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
At dinner at the Parkman home, Janice is going on and on about her law firm, and how some guy is totally gay, totally in denial, and totally married. Matt's not listening, because she's totally boring. She tells him his ratatouille is delicious, and then finally notices his silence. She asks if he left the house at all today. Oh, Janice, if you only knew. He asks if she thinks he's a coward, because he thinks he is. She wonders why, and he says he had the worst guy in the world living inside his head and didn't do a thing to go after him when he got rid of him. She says that's because he came home to her and Matty, where he belongs. Matt says he's let so many people down and gets up from the table. She wonders who, and Matt says, "Friends, people that I care about. I mean, I'm sitting here eating ratatouille instead of facing the world, doing something about the problems that I've caused." She says that's because he cares about his family, and calls him a "simple guy" (people love it when you call them that), that his family's his world and he should let the rest of it be. Elizabeth Lackey really lets her Australian accent seep through in this scene, which is completely distracting. She gets up and tells him there's nothing "cowahdly" about looking out for your family. She says he belongs home with them, okay? And he says, "Yeah." She thinks he's not full of shit and hugs him happily, but we all know he's about to join the good fight.
Carnival. Eli's guarding Vanessa, who looks pretty freaked out. Samuel comes out with tea, and apologizes that it's not five-star accommodations but to let him know if there's anything she needs. She says what she needs is to go home and that he can't just take her. He says he thought about the day she'd arrive for so long, but it wasn't supposed to be like this; it was supposed to be perfect. She asks what he's talking about, and he says Noah Bennet did a real number on her, got in her head, so he had to act. Vanessa: "By kidnapping me?!" Samuel says he'd hardly say that, so she points out he took her here against her will and won't let her lave; what would he call it? She gets up to leave, but he grabs her and pulls her close. She freezes as he kisses her neck then touches her face. He does some weird thing where he licks his finger and traces it along her face. He says he understand she's upset, and he gets why, but she'll understand soon, because there's something he wants her to see that is so magical, so beautiful. He says if she's still unhappy after he shows her, he'll take her right back to California. She wonders what he means by back to California and asks where they are. He just says it's so beautiful, Vanessa, wait 'til you see it. "It's perfect." She looks creeped out.