Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.12.2009
just to be a sec. But in the hall, Leo tells her they have an ID, based on Sylar's fingerprints. Uh-oh.Hospital. Peter's walking around looking for someone or something. I'll guess Emma. But he gets distracted by a room full of little kids singing the theme song to Greatest American Hero, which is a pretty funny shout out. It's not the singing that's distracted Peter, though -- or at least not the sound of it. It's the rainbow of colors the singing is producing. He's all happy and smiling and glowy, as if this isn't the stupidest power he could possibly have if he ever needs to, I don't know, save the world or anything. Somehow I find it adorable, though, when he and Emma see each other from across the room and realize they're both looking at the rainbow ghosts coming out of the music. She motions to ask him if he can see it, and he makes a face that's like, "Duh. Who doesn't?" He smiles at her cutely, and I like it in spite of my better judgment.
After commercials, they find each other and he starts talking to her, asking if she also saw the colors. She finally admits she's deaf, and he wonders if she reads lips. She does, so he tells her he must have gotten her ability on the street. She doesn't get what ability means, so he tells her there are people, like them, who have abilities: They can fly, teleport, read minds. She thinks she's misunderstanding, so he writes it down. She still thinks it's crazy, so he asks, "Is it?" and plays the piano. The sound is blue. But, again, I must ask: HOW IS THIS A POWER OR ABILITY? Peter plays the piano and they both admire his beautiful blue sounds. She joins in, and her notes are green. They mingle in the air, and it becomes a rainbow. They like each other, but how could this relationship ever go anywhere? Peter will end up with this stupid power every time he touches her. They finish playing and she wonders why her, why now. He doesn't know, but suggests they get lunch tomorrow, to figure it out and get her out of the file room. She starts to agree until he insults the file room, and then she says she likes it there, and storms off. He sighs, frustrated. And, seriously, why is she so sensitive about the files?
Claire finally shows up at the sorority mixer, where Becky greets her. She's glad she came back, and Claire goes on about how it's good to expand her social circle. So Becky introduces her to someone else, who also used to be a cheerleader. It's the same girl who knew Claire was from Texas at the mixer. They make boring small talk about why they both hated cheerleading, and then a flag pole falls down between them. Claire pushes the other girl out of the way so it doesn't spike her, but it also doesn't get Claire, luckily. She looks up and sees Gretchen on the floor above, where the flag fell from. Claire walks off, annoyed.
Warden Leo comes into Sylar's interrogation room and tells him Dr. Gibson is gone, since they brought her here to find out who he is but they know now: He's Gabriel, a watchmaker from Queens who murdered his mother. Sylar's like, "Did you say 'watchmaker'?" Which is hilarious, because you'd think that's not the part an amnesiac would focus on in that sentence. Warden Leo agrees, and says, "I also said 'murder' and 'mother.'" He orders Sylar to put his hands on the table. Sylar says he'd never kill his mother. Oh, but you would, Sylar. Among so many other evil deeds. Don't worry, though, because in the future you become nice and have a baby and think you're Peter's brother (yeah, I'm still annoyed that they showed us futures that obviously will never happen; am I the only one?) Leo turns the camera off in the interrogation room and says he's going to do some real interrogating. He says he's going to throw Sylar down a hole forever, and Sylar lifts his hands and throws Warden Leo through the glass with his mind powers. He looks surprised at himself as an alarm sounds and we go to commercial. First up, the latest episode of the carnies mini-series Slow Burn, which has something to do with Lydia the Tattooed Lady and her daughter, who's burning up her room. They're talking on Sprint phones, which I think is the actual advertisement here.
Dr. Gibson's getting in her car and looking at Gabriel Gray's file. It says he's wanted for murder. All the lights go off around her and then Sylar's banging on her window. She wonders what he's doing, and he says she promised she'd help him. He keeps banging on the window in desperation. She looks like she can't decide whether to let the known killer into her car. Because she's trained in psychiatry and all. Claire and Gretchen, meanwhile, are bickering in their dorm room about whether Gretchen dropped the flag pole on Claire and her friend. Claire thinks Gretchen wanted to out her power to everyone, but Gretchen swears she wouldn't do that. Claire admits she saw all of the stalker stuff on Gretchen's computer, but says she wasn't stalking because a book fell and turned on her computer. Gretchen doesn't think it's such a big deal that she Googled her, but Claire also saw the stuff about Annie on there. Claire asks if Gretchen can honestly say she had nothing to do with Annie's death. Gretchen accuses her of being paranoid, but Claire says this isn't paranoid; it's a pattern. She brings up the Annie thing, the computer, the accident tonight, the speed-dating. Gretchen says Claire's just more interesting to talk about than her, which doesn't make it any less creepy. Gretchen says she's actually not stalking Claire, it's just ... and she kisses her. She says she just has a crush. Claire looks shocked and then the Psi Alphas interrupt to offer them both a bid into the sorority. Claire smiles.
Carnival. Lydia the Tattooed Lady thinks it's getting a little late to try to figure out who's going to join the family. Samuel: "Says you," and sticks his pen to her back, which reveals nothing. They both say "nothing," and then he throws his ink cloth, which is caught in mid-air by something we can't see. Samuel knows who it is, though, and says, "Hello, Rebecca." She reveals herself, and it's Becky from Psi Alpha. She tells her "Uncle Samuel" that she's missing bid night. He thinks they can go a night without her, and asks how things are going with Claire: Is Rebecca doing all she can to isolate Claire and push her in their direction. Becky says she feels like all she does is push, and we flashback: She was invisible next to Gretchen, and dropped the flagpole knowing Claire would think it's Gretchen. The best part is that we get to relive the boring cheerleading conversation between Claire and her new sorority sister. Becky also knocked the book off Gretchen's shelf and onto her computer so Claire would see the Googling. Then she stood by smiling as Claire realized what a stalker her roommate is. Most revealingly, Becky pushed Annie out the window when all Annie was doing was leaning out to open it. Not sure how she made it look like a "jump" rather than "push," from a scientific perspective. Then, when Claire came home, Becky was still invisible and hadn't put the fake suicide note on Annie's pillow yet, which explains Claire's discrepancy with the cop. Back to the present, Samuel wonders if Claire's on the way to them now. Lydia says no, it's not her yet, but she does think his dust has finally settled. He looks at Lydia's back and orders Rebecca back to campus, because it looks like they're pulling up stakes.
At night on a windy road, Dr. Gibson's speeding Sylar to safety from the police, apparently. He's hunkerin