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By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.04.2007
Behind the mirror, Matt Parkman has been watching the entire scene. When he enters the room, Thompson walks over to Matt, who has Missy Peregrym from Stick It perched over his shoulder. "Well, what do we think?" asks Thompson. "He's telling the truth," says Matt. "He doesn't know anything." "Cool!" says Missy. "You owe me five bucks." Thompson kind of shoots her a look like, "I don't owe you jack, princess." He beckons Missy to join him as he walks out, and Matt's like, wait a second, dude! We had a deal! I help you, you let me go! Thompson's like, dude, I'm Eric Roberts. Have you seen NOTHING I've ever been in? You can't trust me! I'm skeevy! Catch ya later, homes!
Elsewhere across the country, the Haitian Sensation and Claire are arriving at a roadside truck stop. He comments that Claire hasn't said anything all day and Claire's like, "Hey, up until recently, you weren't all that chatty yourself, my friend. Thought you liked it that way." Claire wants to know where they're going, and he says that as soon as he knows where they're going, he'll tell her. Then she asks when she can go back to her family and he's like, "Uh, when they have a house that doesn't reek of radiation and there's not a bounty on your head? How about you think on THAT for a second, sweetheart?" He tells her that she knows why she can't go back to them and what she's running from, and then he says that if she gets captured by the OWI, they'll do things to her that even she won't be able to recover from. "Great!" she says. "Thanks, DAD." "You cannot understand the level of sacrifice he made so you might live," says the Haitian Sensation. "You must honor that."
They glare at each other until he gets out of the car to make a phone call. She steps out as well and looks around as he talks to someone in French. When he gets off the phone and comes back to the car, Claire asks if it's safe to go back. The Haitian Sensation's like, "Yes, Claire. It's safe to go back to Texas. Because it's only been a day or two since I shot your dad and Ted blew up and Thompson figured out that you can grow new skin in the space of thirty seconds. Let's get back on route 290 and head straight for Odessa! Whooo!" He tells her they're leaving the country tonight, and we see a reflection of a waving American flag in the reflection of the car roof, which takes us to the spinning Eclipse of Heroes and on to the first commercial break.
Nathan's Office, Manhattan. Nathan's at his desk, thinking about how little he gets to kiss his brother now that he's all invisible and shit, when a couple of FBI agents enter his office and starting giving him a hard time about his association with Linderman. Nathan's lackey leaves, and the feds draw the shades, and then one of them pulls out a bug zapper or something and declares that they can talk safely. That's when we realize that Nathan isn't actually taking Linderman's money for real, but is instead working with the feds to bring the man down. He chastises the feds for showing up at his office, but they tell him it was necessary because Linderman's requested a meeting with Nathan at his casino tonight, and they think this is an opportune moment for the FBI to nab him. They want Nathan to wear a wire and record the entire conversation with Linderman. Nathan's like, "Wear a wire? To Linderman's office? That's got to be about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. Did you guys even SEE The Departed?" The feds tell him that he's the only one who can get enough evidence on Linderman to put him away forever. They tell him he has no choice in the matter and that they'll contact him when he lands in Vegas. They leave.