After some dialogue that I don’t have the patience to relay here, Robocop agrees to a deal, and within a few minutes has produced a several names that Frankenstein might contact. One dude, a Victor Malina is a juicy prospect, because phone records show that he recently received a call from a pay phone in the Van Nuys area.
See people, the monitoring of phone calls can be a beautiful thing! It’s all good! So, they make plans to get to Malina. However, as Robocop points out, the guy is so technically sophisticated, he can detect the long arm of the law sniffing around his IP address and program a VCR.
Not to worry, they’ll be vewy vewy quiet. A TAC team led by Jack and Curtis stealthily approaches the Manse Malina. Robocop, who has come along, enters the building alone. He gets scanned by Malina’s equipment, and is diagnosed a loose filling, and wait, was that a... hamster? The rest of the team get into position.
What luck! A utility pole, with handy rungs is tucked in next to the building, just waiting for Jack to scale it. And up he goes, on the roof. Curtis, who’s already set up a perimeter, natch, does the silent pointy thing with his men. You know, points to his eyes, points to an officer, holds up fingers indicating a number, points here, points there, and spits tobacco.
The TAC officer shakes off his signals, spits tobacco, grabs his crotch, taps his arm indicating the number of words and syllables, and then starts to pantomime The Da Vinci Code.
The fun stops in a minute though; Jack is on the comm., “Stop with the Charades already!” He whispers even quieter, “But was it, The Sentinel?” The team silently cracks up. “Stop laughing at me! OK OK, I know, it was…The Phone Booth, right?
After the men wipe their eyes and try to put on serious TAC team faces again, Jack is holding a drinking glass to the skylight. He overhears Robocop telling Malina that CTU is closing in. He advises him to start dumping all of his data into a flash drive. He also advises Malina that he should try to incorporate some pastels into his color scheme.
While Malina waits for his data to transfer, he looks over some swatches as Robocop takes measurements. “Yes, some new window treatments will do wonders for this place; the industrial look is so, yesterday.” While Jack is pissed that Robocop seems to be selling him out, he reminds himself to ask Henderson for tips when he redecorates his rumpus room.
Article comments
1 - Victor Lana
Some great observations as always, Mary K. Yes, the two best moments were Pierce & Logan and Karen and Miles. I'll add them to my list of all times favorites right up there with Jack gunning down Drazen and putting a bullet in Nina Meyers. I'm sure he has a few left for Henderson, Bierko, and Logan.
2 - Jeff
Nicely done. Indeed, I saw The Sentinel over the weekend, and it was like 24: The Movie.
Odd that the movie had Kiefer, and a Secret Service agent sleeping with the First Lady, played by Kim Basinger.
24 has Kiefer, and a Secret Service agent who acts like he wants to sleep with the First Lady. And Kim Basinger might appear in the next season.
3 - Mary K. Williams
Chloe spilling coffee on Miles was pretty good too.
4 - Mary K. Williams
Jeff - it all gets a little freaky yes?
5 - Jeff
I didn't quite understand why Agent Adams drove up in a car. He was in the retreat. Did he leave in the car and come back? Was the car parked elsewhere?
And did they just happen to have all that plastic sitting around the retreat?
6 - Mary K. Williams
Well, last year Dave Barry commented about Marwan shopping at Home Depot. I suppose if an all-night Home Depot is good enough for Marwan, it be good enough for Agent Adams.
"Excuse me, where are your
blood-catchingwaterproof sheets of plastic? Yes, trunk sized would be perfect"