Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Way We Were
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.25.2007
Primatech. It's a little after 7:20, and Parkman frets that if they don't bring Sprague some hard evidence, he's going to freak out. Outside a locked room, Bennet swipes a key card as he says the only thing they're bringing Sprague is a tranquilizer. Well, that'll probably stop him from freaking out too. Inside, Bennet grabs a hypodermic as Parkman tries to tell him that Sprague wants the truth. Bennet astutely demurs, saying that Sprague wants his wife back, and barring that, he craves revenge "of the good old-fashioned Biblical variety." Parkman argues the point until Bennet adds that Parkman himself said Sprague had already pulled the trigger in his mind. See, Parkman? If you didn't babble about every stray thought that comes into your head, you'd find it a lot easier to get your way. Parkman wonders about his own fate, asking if Bennet is going to have his memory erased, but Bennet says Parkman is the only one he can trust, and proposes that they be honest with each other. Parkman breathes, "You just try lying to me." As I indicated before, I think Grunberg has plenty of chops, but whenever he tries to be menacing, I just want to giggle, "You're so cute!" He should have stuck with Clea DuVall -- she's about a hundred times scarier than he is. Bennet tells Parkman that he just signaled the Haitian.
Chez Bennet, 7:25. Sprague is sitting cross-legged on the floor, practicing making tiny explosions in his hand. It actually looks like he's more relaxed for it. He is the only one. Meanwhile, Claire has managed to sneak downstairs, and she watches him with mounting fear into the commercial break.
The Haitian strides through the Primatech hallways. He rounds a corner and sees Bennet and Parkman coming at him. Bennet grabs him and holds him against the wall, half-yelling, "Guess who found out you can talk?" It's not clear if Bennet already knew the Haitian could talk, or if he deduced it based on Claire's knowledge. Bennet asks who else knows about Claire, and after a moment, the Haitian tells him that right now, it's just them, "but that will change." Bennet points out that he gave the Haitian explicit instructions to wipe Claire's memory, but the Haitian says he answers to someone whose instructions supersede his. Bennet asks if that person is in the company, but the Haitian responds: "In your daughter's life." Bennet looks thunderstruck at that revelation. Just wait until he finds out that it's Mr. Muggles that's been calling the shots.
We fade into the black-and-white past again, and we're driving down a road with Bennet and Claude, seven years ago. Claude asks what the mission is, and Bennet replies that they're looking into a security breach, and that's all he knows and all they told him. Claude counters that while that may be all they instructed Bennet to tell him, what he knows is considerably more. "You're not as good a liar as you think." For that to be true, Bennet would have to think he's as good at mendacity as the Cigarette Smoking Man. Bennet says that Claude is the security breach, and Claude lightly tells him he was hoping for a more subtle name, or at least a pun. "You Americans are usually good for a pun." I resemble that remark. Bennet hotly asks if he's hiding a Hero (not that he uses that term), and Claude says the short answer is yes. He says that he knows they're serving the greater good, "but the vivisection's starting to keep me up at night." Well, if it's any consolation, I'm sure the practitionees don't have the easiest time getting to sleep either. Claude adds that he was hoping for a little sympathy from Bennet, given that he's raising a Hero as his own, but Bennet says he'll take her in if she ever manifests. Claude then tells him that he was in Bennet's office when they told him to kill Claude, and Bennet asks why, then, he got in the car. Claude: "Evidently, I think you're a better man than they do." I'm not sure what he's basing that opinion on, but maybe when Bennet vivisects, he does so really compassionately.