- With the parents away celebrating their anniversary, JJ hosts a poker game to acquire some desired cash the superpower way, but no one's evening goes as planned.
- Jim and Stephanie plan a romantic evening away from the kids to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, but instead find themselves teaming up and using their superpowers to deal with a serial arsonist who is exhibiting some special powers of his own. Meanwhile, Daphne and JJ are left home alone and join forces to win some big money in a poker game with some fellow students.—ABC Publicity
- Jim (Michael Chiklis) and Stephanie (Julie Benz) have been married for 18 years, which means their marriage is old enough to vote and have sex, according to George (Romany Malco). That aside, Jim wants to keep the anniversary to remain criminal-free. But one fire engine siren later, and he's leaping to a huge fire with someone stuck inside. One leap later (and disocovering Jim's flame-proof as well as bullet-proof), he pulls a kid out but spots someone unusual among the onlookers.
As for the anniversary, Daphne (Kay Panabaker) would rather not have the 86-year-old Mrs. Cornbluth as a babysitter, so she insists on not needing one. In true-blue TV fashion, Stephanie is against, and Jim is too distracted to agree. He tells Stephanie about rescuing the kid from the burning building, and Katie (Autumn Reeser) is excited he is flame-retardant, just like the safe that holds her autographed picture of President Roslin from the Twelve Colonies. (Seriously, she's WAY too hot to be collecting that.) But JJ (Jimmy Bennett) sees this as an opportunity, as a couple of bullies from school need a place to play poker, and he volunteers his house. For once, Daphne is being the smarter one, warning JJ to not let them hang around, since she doesn't want to risk losing her car. Not to mention, JJ thinks poker is all about the probabilities.
Jim's present to Stephanie is a marble silhouette of two hands holding each other. Much easier to do now that he can shape marble any way he wishes. They're off to their anniversary night out, the kids couldn't care less, and George is upset that the same creepy guy Jim saw at the fire had been at two other ones but Jim doesn't care. Perhaps he should, as the guy setting the fires is doing it with his own superpowers.
Francis, the annoying scientist assigned to Stephanie's team, gets called into Dr. King's office. King (Stephen Collins) wants him to keep spying on Stephanie, and he thinks it's a waste of his time and talent. Dr. King shows him the door.
Stephanie asks Katie to interrupt her date with Will/The Watcher (Josh Stewart) to check on the kids, since she thinks this is the 1960's. But to her credit, she did get around the snooty hostess at the restaurant and moved their names up the list without anybody knowing. Except the name she bumped was someone who was proposing to his girlfriend. But they figured they could still have a romantic evening...until they come to the site of another fire and Jim sees the same creepy arsonist. Jim catches up to him, and it's on. The arsonist gets the drop on Jim by going max flame on him, but Stephanie finds them and takes the guy out with a pipe.
STEPHANIE: Happy Anniversary.
Jim's concerned, but suddenly Stephanie gets the whole "hero" thing Jim was trying to be. But then Jim tells her about the downsides of the job, such as avoiding the police and explaining what to do about the super-villians they come across.
JJ cleans up at the outset of his poker game, mainly because they were playing seven-card stud. They switch to five-card draw, and JJ gets cleaned out. And in an interesting twist, now JJ asks Daphne for help with the game. She is hesitant, until she reads the mind of one of the guys, who is as sleazy on the inside as he is on the outside. She's all-in, if you'll pardon the horrible play on words. They work out a signaling system, and he's back in the money. Except Katie shows up with Will. She'll take Daphne and JJ's word that they're fine, but Will wants to take a closer look. (Shocking!) Turns out it was the right call, as Katie was upset by the poker playing, and Will uses his Professor Xavier mental influence to get the guys to leave. While Katie berates Daphne and JJ about having company over without permission, Will looks through the house and finds a few clues, such as Stephanie's journal.
Jim brings Stephanie to George's lair, over his strenuous protests. But Jim wants this guy stopped before he charbroils whatever hospital the cops brought him to. George suggests going the legal route, as this man is only a suspected arsonist thus far, but Stephanie adds they can sedate him and keep him in the lab long enough for her to study the man's DNA to see if it's the same circumstances that changed theirs. First George has to get him out of being put in a lineup by Cordero, who has witnesses who can place the man at three of the fires at the minimum. George calls Jim to go with the original plan to get the man out of the hospital. By some incredible coincidence, the man uses his one phone call to get Dr. King to do the same thing. Dr. King has the perfect person to spring Theo Patton: Will/The Watcher.
As Jim, Stephanie, and George map out a plan to take Patton, Katie strikes a deal with Daphne: Katie won't rat if Daphne mind-reads Will and determines if he is just blowing Katie off. Sounds like a plan, except Will's mind is completely unreadable. She lies to Katie, but Daphne is creeped out. The fact that someone broke Mom's anniversary marble statue make things worse. To fix it, they need to break into the high school to steal the necessary tools and supplies. And breaking into your own school NEVER goes badly, right? Fortunately, they had JJ's poker winnings to bribe the security guard.
Jim and Stephanie head for the police van, but Will got there first. While Jim helps the injured cops, Stephanie follows a fire trail to Patton. He throws a fireball at her, but she goes Neo on him and dodges it. He tries to turn himself into a fireball but the results are the same. After giving chase through a warehouse, Patton is finally successful at knocking her down. He goes in for the kill, but Jim grabs him from behind and tosses him away. He tries to get up, but a grain silo he was under gets broken open, and Patton is buried. They decide they've had enough for one anniversary and head home. Stephanie decides to leave the crimefighting to Jim.
Last week the question was raised if Dr. King was giving Will/The Watcher injections to keep his powers going. The fact that Dr. King denies Will that same injection this week for not saving Patton would seem to confirm that. And someone decides to analyze the serum spilled in the grass after they leave: Francis.
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