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
...and moments after, Sylar has taken Liam's form and is following the group down a narrow corridor. The President (Michael Dorn, again, whee!) gets into a town car, followed soon after by Liam, who wastes no time in shaking his hand. Dorn doesn't let go, though, as he lets his expression turn triumphant, and "Liam" looks down in consternation. He then quickly shifts into several of his recent forms (and Peter's among them, tellingly) before turning back to his true face -- just in time to get a hypo of that tranquilizer stuck into his neck. Dorn turns into Peter, which rules, and Peter breathes, "Bet you didn't think I took that one from you." Excellent development, although I'm not sure Liam's rapidly cooling corpse would agree with me.
Later, Nathan's body has been covered with a bloody white sheet, and I'll just get it out of the way now: Why didn't they try to use Claire's blood to restore him, as was done with Bennet himself? I could have lived with it if they tried it and it didn't work for some reason, but not even to remember it as a possibility is really insulting to the few people still watching who pay attention to continuity, not to mention the fact that it makes two of the smartest characters on the show look like complete chumps. Anyway, Bennet dumps the drugged Sylar in front of Angela and Matt as the latter complains that their plan is nuts. Judge for yourself: Bennet sent Peter and Claire on a false errand to try to locate Nathan in order to buy time so Matt could secretly use his mental mojo to convince Sylar that he's actually Nathan -- permanently. Matt's power will combine with all the memories Sylar already took from that other ability of his, and no one will ever know the difference. Even though it's been done in the comic-book world before, I could have gotten behind this plan if it truly meant getting rid of Sylar, but we already know from the look at Chapter Five that that's not happening. Anyway, Angela and Bennet tell Matt that without Nathan, there's no hope of convincing the President to stop the government initiative, which is difficult to believe given that Heroes JUST SAVED HIS LIFE, but Matt eventually gives in. Sylar twitches as Matt tells him he's no longer Sylar, nor Gabriel Gray, and we see memories flashing before Sylar's eyes -- his own first, then Nathan's. Sylar then goes into convulsions for a few moments before shifting into Nathan's form and regaining consciousness, and I just hope he's still too blurry to look over at the bloodstained sheet and be like, "Um...who's that?"