Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Note to New York: Watch out for the guy with the glowing hands and the crazy eyes.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.13.2007
The elevators ding and Bennet and Matt exit. Bennet tells the parents that they'll find Linderman on the fifty-first floor. "Good luck finding your son," says Matt. The doors close without either D.L. or Jessica saying anything at all. "Right. Nice to see you too," snits Matt. Heh. Matt and Bennet make their way toward Molly's room as Matt asks how they take out the tracking system. Do they erase the hard drive? Crash the system? What? Bennet cagily responds that Matt did his part, now it's Bennet's turn to do his. Inside Molly's room, Thompson and Mohinder are watching Bennet and Matt on the closed circuit television. Thompson cocks his gargantuan gun and tells Mohinder that Bennet's after Molly.
Bennet and Matt come around a corner, but Matt suddenly grabs Bennet's shoulders as he hears Thompson's thoughts nearby say, "Good night, Bennet." Thompson comes around a corner and Matt jerks Bennet back behind a wall. Thompson shoots and misses. He runs off. Bennet pulls his own gun and runs off, telling Matt to stay put. Matt's like, "DUDE. I DON'T HAVE A GUN! DON'T LEAVE ME!" So, Matt's all alone, frantically looking around for Thompson, when suddenly there's Thompson, right behind him, with the gun pointed at the back of his head. "What am I thinking now, Parkman?" "Your last thought!" grits Bennet from behind Thompson. He shoots decisively twice. I'm sorry, but that kicked ass. Matt turns around and asks how Bennet knew Thompson was going to come up behind him. "We were old friends," says Bennet with a grim smile as he hands Matt Thompson's gun.
Mohinder watches all this on the monitor in Molly's room. He makes sure that Molly stays in her bedroom while he tries to deal with the interlopers. He holds his hands ineffectively up against the door as, outside, Bennet slides Thompson's key card through the security lock. "All right, look," says Bennet, "whatever happens in here, you gotta know that this is the only way our families are ever gonna be safe." Matt's concerned. "Why? Whattaya mean? What's here?" They enter the room and look around. "Where's the tracking system?" asks Matt. "It's in there!" says Bennet. They move into Molly's bedroom. Bennet pulls back the curtains and there's little Molly, hiding behind her bed, terrified.
"That's the tracking system?" says Matt. "A kid?! We came her to kill a little girl?" He's horrified. "No!" says Bennet. "I knew it was a person, but…I had no idea." He says this, but he still moves forward with the gun pointed at poor Molly's head. Mohinder bashes Matt in the back of the head with something, and Bennet turns his gun away from Molly. Mohinder now has a gun -- Matt's, maybe? -- and he's pointing it at Bennet. Bennet just points his gun again at Molly and says that as long as she's alive, Claire isn't safe. Mohinder tells Bennet to lower his gun or he'll kill him. Bennet says that if Mo kills him, Molly dies. It's a conundrum, it is.