Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C- | 135 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Hiro Quixote and Ando Panza
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2010.01.04
He's standing at the head of the casket, and starts talking. He says his brother, Nathan, taught him a lot: how to ride a skateboard, how to hook a marlin, how to catch a baseball (he doesn't mention how to fly or how to love another man). He says usually a father would teach his son these things, but Dad wasn't around, so it was Nathan. Peter wishes it had been his father, because Nathan didn't make it easy (as opposed to his easygoing father?). He says Nathan would throw high or low, and Peter would ask him to make it easy. Nathan would tell him that's not how it's going to come at him in a game and now Peter understands Nathan just wanted him to be ready for anything. Claire cries as Nathan touches the casket and says, "I'm ready, Brother. For whatever comes." Angela looks away as Peter kisses the casket. Then the military funeral stuff starts, with the honor guard folding the flag and presenting it to Angela, then the gun salute, and the military flyover. It's pretty sad, all things considered ("all things" being how many times Nathan's already died). Everyone watches, but we end on Peter. As we should. And then we get chyrons telling us there's another episode ... "Now!" Oh, we're so lucky.
DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, cries at funerals -- even if it's the third or fourth time someone's died. You can contact her at twopmodmars@gmail.com.
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