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
Claire shows up at her dad's apartment in D.C., where the doorknob appears to have been frozen off. And the ice is still there, because it doesn't melt or anything. Mysterious music plays as Claire goes inside and grabs a knife. But it's not suspenseful for us because we know it's Tracy. This show really doesn't seem to understand that for suspense to work, the viewers have to be in suspense, not the characters. Tracy comes out, startling Claire. She says she's sorry, but needs HRG's help. Claire says that's why God invented doorbells. Really? God did that? Tracy explains she tried, but she can't control her power and didn't know where else to go. Tracy's hand starts icing up, and they both look shocked.
Peter and the Haitian are still talking. The Haitian's told him that Mama Petrelli sent him to wipe out Peter and Nathan's memories. But the Haitian can't do it, he says, because Mama Petrelli's blinded by her emotions and has crossed some lines that should never be crossed. He is staring at Nathan in the next room. Peter asks why he's doing that, and the Haitian says it's not up to him to reveal this. He gives Peter a key to a storage unit, and says the answer he seeks is there, and to go alone. Old-school show music, as the Haitian says that what Peter discovers might be more terrible than he can bear. Because a show without Adrian Pasdar's pretty is bad enough for us, but can you imagine how difficult it's going to be for Peter to lose his brother/lover?
Back in the past, in Chennai, Mohinder can't sleep. So he sneaks out of bed and gets his father's box out of the trash. When he opens it, you can clearly see a CD in the box. Then he pulls out some books and finally an old film reel. Which he sets up and watches right away, because everyone has a reel-to-reel projector at the ready in 2009. The video is Chandra Suresh at Coyote Sands, talking to the camera about his concerns that having so many of these heroes together could amplify their powers. Then it jumps ahead to him talking about a pregnant woman who seems to be causing a lot of seismic activity. Then he documents the birth. As a nurse tells him the child's crowning, Chandra says it's his fear that this child... but the earthquake is in full force by this point so he doesn't finish. Baby crying.