Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jump, Die and Fail
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.21.2009
Matt wants to question a suspect about something. Rick Worthy isn't sure he should, but Matt assures him he's doing okay. Matt goes into the room to find out the drug supplier of the guy he's questioning, but then Sylar appears and starts taunting Matt again. He tells Matt to use his powers if all he wants is a name, and Matt says -- OUT LOUD -- "I don't do that anymore." The suspect is like, "Don't do what?" And Matt snits, "I'm not talking to you." Well, that would be the suspect's mistake, thinking you're talking to him when there is no one else in the room. Sylar continues to try to get Matt to use his powers, and ends up saying that Janice is having sex with the water boy. Which doesn't mean she is, of course. This is all in Matt's head, after all. Sylar's like, "Come on, she's done it before, and she needs a real man who's not afraid to use powers." Matt throws a chair at Sylar and calls him a sonofabitch, who is right behind the suspect, so it goes just over his head and hits the wall behind him. He cowers and gives Matt a name as Rick Worthy runs in all, "This is your definition of 'okay'?"
Peter's partner crawls into the ambulance with him and makes small talk. He looks at Peter, who looks happier than ever to me, and asks, "Are you okay?" I'm not sure where that came from, but maybe Milo Ventimiglia was supposed to be acting like something was wrong, so it really isn't the other guy's fault? Or the script's? I don't know, though, because Milo's pretty good at looking distressed. Peter's fine, in fact he's eating clam chowder from a place in Boston. The partner's like, "How'd you get it down here?" Peter says he knows a guy, and Partner chuckles. There's a call on the radio, and Partner wants to ignore it, since there's five minutes until they're on duty, but Peter dashes out while the Partner's not looking. Peter shows up and it's Bennet, all slashed up. Peter tells him to hang on, and Bennet whispers, "They took the compass."
Tracy shows up at the hospital to visit Bennet. He tells her he looks worse than he feels. So he must feel great, because he doesn't look bad at all. Tracy says he called her, and she figured she owed it to him, so she's here. Bennet tells her about the key leading to the compass. Tracy wonders if he's going after the guy with the knives. He doesn't know, because he prefers the old way of business, with one hero and one non-hero. It's too dangerous for him alone. Tracy thinks maybe the knife guy is like her, just looking for a way to get his life back. She offers that maybe the best thing isn't to stop them, but to figure out a way to help them. He says, "Maybe." Tracy asks him, really, why did he call. He says he couldn't call his wife, then corrects himself and says ex-wife, and he didn't want to worry Claire (no mention of Lyle, of course), so he called her. Because he's lonely. She gets that he doesn't want to be alone. She finds clam chowder in a bag by his bed, and says it looks like he has someone looking out for him. They share the chowder, and I can't tell if it's supposed to be a new friendship forming or a romance. If it's romance, I will be more annoyed at this show than at any other time. And I actually stopped watching it for all of season three and caught up later, so it has definitely annoyed me in the past.