Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Diplomessy
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.08.2005
ImhoTerror's latest hideout looks like an abandoned factory with cargo nets hung artfully around the otherwise empty space. Empty, that is, aside from the Laptop Minion sitting at a desk, who greets the arriving ImhoTerror and says that the launch team is ready to make the changes. Laptop Minion asks whether CTU will find them before the launch, but ImhoTerror says they'll be okay if he moves up the launch time. "They're looking for the warhead in the cities. They have no idea that it's going to be delivered by missile." I suspect that until an episode or two ago, the writers didn't either. He takes over the laptop and dons a headset, and he's instantly in touch with Keith Szettingeverythingup, who's standing outside next to a missile that's already set up on a mobile launcher. I'd be interested to learn where those two items came from, and why their disappearance didn't raise any alarms. I suspect the answer may lie a few sentences back. ImhoTerror and Keith Szowunderusedthizweejk get their respective laptops synced up, and before the commercial we get a nice little glamour shot of the missile with steam pouring out of its rear nozzle. I don't know if that actually happens, but I don't care enough to look it up. It's 3:12:22.
3:16:43. The Consulate Cop reads a file, Lee is still under the knife, and Potato Face is still under my skin. At CTU, Buchanan tells Kiefer they want to be ready to move as soon as Lee talks. Kiefer agrees, then swoops in to the computer next to Potato Face and technobabbles at her about some data they're expecting from the DoD. Potato Face asks if that's been authorized. Kiefer looks across the floor at DoDder, who's doing some work of her own, and says he still needs to talk to her. Potato Face: "That's gonna be weird." Kiefer foolishly asks why that is, I think because he doesn't realize that she already knows what happened. Silly Kiefer, Potato Face always knows. For somebody who's so "socially inept," she doesn't seem to have trouble finding someone to keep her up to speed on the office gossip. To wit: "You had to do what you did and her husband died…probably destroyed your relationship --" Kiefer cuts her off. She adds, "I just want you to know, if you ever need anyone to talk to, as a friend, I'm here for you." Kiefer slowly turns his head and meets her gaze with a look of pure horror. Hee! "Not now, but later, when things calm down," Potato Face clarifies. Kiefer takes his out and leaves, thanking her.
And now, Kiefer's got to go talk to the girlfriend he just widowed to get her authorization on the DoD technobabble. She asks emotionlessly, "Were you able to keep Lee alive?" Kiefer says he's stabilized, and DoDder agrees to call the home office to get Kiefer his technobabble. Since when is technobabble Kiefer's job, anyway? Take a break, dude. If you really need to be doing something every minute, I'm sure someone else will come along for you to kill or torture soon.