Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 148 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Coming Together
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2010.01.11
Vanessa, HRG, and Matt walk through some pretty architectural structures that may or may not be where the L.A. Chamber Orchestra actually plays. She says she and Samuel were close growing up, that he used to write her love poems, that they didn't care that his family worked for hers. She says one day they were gone, and she moved on, assuming he'd done the same until he showed up in her room one night, all swagger and rock 'n' roll. She says she was in the right place for a bad boyfriend, and they had a fun couple weeks until he proposed, asking her to run off to his carnival. "I mean, a carnival? I was getting a music degree at Yale." HRG says he's not the same 20-year-old kid, and is a very dangerous man. She says he's been showing up more and more often since Joseph died, spouting crazy stuff. She wouldn't call it stalking, but she says he does seem obsessed, and last time she saw him, he was going on and on about how she'd want to be with him as soon as she sees how powerful he is. HRG has an epiphany that they've been trying to find the carnival, but maybe they should bring the carnival to them. Matt wonders how you move a carnival, apparently forgetting that he and many others have powers. HRG asks Vanessa to call Samuel.
Peter's apartment. He shows Emma the news clipping Samuel put himself in, and she confirms that's her cello-giving Samuel. Peter says he told him his name was William Hooper, and asks Emma what he wanted from her. She says he only wanted to find a homeless man, and he gave her something. She pulls out a compass, and it starts to spin in Peter's hand. Samuel says that last time he saw a compass like that, his friend got stabbed, so to keep her distance. Emma says he's a good man, but Peter says his friend almost died because of a compass just like that one and he wasn't the first person who got attacked. Mama Petrelli knocks and lets herself in, and Peter introduces them. Or tries to, because Mama Petrelli's response is a stiff, "Peter, how do you know this woman?" Emma takes the hint and leaves, and Peter asks his mom what the hell that was.
Mental hospital. Ando's sitting with Hiro in some sort of lunch room, saying he's relieved Hiro's not really crazy. He wonders why Suresh hasn't used his super strength to break out, and Hiro says that the storm troopers have dulled his senses with Jawa Juice. Ando figures out that means the orderlies have been giving him meds. Hiro wants to turn Bruce Banner back into the Hulk. Ando takes over, and swaps out the "Ahmadi" pills with aspirin. But to hide them from the orderly, he pops them in his own mouth and ends up swallowing them. Hiro: "Nap time for Sancho."