Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Dead Boss Walking
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2004.04.18
It's 6:22:36. Chappelle walks through the hallways alone. A uniformed security guard stops him and asks him to go back to the office. Chappelle tries to lay down a little rank-pulling smack, but the guard doesn't even pretend to be afraid of him. That's just sad. Just then, Kiefer appears from the office with two more uniforms behind him. Chappelle acts all offended at the implication that he might be trying to run: "I wouldn't condemn millions of people to death so I could live." Dude, you didn't feel that way eleven minutes ago. He claims he was just heading outside for a smoke break. Kiefer's not buying it, because in three years nobody on this show has had a chance to pee, let alone have a puff in the parking lot. He asks to see Chappelle's cigarettes. Chappelle just stands there until Kiefer invokes his presidentially-imparted authority and orders Chappelle to a holding room, escorted by the guards. This is one of those things they teach you in security guard school: everybody outranks the guy who's probably going to be dead by the end of your shift. Before he goes with the guards, Chappelle gives Kiefer a poisonous look and a pack of Camel Lights. Kiefer feels like a prick, but Chappelle's still going to the cooler instead of sucking a heater. It's 6:23:52.
6:28:15. Chappelle stews in holding, Saunders makes Zoolander faces at his computer, that random blonde chick with the bad haircut stares at something (pretty colors, she thinks), and Miller questions Kathy in her hotel room. Bitchelle is also in the room, calling Soul Patch with the bad news about Bill from Hill's departure from Inn Fection after the V-I-R-U-S was released but before the lockdown was in full effect. She explains Bill from Hill's status as an anonymous one-night stand, and that he probably doesn't know he's been exposed to anything more deadly than Kathy's sweet lovin'. Bitchelle ends the call with a promise to send over any potential Bill from Hill prints they find. Then she returns her attention to Kathy and makes her go over her romantic interlude one more time. Kathy's too freaked out to really sell the erotic narrative of her and Bill from Hill coming into the room and him undressing her, but it's enough for Bitchelle; she drops into a crouch and dives for Kathy's belt. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Oh, wait, she's just looking for Bill from Hill's prints on the buckle. Dammit. Miller finds a partial thumbprint that isn't Kathy's, scans it in, and uploads it to CTU on Bitchelle's orders. Kathy sits on the bed, having been roundly dissed by her second partner in as many hours.