Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D | 10 USERS: D- YOU GRADE IT Splat!
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 02.08.2010
He charges out onto the stage and asks if the crowd wants a show. They cheer and he says this is the greatest show on earth. They cheer, but then he clenches his fists and starts breaking up the ground and causing an earthquake. People start running. Claire and HRG are still leading the heroes out of Egypt, trying to get as far away as possible. A pole of some sort falls on someone. Then Peter finally, finally gets to Samuel (what took him so long, anyway?) and knocks him out. Backstage, Samuel keeps trying to break up the ground but Peter's pushing it back down. Samuel says he seems to have found his power, and Peter says it's funny how that works. Samuel thinks Peter of all people should understand because he had a brother who kept him in his shadow and kept him down, just like his. Peter says his brother didn't keep him down (because he was watching a different show than us, in which Nathan didn't send a government agency after all the heroes); he built him up. They keep pushing and pulling on the earth.
Claire and HRG run into Hiro and Ando, and she tells Hiro he has to teleport everyone out of here. He says there are so many, but she says he has to try. He says he will, but they all have to be touching. So all the heroes join hands. Hiro's worried, but Ando says he can supercharge him. Claire looks at HRG, who isn't holding hands. He says he'll stay and take care of Samuel. Then Claire nods at Hiro, who teleports them away. Samuel has no power, so Peter asks how it feels to be ordinary. Samuel asks where they all went, and Peter punches him in the face. Samuel just stands up and says they can't have all left, and they can't leave him. He ends up on the stage, still shrieking and running, yelling they're nothing without him. He sort of loses it, and ends up falling to his knees. HRG and Peter reunite, and HRG says, "I gotta say: I never liked carnivals." Peter: "Yep." Then the camera goes back to Samuel, who falls back so he's resting his butt on his feet, with his arms wildly out to his sides. The camera pans back and then we fade to black, which says, "End of Volume Five."
But oh, no, we are not done yet (if only). Instead, it's "Volume Six: Brave New World." How cute is it that the showrunners think this show is coming back? Anyway, Emma and Peter reunite and hug sweetly. Why didn't they pursue that relationship this season? He touches her face and asks if she's okay. She says it was a man named Doyle who made her play, but Peter's friend took care of him. She leads him into Doyle's tent, where Sylar has Doyle tied up in lights, which he plugs in and turns on. He asks Peter what he thinks, and Sylar says, "I like it." Peter looks at him, with no facial expression that tells us anything. Outside the tent, HRG asks Claire, who's back, if the heroes are all okay. She says Hiro's taking care of them so they'll be fine. Samuel's handcuffed and being put in a car and Claire asks if it's a new company. HRG: "An old one. Lauren called in some favors." I'm guessing the CIA, then? She's telling the media there was a gas main rupture and the rest was special effects put on by a very gifted showman. Claire says HRG still can't see a future where they all get to live out in the open. She asks how long they can keep this under wraps. The news cameras come and ask them what they saw, and HRG says "No comment." She says, "What he said."