Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dawn Of The Dead Dads
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.18.2007
Mohinder and Bennet arrive in an alley somewhere and get out of the car, Mohinder still pointing the gun at Bennet's head. Bennet asks who his partner is, and Mohinder's all, "Derr?" "Company policy," says Bennet smugly. "One of them and one of us. Who's yours?" Just then, Elle comes out from behind a black van. Bennet knowingly says, "Elle." "You know her?" asks Mohinder in surprise. "Oh, yeah," says Bennet with a smile. "Hey you!" greets Elle, walking toward Bennet with sparks grouping in her palms. Bennet's eyes shift subtly upward, and Elle suddenly turns and looks up. West zooms in and tackles Elle into and up and over Bennet's car. They both roll out across the pavement, with Elle out cold. Mohinder points the gun at Bennet, seemingly intending to shoot him, and Bennet gets the vision of Mohinder from the painting with the gun, but it clears as soon as Bennet actually hits Mohinder in his broken nose and grabs the gun out of his hand. He points it at Mohinder's face: "You lie to me, betray me, come after my daughter?" He cocks the hammer as Mohinder holds his hands over his nose. "How'd you think it was gonna end?" Bennet demands. "Mr. Butler, what are you doing?" asks West in the distance. This wakes Bennet from his rage, and he uncocks the gun and steps back. "Nobody's taking my little girl!" he spits, kicking Mohinder in the gut. Damn.
Minutes later, Bennet bursts through the front door of his house in search of his daughter. Instead, all he finds is his wife, duct-taped to a chair. He removes the tape on her mouth, and she tells him that Tobby took Claire. Bennet says that they're getting her back, because he has collateral. West walks in with the unconscious Elle slung over his shoulder. "Hi, Mrs. Butler!" says West cheerfully. "It's good to...uh...see you again!" He carts Elle off into another room as Bennet turns to his wife: "Did you pack Mr. Muggles's doggie bath?" Hee.
The next thing we see is a shot of Elle's feet from above, immersed in a tub of water. She's chained to a chair with what appear to be three of Mr. Muggles's leashes. Awesome. Bennet sprays Elle with water from the sink, and she comes to. Her whole body is soaking wet. Bennet replaces the sprayer in the sink and crosses his arms. After a pause, he says, "I need to speak with your father." "What, do you think this is my first day?" she snits, gearing up for some electroshock therapy. Unfortunately, the water acts as a conduit...to her own head. The electricity races through her body. "Stings like a bitch, doesn't it?" snarks Bennet. HA! He says that he knows all about Elle's ability, and that he was there when her father brought her in; she was just a normal little girl back then. Then they started testing her. "The human brain isn't built to take that much electricity," he says. "You poor girl." Elle says that her father would never let that happen to her. "Your father was leading the charge," he says. "I don't remember any of that," says Elle. Hm. Kind of like someone...took those memories away? I have no idea if he's lying right now or not, but whatever he's doing, it's totally working on Elle; she's seriously considering that her father sold her out as a freak to The Company. "Why do you think I never let The Company get their hands on Claire?" he asks her, getting right up in her face. "I didn't want her to become you." He says that he wants to arrange an exchange with Tobby: Elle for Claire. Elle asks what happens if Tobby doesn't want to make a trade. "You'd be surprised with a father will do for his daughter," says Bennet.
Across town, Tobby's attending to Claire's restraints when his phone rings. He thinks it's his daughter, but it's Bennet. "You touch my daughter and I'll kill yours," says Bennet. "And then I'll kill you." He says that they'll be at the Imperial Beach parking lot in two hours, and he expects Tobby and his daughter to be there. He hangs up, and Tobby turns to Claire. "Looks like you and I are going to the beach," he says, pulling on surgical gloves. Claire says that she'll do whatever he wants her to as long he leaves her dad alone. Tobby's not promising anything as long as Bennet has Elle in his clutches. Claire thinks she can talk to her father, reason with him, but Tobby says that Bennet's pretty single-minded once he comes to a decision, which is why they gave Claire to him in the first place. They thought he'd be loyal until the end; which, as it turns out, he has been. Only not to them. Tobby kneels next to Claire and ties a rubber strap around her upper arm, getting ready to draw her blood. He tells her that she'd be an asset to the team, what with her regenerative abilities and her superblood and all that. She tells him to take all the damn blood he wants, and just leave her father the hell alone. He sticks a needle in her arm and fills a bag with her blood.