Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C+ | 305 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Back to Season One
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2009.11.02
Samuel says he made a mistake, about eight weeks ago. Hey! That's when the show started. I will agree that many mistakes were made then and have been made since, though I'm not ready to blame Samuel as long as the writing staff of this show is still employed. "Eight Weeks Ago." Samuel -- who looks like he's from a biker gang or something, with greasy, slicked-down hair and a completely different wardrobe -- looks panicky and whispers that he's so sorry as a fire starts burning in an apartment. When we see what he's looking at it's Mohinder. Lying on the floor. He looks dead, and his apartment's burning up. So, yay! We'll get yet another character on this show who dies and then is brought back through someone's power. I just love it when that happens. The stakes are so high when there's no such thing as death. Sylar looks like he's possibly wearing a bullet-proof vest, which has been shot multiple times. Maybe. It's hard to tell, but there's something all over his chest, which looks might puffed up. We zoom in on his face and get our "To be continued..." Which, with this show, means it will probably be continued in two weeks or more.
Next time: Whatever power Peter has is draining out of him and then coming back. Emma's concerned, and thinks maybe he shouldn't use it. Peter: "And be ordinary?" Becky and HRG have a standoff, in which she says this is actually all about him. He says she's not going to hurt his daughter, and she says she's going to hurt them both. Sylon-in-Matt picks up a crowbar and threatens the Matt Sylon, but then uses it to kill a man. Which, of course, means Matt's body did the crime. But another lesson I've learned from this show: Crimes committed don't matter for our heroes. There is no law enforcement on Heroes other than the bumbling idiocy of Matt Parkman.
DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, will never believe Lauren exists. You can try to convince her otherwise via email: twopmodmars@gmail.com.