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
Replicator Elis are kicking the crap out of Parkman in his kitchen. Six hands would each like a knife please. But as they get ready to carve, they all disappear. So, wait? We don't even get to see what Sylar and Peter did to him? Stupid. Anyway, Peter comes in and tells Parkman his leg is dislocated, then Sylar throws Replicator Eli in. He lands straight and stiff like he's frozen. Parkman asks what the hell he's doing here, and I have to wonder if he missed the episode where he was trapping him permanently "here" in his home. Because I cannot say it enough: Shut up, Parkman!
Cut to some hay on the ground as our last (forever?) chyron scrolls by on the ground: "Chapter Eighteen: Brave New World." It's Central Park. They've managed to come into the city and set up shop with hay and everything in a short enough time that Claire and HRG are still alive in that trailer? [I think the teleportation was instantaneous. - Zach] Whatever. Anyway, Samuel tells Emma it's time for her solo, and that she's going to help everyone find them. Edgar lurks and listens. Emma remembers and tells Samuel about Peter's dream that she will cause thousands of people to die. And she says Peter was right about Samuel. Now she gets it? God, I hate the characters on this show. Samuel tells Emma she disappoints him and then lets Doyle use his puppetry powers on her. Doyle creepily says he's always had a thing for blondes.
Hiro music plays and then Ando and Hiro wake up in the hospital. Ando was having a wonderful dream about being home again with Hiro and Kimiko. Hiro agrees life was simple once, and he'd like it to be like that again. He says to have that life back, they have to fight for it. Hiro shows Ando he has full command of his powers back, but he doesn't really show him, since he flashes back without him and then answers him. Hiro's ready to stop "the Butterfly Man." Then a nurse comes in and gives him a note from a woman down the hall. It says, "Is it really you? Come find me," and there's an origami crane inside. Because old women in hospitals totally have time to make origami cranes and send them around.
Parkman seethes about Sylar being out of the nightmare he trapped him in, and blames Peter. Ambiguously Gay Duo, in unison: "It's a long story." Peter needs to know what Samuel's planning, when and where. They ask him to get in Replicator Eli's head, but Parkman sounds jealous and asks if it's so they can run off and be superheroes together. He can't believe Peter actually trusts Sylar. Peter touches Parkman and says, "When you want something done..." ["...Don't ask Parkman to do it." - Z] He touches Replicator Eli and then tells Sylar and Parkman that Sylar's going to show the world his powers tonight in Central Park. Sylar asks what that means, and Peter says he's going to open the ground and kill them all. Sylar obviouses, for those of us who don't know he used to be evil: "That sounds like a plan I could live with back in the day." Parkman continues the obvious: "You say that like it wasn't yesterday!" Sylar tells Matt he knows it's hard to understand, but he's not that person anymore. Peter wants to go, but Parkman can't let them leave together, since people will end up dead and he can't let that happen. Dude, shut up, Parkman! Since when do you care about anything but your stupid family and your stupid ratatouille? He uses his brain to convince Sylar he's not going anywhere. It's a good thing Parkman's in this episode to be worthless and slow things down.