Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hold still, Sylar--there's something sticking out of your head.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.28.2007
Bennett Family Manse. Bennett enters, and his wife babbles at him about Mr. Muggles's grooming or something, and he just asks where Claire is because he's not obsessed with his daughter, no, not at all. Mrs. Bennett says Claire's at the library getting books for the manatee project. She notices that Bennett's in a deep blue funk and asks if he's still worried about Claire. He says that Claire's had a rough couple of weeks, and Mrs. Bennett says that, aside from some memory loss (hee!), their daughter's doing "just peachy." She says that it's Lyle they should be worried about. "That boy has been so absent-minded lately," she says, carrying the dog out of the room. Heh. Bennett just raises an eyebrow at her retreating back. His phone rings. It's Henchdoctor. He says that he did everything that he could, but he couldn't save Sylar. The man's dead. "Well, that's less than ideal," Bennett says coldly. He tells Henchdoctor to get the body ready for shipping and that he'll be in later. In Sylar's cell, the Henchdoctor starts to undo the restraining straps. When he's not looking, Sylar's eyes pop right open. He's alive! Alive! And shirtless!
Odessa. Claire and Zach are at a café, looking up a news story about a fire in Kermit, Texas, fourteen years ago. Zach zeroes in on an item about a woman named Meredith Gordon. It says that she and her 18-month old baby were killed. They realize that Claire must be that baby. "But I didn't die," says Claire. "Somebody thought you did," says Zach. He suggests that, even though her mother is dead, maybe she has family that Claire can contact. He says that one of them may even know who her real father is. Claire considers this.
Matt's at his review hearing, getting chewed out by his superiors. They think he's batshit crazy. Matt listens in on their thoughts and uses the knowledge he gleans from there to turn his story around and declare that the entire Sylar-in-a-secret-Bennet-run-prison is a lie. He just made it up so he could look powerful and possibly convince his superiors to make him a detective. So, instead of thinking he's crazy, now they think he's a liar. They suspend him and ask him to turn in his gun and his badge. Matt's flattened by this, probably because he was thinking that if he dropped the crazy-ass story, they might just let him keep his job. Later that day, he returns home to find Mrs. Matt up in the bathroom, freaking out over the busted sink. "Now are you gonna fix the pipes?" she asks. He asks for a wrench. Yes, it's about that interesting.