Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C- | 135 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Hiro Quixote and Ando Panza
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2010.01.04
The only hospital in New York. Emma's looking through a stack of letters and finds one addressed to her. She opens it, and finds a rejection from whatever medical residency she applied to. But it encourages her to apply again next year. Somehow, I don't think that makes her feel any better, though. Later, she arrives at home, with the letter still in her hands. She touches the cello, and gets ready to play it, when her doorbell buzzes. It's Samuel, who greets her as "Miss Coolidge." He signs that he's come a long way to see her, and is like her. She signs, "Not deaf," and he says no, he has a gift. She starts to shut the door, but he asks her if he can please explain. When he asks if she can read lips, she seems annoyed and signs, "Can you read hands?" She starts to shut the door again, but he stops her again by telling her he's the one who sent the cello. Then he shows her his compass tattoo and she notices that same artwork is also on her cello. Commercials, including Luke Wilson telling someone on a game show that the capital of Peru is Lima. But it makes me think he and the other guy are stupid, because a) the guy had to call him to know that? and b) he had to look it up on his phone? My emergency phone person if I am on a game show is going to be someone who knows that without looking it up.
Tokyo. Ando looks perplexed as Hiro tells him they must go to the land of swamp dragons and find the castle in order to rescue Dr. Watson. Ando, exasperated, says he heard him the first time. Hiro asks Sancho if his communicator isn't functioning, and sits down and writes "Swamp dragon" and "Castle Arkham." Ando doesn't get it, so Hiro says, "Transmission jammed at the source, Captain." I thought this amusing at first, but I think it goes on way too long and means nothing. I hate that nothing is happening on this show, yet they keep on making filler episode after filler episode instead of developing the plot. Kimiko comes in with the number of a top neurosurgeon, but Ando stops her from calling the number because he thinks Hiro's trying to tell them something. Kimiko protests that they have to get Hiro help since he's all the family she has left. Ando explains what Hiro was saying, and surmises from Hiro's use of Dr. Watson that these are clues. You know, because of Sherlock Holmes; get it? Yeah, I don't either, because Hiro would not be giving them clues if he could explain it clearly. He doesn't know how to communicate, so he's talking gibberish. But when Ando says Hiro wants them to figure something out, Hiro jumps up and with his "Yatta!" hands shouts, "Elementary!" Ando explains to Kimiko and the show's audience (who they seem to have forgotten actually get geek references) that it's like someone took a shabu spoon and stirred Hiro's fanboy brain. Thanks for the anvil, Ando. Hiro: "We must prepare for our quest in the Danger Room." Ando explains to Kimiko that's where the X-Men train. Ando gets it: The Danger Room is also where Hiro keeps his comic books. He leaves, and Hiro tells Kimiko, "Good you have done, Princess. Defeat the dark side, we will." She cries.