Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Dawn Of The Dead Dads
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2007.11.19
Casa de Bennet. Bennet thanks West for his help, and tells him to head home to his family. West refuses, saying that he wants to stick around and continue to help. Bennet thinks this is a phenomenally bad idea, but West argues that he's the quickest way to get Claire out of danger. Bennet considers this and looks at his wife, finally deciding that West can help and telling him to wait out in the car. "They say girls tend to find boys just like their dads," says Mrs. Bennet. "Because he can fly?" asks Bennet. "No," she says with a smile. "Her real dad -- you. All he cares about is protecting her." They smile at each other, and he gives her his gun, telling her that if anything happens.... She just stops him and says that nothing's going to happen, except that Bennet's going to bring their daughter home. She touches him on the chest, and he takes her hand.
Cut to the Superroof, where Hiro and Kaito reappear to say their goodbyes. Kaito says that he's proud of him and clamps him on the shoulder. They both get tears in their eyes. Hiro says goodbye, and tells his father to give his love to mom. He squints his eyes and disappears. A door slams from behind, and Kaito turns to face his killer. "Of all of them," says Kaito, "I never expected it would be you." The hooded figure in the distance doesn't speak, but we get a close-up of his lips, and I already know who it is before the big reveal because David Anders has very specifically designed lips. Ando appears with the sword Kaito asked for and sees the murderer in the distance. Before he can intervene, Adam launches himself at Kaito, only to freeze in midair before going over the side of the building. Hiro steps forward and walks past his friend. "You were right, Ando," he says. "I can't save him. But I can learn who killed him." He walks to his father and his killer and, of course, sees the face of Takezo Kensei.
Back in the present, Matt pays a visit to Angela in prison. "If you visit me one more time, Detective Parkman," she smiles, "I'll expect you to make an honest woman of me." Heh. I'm no expert, but I think Angela would eat Parkman for breakfast and pick his remains out of her teeth with one of his femurs. Matt sits opposite her and says that he plans on doing just that -- making an honest woman out of her. She wordlessly scoffs at him for attempting to read her mind. "I knew your father when he could do it," she says out loud, "and I'm even less impressed with you." "Those marks on your face," says Matt. "My father made you do that to yourself, didn't he? Did you know him when his mind became something more? When pull became push and he realized he could put a thought into anyone else's head?" Angela's smirk is wiped from her face. "Don't do this," she cautions. Too late. Matt thinks at her, "You are going to answer every question I have, truthfully." He sits down and asks who really killed Kaito. Angela tries to resist, but she has to do what he's told her to, and she finally spits that Adam did it. Matt then asks why they locked Adam up thirty years ago. She says that it was because he was dangerous. Matt asks why and she says it was because he wasn't just regenerative -- he basically stopped growing old. He's become the world's youngest four-hundred-year-old Hero. Angela goes on to say that Adam wants revenge for their locking him up, and that he won't stop until every last ElderHero is dead. "All of you are except you, [Tobby], my dad, and this woman," he says, pointing to Joanna Cassidy in the photo. "Who is this woman?" Angela begs Matt not to do this, but he won't stop. He wants the truth. Angela glares at him: "The truth is that our generation mortgaged our souls to protect yours. Show a little respect for that! Get over your daddy issues and leave us be!" Matt says that all he wants is to leave them the hell alone, but that this woman is out there, and Adam wants her dead, so he has to do what he can to save her. Angela grips the arms of the chair and fights against the compulsion to tell Matt the whole story as he pushes again at her mind. A rivulet of blood slowly drips out of her nostril. "All she wants is to be left alone," says Angela. "I made her a promise. If you take this secret from me, you're not just like your father. You ARE him."