Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D | 10 USERS: D- YOU GRADE IT Splat!
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 02.08.2010
Underground trailer of melodrama. HRG tells Claire that when he said he was a product of his experiences, he left out one thing: Claire. He says she came into her life and changed it. The man in those House of Mirrors images never could have died a happy man, but he can because of her. He asks if she can forgive him, and she says she doesn't need to forgive him; she needs to thank him. She is who she is because of him. They both cry. He tells her to promise him she will hide, that the world doesn't have to know about her, she can blend in. She says they don't have to do this; they can find a way out. He asks again for her to promise, and says it's his dying wish. He starts to pass out, and she screams, "Dad, no! no!" As she digs, water starts flowing in from a hole she's digging and then it starts forming into a human, which we all know means Tracy's here. Claire tells Tracy he's dying, and Tracy says not if she can help it. She goes to him and tells him she has to get him through thirty feet of dirt. He says she's ready. Tracy says he'll owe her one for this, and Claire says, "As soon as we get out of here." Tracy looks through the hole she came in through and says, "I hope you can swim." Her hand comes in toward it, which is also toward the camera, and starts turning to water. It's a cool cut to commercial.
Outside the trailer, HRG and Claire come up in a pool of water, where Lauren's there to pull them out with her one good arm. I have no idea how that worked. Did Tracy just turn all the dirt to water? Is that one of her powers now? Claire asks if HRG's okay, and he says yeah, that Tracy saved them. Lauren says she knows, she called her. He asks if the carnival's gone, and Lauren says they're in Central Park and she lined up a chopper, which will be here any second. They look at the water and HRG asks where Tracy is. Claire reminds him she said he'd owe her one, but he says they have to go now.
Hospital. Old Charlie tells Hiro not to beat himself up. She would have waited for him, but was middle-aged by the time he was born. Or older than middle-aged, if she was in her twenties in 1944. Charlie's just happy she got to see Hiro again before... Hiro surmises she's not well, and she says the good news is that her brain aneurysm never bothered her again after his weird doctor friend cured her. Unfortunately, pretty much everything else is about to give out. Since she's practically ninety. Hiro tells her he can fix everything. Ando interrupts and asks Hiro what he means by "fix it." Hiro wants to take her back to the diner to right a terrible wrong. Ando wants to make sure Hiro's doing this for Charlie, and not for himself. Hiro: "Absolutely." So Ando leaves him alone with her, and Hiro looks at her and smiles.