Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C- | 135 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Hiro Quixote and Ando Panza
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2010.01.04
When she finds Lydia the Tattooed Lady, she tells her she was in his trailer and wants to know why he has a map of the valley. Lydia just looks at her, but Claire pushes, pointing out that Lydia wanted her to go in there so she wants to know why. Lydia says Samuel wasn't always in charge; that Joseph was their real father and he made this place a home. She misses him; they all do. Claire asks what happened to him, and Lydia's silence gives it away. Claire: "He killed him, didn't he?" Lydia says he's lost his way and she's scared for everyone there. Claire says she woke up this morning unsure about this place, but she realizes now this place is a home for everyone and the only thing wrong with it is Samuel. Lydia asks Claire to please help find someone who can stop him. She says she will, and takes off. But Eli captures her and says, "No buried treasure for you, Nancy Drew." Whatever that means.
Samuel shows up after a commercial break to find a bickering Claire and Eli. He asks Eli what he was thinking, but Samuel lies that Claire's not a prisoner; and if she wants to go she can go. Claire storms toward Samuel, "Not a prisoner?! It feels that way with copy boy over here." She asks if Samuel ever gets sick of him. Samuel tells Claire to stay or go; it's still her choice. She says she'll go after Samuel tells her what happened to Joseph. He asks Eli to give them a minute, and Claire smirks at Eli. Samuel asks Claire if Lydia told her, but she says, "No. I asked her. She wouldn't." Samuel picks up the picture of himself and his brother as Claire asks if it's true that he killed him. Samuel says he lost control. Claire, outraged: "Like that is an excuse?!" Samuel says he told the government about "us," and asks her if she remembers them. He says they lured him in, the people who had been chasing them for years. Danko, who worked alongside Noah and imprisoned Claire. He asks Claire how she thinks her father got the compass, but she says this is NOT about her father. Oh, honey, it really is. I'm more and more convinced that it's him and revenge Samuel's after. But Claire says this is about what Samuel did. At this point, Samuel starts to cry and act remorseful. He agrees it was awful, but Joseph put them all in danger after years of freedom. Claire asks if murder was the answer, and Samuel says Claire of all people should understand how far a father will go to protect his family. "Hasn't your father lied, cheated, even killed, to protect you?" Yes, Samuel, but the difference is that HRG is awesome. Claire asks what's going on out in that valley.