Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B | 38 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Ballad Of Charlie And Hiro
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2006.11.13
Eden opens the door to Isaac's room, where the patient sits with his knees up and his ankles crossed, looking much younger and very vulnerable. Eden introduces "Mr. Bennet, the man [she told him] about." Isaac doesn't answer. Bennet gives Isaac a hearty hello; when it goes unanswered, he gestures toward Isaac's sketchbook and asks, "Drawing anything interesting?" Isaac flips through the pages, sighing in frustration: "It's nothing." "Oh, you know that's not true," says Bennet, with his trademark kindness/threat. "You have the ability to paint the future. That's something. Something very important." "Feels like a curse," says Isaac trepidatiously. "No, it's a blessing," says Bennet paternally. "Don't let anybody tell you differently [sic]." Isaac looks from Bennet to Eden, who's standing back near the door. "We're gonna help you understand that," adds Bennet. Isaac says he's grateful that Eden and Bennet are helping him: "I'm just not sure why." Bennet, gazing steadily into Isaac's eyes, confesses, "To be 100% honest with you, I need your help." I want to believe that this episode will find Bennet being "100% honest," but for some reason I am not so sure.
In Midland, as Laura Bush drives her Explorer into a bank window, pinning helpless customers against a back wall by their broken spines (I think that scene was cut for time), Sylar threateningly sips coffee and watches as Charlie checks on Hiro and Ando, now tucking into their meals. After Charlie moves away, Hiro excuses himself to the restroom.
In a store room, Charlie takes an industrial-sized can of food (I think it's fruit salad) off a shelf and opens it with some kind of giant can opener. While she does so, with difficulty, there is what the captions identify as "muffled clinking" around her; she looks around a bit, but doesn't seem overly concerned about it (since there is certainly lots of clinking involved in running a diner at the best of times). But presently we see a bead of blood running down her temple, and then another down her nose, and then she falls over, and we feel kind of bummed, because Charlie seemed quite lovely.
Out on the restaurant floor, Ando is "enjoying" his cottage cheese plate when he is suddenly interrupted by a loud crash. Another waitress goes to investigate, and Ando kind of shrugs and takes another bite, and then the waitress screams, and we see her backing out of the store room in terror. Officers Grey and Black leap up to see what's happened; Grey steps into the room, but we don't get a full view of what he sees -- just see a pool of blood and Charlie's arm. As the waitress sobs, Ando gets up to see what the commotion is. Officer Grey comes back out and unsteadily tells Officer Black, "Charlie. She's dead." Black puts on a determined look and heads for the store room himself. At just this unfortunate moment, Hiro emerges from the men's room, beaming and rubbing his palms together in anticipation of spending more time with Charlie. Ando reaches out to touch his arm reassuringly. Poor Hiro!