Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D | 10 USERS: D- YOU GRADE IT Splat!
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 02.08.2010
Hospital. Hiro's going to go meet Charlie in 1944 and then take her back to the Burnt Toast Diner so they can build a life together. She says that sounds nice, but she already had a life, a wonderful life. She says 65 years is a long time, and a little girl runs in and calls her "Grandma." She says her mom and dad are talking to the nurse, so Charlie introduces "Sally" to Hiro. Sally thinks it's a funny name, then Charlie sends her to find her mom and dad to meet Hiro. Sally runs off and Charlie explains she married a wonderful man after the war and they had four children; she has seven grandchildren. They had a home, friends, memories, a life. Hiro looks sad as she asks what would happen with all that if she were to go back now and lead a different life. Okay, this timeline thing with her is so annoying, because I don't know anyone who is World War II age who has a ten-year-old grandchild, which Sally appeared to be. Well, actually, I do know someone like that, but it's only because their son married a much younger woman and had a child in his 50s. Why couldn't they have just sent her back to the '60s and made this all make more sense? Anyway, it doesn't matter, because Ando beckons Hiro out of the room to tell him HRG called and needs them. Now. Charlie's family (including a grandchild even younger than Sally, by the way) joins her and Hiro watches through the glass. He says the damsel has found a happy ending and the hero's journey has come to an end. He has no more quests. Ando says, "Really? Because Bennet found Samuel Sullivan. Destiny calls." Hiro blows a kiss at Charlie, as they both shed some tears. Then he echoes Ando's "Destiny calls" and teleports them away.
Backstage somewhere, Sylar's telling Doyle he doesn't want to hurt him. He asks him just to let her go, please. Doyle asks since when Sylar asks politely and asks if he's a shape shifter and it's really Dudley Do-Right in there. Sylar says he can't hold Emma here forever, and Doyle says he just needs to long enough for Samuel to finish the show, "Isn't that right, Em?" Then, "Oh. I don't think she heard me." But Doyle's focus on Sylar has released Emma, and she flashes her cello bow of color sound toward him, knocking him back. Sylar asks her if she's okay and then he uses his powers to pin Doyle down. Doyle begs, and says Samuel made him do it. Sylar says he thought Doyle was the puppet master. Doyle asks what Sylar cares about this girl anyway, and Sylar says he's here to save her. Doyle says that's not him; he's like him. Sylar: "No. I'm a hero." Man, Tim Kring really does want to make out with Sylar, doesn't he? But that's never going to happen as long as Peter lives and breathes.