Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 496 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Way We Were
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.02.26
... and inside, she joins her dad, who tells her to stay down. He attempts to get close enough to administer the injection, but fails, and returns to Claire with a burnt arm. Of course, he should probably have been completely engulfed in flames by now, but we'll ignore that, as we'll also be ignoring the fact that the needle would completely melt before anyone could get it to Sprague's skin. Claire takes the needle from her dad as Parkman rejoins them. Bennet objects, but Claire tells him she'll be okay, and Parkman gets him out of there.
Outside, Bennet embraces his wife as the police are arriving on the scene. No one has even given Eric Roberts a "Who's THIS guy?" look, nor has Parkman been all, "Nice work, GENIUS." I think these people are way too polite.
Claire finally makes her move. We flash to the agitated family outside, paintings burning up, and Claire's face peeling away as she gets close. She may regenerate, but no one ever said she doesn't feel any pain, so if you didn't think she was a bad-ass before, I trust you'll need no further convincing. Finally, the front door spectacularly blows off its hinges, but once it has, the reaction inside subsides. Bennet walks forward uncertainly, but then Claire appears, burnt to a crisp, although with her hair mostly intact. Hey, I'm not complaining. I love how she always looks like she just stepped out of an Herbal Essences commercial. (Ew, not like that, she's only seventeen.) Sandra starts to walk forward as well, and even Eric Roberts looks a little touched as he sees her. Claire walks toward her dad, and as she does, she regenerates. The effects aren't completely seamless -- there's one cut to Bennet -- but they're pretty darn close, which is awesome. The Bennets circle Claire and group-hug here, but Bennet looks up and warily notes that Eric Roberts is looking at him inscrutably. That's not lost on Parkman, either. We circle around this uncertain tableau before heading into the last commercial break.