Episode Report Card Erin: A- | 58 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2006.11.27
Bennet asks if Suresh has a daughter, and Suresh tells him that he had a daughter and that she was five when she died. Bennet says that he's sorry, and Suresh says that mutations are like cancers or diseases in that they're meant to eliminate a species. Shanti's genetic anomaly wound up being the portal to Suresh's research. He hopes no one will suffer as she did. Bennet wants to know what will happen if Suresh figures all of this stuff out. "We can change the world," he responds. "Give people hope for the future. That is your daughter's destiny." Suresh wants to meet her, but Bennet says that might be a problem for his family. He wants to think on it and get back to Suresh on how to proceed. They shake hands, and Bennet says their meeting wasâ¦educational. Still can't tell if he's a full-on bad guy or not, but I'm totally digging his character arc.
Hal's Hotel Room. There's a knock at the door. Hal goes to get it and it's Niki. Or should I say "ikiN"? She enters the room without so much as a "hello" and stalks her way inside. Hal follows. "You do remember?" he says. "Ohhhh," says ikiN, "how could I forget?" She spins around and grabs Hal by the throat and then single-handedly throws him up against a wardrobe. Hal's all, Niki, honey, what the hell? "Not Niki," says ikiN. "It's me, Daddy. Jessica. The daughter you threw your beer bottles at? The daughter that you choked? The daughter that you killed?" She shoves him further up the wardrobe door, still using only her right hand. Hal protests that he didn't kill anyone, but ikiN's not buying that it was an accident. He gasps that he came to apologize to Niki, but ikiN would prefer it if he apologized to her and, really, who can blame her, considering that she's the one he killed?
She roughs him up a bit and then slams him against the wardrobe again with her forearm against his throat. "Niki doesn't remember," she says, "but I do. Someone had to be there to protect her. I remember the stink of alcohol on your breath. I took every punch so that she wouldn't have to." "You're not Jessica," he manages to get out. "You have no idea who I am," she says with obvious delight. She flings him back onto the bed and he tells says that Nicole needs help. ikiN's all, you're right, she totally DOES need help. "I thought she'd learned to protect herself," says ikiN, pulling out the check he gave Niki, "but no such luck. You're going to go away and never come back." She shoves the check into his mouth and walks out.