Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jump, Die and Fail
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.21.2009
Peter's listening to a scanner in his dark apartment when Bennet shows up and asks if they can talk for a minute. Peter doesn't answer, which is weird, but then he's offering Bennet something to drink. Peter says he has water or mustard, and Bennet chooses water. [They're like peas in a pod! - Z] Again. Bennet wonders what Peter's been up to, and he says he got his paramedic job back. Bennet says it must be keeping him busy, since Angela says she hasn't seen him in weeks. Bennet notices Peter's wall of savings, and wonders if he's using powers to do this. Peter says it's useful in his line of work to be strong and fast, and adds, "Thank you, Dr. Suresh," so that we know how he got all Spider-Man-y. Peter wonders if Bennet's there for a reason, and Bennet explains the key from dead Danko, and the guy with the fast knives who will probably be waiting for someone to come open the box it goes to. Bennet needs a partner he can trust on this because of the super-fast knife guy. Peter: "How fast?"
Sandra and Claire, both wearing horrible clothes (Claire's wearing a baggy, grandma-looking top that makes her look fat, which she isn't; Sandra's wearing a bright orange cardigan over a white shirt, and the orange just makes her look pale and old), are walking through campus. Claire thanks her for letting her stay with her last night, which is really just the writers' way of letting us know that Sandra also lives in the D.C. area. Sandra and Claire argue about whether Claire should tell Annie's parents about the suicide note. When Claire and Sandra arrive at the room, Claire's stalker Gretchen is waiting outside. Claire introduces them to each other and Gretchen jumps right in, asking Claire if she thinks Annie's death was murder or a horrific accident, since Gretchen somehow heard that Claire told the cops she didn't see a note. Sandra tries to silence the gossip by saying Claire might have been mistaken. Gretchen thinks suicide makes no sense for someone with a trajectory of the next 50 years. Sandra fist-bumps Claire and then leaves. Gretchen's like, "So, it's murder, right? How do we prove it?"
Bennet and Peter are in New York Federal Bank in Manhattan. Peter wonders if the knife guy is going to show, and Bennet doesn't know but feels better with Peter there. Then he tells Peter that he thinks he should seriously consider how he's living. Peter's like, "Where did that come from?" Is Peter so dense that he actually doesn't know where that came from? He has a crazy serial saver wall of clippings in his otherwise bare apartment with no food, doesn't talk to his family or friends or anyone else, and has made it his mission to save people to the point that he beats himself up if he doesn't save them quite perfectly enough? Really? He doesn't know where Bennet's question came from? God, these characters are idiotic. Bennet points out the same stuff I just did: Peter knows everyone's name that he's saved but no one knows his. He has no connections to anyone, which is a dead end. Bennet says to trust him, since he's exhibit A, all alone, eating cereal for dinner. It's no way to live.