Episode Report Card M. Giant: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Down with EMP?
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.06.2005
6:28:52. Soul Patch is back in his old office; Driscoll is just sitting somewhere, presumably with a full stomach; and Mr. MacGuffin is tensely watching Old MFer run a computer. DaD enters the room where Driscoll is cooling her heels. It's a big room, with not much in it besides Driscoll, the couch she's sitting on, and now DaD. I can finally get some nice furniture like we have here in the office, she's thinking. DaD kindly suggests that Driscoll go home. "I'm afraid to," she says. I don't blame her. Converting DrisKid's bedroom into a pottery studio is going to be a big project. DaD launches into a long story about how when his wife died, he tried to not deal with it until it hit him hard a few weeks later. Time was I'd think that speech was too long and slow, but now that I'm a recapper, I'm all in favor of speeches that I can encapsulate in less time than it takes the actor to deliver them. Moral? He says Driscoll "can't keep it all inside. You cry, you blame God, you blame yourself, and then you cry some more." He forgot the CTU clinic staff. He's got his arm around her now, and I think she's secretly pinching the inside of her wrist to make some tears come out. Right then DoDder barges in and stands there awkwardly like she just walked in on them having sex. Actually, let me amend that: she stands there awkwardly like a TV character who just walked in on them having sex. Who freezes like that in real life? I walk in on a personal or embarrassing tableau, I'm going to haul ass out of the room immediately, preferably before I'm even recognized. But whatever. DoDder stutters that she just wanted to let DaD know she was back. Twenty minutes later? Thanks for the update. DaD signals her out of the room and mouths, "I'll be right there," and DoDder finally leaves the room. Driscoll never even looked at her, which I find kind of awesome. She's probably thinking, "Poor DaD. His loser daughter is still around." She tells DaD she will go home, and twists the nonexistent knife in her own heart by adding, "You should go and make sure your daughter's okay." DaD goes back out to the floor.
Where he's immediately waylaid by Curtis, who's not happy about being passed over for a promotion, even a temporary one, in favor of the likes of Soul Patch. DaD reminds Curtis about Soul Patch's two years in Driscoll's job. Also, Soul Patch hasn't been knocked unconscious in the past two hours, and is therefore not walking around with a concussion, not that DaD knows that about Curtis. "For the record," Curtis says, "I don't like it." DaD acknowledges this with a nod as Curtis stomps off. For the record, I think DaD is lucky there's not a support pillar nearby. I forgot to mention that Soul Patch is standing right there throughout the entire exchange, making that great "I'm standing right here" face he's been perfecting. DaD asks him about Kiefer, and Soul Patch says that Kiefer just arrived at MacGuffin Factories HQ and will call with any updates.