4/5 Season Four:Episode Twenty Two–The Khruschev List –Scarecrow and Mrs King

Back to IFF..
We find there is a map on an easel in the Q bureau, and Amanda has apparently been hard at work! You remember Amanda right?!
Amanda: OK, this is everything. In 1959, five of these buildings were bachelor officers’ quarters, uh, three were warehouses converted to temporary housing and two were set up as office facilities for Khrushchev’s staff. [Ah so down to 10 options..]
Lee: And all of them have basements where the strong box could have been buried.
Amanda: Yup.
Billy: Who are these buildings assigned to now?
Amanda: Uh, Department of Defence, Smithsonian Institute, Patent Office and Department of the Interior. Four of the locations are secured with top-secret entry and the rest are offices and warehouses.
Lee: In any case, it’s gonna take a mountain of paperwork to get inside those buildings, let alone dig up their basements.
Billy: Maybe we should post guards on the exteriors of each building.
Lee: It’s already done. If Harry wants to get into one of those places, Billy, nothing’s gonna stop him.
Door opens and Francine enter.
Francine: I found six agencies requesting files on both Harry and Lee. But only two of them have asked to be kept current on the investigation. That’s the CIA and the Committee for Internal Security.

Billy: We already know about the CIA. Who requested status reports from the CIS?

Francine: It came through the director’s office. Now, there’s only six people in that office that have the authority to request the forms. The director himself, the counsel, and four undersecretaries…

…The CIS rep that I talked to said he didn’t understand why our office sent some additional file data over to his department. Some information on a former freelance operative called Meatball Bonfelli.
Billy: Get over to CIS. Check in with their comm centre. Find out where they delivered that report. And I don’t give a damn whose toes you step on. Amanda and I will check all of our outgoing logs. [Ah! Amanda has a new job!!! Still, I’m glad to see her than not]
Francine: OK.
Lee: I just hope I didn’t deliver Meatball to the morgue.

Whoooo drama drama!

Lee and Francine leave.. and the scene ends there.

Billy said in the last blog post ‘Amanda and I will get breakdowns of any agency that will be tracking our investigation.’ as he left Lee and Francine at the hunting lodge, but it looks like Francine did that work not Amanda… and Amanda was breaking down the possible past locations. Whatevs.

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Outside an unknown building. Meatball arrives home..

Hey… I may be wrong here, it’s not clear, but I think Meatball might like boxing… What do you think?!! I love how subtle smk is haaaa.
He picks up the handset of the phone and punches in the number (haaa).
Meatball: Hello, Gretchen. This is Meatball. Listen, I got to speak to Harry right away. There might be trouble….How long ago did he leave?
The lock to the front door clicks and the handle starts turning.
Meatball: Look, Gretchen, I can’t talk right now. Yeah, I’ll meet Harry and Christina at the rendezvous.
Meatball puts the phone down and notices someone is trying to open his front door.

Meatball has plenty of time to see this coming, and Mr I love boxing should be able to defend himself.. but nahhh. Quisguard was trained by the CIS. He bests Meatball and injects him with something in the back . Deja vu 2000 perhaps rofl.
Quisguard: Where is Thornton hiding Christina Golitsyn?
Meatball: Huh? Uh, hard to say. Heh. Uh. They could be on a tour of the White House.
Quisguard: You may think you’re pretty funny now, but in a couple of seconds you’ll be talking.

Hurry Lee!!! we see an aerial shot of the corvette in traffic.

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Back to Meatball’s apartment.
Meatball: Yeah, it’s the old produce mart, huh? Eh, Uh.
Quisguard: Are you sure that’s where you’re to meet him?
Meatball: Oh yeah sure.
(Knocking on the door. It’s Lee. Quisguard moves towards the window and opens the window as Lee speaks.)
Lee: Come on, open the door, Meatball. It’s Stetson.
(As Quisguard climbs out the window, Lee forces the door open with his shoulder and enter, his gun raised.

Lee runs to the open window and looks out, then comes turns back to Meatball.)
Lee: Meatball, Meatball, you OK? It’s me, Lee Stetson. Come on, get up.
Meatball: Lee, Lee.
Lee: Come on.
Meatball: Lee, you’ve got to warn Harry.
Lee: It’s me, Lee.
Meatball: The old produce mart. The guy knows.
Lee: OK. You gonna be all right. Just hang on.
Meatball: Warn Harry.
[awh poor Meatball all he is worried about is warning Harry!]
Lee picks up Meatball’s phone and dials.
Lee: Yeah this is Scarecrow. I need a paramedic team at the Tidal Basin Hotel, Room 339. This is a flash-fire priority. You got that? OK, get over here as soon as possible. [Hotel? I thought this was Meatball’s home..]
Meatball: I gotta wake up. Wake up.
Lee picks up a notebook and reads: Eighty feet of rope, crowbars, blocks and tackle. Hey Meat…Meatball, listen. Look at this stuff. (Lee reads off the list he found) Eighty feet of rope, crowbars, blocks and tackle.
Meatball: Oh yeah
Lee: Is this the gear to dig up the strong box?
Meatball: Yeah, Yeah
Lee: Where’s the strong box?
Meatball: It’s the giraffe. The giraffe.
Lee: Giraffe? What?
Meatball: Yeah, it’s buried under the giraffe. Yeah, tell Harry. Harry knows. Warn him.
Lee: I will. Don’t you worry. You just hand on.
Meatball: Harry knows. Oh. Gotta warn Harry.

Lee leaves Harry on his couch with the help on his way…

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On to Lee in the Corvette driving.
Lee: I still can’t make any sense of out Meatball saying the box was buried under the giraffe.
Billy: Maybe he wasn’t capable of making sense.
Lee: What about the government building we checked? Are any of them allocated to the National Zoo?
Billy: I’ll check and get back to you.
Lee: Uh. Considering the condition Meatball was in, I wouldn’t be surprised if the giraffe was standing right there in his living room.

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Moving on we find Francine visiting someone named Brady, they enter a stairwell..
Brady confirms all the status reports came from teh same office, and one about Meatball came through a few hours ago.. but he can’t give her the name of who requested them.
Francine points out Brady use to work for the agency.. and she has tons of security clearances.
[Love how Francine gently but firmly takes his hand off of her!]
Brady wants a handwritten authorisation, but Francine says they don’t have time for that. Time for Francine to pull out the big guns!
Francine:…OK, all right. Brady, look I understand your position, all right? It’s just that I am desperate… …I am just about desperate enough to go up and down those halls and tell everyone that little secret you told me back when we were dating. Remember the one about the shoe boxes that you keep under your bed? [wha wha????!!!!! Do tell!!]
Brady: Hey, wait a minute, Francie. You promised you’d never tell anybody about that.
Francine: I was lying. No either you give me the name of the person who requested those agency status reports or I’m gonna …
Brady: All right, Francine. Here.
He opens a clipboard and shows her a page.
Francine: Internal security counsel to the president?
Brady: Right. Walter Singer. …Hey, uh, Francine. What are you doing Friday night?
Francine sighs, like – really?
Then, opens the doors and smiles back..
Francine: Eight o’clock?
Francine leaves.
Brady (to himself): Bingo.
He smiles and walks off.
[No hard feelings I guess!!! but hey, what’s in the shoe boxes!!! I’ll guess Brady likes to wear Heels sometimes and leave it at that   I think Brady is a high heeled step up from Francine’s boyfriend last week drugging her and all.]

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Next thing, Lee is in a warehouse area. This one looks familiar but noooo I’m not going to go hunt for where we’ve seen it before lol.

Lee approaches the outside, then Harry and Christina exit the building to say hi.. Harry’s impressed Lee found him..
Harry: Either I’ve lost my touch, or I owe you congratulations for finding us.
Quisguard appear and the shooting starts..
Lee: Harry, run for it. He’s on to you.
Christina moves behind Harry. Quisguard and Lee shoot at each other. A shooting match ensues.
Everyone disperses… and Lee loses them all.

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Better pause here!!! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!