Josh: No Ordinary Family: Episode Four (recap) & Five (review)

EPISODE FOUR - NO ORDINARY VIGILANTE (RECAP)
A man whose son was murdered years ago, is out to deliver his own justice by shooting purse snatchers at a city park. Jim is then seen at the crime scene and is mistaken for the vigilante. Dr. Francis Chiles (Reggie Lee) becomes suspicious of Stephanie and Katie's behavior at the lab. JJ's mathematical abilities begin to increase and he uses them to join the football team. Daphne uses abilities to find out where a party is being held (from the Wikipedia page).

EPISODE FIVE - NO ORDINARY QUAKE (REVIEW)
JIM: After the mall that Jim and the rest of the Powells are shopping is victim to a strange earthquake, George thanks to his source in the police discovers it was man made. Supposedly it is a concussion grenade used by someone so that they have the chance to raid pharmacies across the city, stealing anti-epiletic drugs. It turns out that it is in fact a young girl, Rebecca Jessup, who is another super using her ability of shock waves so she can steal the drugs which he thinks can stop her condition. It is revealed she has been held prisoner by Dr Dayton many times before and her fate isn't shown after she is knocked out by Watcher. Jim and George have involvement with this storyline.

STEPHANIE: Stephanie is suspicous of JJ's strangely intelligent moments including when he saves a woman using his intellect in the mall. But, she is distracted elsewhere when Jim lies to her telling her a tape of him using his powers is in the police when in fact he wants her to get CCTV of the quake in the mall. Also, Steph employs Katie to crack a encrypted file they have found which has research on super-humans. She thinks this will help her understand the Powell family's problems with their powers.

JJ: After saving a woman from some wreckage in the mall and becoming a member of the football team, JJ is asked by his suspicous mother to be tested. He knows she thinks he has powers and he doesn't want her to know, so asks his friend to pee in the cup for him. So, while Katie tests the pee for traces of powers JJ absent-mindedly breaks the code for the files on her computer. Katie soon gets the truth out of JJ and she immediately tells Steph who passes it on to Jim. Also, JJ's friend didn't pee in the cup, his girlfriend did who turns out to be pregnant. At the end, JJ decides to quit the football team as using his abilities is cheating, and is knocked down when he tries to run for a try.

DAPHNE: Daphne is trying to get an after-school job on the other side of town when she sees both her English teacher and friend at a coffee shop. So, after using her mind reading abilities, she assumes the pair were sleeping together and are now over. She then accidentally humiliates her friend when she tells all to the principal. But it turns out that it was the friend's mum who was dating the English teacher and so again Daphne feels stupid.

Yes, this was yet again a brilliant episode which introduced a bit more humour like episode two but less action and drama. The brief involvment of the series story arc cheered me up slightly as it had been absent previously but it does need to be developed. Also, the story of JJ's friend's girlfriend being pregnant was unecessary and I was dissapointed Kay Panabaker's Daphne didn't have a bigger role. One episode she needs something of her own storyline instead of being an add-along to the rest of the character's plots. However, a strong, decent episode and I'm looking forward to next week's edition with anticipation - No Ordinary Visitor, when the grandparents arrive, how will the Powells cope?
Thanks, Josh.