Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C+ | 255 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.10.19
Hospital. Emma enters the rec room and sits down at the piano. She plays out a lovely, colorful song and smiles all the while. The colors float into the air. Hiro gets out of his bed at the sounds and finds her happily playing. Others have gathered around, too, and when she notices they all clap. Hiro sign claps and tells her it was beautiful. She reminds him he promised he'd stay in bed (but he actually only promised not to leave until Peter returned). He tells her, "Joy and dignity in the face of death," and she says, "Just like Charlie." He nods, and she asks him to come back to bed. But he disappears. She looks puzzled, and says "Hiro?"
At the carnival, Sylar comes out of the house of mirrors, and approaches Samuel as everyone else gathers around. Samuel hugs Sylar and tells him he's safe now. He then loudly says that tonight they welcome a new brother into their family, who will live and work among them and be welcome here all the rest of their days. Then Samuel baptizes Sylar, because it wasn't obvious enough that this is supposed to be some sort of rebirth for him without the actual baptism. Then everyone's sitting around, eating, talking and laughing. Sylar and Lydia are looking all cozy together and Edgar's angrily throwing knives at a board. Samuel tells him not to pout, but Edgar reminds Samuel it's a good thing that he followed him to the house of mirrors, since he knew he wouldn't follow through. Samuel says Sylar's just a baby, learning to walk, and Edgar wonders what use Sylar is to them like this. "What use is a lion that can't kill?" Samuel says it might be better this way, because they can just make a better Sylar, and when they do, he'll be theirs forever. Lydia looks over at Samuel, who nods at her, which prompts her to get up and lead him away. So, even the love-making is apparently Samuel-sanctioned here. Edgar turns and throws another knife at the board. I'm thinking there might be some civil unrest in the carnival with Sylar on board. But here's my bigger issue: Why was Edgar all worried about bringing the cop here earlier in the episode, out of fear that Sylar might kill him? And then he killed him because Sylar didn't? Does that even make sense?