Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Can Take the Man Out of CTU…
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.08.2005
DoDder's out waiting in the limo when Kiefer, still in Driscoll's office, calls her on her cell phone to let her know that their train-bombing suspect has been picked up. DoDder's like, "Wow, that's almost interesting," and they are about to ring off until Kiefer manages to screw up the courage to tell DoDder that he's falling in love with her as well. Way to highlight that target on her forehead, Kiefer. It's now visible from space. Kiefer's got to get back to his meeting, and they end the call grinning like a couple of middle-schoolers who just exchanged notes with all the right boxes checked off. As Driscoll returns to her office, Kiefer asks what's up with the suspect, and she reminds him that it's not his problem.
DiCK peers between the slats of his window shades at DaD's motorcade. "How many cars do you need to get places?" he sneers. DaD doesn't want to argue about the environment, because he's got something else to argue about: namely, his desire that DiCK not "attend or speak at" the protest at Lockheed. DiCK backstories that DaD doesn't have any leverage over him since DiCK stopped taking his money. DaD complains that DiCK will embarrass the president and endanger national security. What ensues is an argument that you can see on just about any political blog, with people on opposite ends of the spectrum talking past each other in soundbites. But then it gets personal again when DiCK blatantly sparks up a doobie and DaD smacks it out of his hand, barking, "Do not disrespect me. I am your father." DiCK stares at DaD through his greasy bangs. Devane gives a courageous performance here; even though the scenery looks pretty nasty he scarfs it right down.
Witless returns to his bleeding-edge software company office at 7:44:05. It's pretty quiet there as he drops his messenger bag on the floor, except for the guy slapping and interrogating HotAsianCoworker. Witless watches a few seconds of this from a hiding place around a corner as HotAsianCoworker gives up his name as if it's burning her. Which, to be fair, I guess it sort of is now. Witless ducks down to retrieve his bag and bail, which is when he notices several Not Hot, Asian, Or Indeed Even Alive Any More Coworkers littering the floor, blood leaking out of various bullet holes. It's all very Three Days of the Condor, except that we didn't get to see the place getting shot up, because that would have been cool. Witless, hero that he is, doesn't even slow down on his way to the exit as HotAsianCoworker takes a silenced bullet to the heart. His departure isn't exactly stealthy, and two gunmen are closing in on him fast as he gets outside and scrambles to get his bicycle unlocked. In his best move yet, he gets on his bike and darts across the path of an oncoming semi. When the bad guys come out of the building, they've already lost him in traffic. They don't shrug and say "oh, well," though.