Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C+ | 255 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.10.19
Claire shows up at HRG's to do laundry and to check in on her dad and find out if he's found a job yet. She asks for quarters, and then suggests he do some volunteer work since he hasn't found a job yet. He doesn't have time to reply, though, before they hear a noise coming from the bathroom. HRG gets a gun and they walk toward the bathroom when Peter comes out. Claire wonders how he got in the bathroom, and Peter says, "It's been a long time since I've teleported." Ah, intentional humor. This show could use a little more of that, I'd say. Though an entire scene starring three main characters designed only for that punch line probably isn't worth it.
Carnival. Samuel gives Edgar carnival tickets to deliver to Warden Leo. Edgar wonders why they'd want to bring the cops hunting Sylar into the carnival, and Samuel says there's something very wrong with Sylar, whose memories are returning but they're the wrong memories. "There's someone else inside his head." If only we knew who that was... Oh, right, we do. Samuel wants to jump-start the real Sylar, and Edgar warns him that the real Sylar might kill this cop. Samuel: "Indeed he might." Because that's sort of the point. Nice of Edgar to act concerned and as if he has a conscience, though, since we'll find out he actually doesn't by the end of the episode.
Peter's caught Claire and HRG up on Hiro's situation when we next see them, and he says he came to them because he thought HRG could find a healer so that Hiro won't have to die. Claire wonders why they can't just use her blood (that's what I said), but HRG helpfully explains that since a tumor is living tissue, her blood would only make it grow faster. He remembers a "bag and tag" from three or four years ago, though: a teenage healer. The kid was bringing bugs back from near-dead, so they studied him then wiped his memory and sent him back home. HRG says the kid was confused and didn't know whether his power was a gift or a curse. Claire says if he can save Hiro, it's definitely a gift. Well, again, writers: Duh. Thanks for stating the obvious. HRG and Peter teleport to the kid's home in Georgia.