Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jump, Die and Fail
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.21.2009
Just then a bank employee brings them their box and calls Bennet, "Mr. Danko." Bank employee says he'll wait right outside. Bennet opens the box to find a tiny leather pouch that contains the compass. Peter's like, "Really? Danko got killed for a compass?" Bennet taps it and adds, "A broken compass." That'll happen if you bury it with your dead brother. A knock on the door as the bank employee appears to be entering, and Bennet says they'll need another minute (which they really don't, right? I mean, can't they just take it and leave? It doesn't matter anyway, but it still seems weird he'd request more time). But the bank employee falls into the room because his back's all sliced up, julienne-style. Edgar's standing behind him, and he'd like that compass, please.
Super-strength Peter grabs Edgar and knocks knives out of his hands. Then Edgar picks them up and throws one. Peter catches it as it almost hits Bennet in the face. Bennet asks if Peter got Edgar's power, and Peter replies, "I got it. I got it." He wields a knife and Edgar actually says, "Bloody hell." Who does he think he is, anyway? Spike? Peter and Edgar battle it out in slow-mo super-speed (oxymoron, right?) until Edgar takes off, without the compass. Peter notices the bank employee's not dead yet and gets into paramedic mode.
At the hospital, Bennet wonders if the employee will be okay, and Peter snots that he will be, and he hopes that was worth it for Bennet. Bennet's like, "Not really." But he'd like to figure out why Danko thought this compass was worth dying for. He pulls it out again and holds it. Still broken. Peter asks if he can see it, and as soon as it's in his hand, it starts spinning. Bennet wonders what Peter did, but he didn't do anything. Bennet thinks it must only work for Peter (but I think it probably works for all heroes, which is how Samuel leads them all back to him, or how he finds them, or something?). Bennet tries to give the compass to Peter, but he doesn't want it. Bennet tries to convince him by citing Edgar and saying there must be more like him, but Peter says his life makes sense now that he's saving people, as opposed to the past hour he's spent with Bennet, in which an innocent person almost got killed. Peter wants to stay away, so he can be happy. Because he seems to be incredibly happy. Peter thinks Bennet should just let the guy have the compass. Peter doesn't want his life to get complicated, so Bennet asks why Peter came with him. He says he wanted the ability, to help him with his real life, where he actually saves people. They have a sweet parting that ends with Noah saying, "Hey!" and Peter turning back to hear Noah say, "Call your mother." Peter smiles. Okay, maybe he's happy. But, no, he's really not.