Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | 40 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.10.30
Odessa: Faux-Dad says that he and Faux-Mom aren't together anymore. The story goes that when she found out that she was pregnant, Faux-Dad wanted to keep the baby, and Faux-Mom didn't. "You probably think I'm a bad person for giving you up," fishes Faux-Mom. We can barely hear Claire deny that assumption as we pull back and through a set of venetian blinds to some pantry or something where Bennett is totally spying on the conversation. He turns around as Sandra gingerly lets herself in, complaining that the meeting is so awkward that she has "lip sweat." Hee! "Should you be eavesdropping?" she asks Bennett. "Yes," he replies matter-of-factly. Double hee! "Oh, I guess," Sandra agrees, with a sort of verbal shrug. I kind of love Bennett. His brand of evil is so reassuringly jocular. He reminds me of Johnny Johnson from NewsRadio.
Cut back to Claire, who's wringing her hands in the great room as she asks the faux-rents, "Is there anything I should know? Like, medically? Anything weird, out of the ordinary?" Like, say, something about why a Mystic Tan might not take so well to Claire's skin, leaving her neck orange and blotchy? "Well...there is something," offers Faux-Mom. Claire tenses for a shocking revelation, and deflates a little when it turns out only to be that Faux-Mom has diabetes. Yawn! "All you've got to worry about from my side is a history of cancer and heart disease," chuckles Faux-Dad. Yes, those are both good for a giggle.
Cut back to the hidey-hole: Bennett's cell phone rings, busting him on his Spy Daddy routine. "Sorry!" he calls to the room at large, while a mortified Sandra hides her face and then waves through the blinds. They both move away from the window as Bennett answers the call, exchanges greetings, and sends Sandra off by telling her that "it's work." When she's left, Bennett closes the door behind her and tells his caller, "Then stop him."
"I've tried," replies Eden, who's mooning around in front of Suresh's giant map, in Brooklyn. Called it! Called it back when she first showed up. Not that it would take, like, a Ricky Jay to see through the con she pulled, but still, I like to get credit for these things. It's the same reason that, during every episode of Battlestar Galactica, I feel the need to predict who's going to be unmasked as a Cylon. And since I think at this point I've guessed every member of the cast and some pieces of on-set furniture, I am bound to be proved right eventually. Anyway: Bennett tells Eden to try harder to keep Mohinder from going back to India, she demurs, and in the pause in their conversation, Bennett picks up and studies a pair of what are evidently his glasses; there's a crack in the right lens. He asks Eden what she's found out, and she updates him on Peter (no confirmation that he actually can fly), adding that he claimed to have had "an encounter with someone who can stop time." "Really?" says Bennett appreciatively. "That's cool." Hee! He's so...dad. He tickles me. Eden tells Bennett that the time traveler told Peter to "save the cheerleader" -- a bit of intel that, naturally, freezes Bennett long enough for Eden to prod, "Are you still there?" Bennett hoarsely thanks her for the update. Eden asks what she should do with the "precog," and Bennett instructs, "Bring him in," before hanging up.