Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Way We Were
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.25.2007
Bennet stops the car on a bridge and tells Claude to get out. He follows suit and asks Claude to give up the identity of the person he's harboring. Claude disbelievingly asks if Bennet is really going to kill him like it's nothing. Bennet snaps that it's not nothing, and that he went against the interests of the company. He draws a gun and again asks for the name. Claude takes a long look at the gun, asks what would happen if it were Claire, and says that Bennet is keeping his distance from her so it will be bearable when he turns her in. Bennet reminds Claude that he used to believe in what they do, and Claude informs Bennet that he won't hunt his own people. He starts to say that this isn't who Bennet is, and that he has a choice, but suddenly, the gun fires, hitting Claude in the torso. And this is odd, because as many posters pointed out, it looks like the gun goes off without Bennet pulling the trigger, and Bennet looks really surprised, so I would have thought that either there was a misfire or some telekinesis at work somehow. But then, as Claude gets back to his feet between the guardrail and the side of the bridge, Bennet shoots him again, with a reasonably vicious look on his face. So I don't know. Claude starts to blink out, and as Bennet shoots some more bullets, Claude falls backward over the side, turning completely invisible on the way. It's a looooong way down, so I don't think he could have survived the fall; nor do I think, even if he held on, that he could have pulled himself back up with a couple of gut wounds hindering him. But hey: out of sight, out of nitpick.
Oh, thank God, a scene I can easily distill. I super-love this episode, but I'm getting exhausted here. Bennet and the Haitian bitch at each other as Parkman trails along behind them like a West Wing aide struggling to keep up with two hyper-caffeinated staff members. Bennet contends that he's protecting Claire, but the Haitian doesn't agree, and suggests her running as an option. Bennet says she's safer in plain sight, and the Haitian snarks, "Not at the moment." I think Bennet liked the Haitian better when he didn't talk. Parkman tells them both to shut up, as no one's going to be safe unless Sprague gets what he wants. Also, the Haitian has a couple of shirt buttons open, and we can see the pendant.
Chez Bennet. Sprague seems to hear something upstairs, and goes to check. When he's gone, Claire sneaks into the room where her mom and brother are tied up with duct tape. Jeez, Claire, after all the trouble you went to save her, you don't want to give your mom a heart attack here. Claire grabs a large knife and gets to work on the tape as her mom thanks God.