do some crazy stuff." She threatens to call the police next time he calls, and he counteroffers, "Let's contact 'em right now." Dana hangs up, just as Cole comes and finds her. She latches onto him, long and hard, and says she's glad he's okay. "I'm sorry that I have been so distant lately...I don't ever want to lose you." He tells her not to worry, and they go back to hugging. Boy, is he ever going to have a long day.
Reed is being led through the building by uniformed CTU guards. They get to wear tan shirts this season, which can only mean that next year they'll be dressed in either green or pink, because those are the only colors left. That's how she meets up with Hastings, who makes a big important show of finishing up the Bluetooth call he's on before smarmily introducing himself as the director of CTU. Reed demands an attorney, and to know what she' s being charged with, because she's clearly never been inside a CTU facility before. Hastings says they found the files on her computer. Unsurprisingly, she has no idea what he's talking about, but Hastings isn't buying what he thinks is her act. Neither of them is aware that Kiefer's lurking on the catwalk above them as Hastings says he needs the name and location of the assassin, "and we talk about you avoiding the death penalty." Reed says they have the wrong person, but Hastings orders her sent to interrogation anyway. And what does that entail at CTU these days? "Full biometric package," he adds. Oh, that's a relief. I was afraid things might get unconstitutional.