Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 297 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.10.12
Samuel's crouching down looking over a canyon when Lydia the Tattooed Lady saunters up. He orders her to hand him a cloth to wipe the dirt he's been playing with off of his hands. Lydia asks him who the new family member is, and he wonders why she's interested. She says he used her body to find them, so she's vested. She asks if it's Petrelli, Nakamura, Tracy, or Claire. He won't answer, so she asks if he even knows. He doesn't know, but he felt something. In his bones and in the earth. But the dust hasn't settled yet. She thinks it's a gamble to make promises to the family based on a feeling. He says it's worth it for the chance to grow the family, and that there are plenty of cousins out there, like planted seeds. She wonders who will break ground first, and he says we'll have to wait and see as he does this sort of conductor-like movement and the earth rises up and then falls in front of him. It looks cool and everything, but I don't know what the point was. Which is actually how I could describe the majority of this show lately: Pretty to look at, but why? Lydia walks off and we see they're across the canyon from the carnival.
Claire's in her dorm room asking Gretchen if she's seen her frilly white sweater, then turns around and sees Gretchen's wearing it. Gretchen wonders if that's cool, and Claire says to go ahead, but even Gretchen can tell she's annoyed at this point. Gretchen goes to use the restroom, and a book falls off of her shelf, turning Gretchen's computer on. Claire notices the website Gretchen has open is about her, and that every other tab open on her computer is also about Claire, except one about the science behind "Jump-Push-Fall." Oh, and just some crazy article about murder-suicides. Gretchen comes back and Claire pretends she didn't see any of that. She does tell Gretchen to go on without her, though, and she'll catch up. Gretchen wants to wait, but Claire says they should mix with people they don't know, since it's a mixer. Gretchen's sad, but it's hard to care.
We get table reflections of Sylar and Dr. Gibson as he compliments this "amazing" beverage he's drinking. He asks what it is, and says "tea." So his brain really seems to be totally wiped, other than the fact that he can talk a little. She asks if he's ever had tea, and he says he's never had anything; everything feels so new, like he's feeling it for the first time. He practically snuggles his tea and a pocket watch in front of him, describing them as "hot" and "cold." I wonder if Sylar can even find his own brain in there without Parkman, who seems to have Sylar inside him, right? Sylar describes all of these sensations as scary, but also "overwhelmingly beautiful." Dr. Gibson says it's jamais vu, the opposite of déjà vu, which is quite common in cases such as seizures or amnesia. She thinks he's still in there somewhere, but a traumatic experience blocked it out. She'd like to play the memory game with him. She asks him to relax, with his eyes closed. He does, and then he freaks out because the clock's ticking doesn't match the ticking of her watch. That distracts him. She's amazed that he can hear that her watch is running fast, which it has been for years. She says this ticking thing is good, and is probably a clue to his past. She wants to try again, but Warden Leo interrupts and asks to see her in the hall. She promises just to be a sec. But in the hall, Leo tells her they have an ID, based on Sylar's fingerprints. Uh-oh.