Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sins Of The Father... And Sister
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 04.13.2009
...whom we next visit, and wow, I didn't realize how much shorter Adrian Pasdar is than Jack Coleman. Claire's being the Velma as she stays off to the side while her two dads whine about the mess they've made of things. Bennet then tells Nathan about Sylar's new power and how he almost killed Sandra because of it, and it would have been funny if Claire suddenly piped up from across the room, "Say what?" However, she's found the cover of Alice In Wonderland that's miraculously survived lo these fifty years, which cues a labored transition to how Claire doesn't remember the last time she did normal things, but while she should be a basket case, she's not. However, she tells them both she was trying to impress them by becoming an agent or whatever, and it was moronic, but she just wanted to grow up. I guess her overall point is that she accepts the life she's leading, although she kind of gets lost along the way, but who cares, as it's time for another flashback...
...to May 1961, and Alice is lying on her bed and watching sullenly as Angela and YCD speak in hushed tones across the room about sneaking out that night and figuring out where they are and how they can get help. Angela's having second thoughts, even though the whole thing was her plan, because she promised Alice she wouldn't leave her alone. YCD, however, thinks she'll slow them down, which... she's not a toddler. I can think of many reasons to leave her behind -- a bigger party is more easily detected, the more people gone the more likely the guards are to notice, she may freak out about the plan, she cant stop saying "Banana," etc., etc. -- but foot speed isn't one of them. I mean, at the very least, she could summon a nice tail wind to get them moving faster. Anyway, though, this is all so Angela can clunkily ask how she's supposed to get Alice not to freak out, and so YCD can answer, "Lie." Groan. He leaves, and Angela marches over and tells Alice that she's going out with the boys that night, and Alice isn't invited, because Angela wants to hang out with kids her own age. Given that it is, as the title tells us, 1961, I'd think one girl going off with three strange boys at night for unspecified social interaction at which her younger sister is unwelcome would freak Alice out a lot more than anything they're actually planning, but as the upcoming dance will show, it's only forty-eight years ago when it's convenient to the script. Angela starts to go, but Alice grabs her hand and says she's scared, and to emphasize that, thunder rumbles ominously in the distance. Angela lies that she had a dream the night before that Alice would be safe, so she just has to stay there and everything will be fine...