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
Outside, Bennet embraces his wife as the police are arriving on the scene. No one has even given Eric Roberts a "Who's THIS guy?" look, nor has Parkman been all, "Nice work, GENIUS." I think these people are way too polite.
Claire finally makes her move. We flash to the agitated family outside, paintings burning up, and Claire's face peeling away as she gets close. She may regenerate, but no one ever said she doesn't feel any pain, so if you didn't think she was a bad-ass before, I trust you'll need no further convincing. Finally, the front door spectacularly blows off its hinges, but once it has, the reaction inside subsides. Bennet walks forward uncertainly, but then Claire appears, burnt to a crisp, although with her hair mostly intact. Hey, I'm not complaining. I love how she always looks like she just stepped out of an Herbal Essences commercial. (Ew, not like that, she's only seventeen.) Sandra starts to walk forward as well, and even Eric Roberts looks a little touched as he sees her. Claire walks toward her dad, and as she does, she regenerates. The effects aren't completely seamless -- there's one cut to Bennet -- but they're pretty darn close, which is awesome. The Bennets circle Claire and group-hug here, but Bennet looks up and warily notes that Eric Roberts is looking at him inscrutably. That's not lost on Parkman, either. We circle around this uncertain tableau before heading into the last commercial break.
Primatech. As they walk along the hallway, Eric Roberts tells Bennet that it's good he called him when he did. "It's a shame I'll have to kill another partner." Ah, that's very interesting, since he's referring to Claude. Because that means Bennet didn't tell Eric Roberts that Claude is still alive. And since the Haitian knows as well, that means the Haitian's personal loyalty to Bennet over the company goes back a bit. Bennet asks if the Haitian's been located, but Eric Roberts easily says he must have figured Bennet would turn him in. He then asks, "How long was he hiding Claire? In plain sight, too; you must feel like a fool!" Bennet, not taking the bait, says he guesses it was months, and Claire trusted the Haitian over her own father. Eric Roberts: "Surrogate father." Jeez, Eric Roberts, way to kick a man when he's playing you like a fiddle and pretending to be down.
Cut to... ooh, nasty, I almost forgot about this. Bennet and Eric Roberts look at Sprague, who's in the room in which they kept Sylar prisoner. He's lying unconscious and restrained, and Eric Roberts says they'll keep him sedated and study him to find out "what gives him his spark." Bennet asks what then, and Eric Roberts is like, "What do you think?" I think keeping Sprague prisoner is going to end about as well as keeping Sylar prisoner did, and that Eric Roberts is going to be having cocktails with Eden soon as a result. They leave, and we cross-fade to...