Episode Report Card Djb: D | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT In The Claire
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2000.08.30
Oh, good, more unbelievably quick scenes of danger and violence. The faux-season draws to a close. In the same ambiguous classroom pod where the inmates are always up to no good, the two men act as equals while interrogating Supreme, who has been unceremoniously handcuffed to a chair. Querns produces the necklace and accuses Supreme of killing Brown and the other guy, and when Supreme claims that the necklace probably fell off when he was working in the kitchen, Adebisi boils over and slams him one in the chair. The guards separate them and, after a brief spurt of violence and piercingly original dialogue exchange ("Fuck me? No, fuck you!"), the two are dragged out and Em City is back on lockdown. And then, with an unsympathetic "Let 'em out," Querns ends the lockdown in exactly zero time-elapsed seconds. The inmates walk out of their pods, Said commenting, "This is the end of the guard." Said reiterates his need to get close enough to Adebisi to find one flaw that will cripple him.
And, to the contrived surprise of not so much you or me, we cut to Adebisi sharing a moment with another opening credits moment, the dancing green dress, which turns out to be Adebisi's fifteen-year-old child bitch whom Adebisi forced to give him The Ol' Claire/O'Reily Treatment back at the beginning of Episode 4. Poet watches all this in horror, then turns away from the pod to see Said and tells him, "Given what you believe in, it's tough to take this conversion seriously." Said confirms that he swore to Allah on all this, and Poet insightfully conjectures that Said's pledge to Allah "has something to do with you trying to stop him." Nice. So Poet steps into the fray, telling Said that incriminating evidence does in fact exist that could bring Adebisi down. "Those fucking videotapes." Eh? I took it in stride when I saw the damn camcorder in the first place, and now we learn that the center of all dramatic action rests in their contents. Just like the cell phone. Was Em City built on an abandoned Radio Shack, or has its product placement department finally gone full-tilt loony? Poet? "He likes to record his antics for posterity. Live from Party Central." Heh. Poet funny. Said tells him to get him those videotapes, and to "do it now." Said creates the diversion downstairs, asking Adebisi if he can talk to him in a not-his-pod oriented place. Meanwhile, Poet goes on the hunt inside Adebisi's pod, finding the tapes -- no kidding -- in a panel in the ceiling. Green Dress Child Bitch is in the pod, and Poet threatens him with bloody bad everything if he so much as breathes a word. But at this moment, Adebisi makes his way back upstairs, unwilling to indulge Said in further convo. Poet makes it out in time, but snags no tapes in the process. All he leaves with is the information of where those tapes are, and he passes the savings along to Said.