Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B | 237 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT "What Would Bennet Do?"
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2009.11.09
An airport. Parkman's in a suit, going through security. But it's really Sylon-in-Parkman, which he quickly looks like so we can see the Parkman-Sylon behind him, asking him to stop and what he's doing. Sylon-in-Parkman says he's going to find Peter, since the last thing he remembers is Peter jabbing him with a syringe. He thinks he should know what happened next. Unless, you know, Parkman wants to tell him. Parkman says that's not going to happen. Sylon-in-Parkman says he doesn't get to fly first class very often, and Parkman snarks that he's glad his life savings could help. The security folks find a gun in Parkman's bag, and Parkman-Sylon looks satisfied as Sylon-in-Parkman's confused. Apparently, Parkman-Sylon caused Sylon-in-Parkman to think a gun was socks when he was packing. Sylon-in-Parkman tries to use Parkman's ability to tell the security guys they didn't find the gun, but Parkman-Sylon says he'll never let him control his ability. Uh, how does he have a choice? Sylon-in-Parkman tries to explain since he's a cop, but the security guys haul him away. Parkman-Sylon looks smug. Opening title card.
Carnival. We zoom in on a trailer that has our episode chyron wrapped around the front corner: "Chapter Eight: 'Shadow Boxing.' " They've gotten far less creative with those over the years, haven't they? I guess that's to be expected since everything else has gone downhill. Inside the trailer, Sylar's tossing and turning in his sleep. He's picturing Nathan's face in his dreams, then he morphs into Nathan. He wakes up as Adrian Pasdar, whose face I'm ever so happy to see again instead of twice as much Sylar. He puts on a flannel shirt, looks confusedly in the mirror, then jumps up and leaves the trailer. He hides when he hears Samuel talking to Lydia the Tattooed Lady. He jumps away into a hiding space. Samuel's telling Lydia that he has to leave because of the situation that's come up. Lydia tries to tell him Claire's a lost cause, but he leans in and whispers that she knows him; he's the patron saint of lost causes. I don't know what it is about Robert Knepper that makes a relatively innocent line like that so creepy, but he does.