Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 60 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT January 22nd? We have to wait until January 22nd? Shut up, NBC.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2006.12.04
Bennet's driving home from the office when his cell rings. It's Claire and she's freaking the hell out. "Tell me you remember," she gasps into the phone. "Y-you r-remember what I told you last night. Don't you? You remember what we talked about?" "Of course I do," Bennet says calmly. "What's going on?" Claire reminds him that he said there were people who might want to hurt her and she thinks they got to Zach and Lyle. "They don't remember anything! It's like it never happened!" Claire doesn't know what to do. Bennet asks where she is and she says she's at home. "Where's mom?" she asks, her expression suggesting that she smells a rat. "Where'sâ¦where's Lyle?" Bennet just tells her to stay put and he'll be right there. She gets off the phone as the door to her room opens and Mindblower quietly enters.
She turns and sees him and immediately panics. He grabs her and holds her, putting his hand over her mouth. She's screaming and kicking until he says, "I work for your father." Claire calms down slightly. "He sent me here to make you forget," he says. "Like he sent me to your friend. And your brother. And to your motherâ¦so many times." Heh. And also, so sad. Poor woman probably has cheesecloth for a brain right about now. Jimmy Jean-Louis knocks this short scene out of the park, giving it a combination of deadpan delivery and subtle regret at what he's had to do at the behest of Bennet. "He'll be here soon," he continues, "expecting that you won't remember anything. But it is very important that you do. Tell me Claire," he says, looking down at her. "Can you keepâ¦a secret?" She seems to consider his question. What her answer is, we don't know, because we cut back toâ¦
â¦Hiro and Ando and Isaac the Oracle Painter. Hiro and Ando go to check and see if Isaac's okay and to look at what he's painted. It's Hiro, with a sword, fighting a large dinosaur. I thought it was a dragon originally, because they seem to be surrounded by fire in the picture, but it's clearly a sort of Tyrannosaurus Rex or something. Ando's like, uh, I thought this guy only painted the future? And Hiro just says, "Oh no! What if I step on a bug? I could change historyâ¦" They both seem to think that Isaac's painted Hiro in prehistoric times. "Change history?" says Ando. "You're gonna die!" "I really need to find that swordâ¦" says Hiro with a grim smile. Heh. You really do. And, while you're at it, locate that cool coat and your soul patch, please.