Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C- | 135 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Hiro Quixote and Ando Panza
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2010.01.04
Next thing we know we're across the canyon in the valley, where Mossy/Grassy is standing looking at the ground. Samuel tells Claire that every artist needs a canvas and Ian (that's Mossy/Grassy) is Picasso. Ian says he needs water, so Samuel conjures some from the earth. Then Ian leans down and touches the ground, and green grass sprouts up all around him from the barren land. Claire smiles as the whole place becomes lush and flowered. Ian says it's beautiful, and Samuel tells him "It's you. It's who you are." Claire agrees that it's beautiful, and I think she's actually been convinced, but dear god, I hope not. How can she have discovered all that other stuff just to be convinced Samuel's good. What would be the point of the episode? She asks what this place is, and Samuel says, "Our new home. My brother would have loved it." He says Joseph never believed it was possible, or that Samuel could make it real. He tells Claire this is why he needs a bigger family, to build the future. He says this could be Claire's home, too, but she turns and says she has a home and she'd like to go back to it. He tells her of course, but to remember she's free and she can always come back to this home, whenever she wants. She says she knows and walks away. She looks back fondly at Samuel and Ian as her phone buzzes.
She listens to her two voicemails as she walks away. The first is from HRG, telling her they need to talk, Claire Bear, so call him. The second is from Peter, who says, "Um, you need to call me. Something happened. We have a lot we need to talk about." It turns slow motion as we flash to Peter walking by a flag-covered casket and around to his mother. HRG's there, too, very obviously looking for Claire. No sign of Rena Sofer, but there are two small boys in the front row of chairs at the funeral as we see a taxi pull up in the back and Claire finally gets out, to the relief of Noah, who never stopped searching for her. She walks up to him, and he touches her arm and says he's glad she's safe. She asks, "From what? Where I came from or this lie?" He says he knows she took the compass, and she says she's not giving it back. She walks to a point next to the front row of chairs, which contain a dark-haired, veiled woman, two little boys, and Mama Petrelli. There's also an empty one, which is Peter's.