Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.26.2006
Chapter Ten: Six Months Ago, the title informs us over the next scene. We're in a watch and clock repair shop in Brooklyn. Zachary Quinto of So NoTORIous infamy is diligently repairing a watch. It's a delicate operation and he's clearly an expert at it. Also? His skin looks like it's made of brie, it's so smooth, and his hair resembles that of a Devo member. He looks weird, is what I'm saying. And kind of hot. But that's probably due more to the fact that Zachary Quinto is kind of hot. Papa Suresh enters and calls Zachary "Mr. Gray". He hopes that Gray can help him, but Gray's more interested in fixing his watch. Papa Suresh says his watch is fine, but Gray tells him it isn't and that he has a knack for knowing when things are broken. He has a talent for knowing the way things work and how the parts should go. Suresh points out the watch Gray was just working on and says it looks complicated. Gray responds that the housing of the watch is standard, but the insides are complicated German parts. He's been working on it for seven years. I guess we're supposed to take away from this that Gray is obsessive-compulsive and also likes the inner workings of things.
Gray fixes Suresh's watch and tells him there's no charge. Suresh stares at him and suddenly, Gray looks at him, all, you didn't come here for the watch, did you? Well, no, he didn't, actually. Especially considering he didn't even KNOW the damn watch was broken. Sloppy writing gives me hives. Suresh says he came to find him, and we learn that Gray's first name is Gabriel. So his name is Gabriel Gray. Huh. A messenger angel who's neither black nor white, good nor evil? Subtle, writers. SUBTLE. Suresh introduces himself and immediately starts talking about his evolutionary theory. "I believe you are a part of it," he says, handing over a copy of his book. He tells Gray to read it and, if he's interested, he can contact him via the phone and address he's written inside the book. Suresh leaves to go drop in on other unsuspecting superheroes.
Los Angeles. Officer Matt is parked on a bridge with his lights flashing. He gets out and walks over to a hot car with an even hotter girl inside. Matt's cell phone rings, but he ignores it. Why answer a phone when there are hot girls to arrest! The girl in the car is Eden and she's wearing ginormous sunglasses on her tiny little head. Sunglasses. At night. Because apparently we've headed back to 1983 and Eden's taking her fashion cues from Corey Hart. Matt thinks wearing sunglasses at night is stupid, so he orders her to take them off. She does so and smiles blandly at him. Oh, and she also tells him that she "kinda stole" the car and there's a half-empty bottle of liquor parked on the passenger seat. Matt gets all good-cop/bad-cop on her ass and tells her to get out of the car. "No, I don't feel like it," Eden sasses at him. "That wasn't a suggestion," snaps Matt. "Well, here's a suggestion," she says, "why don't you get back in your car and go eat a dozen donuts?" Matt's all, oh, you did NOT just say that to me! Get outta the car. Eden turns on her Electronic Voice Power Persuader and tells Matt again to go eat some donuts. With a confused look on his face, Matt just walks back to his car and drives off. Eden turns on her engine and looks up to see Mindblower just standing in front of her car, staring at her.