By DeAnn Welker
If you're here to find out what happened after last week's cliffhanger (it did end with "To be continued..."), you're out of luck. Most of last week's characters have taken the week off, so that Tracy and Parkman can enjoy a little time in the spotlight..
Bennett's still around, and he's still trying to help poor healer Jeremy. Unfortunately, he gets arrested by a bunch of rednecks, who are sure he killed his parents (they're right) and want to make him pay. They're not releasing him to anyone other than the of kin, either. That's when Noah calls Tracy, and she pretends she's Jeremy's aunt. It takes a lot of arguing with the hick sheriff, but it almost works until someone attacks Jeremy and he uses his healing power to kill him. It doesn't seem that accidental, and even when Noah pleads with him to heal the guy, he doesn't. He just turns himself in. And then some even more redneck cops take him out back and drag him behind a car. Because, you know, that's what rednecks in Georgia do to people who are different. While Tracy's trying to help Jeremy, she gets a visit from Samuel, who shows her where home is and gives her a compass. At the end of the episode, she tells Noah never to call her again and then looks at the compass. Samuel razes the police department for what they did to Jeremy. I can't even tell whose side I'm supposed to be on at this point.
Which is true in every storyline this week, because Parkman (who?!) and his Sylon are both equally annoying, as usual. Sylon somehow takes over Parkman's body and has mind-blowing sex with Janice. This pisses Matt off, so he drinks Sylon away. Really. Then, when he wakes up, he's no longer Parkman. He's Sylon in Parkman's body, and Parkman is Sylon's Sylon. Janice and Rick Worthy can tell he's losing it, but there's not much they can do. I suggest they run off together and leave Sylon and Parkman to grow old together.
Finally, there's the Halloween-themed portion of the episode, in which Samuel's nice, Becky, takes the sorority's four pledges to a slaughterhouse so they can compete to see who doesn't have to participate in Hell Week. The real reason they're there, though, is so Becky can be invisible and try to kill Gretchen. Claire figures it out, and -- though she ends up skewered -- reveals Becky by hurting her while she's invisible. All of the pledges see her before she gets invisible again and run off. They also see Claire heal, though. I'm guessing that's going to be a problem for HRG. A word to all sorority pledges, though: If you are going through initiation and you are ever scared for your life, LEAVE. You don't have to win the competition and you don't have to join the sorority. That was what made the whole storyline so annoying. That and Gretchen. Oh, and Claire's a lesbian now. She needs Gretchen. But the show doesn't, considering it didn't even have time for Peter or Hiro this week.
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