Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | 40 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.10.30
ikiN confirms everything we already figured out: "We framed [D.L.]. We killed his crew, stole $2 million. We killed those thugs in the garage, killed those little bitches at the poker game. We've been very busy." "Those men were ripped apart," gasps Niki. ikiN shrugs: "Yeah, well, what can I say?" Niki sniffles that the guys at the poker game didn't do anything to her, to which ikiN replies that leaving witnesses would be sloppy: "I did what had to be done, like I always do." Like a good neighbour, ikiN is theeeeeere!
"Are you getting back together or not?" Micah presses, apparently as unimpressed by D.L.'s wishy-washiness as I am. D.L. says he doesn't know: "I hope so." Sure, what guy doesn't dream of a ménage à trois?
ikiN straightens up to tell Niki what they're going to do now: "You're going to get the money, and you're going to take Micah as far away from D.L. as you can." Niki's not having it: "D.L. can take care of me." What "take care"? You and your shadow have taken five professional bad guys and transformed them into twenty-odd parcels of giblets. You don't think you can "take care" of yourself? ikiN says that D.L. will think Niki is crazy if she tells him the truth, and furthermore, that when he finally catches up with the rest of us and figures out what she did, "he'll take Micah away from us," and the only question will be whether he kills Niki before he leaves. Niki seems to agree that this is probably the case. But it doesn't track: I seriously don't know whether D.L. was a good, honest person innocently working construction before he went to prison, or a criminal seasoned enough to plan a $2 million heist, have "a crew," know all sorts of underworld figures with McDonald's-kitchen-locked hideouts, and be capable of murdering the mother of his child just because he's pissed she made him spend half a year in a prison he totally could have walked out of at any point. Maybe there are also two D.L.s!
"You know how you have a secret?" Micah quietly asks D.L. "Mom has a secret too." She sleeps with a nightlight? She bites her toenails? She has a teenie weenie?
ikiN wraps up Niki's options: let D.L. take off with Micah, or do exactly what ikiN says. Niki considers for a second and then asks, "Where's the money?" "Good choice," smirks ikiN. Perish, non! Survive, oui
After the break, a shell-shocked Hiro and Ando trudge back to their car. Hiro's still bumming hard that he didn't save those little bitches at the poker game; Ando's still reminding him that Hiro himself would have been killed. Hiro pouts some more; Ando wisely tells him, "Every hero is on a journey to find his place in the world. But it's a journey. You don't start at the end. Otherwise, they can't make a movie about it later." God, if only Brandon Routh's Superman had started at the end, I could get back the nine hours I spent watching that shit. "What if I'm on the wrong path?" Hiro yells. "What if I was supposed to save those people?" "You can bend time and space," Ando points out. "Maybe when you can do it better, you can come back here and fix things." "Like a do-over?" asks Hiro, nearly placated. "Exactly," says Ando. "A do-over," says Hiro, allowing himself a smile. "I like that." Hiro is not complicated.