Episode Report Card Erin: A | 52 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT They're Baaaaaaack
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.01.22
I want to see 300 so bad it's almost painful. Does that look like some seriously awesome shit or WHAT?
Odessa, Land of Mysteriously Placed Mountains That Appear Nowhere Else in Texas. Or, as Sendhil Ramamurthy said in the episode commentary, "There are no mountains in Odessa!" Hee. By the way, if you haven't seen the episode commentary, I urge you to see it immediately. Sendhil, Leonard, and especially Jack are fucking hilarious in it. Oh, and Sendhil wears a pair of eyeglasses that will make you love him in a whole new way.
Ahem.
So, Claire's wandering around the scene of her previously documented suicides, wondering aloud, "Save the cheerleader, save the world -- what does that even MEAN?" Oh, I feel you, sister. She's talking to Haitian Sensation, asking him if she's been saved or if she still needs saving. He says she's been saved for the time being. She wants to talk to Peter and he says that she's not supposed to remember Peter. He's being watched, so if Claire tries to contact him, Bennett will know. Claire says that she needs something to hang onto because nothing in her life has been real, including her biological parents who, she learns, work for her father, just like Haitian Sensation. "Everything has been a lie," she says. "The only person I could trust was Zach, and you took him from me." Haitian Sensation says that was Bennett's doing, not his. Well, that's kind of like saying guns don't kill people, people kill people. I think the gun helps, you know? Bennett ordered Haitian Sensation to erase Zach's mind, but Haitian Sensation actually DID the erasing.
Claire wants Zach to have his memories back so that she's not alone. He says that she's not alone. But he can't give Zach back his memories. "It's not how my gift works," he says. "Your gift? Is that what you call it?" she says. He asks what she calls it. "My own private freak show," she says. "What you can do," he says, "what I can do, that is God. Respect it accordingly." He touches her on the shoulder and then leaves. Claire looks around her and realizes where she is and seems to get an idea.