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
...that leads to a dark alley in New York; you can tell by the police sirens. Chandra is sitting in the driver's seat when a pair of hands -- apparently belonging to Sylar -- smash through the partition, grab Chandra by the head, and...you know, kill him up. DreaMohinder runs toward the car, trying to intervene, but it's a dream, so he can't. He starts crying, "Stop! Stop!" as if at his father's assailant, but then he just stands up straight and squeezes his eyes shut, repeating, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" as if to his conscious self. When he opens his eyes, he's still in New York, but the taxi is gone, replaced with the soccer kid, who holds out his fist to DreaMohinder. DreaMohinder walks toward the kid -- getting ready to give him dap, I guess -- but the kid turns his fist palm side up and opens his fingers to reveal the key. Shocker! DreaMohinder takes it...
...and then Mohinder wakes up in the office at the university. He finds the wee book, flips it to the back cover, and pulls out the key, staring at it like it's the Ark of the damn Covenant. Dude? It's a key. It's not even a special, cool-looking, old-timey key. It actually looks like the key to my back door. My mystical back door of mystery and genetics, that is!
At Primatech, Bennet emerges into the hallway we first saw, outside the elevator, where he's greeted by Claire. He exposits that she never visits him at work, and she tells him about a banner she needs for the school trophy case, requiring a super-long piece of paper: "And Jackie was all, 'We don't have paper that big! They don't make paper that big!' So I thought I'd stop by and try to be a hero!" They cutely goof around in a realistic daddy-daughter way -- Bennet hesitates like it's a huge favour she's asking, Claire holds her breath waiting for his answer -- and then he relents: "Well, if it'll make you a hero and maybe knock Jackie down a few notches, we might be able to find something that'll work." They fondly throw their arms around each other but have only proceeded a few steps down the hall when Eden comes out a side door and reacts with not-at-all-concealed terror and shock at the sight of Claire, like, smooth move, secret operative, not. Eden apologizes for interrupting them, telling Bennet they "have a little situation." You'd think Claire would be like, "What, some of the paper turned back into trees?," but Bennet casually directs her down the hall to the sample room, and Claire takes off without Bennet's having to make any introductions. Once she's gone, Bennet's like, "Well, you're uninvited to the black-ops Christmas party," and Eden immediately apologizes again, saying she didn't know Claire would be there, and explaining the situation: "It's not working. He can't do it."