Episode Report Card Erin: A | 48 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Save the cheerleader. Save the -- wait, how does it go?
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2006.10.23
Peter continues to look at the canvases and he realizes that the guy on the stairs could be him. I pretty much already figured that one out. So there! Not so stupid after all! Peter asks if the guy in the painting is him and Isaac just asks why he would paint Peter when there are sexy cheerleaders in danger to paint? Peter points at the painting of Hiro and Ando and says that he thinks everyone in the paintings is trying to help the cheerleader. Well, duh, Peter. Hiro told you to save the cheerleader, didn't he? Peter asks who the cheerleader is and Isaac has no idea because he was high when he painted everything. He starts coughing and it looks like he's going through a bit of withdrawal.
He starts yammering about how he could have gotten clean, but he didn't, because he wanted answers, so he lost Simone, and then he asked for answers and all he got was a bunch of garbage. He points to the painting on the floor of the bomb going off. "It's nothing," he finishes. "Some cheerleader. It's nothing. I ruined my life for nothing." Peter concentrates on an unfinished canvas on an easel. It appears to be the foreboding shadow man/monster standing over something with his shadow bleeding off into the corner of the canvas, ending in a large blank spot. "It's not nothing," says Peter. "Look, don't you get it? Everything is connected. We are all connected. If this thing that you painted, if this bomb is true? We're all dead." He points at the paintings. "These are the key to saving us. Something's gonna happen to this girl. We need to know what. You have to finish this. You have to finish the painting."
Isaac says that, even if he wanted to, he couldn't finish it, because he's out of drugs and he's also out of money to buy drugs. Peter asks if he can't just finish it without shooting up and Isaac just starts to ask Peter for money. "We can call it a commission," he says, acting all shifty and druggie again. Peter just sighs and looks back at the blank corner. He concentrates on it and suddenly, there are subtle flashes on the canvas and the painting starts to appear finished to him. He realizes that he can finish the painting. He grabs some paints and a brush. Isaac asks if he can paint, and Peter says he can't. He takes off his sweater and damn, if his floopy bangs aren't all sorts of adorable when tousled. Yummy. He goes on to say that he drew the future the other day after meeting Isaac and what he drew came true. Peter looks at the canvas and closes his eyes. As Isaac watches, Peter's demeanor changes and he grows calm. His eyes slowly open, revealing that same white film that Isaac gets when he's having visions. Peter "looks" at the canvas and starts to paint with his left hand, which is a nice touch, considering that Peter is actually right-handed and Isaac is left-handed.