Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT January 22nd? We have to wait until January 22nd? Shut up, NBC.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.03.2006
Clea and Matt are sitting in a car outside Bennet's Imaginary Office of Paper Products. They're discussing the distinct "absence of noise" Matt heard back at the precinct. She doesn't think this warrants a stakeout, and Matt just cutely says, "You always say I don't take you anywhere." Heh. "Well, you sure know how to spoil a girl," she quips. He hands her a plastic knife and fork. "Eat your Tex-Mex," he says with a smile. Hee. I love Greg Grunberg. So does Clea, because her inner voice goes, "What can I say? He can be cute." Matt shoots her a look and then her inner voice goes, "Oh, god. Did he just hear that?" Hee. Yeah, having flirtatious thoughts around a telepath is probably not a good idea. She gets all serious on him. "Did you just read my mind?" Matt snickers at her. Hee. "You can't do that!" she chides him. "It was a stray thought, I--you can't do that!" "You really think I'm, uh, cute?" he asks with a self-satisfied grin on his face. Heeeee. "I really think you're married," says Clea decently. "And I really think you love your wife."
Matt says he does love his wife, and Clea asks why he hasn't called to yell at her so he can go home already. "That's what you want, isn't it?" "I don't wanna be a chump," says Matt. "So still loving your wife after she has sex with someone else makes you a chump?" asks Clea. Well, no. But it does make him a masochist. Even if it was a one-night stand with the cop, she still cheated on him. Sorry to get up on my moral high-ground (it's lonely up here!), but cheating is cheating is cheating. Flirting is one thing, but the second you start even THINKING about crossing the line, you've gone too far. If you don't work on your relationship before that line is crossed, all bets are off. And you can still love your cheating partner, but that don't mean you gots to stay with 'em. I'm just sayin'.
Clea lectures him that if he wants to make his marriage work, then he has to find a way to make it work. He just kind of nods at her and makes faces and she spots Bennet coming out of the building. The Haitian walks up to meet him and Matt immediately recognizes him from the bar where he collapsed. He tries to listen in on them both, but nothing's coming. Clea thinks they should leave. Matt thinks he should try to pass a watermelon through his urethra. Seriously, his face looks like he's in all sorts of pain. Still, he's getting nothing off them. He grunts. Nothing. He grunts some more. Dark blood drips out of his right nostril. Clea looks horrified. "I was only able to get one word," says Matt. "Sylar."