Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Take These Secondary Characters, Please!
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 02.20.2005
As Kiefer walks back to the KiefMobile, his phone rings again. This time it's DoDder, giving him Grayadder's location and adding that she's on her way to see Grayadder right now. Kiefer snaps at his idiot girlfriend that she needs to "let us handle this," since Grayadder could be dangerous. DoDder says that they don't have a choice, since Grayadder was on his way out and DoDder had to make something up to keep him there. Kiefer says that's fine, and he'll go in DoDder's place. "I'm only a couple minutes away and he knows that," DoDder says. Actually, you said "soon," which is perfectly nonspecific, but even if you hadn't, whose fault would that have been? As Kiefer peels out in his Kiefmobile, he tells DoDder that he's not comfortable with her plan. She says, "It's the only thing he won't suspect." Kiefer won't let it go, so she finally just hangs up on him. It's 4:38:26.
4:42:39. Grayadder paces his fancy hotel digs, DaD wastes a perfectly good CTU conference room by keeping it to himself, and Kiefer is still on the road. As Driscoll enters DaD's commandeered conference room, DaD says he just got off the phone with Kiefer: "He wants me to approve Soul Patch's reinstatement. Do you have a problem with that?" Driscoll says she doesn't, "considering what he's done for us today, I do not have a problem with that." So much for that scene I was looking forward to earlier. Oh, well. Driscoll asks when DaD spoke to Kiefer and DaD says, "Ten, fifteen minutes ago, why?" I guess that's what Kiefer wanted to talk to Soul Patch about back at the TerrorHideout. Driscoll now has to tell DaD about Grayadder's alleged connection to the TerrorHideout, and the even more upsetting (to DaD) news that DoDder's on her way over to talk to him. "Unacceptable!" DaD says. "How could you let this happen?" Driscoll says it was DoDder's choice. "When did you find out about this?" he demands. She tells him it was about five minutes ago. At which time Kiefer had barely found out himself, but DaD bitches, "That's when you should have told me," and storms out. Poor Driscoll. Everyone hates you when you suck. Practice saying "just now," and see if your life doesn't start getting better almost immediately.
I guess that AIIIEEEE!sha's five-minute estimate for getting up to TerrorGringo's office was from the parking lot of TerrorGringo's building, because she and Curtis are still riding along in the back of a CTUmobile. Curtis gets off his cell phone and says to AIIIEEEE!sha, "Tell me everything you know about Grayadder." AIIIEEEE!sha, because she's an idiot and the worst spy ever, says, "Why?" See, the proper question would be, "Who?" Under Curtis's skeptical glare, she professes ignorance about Grayadder. Curtis asks the driver, "How much longer?" The driver says they're about five minutes out. I don't know, Curtis, I think AIIIEEEE!sha's stalling. Better bust out those pliers. She again promises that she's going to do everything she can to help Curtis with the investigation. Curtis appears to let it drop. For now. And then the CTUmobile collides head-on with a gas truck and everybody perishes in a huge fireball. No, not really. I just wanted to see if I could still do that. I have a feeling I'll need to again soon.