Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Save the cheerleader. Save the -- wait, how does it go?
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.22.2006
BGM pulls back and Jock the Rapist gasps. "Shhhh," says BGM, sounding exactly like the alter ego of some blonde Vegas stripper we're all familiar with. He straightens his jacket and pulls back the curtain to reveal Creepy Bald Guy of Silence, whom many of the posters have taken to calling "Deep Cleaner." Hee. I do love that name. "Hollow him out," says BGM coldly. "Take everything." . He leaves and Deep Cleaner grabs the edge of the curtain, pulling it totally around Jock the Rapist's bed.
Isaac's Den of Iniquity. Peter's attempting to hang the canvases in some semblance of order. He steps back and says that the paintings are amazing; that they tell a story, sort of like a comic book. I've watched this episode twice already and it just now occurred to me that this might be the moment where Isaac gets the idea to actually turn the paintings into a comic book. Since Hiro traveled to the New York of the future and found the 9th Wonder comic book, I've just erroneously assumed that the comic book was already in existence and Isaac did it on the side or something. But the comic is from the future, so Isaac has to come up with the idea to turn his paintings into a comic at some point. I can't believe I'm just figuring this out. I really need to pay closer attention to this show. And I mean closer attention to the plot rather than the hot guys who are superheroes.
Peter continues to look at the canvases and he realizes that the guy on the stairs could be him. I pretty much already figured that one out. So there! Not so stupid after all! Peter asks if the guy in the painting is him and Isaac just asks why he would paint Peter when there are sexy cheerleaders in danger to paint? Peter points at the painting of Hiro and Ando and says that he thinks everyone in the paintings is trying to help the cheerleader. Well, duh, Peter. Hiro told you to save the cheerleader, didn't he? Peter asks who the cheerleader is and Isaac has no idea because he was high when he painted everything. He starts coughing and it looks like he's going through a bit of withdrawal.
He starts yammering about how he could have gotten clean, but he didn't, because he wanted answers, so he lost Simone, and then he asked for answers and all he got was a bunch of garbage. He points to the painting on the floor of the bomb going off. "It's nothing," he finishes. "Some cheerleader. It's nothing. I ruined my life for nothing." Peter concentrates on an unfinished canvas on an easel. It appears to be the foreboding shadow man/monster standing over something with his shadow bleeding off into the corner of the canvas, ending in a large blank spot. "It's not nothing," says Peter. "Look, don't you get it? Everything is connected. We are all connected. If this thing that you painted, if this bomb is true? We're all dead." He points at the paintings. "These are the key to saving us. Something's gonna happen to this girl. We need to know what. You have to finish this. You have to finish the painting."