Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2006
After the ads, Niki and D.L. are waking up. They exchange some unimportant banter, and then he tells her she should get some sleep: "You didn't get much last night." Mistaking his meaning, she points out that she got as much as he did, to which he replies, "I heard you getting up, trying to be all quiet." Uh oh. Niki knows what this means, and she sits up, asking D.L., "I did? When?" She looks at the reflection of the bed in the mirrored closet doors, where she, of course, sees herself on D.L.'s left side, and ikiN snuggled up on his right. D.L. sits up, too, asking what's wrong, so that we can see how the mirror looks to him, and that ikiN isn't in it. Before she can (try to) explain, Micah shows up at the bedroom door and races into his father's embrace. Aw. That kid is too cute to deserve two such crappy parents.
In Brooklyn, Eden is playing with Li'l Mohinder -- the iguana, pervs -- as Regular Mohinder packs and tells her what we already know happened during Mohinder's time with Peter; Mohinder is apparently dismissing Peter as a loon. Eden exposits that Mohinder intends to return to India with his father's ashes (though she calls him "Papa Suresh" again, like, you're in your twenties; even Punky Brewster wasn't that twee). Mohinder cluelessly thanks Eden for everything she did for him (spied on him) and his father (probably nothing, other than invent a backstory), and Eden flirtatiously tells him she's sure he'll be back: "You're not done here. That's why I'm not even going to say goodbye." He does, though, and goes to peck her on the cheek, but she turns and makes out with him. Mohinder reluctantly makes for the door, looking back as Eden tells him she'll see him later. Things I knew about Mohinder before this scene: he is credulous. Things I learned about Mohinder from this scene: unless Nora Zehetner was kissing him while standing on a box, he is short.
D.L. and Micah enjoy some father-son time, bonding over a shared love of comic books (including 9th Wonders, natch). They kid and giggle until Leonard Roberts suddenly turns on a fucking dime and gets all serious, D.L. gravely telling Micah how sorry he is for "not being around." He asks how Niki is doing, and whether Micah is "looking after her" in D.L.'s absence. Micah -- like a biracial pre-teen Saffy -- wearily sighs that he's trying, and then asks how D.L. got out of prison. "Between you and me: I walked out," D.L. tells him. "How'd you do it?" Micah asks. "Ain't no jail can hold your old man," says D.L. "I got a secret." "Like Superman?" asks Micah. "Just like Superman," D.L. replies. On any other show, that would just be bravado, but...you know. Now it's just a matter of waiting the rest of the hour for him to do something fucking COOL.