Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D | 387 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Circle of Life
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.10.05
The governor wonders what's happened to Tracy, and she says it was complicated family stuff, but it's over and she's back, and she's looking for work. He says she's not anymore, since he can use her work back in New York. He needs someone who can charm regulators, cut corners, ease legislation through the minefields. He says it's right up her alley, and she says it's not a problem. He holds her hand and asks her to have dinner with him tonight to discuss the particulars, then tells her how happy he is to have his "tiger lady" back. He walks off and her smile turns to a furrowed brow. Uh-oh, could our dear Tracy have developed a conscience along with that water?
Peter shows up at Bennett's apartment of gloom, and asks HRG if he has a minute. Since he is unemployed and unmarried, that's a rhetorical question, but HRG snits that he thought Peter wanted nothing to do with him. Peter wants to show him his compass tattoo, but it's gone, so Noah's like, "That's a very nice arm." Peter explains it was a compass tattoo just like the compass they found. HRG asks what Peter thinks they're going to do: go on the road in search of the speedy guy with knives, and Peter asks if HRG wants to get cut up again. He doesn't, and he's really not up for hunting these guys down, so Peter starts to leave and bumps into Claire, who's just arriving. They greet warmly, and Peter says he has to be at work in ten minutes. Claire's like, "Ten minutes? You live in New York City. ...New power?" Peter tells her to ask HRG about it and then he speeds off. I thought that when Peter gets a new power, he loses the old one now, ever since he got his powers back after Papa Petrelli took them away. So, why didn't Samuel giving him the compass/tattoo/whatever power take away the knife ninja power? Or is what Samuel gave him not a power? Maybe the show will answer this question eventually, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Once Peter's gone, HRG pretends he and Peter had gone on a fishing expedition, which is probably the lamest thing he could have made up, but he doesn't let Claire ask questions, instead offering her something to eat, like "a bowl of cereal," which is obviously the only option available. Poor, lonely HRG.