Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B+ | 171 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Feels Like The First Time
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2009.11.16
Tracy's in a diner in present-day Washington, D.C., staring at a sign that says the Sullivan Bros. Carnival is coming soon. She's also holding the compass. The waitress asks her if she's okay, and Tracy asks if she's ever wondered what it would be like to run off with a carnival (does anyone actually do that? I think they meant to say "circus" when this show started but now they're stuck with the corner they've written themselves into), and the waitress says she wouldn't want to spend her life in a trailer moving from town to town. Tracy bitches, "And you spend your life where? In some crappy diner?" She apologizes and the waitress asks if she's sure she's okay. Tracy says she is, but she picks up a cup and it turns to ice. She apologizes and leaves.
Peter and Nathan are in his office, discussing how he can't remember where he's been. Nathan wants to, but Peter says, "You woke up in a carnival? Are you sure you want to remember that?" What does that mean? What is carnival a euphemism for on this show anyway? Nathan's secretary welcomes him back, and Peter thinks her greeting was awfully casual. Nathan says it doesn't make sense: Even if his lost weekend was just some "crazy bender under the big top" (now that's a euphemism, right?), he wonders why no one seems to question a senator going off the grid. He asks if Mama Petrelli said anything (she wants to meet them here, according to Peter). Nathan says he doesn't know who he is anymore, and Peter says he's the last guy he'd figure for an identity crisis. The secretary comes back in and tells Nathan his day's wide open since they cleared his calendar when his mom told them he was on vacation and didn't know when he'd be back. Still, though, if a senator's mom said that, I don't think people would be this casual. First: He's a senator. Second: He's a GROWN-UP. Third: No one reports undisclosed-length vacations through their mother. Peter and Nathan give each other knowing looks and then the Haitian comes in and startles the secretary. Peter greets Rene and tells her it's okay. The Haitian won't let Nathan come near him, and says he's here to speak with Peter. The biggest question is how Sylar can still be shapeshifted into Nathan with Rene standing right there, but whatever. I guess that's what the "Don't come any closer" thing is about. But he was already much closer than other characters have been in the past when Rene's blocked their powers. When they're alone, the Haitian tells Peter he came to warn him, he needs to know the truth. Title card.