Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.04.2007
Primatech Paper (and Hero) Emporium. Bennet's explaining to Thompson that he doesn't remember anything after arriving at the house with his family. His memory's completely gone, and this means that he can't remember the entire hostage situation or the disappearance of his daughter. This is a short scene, and Eric Roberts doesn't have that much to do, but he manages to totally skeeve me out within about five seconds of him appearing onscreen. How does he DO that? I watched the commentary for "Company Man" last night, and Jack Coleman related a story about the scene where Thompson and Bennet discuss employment and Eric Roberts is backlit throughout the scene. Jack Coleman said that he quipped about the backlighting and Eric Roberts rather hilariously said, "Yes, the backlighting seems to follow me from role to role." Which... is totally true. Because the man is truly one creepy badass.
So Thompson kind of needles Bennet sarcastically about how Ted and Matt took him and his family hostage and Claire got shot and then he got shot himself and then the Haitian took his daughter and yet he remembers nothing at all. Thompson snidely says, "You think something there might've made an impression." Heh. Bennet's all, look, man, I don't remember anything, but the one thing I know is that my daughter is missing, and I'm going to find her if it kills me, and you'd best stop smirking at me with your whacked-out plastic surgery-fied face before I walk up and smack those sneering lips so hard they leave your face and fly across the country and land on Mickey Rourke's sad-ass visage where ninety percent of all cosmetic surgeries seem to end up lately.
Bennet winces a bit, and Thompson tells him to cool his jets, lest he rip out his freshly knitted stitches. And I would just like to take a moment to thank the powers that be for putting Jack Coleman in a blue oxford that is un-tucked and partially unbuttoned. The man's rarely ever in anything other than a suit and tie, which is fine, but that little glimpse of his neck and chest is really all we need to make us go "Rowwwwr." Or is that just me? Did I mention the date situation? Because... yeah.
Thompson states that he thinks the Haitian Sensation has gone rogue and taken a "pie-slice" of Bennet's memory with him. "He did the same thing to your wife and son," he says. Bennet wants to know when he can go after his daughter, but Thompson says that can't be his errand. "She's my daughter," says Bennet. "She's an assignment," says Thompson. "Or have you forgotten? We gave her to you. Took her out of a bassinet, put her in your hands, and told you to take her home. And that's after you said, 'No, thank you.' Now, I appreciate you taking an interest in her beyond the needs of the assignment, but... that indulgence ends... now." Damn, Roberts is awesome in this scene. Bennet's like, what, I'm supposed to do nothing here? Thompson's like, uh, no, you're supposed to do whatever I tell you to do, company man. Thompson leaves him, passing a two-way mirror as he goes.