Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 25 | Aired on 04.27.2009
Mohinder babbles at us for the last time this season as we see him, Matt, Hiro, Ando, Peter, Claire, Angela, Bennet, and "Nathan" around a funeral pyre for "Sylar," who's actually the shapeshifter from whom Sylar stole the power a few episodes ago. I'm not sure how the people not in the loop here could think that this would actually get rid of him, as he burned in the Primatech fire and didn't die, but whatever, this show is ridiculous. "Nathan" puts his arm around Angela and tells her it's a new beginning, and she manages not to vomit, although she does exchange a side-eye with Bennet. After a little talk about the new direction the President has authorized, with a more research-oriented Company with Bennet at its head, Hiro's head hurts him again, and he and Ando decide to head home, because what every guy with acute head pains needs is an extended airplane trip. Claire moves close to her father, who assures her that Sylar's really dead -- "he really is" -- like, WE GET IT. Mohinder: Babble babble...
...and then we get a look at Volume Five, "Redemption," which takes place six weeks later. One of Danko's guys comes home and finds his kitchen sink overflowing. He then quickly learns this isn't due to a mere plumbing problem, as the water moves away from him and then coalesces -- into a naked Tracy. I had actually just read an interview with Bryan Fuller in which he spoiled the fact that Tracy wasn't dead, so this didn't surprise me, but anyway, she tells the guy, "You're Number Four." I suppose that means he's going to have some people with whom to reminisce over Building 26 war stories in the Great Beyond...
...because we cut to "Nathan" reading an article about a "fourth mysterious drowning" baffling the authorities. Angela then enters, saying she was starting to worry, as she hadn't heard from him in weeks. "Nathan" says he hasn't felt like himself lately -- fuck you, Show -- which Angela breezes over. However, when "Nathan" goes to look at the clock in his office and announces that it's running a minute and a half fast, she blanches, and even though he returns to his jaunty self, she stares at the clock in trepidation, and that's the end. I wish I could be even slightly optimistic about next season, given Bryan Fuller's full-time return, but these last three episodes were so unsatisfying and awful in profoundly different ways that I don't think there's anything to do but rewatch the first season and call it a day. Thanks for reading!