Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Putting the "Dent" in "President"
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.03.2005
A CTUmobile pulls up to another group of official vehicles and Kiefer pops out of one, totally recovered from his beating, his self-inflicted stab wound, his collision with a speeding car, and the bullet that hit his vest today. He's calling CTU. He's pleasantly surprised to hear Potato Face on the other end of the line. I'm surprised he finds it pleasant. They talk about how everything's set up for the impending raid -- strike teams, surveillance satellites, et cetera -- and he asks what's up with his true love back at CTU, by which I of course mean Grayadder. Potato Face says he just got out of surgery. "I'm glad to have you back. We're going to need your help," Kiefer ass-kisses, then asks Potato Face to transfer him to DoDder.
DoDder and her paper coffee cup are hanging around in the hallway outside the CTU clinic when Potato Face rings through to her cell phone and tells her Kiefer's on the line. DoDder hesitates before agreeing to take the call, so Potato Face basically transfers it cold. Kiefer's first question is, of course, about his wounded boyfriend. "They say he's going to make it," says DoDder. "I'm waiting to talk to the doctor." Kiefer says he knows they have to talk about "how I handled everything with Grayadder." "Yeah, we do," DoDder bitchily says to the guy who not twelve hours ago ran into a building full of terrorists by himself, minutes before it was due to be blown up, so he could save her narrow ass. Upon hearing Kiefer's about to go in after ImhoTerror, she neutrally says, "Be careful." Kiefer promises to call her afterward, which earns him a "Yeah. Right." He hangs up and does one of those nonplussed huffs he does -- you know, that sort of mirthless laugh that's basically a sharp exhalation, roughly translatable as "Even I can't believe how ridiculous my life is sometimes" -- then looks through the chain link fence in the direction of where he's shortly going to be risking his life. Again. Be careful in there, Kiefer. Grayadder's waiting for you.
At CTU, Buchanan, Soul Patch, and Bitchelle discuss the impending raid. Potato Face chimes in that the infrared scan indicates eight "hostiles" in the ImHideout, and although they don't know for sure whether ImhoTerror is one of them, they know he was there twenty-five minutes ago when Kiefer left. Considering they're talking about a guy who's already weaseled through one CTU perimeter today, that's barely even relevant.
But he's still there now, carping over the phone about a hard drive that he doesn't want discovered by the Americans. At the other end of the line is NotMandy, all defensive because she's been looking for that hard drive in some apartment for an hour and hasn't found it. ImhoTerror insists it's there, because Aziz said he'd hidden a backup copy at his place, but Aziz was killed before he could tell ImhoTerror exactly where. Don't worry if you can't remember who Aziz is, because I can't either. Nor can I find any record of a speaking role with that name during this season. Could be any one of the many nameless terrorists we've seen killed, I suppose. It's not like there's a shortage of them. NotMandy suggests that ImhoTerror get in touch with Aziz's roommate: Poor Man's Eric Stoltz. Well, how conveeeenient.