Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D- | 254 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Invisible Forces
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2009.10.26
Cainan Sheriff's Office. HRG and Tracy are leading Jeremy out in slow-motion, so you know something dramatic is about to happen. They wouldn't want to surprise us or anything. They step outside into a crowd of protesters and hillbillies. Some big guy jumps out of the crowd and Jeremy touches him and the guy falls and dies. HRG pleads with Jeremy to save the guy, but Cornpone Sheriff tells Jeremy he's going back into the jail, where he belongs, adding, "You know what you did to your mama and daddy." Jeremy turns and walks willingly back into the station and HRG yells, "Jeremy!" Tracy looks distraught. It's all still in slow-motion so you know you're supposed to feel how dramatic and poignant it is. But it's not. Commercials.
Back inside the sheriff's office, HRG tells Cornpone Sheriff that he doesn't understand the first thing about what's happening. Cornpone Sheriff says he doesn't care what's happening; he just knows that three people are dead and that boy, whatever he is, is responsible. Tracy asks if she can talk to him, and Cornpone Sheriff says they're both done talking to him. A couple of Cornpone Deputies are leading Jeremy out of a car, in shackles, taunting him that killers don't go free. Cornpone Sheriff finds his cell empty and asks on the radio where he is. He says, "Do you read me, Gil?" And we hear that on the radios of the cops with Jeremy. Dramatic music starts, and Jeremy looks stoic, staring straight ahead at Gil, who asks Jeremy to give him his best shot, a reason, as he points his gun at him. Jeremy gets teary and holds his hands back and then drops them to his sides. Gil tells Jeremy he's not normal and doesn't belong here, as the other officer drives away with one end of the chain around Jeremy's legs tied to his bumper.