Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | 48 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Heroes Here, Heroes There, Heroes Everywhere!
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2006.10.16
Peter shuts the door, and Nathan offers him an envelope full of money. Lord. He needs Peter to disappear for awhile. "You're becoming a liability," he says. Peter shoves the envelope back at his brother and enters the apartment. Nathan walks off. Inside, Simone's already dressed in her red outfit from the night before. She apologizes and says she's opening a new show of Isaac's paintings at the gallery. She looks pained. "It's Isaac," she says. "It's his whole, 'I can paint the future' thing." "What if he can?" asks Peter. "Paint the future, I mean. Stranger things, right?" Simone says that's as strange as it gets. Oh, if she only knew. She hands over the coffee mug she's been drinking from, and Peter just says she should take it and bring it back when she returns later that night. Um, it's a COFFEE MUG, Peter, not a t-shirt! God, sometimes this dialogue is so awful. Simone says that she doesn't know what they have going right now, and she just got out of a two-year relationship that was very destructive. She's confused. Peter says he doesn't want to be the rebound guy. "I just need time to catch my breath," she says. "Before you take it away again, okay?" Aw. They kiss.
"Claire! Breakfast!" Claire's dog-lovin' momma is hollering at her to come down for the waffles she's prepared. Bad Glasses Man comes down the stairs, and Dog-Lovin' Momma tells him to tell his daughter to drag her fanny out of bed. He does so. Claire finally appears and says she's not deaf. He looks down at her feet and sees that they're filthy. He asks if she was out all night, and she says she wasn't, but then he comes toward her and asks if she was out with Jock the Rapist. She says she was, that it was just a bunch of them, and it was stupid, she's sorry. BGM creepily tells his wife that he'll be there in a second, never taking his eyes off Claire. "I'm very disappointed in you," he says. Ew.
Claire assures him that nothing happened; they played poker. She apologizes again, and he asks that she just be honest with him. She's all, well, the quarterback tried to RAPE me, and then a chicken foot branch got SHOVED INTO MY HEAD, and then I got AUTOPSIED, and then I woke up and CAME HOME. So how 'bout you cut me a little SLACK, Creepy-Ass DAD? Or she just says that she loves him, and he hugs her and kisses her on the head and says that there's going to be a "throw-down" when he gets home about her staying out all night. He leaves, and Claire sits down on the stairs. Her brother walks up, and Claire's all, WHAT? He just says the waffles are ready and then walks away. Claire immediately breaks down and cries, the trauma of the last twenty-four hours too much for her to handle.