Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B | 236 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT "What Would Bennet Do?"
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2009.11.09
Gretchen's packing in the dorm room with the door wide open when Claire shows up. She wonders why she's packing (and doesn't mention the door that she told her to keep locked), and Gretchen says she's going home -- maybe forever. Claire says she told her she was going to handle it, but Gretchen says baby powder doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Claire says she knows, which is why she called her dad. She says Gretchen's too important to her and she doesn't want to lose her. The Haitian comes in, and Claire explains that he can keep Becky from being invisible. Gretchen says she's sorry, but her flight's booked. She's scared and Claire doesn't understand because Becky's not after her since she can't get hurt. Gretchen leaves as Claire cries that everything's going to be fine, since she and her dad have done this a thousand times. Gretchen says this is Claire's everyday life, not hers; she's just not like her. Gretchen leaves, and Claire asks the Haitian to stay with her until she's on the plane. She cries as he leaves. I think he is going to wipe Gretchen, but that's just a theory. Claire cries, but only for a moment before Samuel knocks on her door. She asks if she can help him, and he says, "Possibly. Hopefully." Commercials.
When we return, Samuel apologizes for the awkward situation. He introduces himself and says he's here looking for his niece, Rebecca. Becky. Claire wonders why she'd know who his niece is, and he says Becky told him who she is -- that she's special, like him. He says he knows Claire's wondering who this guy is and how he knows about her, and that it's hard for Claire to trust anyone in this world, being one of us. She asks why she should trust him, and he says she shouldn't -- at least not until she hears him out. But he might have some answers for her. She looks skeptical.
Bennet's looking through things in Becky's room. He finds one of Samuel's compasses in the closet when the door opens and closes. He pulls out his taser gun, and starts talking. He says he had a partner like her once and knows that 10,000 volts of electricity should do the trick. And then some. He doesn't want to have to use it. She materializes and asks him why she finds that hard to believe.