Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 148 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Coming Together
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2010.01.11
In the Florida swamps, Hiro speaks nonsense, and Suresh says he's had enough of it, and has half a mind to leave Hiro here after what he did to him. Ando tells him not to talk to Hiro like that, because he has very little time left and chose to spend it rescuing Mohinder. He asks what "very little time" means, and Ando explains the brain tumor. Dogs and orderlies approach, and Hiro says, "The storm troopers and the Ewoks! Hurry!" They run off as the orderlies and dogs chase them. We get the scene of them running through a jungle from the montage before hiatus. As they run, they talk about how someone might unscramble Hiro's brain at the mental hospital. Suresh stops and tells Ando to use his red lightning power on Hiro like electroshock therapy. Ando's worried, since Hiro saw Ando kill him with red lightning in the future. Suresh logically asks, "Was it in Florida?" And since it wasn't, Ando zaps Hiro back into teleporting shape and he says they must stop Samuel Sullivan, then gets them the hell out of there right as the dogs arrive where they've stopped. Commercials, including Masi Oka encouraging us to get regular health screenings.
Dorms. HRG walks up to Claire's door, where her white board says, "Math study group." It was apparently an attempt to make us feel like she's an actual student, but it's a failure because we all know those boards are for notes about parties, not study groups. Anyway, he knocks and she answers, with a pretty cute and surprised, "Dad?" He says he was just in the neighborhood, but then admits that he actually just got back from California. He says he knows she's mad, and he's okay with that. He doesn't want to try to talk her out of it or convince her of anything. She interrupts and asks what he's doing here; if he's all right. He says he's great actually (really?!), but he's just thinking about bridges that connect us to the people and things we love and need in our lives. He says they're built on trust, and he's torched most of them. "I'm just hoping that the one that connects me to you can still be repaired." Claire looks mildly touched, but says she's sorry, but she does have something she's late for. He says that's fine, and asks if she needs a lift to this thing she's late for. She doesn't. They say goodbye, and he leaves, but she goes back into her dorm room and shuts the door. Not exactly what one does when they're late for something, is it?