Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Velveteen Habit
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.27.2003
Back down on the floor, Bitchelle is briefing the staff about some Whatever Technology procedural whatever. Spawn asks Special Agent Charlie Brown if he told Kiefer yet. Special Agent Charlie Brown tells her he never got a chance. Kiefer, Special Agent Charlie Brown, Adam, Soul Patch, and a group of extras meet in a glass-enclosed conference room and sit down at the table. Soul Patch announces that an anonymous call came into the FBI ten minutes ago. Adam patches the recording through. The electronically altered voice informs them that if Hartmano isn't released in six hours, they will release the same deadly virus that infected John Doe's body into the general population of L.A. "As your experts will tell you," it continues, "you will not have time to stop its spread." Hee! He said "spread"! Kiefer asks if it's known where the phone call came from. Adam replies that it was from a scrambled satellite connection. Or something. Kiefer konkludes that they are dealing with Hartmano's brother, since he was second in command. Unfortunately they are going to have to throw out a wide net to trace the origin of that call, since the Hartmano family owns a lot of property in Mexico registered under dummy corporations, which the Mexican government can't keep track of. Kiefer asks how the ID of the body is coming along. Adam replies that with no teeth or fingertips to work with -- ew! -- they have to rely on DNA, which Bitchelle is still tracing. "We need this ID," says Kiefer, taking full advantage of the powers of the Sutherland Velvet. "It's the only hook we've got into this organization." Soul Patch suggests they question Hartmano. Again, Kiefer claims that it's a waste of time, since Hartmano is a man with no vulnerability. "He doesn't respond to physical interrogation, and he doesn't care about another living soul, including his own children." Well, so much for pretending to kill his children like they did to Anthony Quinn Jr. last season. The meeting breaks when Bitchelle calls out from the floor that she's found something. It's just like that scene in Willy Wonka when Veruca Salt's father has all these factory workers opening candy bar wrappers in search of the golden ticket. Bitchelle's found the golden ticket. She has an ID of the body. "His name is David Goss," says Mrs. Soul Patch. "He's a street dealer from East L.A." He deals streets? According to Mrs. Soul Patch, Goss worked as an informant but the DEA stopped working with him because she switched sides too often. Kiefer orders everyone to work on finding out who infected Goss by cross-referencing everyone in Goss's life with everyone in Hartmano's network.
Meanwhile, back at Rancho Narcotico, BrotherOfHartmano and PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie pull up to a clearing in their jeep. They are just in time to witness a pile of dead bodies getting dumped into a hole, soaked with gasoline, and set on fire by some ranch hands. And I thought I had a shitty job. "What is this?" asks BrotherOfHartmano of one of the ranch hands in subtitled Spanish. "The ones we didn't use," replies the ranch hand in subtitled Spanish. "This won't affect my soil?" asks BrotherOfHartmano coldly. He is assured that it will not by a man who turns out to be PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie'sFather. PoorMan'sAngelina is horrified and has to look away. They both get back into the jeep. "Why do you have my fadder doing dis kind of work for joo?" asks PoorMan'sAngelina. "Ees not hees job." "Eet ees today," replies BrotherOfHartmano. They drive back to the ranch house.