Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 297 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.10.12
A jailhouse. Warden Leo's interrupted by a pretty British doctor, who's apparently new at doing real-life criminal psych consults, which pisses Warden Leo off. He caves, though, and tells her that they know nothing about Sylar: who he is, where he's from, etc. She says amnesia can be complicated, but Warden Leo says he can simplify it: "Take out your rubber stamp and mark this guy insane." He wouldn't be wrong about that, but she says they aren't given stamps and she needs to talk to him. After some weird camera work that shows us Sylar's looking at his reflection in the shiny table, she sits down, introduces herself as Dr. Gibson, and asks him his name. He just looks freaked out, and like he might throw up. Warden Leo's lurking in the corner, all, "I told you so." After a commercial break, Sylar just says, "I..." And Dr. Gibson tells Leo that it could be an aphasia, since traumas to the head can result in brain damage. Warden Leo says he was like this when they found him, which I'm sure is extremely helpful to Dr. Gibson, who probably thought they picked up a nice, normal guy and bashed him in the head until he was crazy. She asks Sylar if he can tell her what happened to him. He stutters out that he was in the forest, and then we get weird flashbacks that mean nothing. He says he was lost, and then he says he was... and trails off and cries as he flashes back to gunshots. He says he was then walking, and now he's in this tiny room. He cries some more. Dr. Gibson asks him to unlock Sylar's cuffs, but Leo won't lock himself in with an unrestrained lunatic. So she asks if he'll give her his keys, please, and leave. She unlocks Sylar's cuffs and then tells him she wants to help him get cleaned up and put the pieces together. He has more flashbacks to the shooting in the forest. Dude, can't Dr. Gibson just pull out her clicker and get Sylar to mind? (Thanks to forum poster lilith1930 for the joke; I knew Dr. Gibson looked familiar, but forgot she was Simone.)