Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dawn Of The Dead Dads
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.18.2007
Back in the present, Matt pays a visit to Angela in prison. "If you visit me one more time, Detective Parkman," she smiles, "I'll expect you to make an honest woman of me." Heh. I'm no expert, but I think Angela would eat Parkman for breakfast and pick his remains out of her teeth with one of his femurs. Matt sits opposite her and says that he plans on doing just that -- making an honest woman out of her. She wordlessly scoffs at him for attempting to read her mind. "I knew your father when he could do it," she says out loud, "and I'm even less impressed with you." "Those marks on your face," says Matt. "My father made you do that to yourself, didn't he? Did you know him when his mind became something more? When pull became push and he realized he could put a thought into anyone else's head?" Angela's smirk is wiped from her face. "Don't do this," she cautions. Too late. Matt thinks at her, "You are going to answer every question I have, truthfully." He sits down and asks who really killed Kaito. Angela tries to resist, but she has to do what he's told her to, and she finally spits that Adam did it. Matt then asks why they locked Adam up thirty years ago. She says that it was because he was dangerous. Matt asks why and she says it was because he wasn't just regenerative -- he basically stopped growing old. He's become the world's youngest four-hundred-year-old Hero. Angela goes on to say that Adam wants revenge for their locking him up, and that he won't stop until every last ElderHero is dead. "All of you are except you, [Tobby], my dad, and this woman," he says, pointing to Joanna Cassidy in the photo. "Who is this woman?" Angela begs Matt not to do this, but he won't stop. He wants the truth. Angela glares at him: "The truth is that our generation mortgaged our souls to protect yours. Show a little respect for that! Get over your daddy issues and leave us be!" Matt says that all he wants is to leave them the hell alone, but that this woman is out there, and Adam wants her dead, so he has to do what he can to save her. Angela grips the arms of the chair and fights against the compulsion to tell Matt the whole story as he pushes again at her mind. A rivulet of blood slowly drips out of her nostril. "All she wants is to be left alone," says Angela. "I made her a promise. If you take this secret from me, you're not just like your father. You ARE him."
Cut to the beach, where the exchange is pending. West, Bennet, and Elle all stand in front of Bennet's car as Bennet asks West what kind of car he drives. West is like, "Dude, in case you missed it, I don't NEED a car." Bennet's like, "Buddy, I know you can fly -- but when you're not scooting around the skies like Superman, what do you DRIVE?" West says that he drives a piece-of-crap SUV, and Bennet says that he drove a '52 Citroen back in the day. "Oh, those things are awesome," says West, as Elle rolls her eyes so far up into her skull that she can see the waves crashing on the beach behind them. The boys share a bonding moment over cars as Mohinder and Tobby pull up in the black van. As Tobby pulls Claire out, Bennet turns to West and basically lays out the entire plan RIGHT IN FRONT OF ELLE. Dude. She's tied up but she doesn't have soundproof HEADPHONES on! Do you think she can't HEAR you? The plan's not really all that elegant, though; it just involves West grabbing Claire the second she's on their side, and swooping her up up and away no matter what else happens. West agrees. Tobby shouts out that it doesn't have to be this way, but Bennet remains silent. So Tobby unlocks Claire's handcuffs and sends her on her way. She walks forward as Bennet pushes Elle ahead. Her hands are tied, but she doesn't appear to be wet, so I'm not really sure what insurance he has that she's not going to spark up.