Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 121 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT A One-Way Ticket To Explosiveville
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Aired on 2007.05.21
Superstudio. Matt enters with his gun drawn, but no one's there. He sees all the paintings Isaac did of the future and he recognizes several people and situations. Then he notices the blood, which we now see is dripping off the bottom of the painting Sylar did of the Final Showdown at Kirby Plaza, so I guess it's...not blood? Or it's Sylar's blood? Or it's just really red paint that looks like Sylar dipped his brush into a bucket of pig's blood? The hell? Matt finally learns to read and sees the KIRBY PLAZA splashed across the canvas and he runs off. Gee, that was a productive scene. And so necessary too! We cut to Kirby Plaza where Mohinder is telling Molly that they need to get out of there because Matt called and he thinks Sylar is on his way. Molly does her creepy searching thing and says that Sylar's not on his way; he's already there.
Landslide Victory Headquarters. Ma, Nathan and Claire enter his office and Ma says that the helicopter will be picking them up from the roof in ten minutes. "When the jet lands tomorrow morning, you'll be safe," she says to Claire. "But everyone else will be dead," says her granddaughter. Nathan and Ma Petrelli exchange a long look and Claire can't believe that neither of them are going to do anything to stop this. Ma Petrelli explains that it's inevitable, but Claire shouts that the future isn't set in stone. Nathan fears that this future is. "If everything is so inevitable," says Claire to Nathan, "then why has she been trying to keep us apart all these years?" Nathan looks to his mother with an expression of, "Hmmmm" on his face. "There are things you simply aren't mature enough to understand yet," says Ma Petrelli. The girl can stab herself in the eye with a fork and grow a new eyeball, lady, how mature do you think she is? She's been almost raped, died more than once, and watched several people around her explode and/or get stabbed in the head with glass, let's try to give her the benefit of the doubt, you bitch.
Claire tearfully asks how she can let her own son die like this, and Nathan says that Peter won't die. "Thanks to you," says Ma Petrelli, "Peter has the ability to survive." "So he lives," says Claire, "and kills millions of people. How can you let him be responsible for something like that? And how can you live with yourself if he is?" This last question she directs at Nathan, who's looking increasingly unnerved by her questions. Nathan just moves to her and says that this is all going to make sense very soon, he promises. Ma Petrelli reaches out and says that they're offering her everything she's ever wanted; a place to belong, a family. Then she looks at Nathan and they have another one of their staring contests until finally, Claire moves into Nathan's arms and hugs him. Ma Petrelli looks smugly pleased with herself. And then the most awesome thing happens. Claire says, "I already have a family." AND JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW. It's so fucking cool. She just dives right out and splats onto the pavement below. Ma Petrelli and Nathan run to the window and watch as Claire slowly gets up, brushes glass off of herself and just walks away. "I know what you're thinking," says Ma Petrelli. "Let her go, Nathan." Actually, Mommie Fearest, I think he's thinking, "Damn. If Claire hates us that much, maybe we AREN'T nice people and maybe I SHOULD save the world instead of becoming pres-o-dent."