Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve...
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.08.2006
He's at the FBI and he's still being questioned by Clea DuVall and she's not buying any of his bullshit. Someone's behind the two-way mirror taking notes, although we don't see who it is. Matt tries to explain that it was like someone was talking to him, only it was in his head. Clea pounces on this and asks if the voices tell him anything else, like, you know, "Kill your landlord!" or "Fruit is for Thursdays ONLY!" or "That beelzebang does not belong to you and it's really a muzzlepartok anyway!" Matt says that it's more like he can hear people's thoughts. Clea walks over to him. "Can you tell me what I'm thinking?" He says he can't because he can't control it; it just happens. She tells him to give it a shot. He half-assedly says she thinks he's nuts or stupid. "Stop wasting my time," she says with a sneer. Suddenly, Matt hones in on her thoughts and after a second, they become clear: "Come on, Parkman. I need this more than you. Nobody believes in me." "Nobody believes in you!" he says. "I know what that's like." Clea looks decidedly spooked. Matt rubs his hands over his face as Clea shoots a glance over her shoulder at whoever is behind the glass. Matt asks how much longer he has to be there and she says it depends. "How'd you like to work with the FBI?" Matt's stunned, but he nods his agreement.
Odessa. We're at Claire's locker as she's taking out a geometry book. Several posters pointed out that the DNA-like symbol shows up here, so I paused the TiVo and sure enough, there it is, right on the spine of the book. Nerdeo's spazzing off at Claire because she's leaving for an away game and the tape of her suicide experiments is missing and possibly in nefarious hands. Claire dismisses his concern and tries to walk away from him. Nerdeo keeps after her, amazed that she's just going to cheer and pump her pompoms and pretend she's like any other girl. Claire's quite content with being like any other girl, seeing as, if she announced her special powers to the world, she'd wind up a freak or a guinea pig or both; not really a future she relishes. "What's wrong with wanting to be normal?" she asks. "You should try it." Normal's overrated, Claire. Take it from someone who hasn't been normal since about 1975.
Isaac's Den of Iniquity. Simone is moving paintings around, one of which seems to be of Claire walking away from Nerdeo as we just witnessed in the previous scene. So... what? Isaac's visions capture exits from scenes? His talent isn't very exciting sometimes. Isaac enters and Simone tells him that he's late with his comic book work. He notices what she's been doing and accuses her of trying to take the paintings. She just says she was getting them ready for a gallery showing. With the money they earn, they can get him into rehab. He says he isn't going into rehab. Well, since Simone just dumped your stash of heroin down the toilet, I'd say rehab might be a good idea right about now, Isaac. He's worried that he won't be able to paint the future without it, and Simone's sick of listening to his shit. Tawny Cypress has the most amazing eyes, by the way. They kind of freak me out.