Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hold still, Sylar--there's something sticking out of your head.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.28.2007
Claude finally says that you can't control it, that you wake up one day and suddenly, you have this thing that you can't really do anything about, and you just have to suck it up and deal. He gets up to leave, and Peter grabs him. "I'm trying not to die!" Peter says in desperation. "There's got to be something you can do!" Claude grabs him by the collar and says he can kill him right this second and solve the whole damn exploding man problem RIGHT NOW. He ponders that maybe this was the real reason they met -- Claude's supposed to kill him in order to save the world. Peter looks scared. Claude says that he needn't bother looking for him; he won't be returning to the Rooftop Ramada any time soon. He leaves, and Peter walks over to the edge of the roof and emotes from behind his wall of bangs.
Odessa. Claire and her new BFF Zach are parked in front of Bennett's computer, looking for hidden information on Claire's real parents. The man kidnaps Heroes and erases their memory, Claire; let's assume that he's smart enough not to leave sensitive information about his adopted superhero daughter strewn about his laptop, okay? Claire thinks that since Zach's a computer geek, he can find the holes in the "password protected nanny-blocker stuff." Heh. Zach tells her to watch the damn door in case Bennett comes walking in. Claire says her dad's at work, so it's just her, Zach, and Mr. Muggles. There's a shot of Mr. Muggles, and he kind of growls and the closed captioning hilariously says, "[grumbles]." Hee.
Zach declares that the computer is a secret information-free zone. Claire's peeved, saying that her dad's kept her whole life a secret, including her ability and her biological parents, and you can't just hide shit like that. Zach channels me and says that if Bennett's the man that Claire's describing, he's not likely to be storing secrets on the family computer. Suddenly, Mr. Muggles barks and leaps out of the chair. Claire tells Zach to shut down the computer and they run to the kitchen to put on the Innocent Faces of We Were Totally Not Messing With Your Stuff before Bennett walks through the door. Their attempted ruse doesn't quite work, seeing as Zach and Claire aren't really supposed to be friends. Bennett's immediately suspicious, especially after he sees the computer screen on in his den.
Zach and Claire cover quickly, saying that they're lab partners and that they were using the computer to do some research on their presentation subject: the manatee. "Also known as the 'sea cow,'" says Zach. Heh. Bennett smiles, but he smells a rat, so he asks to speak to Claire alone. Zach retreats to Claire's room after a nice moment where he pretends not to know where that is and Claire pretends to tell him for the first time. Bennett's all, sooooo, you and Zach? Kind of unlikely pairing, eh? Claire's all, I know, right? Our science teacher's an ass. She's conducting some weird social experiment or something. "Worst. Day. Ever," says Claire. Bennett just tells her that she and Zach used to be friends, and she might find that they actually get along. She smiles and heads upstairs and Bennett's smile falls from his face like a Colorado avalanche. Upstairs, Zach congratulates Claire on a nice save. "So, what now?" he asks. Claire picks up wind chimes and hangs them in her window and says that she needs to talk to someone who has some answers. The wind chimes send a signal the Haitian Sensation. It's like the BatSignal, only without the fancy floodlight.