Episode Report Card Gustave: B | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT It's one o'clock -- do you know where your Kiefer is?
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 11.12.2001
Kiefer arrives at the office building that Walsh is trapped inside. He calls Nina from his cell and has her look up the building access code so he can enter from the back. Nina arouses just a little more suspicion by wanting to know where Kiefer is and being just a little bit too concerned that Kiefer didn't brief her on where he was going. Nina, you can't pin the Kiefer down, okay? Nina finds the building access code really fast and Kiefer punches it in, gains entry, and hangs up on Nina. Why don't I have an office like that at my disposal? Over at Nina's desk, the camera pulls back to reveal Soul Patch patching into their call and having a computer transcript made of their conversation. Soul Patch, for the love of God, get back to work. If you wanna be a mole, do it on your own time. Then he looks even more unprofessional by drinking coffee and staring at Nina really hard. The time is 01:24:57.
At 01:29:12, the screen splits into four. We see (clockwise from the upper left) Mr. York looking helpless near a potted plant again, Kiefer running up the stairs on his way to rescue Walsh, Soul Patch sitting at his desk and being up to no good, and Nina fretting at her desk about something. We focus on Kiefer running up the stairs with his gun pointed. Out of breath, he keeps running up the stairs until he reaches the roof and tries to find Walsh, who sneaks up behind him with his gun drawn, letting us suspect just a little bit that Walsh is about turn on Kiefer. But instead of shooting Kiefer, Walsh calls his name. Kiefer turns around and asks where the snipers are. Walsh suspects there are two, maybe three. They enter the stairwell, the only way out, with their guns drawn.
In a dimly lit bathroom inside the TerrorShack, Mandy splashes cold water on her face, because all of this hijacking and espionage has enlarged her pores. Oh, and she's naked again except for a pair of tights. TerroristGuy enters the bathroom and flips on the overhead light. They approach each other as if they're going to do it right then and there, but instead, Mandy just touches TerroristGuy's face, marveling at how much the plastic surgery made him look like Martin, the dead Eurotrash photographer. And now that the light in the TerrorShackToilet is on, it is apparent that he's got Martin's face, although with the hair still being blond, I hadn't noticed. Also, to give TerroristGuy that fresh "just scalpeled" look, the 24 makeup people seem to have smeared TerroristGuy's face with lots of Kiehl's Soothing Gel Masque -- or, who knows, maybe they put a layer of clear nail polish over it. "So you're gonna kill David Palmer, huh?" says Mandy expositorially.