Incidentally, I found an explanation for Ben's lapse into sounding like bad fanfic with that sentence: clearly, growing up on that island with the Dharma folk and Richard H. in the woods meant he got his relationship education via the bodice ripper novels Annie lent him...

That would make a lot of sense! Although he probably also watched lots of wholesome family shows, courtesy of Dharma - thus the more than vaguely creepy "I made dinner for you!" situation. (Have I mentioned I really liked Ben in this episode? He is just terrifically entertaining. And he would have actually been pretty adorable here, if it hadn't been Ben.)

And now I want someone to write the story where Paik and Widmore meet and, err, exchange views on their daughters' significant others and how to handle them!

Of course, come to think of it, we have Ben as a third qualified party in such a conversation. If, you know, he and Widmore didn't want to kill each other. Since Ben's method of dealing with his daughter's boyfriend seems to be keeping said boyfriend in a cage and/or brainwash him with really bad music...

It could be a black comedy version of that John Ritter show, 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Daughter...

so I take it we were deprived of a Petrelli family scene which would have further explained why Heidi left Nathan in favour of the Telenovela in various South American states? *sigh*

Oh, yes. I feel the more I hear about the editing process of Season Two, the more I really dislike the twins' storyline. And the way it was phrased, it certainly didn't seem like this was the only Nathan stuff that got cut. I don't want to think too deeply about there probably having been more of Nathan & Matt that was thrown out for Southern American Antics with Sylar.

Anyway, I imagine the "vest" hint makes you happy on account of a set-up being your favourite theory, right?

*g* It does, although it is less about me being right, I swear. I feel like a bad fan for this, but I would have felt worse about Nathan getting injured as a result of OOC stupidity than Nathan actually dying for in character reasons.