Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C | 183 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Sylar Has a New Crush
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2010.01.04
Claire's dorm room. She's being totally normal and applying mascara when there's a knock at her door. It's her dad, who hugs her and asks if she's all right. She just says she wasn't expecting to see him and walks off. He thought he'd give her a lift to the wake, but she tells him she would prefer if he didn't come, since he lied to her, once again, this time about Nathan's death. She asks if he forgot that it was Sylar, and what Sylar did to her, since he dressed him up in Nathan's face and she hugged him and felt love for him. Noah says they made a bad decision, but they thought it was a good way to contain Sylar and keep Nathan alive. He says they shouldn't have done it, but she says they did and she needs time to grieve without being reminded why. So, apparently Mama Petrelli won't be at the wake either.
Speaking of both: Wake. Mama Petrelli walks up on Peter looking out a window, and tells him she keeps looking out for Nathan too. She tells him this can't have been easy on Peter, covering everything up with Noah. She asks how he is, and he turns and snarkily tells her he's okay. She says Nathan was a better liar, and Peter says he must have gotten it from her. Then, because he's Peter, he quickly apologizes and says she doesn't deserve that but he wants to put his fist through a wall right now. She corrects him that he wants to put a fist through Sylar. She tells him not to do it, though, that Nathan was right: He needs to fight the good fight, and revenge will only get him killed. She can't bear to lose him too. He sees Claire come in, and heads over to hug her. He invites Claire to help him with something in the kitchen, and she asks if he's trying to escape. Uh, duh.
In the kitchen, they dismiss the actual caterers and start chopping vegetables as they talk. She says she told her dad not to come, because she's pissed; isn't he? Peter says he is, and she's glad since he's the only person who's on the same page as her. Actually, Claire, we're all pissed about this storyline. I promise. She says it's a hell of a lie, and Peter says they were trying to protect them. She gets that but doesn't know how they thought they'd get away with it. She cuts herself and screams "Ow!" as she starts to bleed. She wonders why it's not healing, and Peter says he has the Haitian's power and will turn it off (there is a switch inside his brain, I guess). She asks him not to, and we get the episode's title. He bandages her up, and she says it's nice to feel pain, and feel normal. Peter says they're anything but normal. She says that mourning Nathan couldn't be more ordinary. She can't believe he's gone, but she hopes he can find heaven since he was a terrible navigator for a guy who could fly. She laughs, and Peter wonders why. She says he gave her endless grief for dating a guy who could fly, saying she has daddy issues (she admits she does). Peter asks whatever happened to West anyway, and Claire says he goes to NYU and is her Facebook friend. She says it's nice telling stories; it makes it easier. She asks what about him, since he must have a million of them. He says he better take the lemons or whatever he's cut up out there.