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
The same low camera angle from earlier speeds along from the Bennets' car to the front door, and then we fade in to see that Parkman and Claire are in the study, while Sprague has the rest of them in the living room. Bennet asks what they're doing, and stands up, but Sprague roughly pushes him back down and tells him Parkman's getting inside Claire's head. In the study, Claire's thoughts are coming in a fast and furious jumble, but Parkman gets enough to realize she's thinking about running, and says, "So now you're thinking about being a hero. Don't!" It's a little late for that, dude. She signed a contract. Parkman goes on that Sprague is both serious and dangerous, and he needs her help to keep a handle on the situation. Claire notes that he can read her mind, which he admits, and repeats the misconception that it's something Bennet did to him. Claire is confused, and asks if the change didn't just occur spontaneously, but Parkman shoots that idea down, and tells her that he's seen some weird things, much like she has, with "the stuff at [her] school." This gets Claire's thoughts going in a different direction, and Parkman snaps around: "Peter Petrelli! He can do what I can do! What do you know about him?" Cute, dead lip, needs to cut his bangs. Oh, sorry, it wasn't my turn? Actually my one regret this episode is that I didn't get to recap Pasdar and Ventimiglia, but you can't have everything.
Claire thinks, "He can do what I can do," but it's not clear if Parkman really picks up what she's saying there. Parkman tells Claire how Peter told him to protect her "from someone who was killing people like me." He breathes, "Are you different, Claire?" Props to Greg Grunberg for being able to deliver that line without sounding like the villain in an after-school special about the dangers of hitchhiking. Claire declines to answer the question at first, but Parkman presses the point, remembering that her blood was all over the crime scene, and yet she didn't have a scratch on her. Claire turns back to him and thinks, "I can heal." Well, so can we all, but Parkman seems to get that she's talking about the "I can heal even when you can't tell me apart from a med-school cadaver" kind of restoration. Claire asks if her dad made her this way, but to his credit, Parkman just shakes his head in confusion. Claire looks back through the study windows at her dad...