Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 496 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Way We Were
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.02.26
... right back into the present, as Sprague is asking "Mr. Bennet" what goes on at his paper factory. Parkman bellows that he abducts and drugs people. If I'm Bennet, this is where I'm all, "Is your name 'Mr. Bennet'?" It's also where I'm shot and/or immolated, but it's totally worth it. Parkman shows everyone the marks on his neck, says that Bennet injects them "with I don't know what," and then tells him that he lost his job, and he's trying not to lose his wife. Well, I can't help you with the job, dude, but given that your wife cheated on you, I think she's the one that owes some effort here. Parkman goes on that Bennet doesn't care about what he's done, as long as they end up not remembering it. He announces that Bennet makes them forget, which gets Mrs. Bennet's attention: "How can he make you forget?" Parkman hears the answer in Claire's mind: "The Haitian." Matt, both confirming that and showing his incredulity that Claire is aware of him, repeats what she said, causing Bennet to betray himself involuntarily by the way he looks at her. Of course, he's already aware that she knows about the Haitian, but he's reacting to the fact that she thought about him in Parkman's direction. Yeah, there have been quite a few moves on the chessboard in this opening act. Claire looks at her father and loathingly thinks, "This is your fault," and Parkman hears it and announces to the family that Bennet has them all fooled except for her. Geez, Parkman, you could use this power of yours for a whole lot of personal gain if you'd only learn to keep your fat mouth shut. Sprague makes an unnecessary comment about plausible deniability, and then a stream of thoughts from Claire comes at Parkman, who says that the Haitian made her mother and brother forget, but not... he looks back at Claire. "Why didn't he make you forget?" Bennet doesn't say "You read my mind" on the grounds of redundancy, but he really, really wants to. Mrs. Bennet asks Claire what he's talking about, prompting her daughter to protest that she doesn't know anything, and then Parkman orders Bennet to tell the truth. Bennet insists that he is, but Sprague has had enough of this, holds up his now-glowing hands, and says, "THIS is the truth." Best not to argue when the Sprague Alert Scale is now at orange. Sprague says that this is what Bennet did to him, and he and Parkman just want to be normal again. Well, okay, but when it takes you twenty minutes to chip the ice off your windshield in the dead of winter, don't come crying to me. Claire turns to Parkman and says her dad isn't a paper salesman. Sprague gloats, "Guess she's not Daddy's little girl any more." Father and daughter look at each other bitterly enough to burn holes in each other, so just as well about that eclipse.