Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You May Not Believe It…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 12.08.2008
...so in the hall, Nathan and Tracy pedeconference as she notes he's angry. He admits that, pointing out she went behind his back, but she assures him she's on his side before saying that Arthur wants to make the world a better place. They pass Flint and Knox (Flint healed pretty fast, considering it's like, the next day), who are hanging out like The Little Rascals on a street corner, as Tracy tells Nathan he should be President, and she should be there with him. They walk on as Knox and Flint stare, as if anyone gives a crap about them. Where is Meredith?
Tracy leads Nathan into a room as she smiles that they like to call their program "intelligent design." I think she's being tongue-in-cheek here, not least because I can't imagine using the word "intelligent" to describe anything with which Mohinder is so heavily involved. Her point, though, is that they hope not only to give people powers without turning them into spiders, but actually to choose who gets what specific ability. She tells him, "Meet the future," and we pan over to a drill sergeant bringing a group of about fifty soldiers to attention. Nathan gives his usual conflicted face, but Tracy's all smiles. Given the ratio in the room, you can hardly blame her.
We're at the door of the Bennet apartment back in the past, as a harried Sandra arrives home holding a crying Baby Claire. As Claire appears behind her, Sandra struggles with her packages as she tries to find her keys, and Claire takes the opening to rush up and offer her assistance as she introduces herself as "Bonnie," a neighbor's niece. Sandra, whose hair is straight and who apparently just bought all the foundation the local Sephora had to offer and put every bit of it on, thanks "Bonnie" for the help, and then inside, Claire proceeds to change herself, which is vaguely unsettling, and Sandra sits down and confesses that she's completely unprepared, and has no idea how to take care of a baby. Claire offers to teach her a few things, which again is twisting time-travel logic, not the most stable entity in the universe at the best of times, into a tortured mess, before "casually" asking if Sandra's husband is good with kids. Sandra doesn't even bother to sugarcoat it, saying that Bennet works a lot and "apparently" is very good at what he does. Claire then hands her younger self to Sandra, who says that it's so strange -- she's only known Claire a few hours, and yet she's already in love with her. Claire smiles beatifically: "I think she knows that." They coo for a moment, but then Claire's countenance falls, and she tells Sandra not to let her out of her sight. Sandra asks what she means, but Claire thinks better of telling her anything and covers by saying she just meant she's going to grow up really fast. It's true -- soon she'll be jumping from scary heights and getting impaled by tree branches, and you'll think, "Where did the time go?"