And I shall continue on with Claire ...

Claire and West have gotten closer over the progression of this early part of the is season; they're relationship going from antagonism to full on puppy-love romance with a bit of Superman fantasy playing thrown in.  (Come on, who didn't immediately think Superman and Lois Lane taking that first flight together?)    With the revelation that a man with Horn-Rimmed Glasses (HRG anyone?) had kidnapped West some time ago and left him with a two pronged scar on his shoulder and no memory of how it happened, Claire begins the slippery slope of not trusting her father.  Which is sort of understandable; how can you trust someone who makes a life of lying, even if it is for your own protection?

The resulting mistrust gives West the opportunity to convince Claire to take advantage of their powers and pull a prank on the head cheerleader, Debbie.

Claire gets a drunken Debbie alone and West, dressed in black and wearing a ski mask, flies up behind Claire and attacks.  He carries Claire into the sky and drops her onto a set of steps, appearing to kill her.  Debbie, being a normal human being and considerably intoxicated, freaks out and calls the police.  When the police arrive, they find no evidence of the horrifying event Debbie had described to them.  And just to pound those nails into the coffin of Debbie's social standing, Claire shows up and refutes Debbie's seemingly insane story.

OK, I cannot even begin to express how big of a problem I have with this.  Seriously, Claire has gone from saving the world to punking cheerleaders.  Now there's a practical use for her powers.  Oh yes, that makes complete sense  You can't see it, but I'm rolling my  eyes.

This brings us to a familiar character: HRG.  And I'm going to take another moment to express my love for this character.  This show has a habit of taking characters, and, with a single reveal, turn them into characters I just adore. For most of season one, I could not stand HRG, and now, he is one of my favourite characters.

HRG's latest mission takes him and the Haitian to the Ukraine.  There they corner a man who knows the location of the missing paintings done by the late Isaac Mendez.  It is soon revealed that the man not only works for the Company, but was once HRG's mentor as well.  HRG threatens the man with the removal of the man's memories of his family (and even carries out the threat with the help of the Haitian) if he does not tell them the location of the missing paintings.

At the last moment, the man tells them where the paintings are stored, but not before asking HRG to return to the Company and making a threat of his own: if he goes after the paintings, HRG will be putting his family danger from the Company.  HRG responds with "I know" and shoots the Ukrainian in the head.  I tell you, I totally didn't see that one coming.
  I mean I should have, seeing as HRG has done it before in the season finale where he shot Eric Roberts' character.  Crazy.

Now let's go to Ireland. In previous episodes this season we find Peter in a cargo box in Ireland with no memory of who he is and what he can do.  He, of course, eventually finds out and it is revealed to the audience that he as a few extra powers we hadn't known him to possess before.  He also meets an attractive brunette named Caitlin who runs a pub with her brother.  It was her brother who discovered him in said cargo box.  Peter and Caitlin, fall for each other.  (Can you blame her?  He walks around shirtless at times!).  Unfortunately, the Irish accents are fairly forced and painful to hear.  I felt like I was being subjected to his particular storyline rather than being interested.

After some time in Ireland, a young woman named Elle, who has the ability to shoot blue electricity from her hands, played by Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars fame, is sent to find and kill Peter.  What happens instead is she kills Caitlin's brother while Peter is hiding out in Caitlin's loft.  Later, Elle climbs into her car and calls someone she refers to as "Dad" and informs him that she has not yet found Peter. 

In the mean time at Caitlin's loft, Peter finds that she paints as a hobby and Peter's dormant ability to paint the future bubbles to the surface.  The result is a painting of Peter and Caitlin in front of a building in Montreal, Canada.  Or, at least thats the conclusion they come to after seeing street signs in French.  This the point in the episode where I rolled my  eyes so hard I nearly fell off my chair.  I mean, seriously, there aren't any other cities in the world where street signs are in French? I would have thought of Paris, or any other city in France for that matter, before I came to the conclusion of Montreal especially since there were no Canadian flags in the picture.  But maybe that's just me.

Peter and Caitlin determine that it means they must go to Montreal to find out what secrets are there, and they hope it will lead to Peter's past.  When they arrive in Montreal, they find a lot of old furniture in storage and no one around.  But then Peter spies a piece of paper with Peter's name on it taped to a mirror.  On the back of the paper is a note written by the mysterious Adam Munroe, whose name was on the file in Bob's office.  The note said that the Company could not be trusted.  My guess is that Peter met Adam some time during that missing four months.

Peter goes on to say that he wishes he could remember what happened in his past, which leads me to believe that his emo hair was, in fact, no the source of his emo abilities as I had first thought.

Peter and Caitlin then embrace and part only to find themselves in New York City, which is abandoned.  According to a city-wide evacuation order they find, it is June 2008, and the city is abandoned.  How intriguing! 

An that is the conclusion of this week's review.

Or is it?