Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 297 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.10.12
Hospital. Peter's walking around looking for someone or something. I'll guess Emma. But he gets distracted by a room full of little kids singing the theme song to Greatest American Hero, which is a pretty funny shout out. It's not the singing that's distracted Peter, though -- or at least not the sound of it. It's the rainbow of colors the singing is producing. He's all happy and smiling and glowy, as if this isn't the stupidest power he could possibly have if he ever needs to, I don't know, save the world or anything. Somehow I find it adorable, though, when he and Emma see each other from across the room and realize they're both looking at the rainbow ghosts coming out of the music. She motions to ask him if he can see it, and he makes a face that's like, "Duh. Who doesn't?" He smiles at her cutely, and I like it in spite of my better judgment.
After commercials, they find each other and he starts talking to her, asking if she also saw the colors. She finally admits she's deaf, and he wonders if she reads lips. She does, so he tells her he must have gotten her ability on the street. She doesn't get what ability means, so he tells her there are people, like them, who have abilities: They can fly, teleport, read minds. She thinks she's misunderstanding, so he writes it down. She still thinks it's crazy, so he asks, "Is it?" and plays the piano. The sound is blue. But, again, I must ask: HOW IS THIS A POWER OR ABILITY? Peter plays the piano and they both admire his beautiful blue sounds. She joins in, and her notes are green. They mingle in the air, and it becomes a rainbow. They like each other, but how could this relationship ever go anywhere? Peter will end up with this stupid power every time he touches her. They finish playing and she wonders why her, why now. He doesn't know, but suggests they get lunch tomorrow, to figure it out and get her out of the file room. She starts to agree until he insults the file room, and then she says she likes it there, and storms off. He sighs, frustrated. And, seriously, why is she so sensitive about the files?