Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: D- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Invisible Forces
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.26.2009
n his iPod sound like that. Gil says that any kid at school will tell you that Jeremy also kills animals. For fun. HRG wonders if gossip is now being considered evidence. Bennet, Bennet, I believe they call it "witness testimony," not "gossip." Cornpone Sheriff says there's something wrong with Jeremy, and this proves it, so he's keeping him right here for now.Outside, Tracy's on the phone telling someone that they haven't charged Jeremy and have only circumstantial evidence, at best. She tells Dennis (whoever that is) that she's calling in a favor. She thanks him and hangs up. When she does, Samuel's standing there in a black trench coat. He says it sounds like she's shaking things up in there. He thinks the place could use it, from the looks of the place. He asks how a girl like her ends up in a place like this, and she scoffs he's going to have to do better than that to hit on the likes of her. He says his name's Samuel, and all he wonders is what's next if she's here to save Jeremy's life? She looks puzzled that he knows what she's doing here. He asks if she's going to take him somewhere to live, and as he asks that, the camera swirls around them and the dusty town turns into the carnival. He finishes: "... Or where he belongs?" She asks what he did, and he says it's all right: "I'm a friend, Tracy." She's sort of freaked, but he says it's safe here, because they're all like her. She asks what this place is, and he says, "Home." She looks around as we get the faintest hint of the awesome theme music we miss so much. Commercials.
Dank slaughterhouse. They come to a fork in the hall and wonder, "Slaughter floor? Or operations center?" Um, may I vote operations center? There are probably phones there. Or at least an exit. No sorority is worth this, especially when you don't even really want to be in it at all. Snotty and Ditzy take off toward "operations center," after one last snotty comment to Claire and Gretchen, who head downstairs to the slaughter floor. Since there are pools of water on the floor, we see Becky's footsteps follow them down. Claire asks Gretchen how long she's known. Gretchen: "What? That I really don't want to be in this sorority?" My thoughts exactly. So, possibly consider leaving the slaughterhouse then, so that we don't have to suffer through this storyline? No? Okay. It was worth a shot. But Claire meant the whole liking girls thing. Gretchen says Claire makes it sound like something she has to declare, like her major. Claire says she's jealous that Gretchen's already figured herself out. Gretchen says she isn't sure about that; she's actually had more boyfriends than girlfriends. Like, six or seven more. Then she asks Claire if she's a virgin. Claire is, so Gretchen says, "Wow! We could not be more different. Maybe we're strange attractors." Well, they have the strange part right, at least. Gretchen explains that it's a physics thing where particles end up together that don't really belong, but when they're together they're super powerful. "Sort of like we could be. Or not." Gretchen turns around and looks at Claire, who's focused on something going on behind the bloody sheets of plastic Gretchen's now standing in front of. Gretchen tells Claire not to tell her she's freaked out now, and she charges on through the bloody plastic. She says it's "just more lameness," just as a big heavy chain and hook comes hurtling toward her. Claire pushes her down and lands on top of her. She tells Gretchen she's starting to think this isn't a game. Kidnapping? Slaughterhouse? Nah, Claire, it's totally a typical game.
Carnival. Samuel keeps making his sales pitch to Tracy, about how Jeremy could be accepted here, surrounded by family. They walk up to a fire-breather and Samuel asks if she remembers the first time she experienced her gift. Tracy: "Gift might be a little generous." He says the entire universe was coursing through her, and that wasn't just her ability. She was tapping into something greater than herself. She looks around, as he goes on that they're all connected. He gets a feeling every time someone joins the family. He says this is where Jeremy should be, and Tracy gets judgy: "What? Living in trailers? Drifting from town to town?" He reminds her that what she's going to have to do is give him a false name and a false life. He shouldn't have to be invisible (figuratively, I guess, since he'd sometimes be literally invisible at the carnival), so he should come home. He says Tracy could join him, since Samuel knows she's been lost, too. She tells him that's enough, and to take her back now. Sylar's in the distance, wearing a striped shirt and a straw fedora. He's clearly embraced the carnival life. He even appears to be picking a flea off his back when he notices Tracy. Obviously, his Nathan memories are kicking in and he recognizes her. Samuel gives Tracy a compass that he says will help her find her way back. He sends her off with Lydia, and then Sylar approaches him and says he knew her, and held her in his arms while he was flying. Samuel says they already talked about this: The memories he's having aren't his. Sylar wonders whose they are then, and then gives us the most obvious transition in the history of television: "And if the real me isn't in here ... where am I?"
Parkman house. Janice comes in on Matt packing a bag and asks what he's doing. He says he has to leave, because it's not safe for her or Matty with him here since someone else can control his body. She asks why he always does this, and says they're just getting close and wonders why he wants to blow everything up again. Matt tells her he did a horrible thing, and Sylon's all, "This ought to be good." Matt continues that he used his abilities to push one man's memories into another man's head. Sylon: "Yeah! My head." He starts to tell Janice, but she can't hear Sylon, of course. Janice didn't even know Matt could do that, and he says he didn't really either, but he had to do it to get rid of this "really bad criminal." Sylon: "That's not very nice. How quick to label." Or at least his mind, and now his consciousness is rattling around up in Parkman's head. Sylon: "Well, there's so much space." Matt snaps, "Will you just shut up?!" at Sylon, and Janice starts to cry, not understanding what's going on. Matt tells her he can get rid of Sylon, but he has to go find the answer. He says he can fix this. Janice tells Matt he should stay here to work things out, and she'll take Matty and go and stay... Matt shouts, "Don't! Don't tell me where you're going." He doesn't want Sylon to hear. She says okay, kisses him, tells him she loves him, and leaves. Sylon groans that was pretty smart, even for Parkman (I'm not going to point out the literal meaning of that grammatically incorrect sentence, but I am tempted), to not let her say where she's going. Sylon: "But you still haven't figured out how to get rid of me, genius!" Evil laughter leads us to commercials.
Matt's on the phone when we get back from commercials. Leaving a message for Mohinder! OMG. They remember he exists. Matt says, "I have no idea where you are." That makes six million of us (or however many are still watching at this point). He pleads for him to call hi back. Then he swigs some beer, and Sylon's like, "Mohinder? How's he going to help you? He's probably still working on his fath-uh's ree-such." (That's my attempt at Sylon's impersonation of Mohinder, which is amusing.) Matt tries to ignore Sylon, but Sylon is pesky and just won't leave. He tells Parkman to forget it and just give him back his body already. Matt drinks again and Sylon experiences physical pain. Sylon keeps talking, but stops in pain every time Matt drinks. Parkman realizes the alcohol's hurting him, so he pounds the beer, screaming for Sylon to stop him from drinking if he can control him. Then he moves on to the harder stuff, and says, "I think I've finally found a leash for this dog." Oh, Matt, this is how alcoholism begins, don't you know? Trying to silence the demons in your head.
Back in Georgia, Jeremy's still in his cell when Tracy returns. HRG tells her that her guy, Dennis, came through and made all the arrangements to get Jeremy out of here. Tracy's a little shaken from her carnival experience but pretends she's okay and just wants to get Jeremy out. They tell him he's getting out and he wonders who he's going to live with. HRG says he's set up a new identity for him and he'll live in his apartment building and go to Georgetown High School. No one will know what he can do, and he'll learn to control his ability with Tracy's help. But he can't tell anyone; that's the only way. Jeremy wonders what if something happens, and Tracy tells him nothing will. He'll be safe. He'll be invisible. She looks torn. Jeremy sighs.
Slaughterhouse. Gretchen tells Claire that this is just a sorority game, and they wouldn't have brought them here to kill them. I mean, like, who's ever heard of anything getting killed in a slaughterhouse, right? Gretchen asks how that thing would have moved toward them since no one was there, other than just coincidence. Claire says there are a million ways in her world. Such as telekinesis. She says she's seen it, and knows someone who has it. Gretchen asks if there's another one of Claire here at the slaughterhouse, and is bored and playing a college prank on her. Claire says it's not a prank. Gretchen asks if Claire thinks they're trying to kill her, and Claire says, "Not me." Gretchen: "Then who?" Claire turns and looks at her,