Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Get Your Flu Shots
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.25.2007
Outside, Tobby gets into his car where Elle is waiting with her arm in a sling. Tobby tells his daughter to keep an eye on Claire for the next twenty-four hours. "It'd be easier without this thing on my arm," she snots at him, scratching beneath the cast. "It itches like a muthafu--" Hee. "And I thought my little girl was tough," snits Tobby. "I am, DAD," she insists, glaring at him. "But I was SHOT. And MY body doesn't heal itself." I love Kristen Bell in this role. She's consistently entertaining. Tobby says that he's sorry she's in pain, but, um, none of this would've happened if she hadn't let down her guard. Elle's all, "Hey, MISTER. How was I to know Bennet was teaming up with the Flying Freak?" Tobby just chastises her further about how excuses don't change outcome and how she has to accept responsibility for her actions and regain his trust. She gets this deep "I hate you" line between her brows and it looks like she's about to tell her father to get stuffed, but she backs off in the end and just says, "Sure, Daddy. I'll watch the cheerleader." And then later? When you're not looking? I'm going to electrocute you in the shower. Peace out, Papa Don't Preach!
Tonight's title appears on Jack Coleman's bare arm as the camera slides up it and over to his naked chest. The guy's bod looks good for a dude in his middle years -- but I'm now recalling the interview I did with him and how he was like, "Dude, HD is NOT forgiving" and right now I feel for the guy. Being half-naked on HD is probably never fun (unless you're Britney Spears and you're delusional and possibly had half your brain taken away by a guy dressed up as Mickey Mouse but who was really an alien escaped from the Torchwood set), but being half-naked on HD when you're not, say, twenty-two and an underwear model is probably even LESS fun.
At any rate, Bennet's dead in his bed with the IV running up his arm. He regenerates his eye and comes back to life and sits straight up in bed and looks around. He falls back and looks over at the IV. "Mohinder..." he says. Mohinder appears next to the bed and tells Bennet to take it easy as he secures some restraints around Bennet's wrists. "Last thing I remember..." mumbles Bennet, "did you...shoot me?" Hee. Mohinder says that he didn't have a choice. "Why am I not dead?" asks Bennet. "You would've been," says Mohinder, "were it not for an infusion of your daughter's blood." This snaps Bennet awake and he yells at Mohinder, "You took Claire's blood?!" Mohinder tells him that Claire's fine, but Bennet doesn't care; he yells at Mohinder that he betrayed him by going after his family. Mohinder yells right back that Bennet told him that The Company had to be brought down from the inside out. "Thank GOD I came to my senses before I'd done any real damage!" Bennet asks where Claire is, and Mohinder tells him she's at home, grieving the loss of her father. Bennet realizes his family thinks he's dead. Mohinder blames him for the entire situation, saying Bennet's paranoia and violence brought all of this on. He goes to remove the bag of blood from the IV and Bennet asks what he's going to do with it. Mohinder says that Bennet's recovery proves Claire's blood has regenerative properties, and that it holds the key to saving Niki from her virus. "That's what The Company does," says Mohinder. "We save lives." Bennet insists that everything The Company has told Mohinder has been lies and that they actually made the virus in the first place and have been experimenting with it for thirty years. Mohinder ignores him and leaves, slamming the door behind him. "GET BACK HERE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" screams Bennet ineffectually from his sickbed.