Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 114 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2007.03.05
Speaking of Claire's father, he's still hanging out with Niki in the hotel room discussing Linderman. She tells Nathan that Linderman's going to offer him a deal and that he has to take it. Nathan doesn't like the idea of spending the rest of his life with Linderman's boot on his neck. Niki's only other suggestion is to run, but Nathan's not fond of this idea either, as it doesn't involve him running for office and being a superstar. "You don't have any other option," she says. "Yeah, I do," he says. "I could kill him." Niki holds up her gun. "Knock me out." Nathan asks why he should do that and she says, "So that Jessica knows she's not in control anymore." Again, Nathan's like, "Who the fuck is this Jessica you keep talking about?" Niki just tells him that if he wants the gun, he has to knock her out. He hesitates for less than a second and then cold cocks her. Hee.
And now for my most favorite scene of the episode.
Nathan is escorted into the hotel kitchen by one of Linderman's guards. They go to a busy area, filled with chefs, and a gray-haired man in an apron who's furiously chopping vegetables with surgeon-like precision. Nathan walks over. "Mr. Linderman?" Linderman stops and turns and it'sâ¦MALCOLM MCDOWELL. Like, I was spoiled for this, and I still went, "HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO AWESOME IT'S MALCOLM FUCKING MCDOWELL!" when I saw him. He's just such a perfect casting choice it's unbelievable. McDowell just brings the big bad, y'all. Even when sitting still, the man's still dangerous. But he's also delightfully twinkly and silly and I cannot TELL you how psyched I am that he's Linderman.
"Do you enjoyâ¦vegetables, Mr. Petrelli?" asks Linderman in his first line of dialogue. Awesome. The kitchen clears out as Nathan says, "I've been known to eat zucchini when the mood strikes." Oh, now they're not even TRYING to hide the pandering to the HoYay contingency. Linderman picks up a piece of pastry, and Nathan comments that he could probably hire someone to do that shit for him, but Linderman says he likes to cook; it's his form of meditation. "One aims for perfection in one's life," he says, "but one doesn't find it very often. For me, this is about as close as it gets." He lifts up his creation and it'sâ¦an individual pot pie. "Voila! A pot pie. Wholesome, warm, healthy. That's, of course, if you can live without the cream sauce. Personally, I can't. I mean, what's the point?" Hee hee hee hee hee. I love this whole scene so much I want to have sex with it and still respect it in the morning.