Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 297 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.10.12
Dr. Gibson's getting in her car and looking at Gabriel Gray's file. It says he's wanted for murder. All the lights go off around her and then Sylar's banging on her window. She wonders what he's doing, and he says she promised she'd help him. He keeps banging on the window in desperation. She looks like she can't decide whether to let the known killer into her car. Because she's trained in psychiatry and all. Claire and Gretchen, meanwhile, are bickering in their dorm room about whether Gretchen dropped the flag pole on Claire and her friend. Claire thinks Gretchen wanted to out her power to everyone, but Gretchen swears she wouldn't do that. Claire admits she saw all of the stalker stuff on Gretchen's computer, but says she wasn't stalking because a book fell and turned on her computer. Gretchen doesn't think it's such a big deal that she Googled her, but Claire also saw the stuff about Annie on there. Claire asks if Gretchen can honestly say she had nothing to do with Annie's death. Gretchen accuses her of being paranoid, but Claire says this isn't paranoid; it's a pattern. She brings up the Annie thing, the computer, the accident tonight, the speed-dating. Gretchen says Claire's just more interesting to talk about than her, which doesn't make it any less creepy. Gretchen says she's actually not stalking Claire, it's just ... and she kisses her. She says she just has a crush. Claire looks shocked and then the Psi Alphas interrupt to offer them both a bid into the sorority. Claire smiles.
Carnival. Lydia the Tattooed Lady thinks it's getting a little late to try to figure out who's going to join the family. Samuel: "Says you," and sticks his pen to her back, which reveals nothing. They both say "nothing," and then he throws his ink cloth, which is caught in mid-air by something we can't see. Samuel knows who it is, though, and says, "Hello, Rebecca." She reveals herself, and it's Becky from Psi Alpha. She tells her "Uncle Samuel" that she's missing bid night. He thinks they can go a night without her, and asks how things are going with Claire: Is Rebecca doing all she can to isolate Claire and push her in their direction. Becky says she feels like all she does is push, and we flashback: She was invisible next to Gretchen, and dropped the flagpole knowing Claire would think it's Gretchen. The best part is that we get to relive the boring cheerleading conversation between Claire and her new sorority sister. Becky also knocked the book off Gretchen's shelf and onto her computer so Claire would see the Googling. Then she stood by smiling as Claire realized what a stalker her roommate is. Most revealingly, Becky pushed Annie out the window when all Annie was doing was leaning out to open it. Not sure how she made it look like a "jump" rather than "push," from a scientific perspective. Then, when Claire came home, Becky was still invisible and hadn't put the fake suicide note on Annie's pillow yet, which explains Claire's discrepancy with the cop. Back to the present, Samuel wonders if Claire's on the way to them now. Lydia says no, it's not her yet, but she does think his dust has finally settled. He looks at Lydia's back and orders Rebecca back to campus, because it looks like they're pulling up stakes.