Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 919 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Shouldn't That Be "The Fly Effect?"
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2008.09.22
...and moments later is determinedly stomping down the hall past Jesse (who keeps whining that he's Peter, like, surely you realize by now that nobody cares, and also, aren't your fellow prisoners going to wonder about that later?), Knox, and that other guy the show refuses to name. Elle goes straight into Bennet's cell and tosses him a gun, telling him Sylar's in the building. Bennet playfully tells her that "Daddy" doesn't want him to leave, but she puts paid to any levity by telling Bennet about Sylar killing her dad. She strides out, but before Bennet can follow, he hears Elle scream and sees her fly up into his window before falling to the ground. He exits and runs into Sylar, who greets him as "Noah" (heh), and asks if he missed him. By way of answering, Bennet plugs him in the chest multiple times. And this is before he knows what Sylar did to his daughter. Sylar slumps to the floor, blood smeared all over the wall behind him, but as Elle coughs and lifts her head, we hear the ominous plink of a bullet falling to the floor. After the noise is repeated for each of Bennet's shots, Sylar looks up: "Ouch." Heh. But is he just being funny, or did he actually feel pain? No time to wonder about that, as Sylar TKs Bennet away like a rag doll, knocking him unconscious.
Jesse's a ham sandwich on a hard roll as he yells "Sylar! You bastard!" but Sylar isn't listening, instead picking up the gun and heading over to Elle. Elle's hand crackles feebly, but she's clearly weak, and Sylar encounters no resistance as he flips her over. Peter-in-Jesse yells to leave her alone, and I do like Francis Capra, but I hope he gets straightened out soon because his Peter Petrelli is bugging the crap out of me. Sylar demonstrates Bob's power to Elle as he turns the gun into gold before our eyes, which I guess means that money's going to be a hell of a lot tighter at the Company from here on out. Elle spits that Sylar killed Bob, and he replies that he's killed a lot of people. "You're as much to blame for that as anyone. Maybe even more so." Hmm, interesting. It's amusing to think he's just referencing the fact that she let him escape, as Bob would no doubt be nodding approval from beyond the grave, but I wonder if there's more to it than that. Sylar isn't going to tell us, though, as he raises the Index Finger of Incision in her direction. But as he starts to cut open her forehead, she screams, and suddenly erupts in an electrical storm that engulfs Sylar and sends him flying. You know, I may have my concerns about the season arc, but a lot of individual scenes here are totally kicking ass. That ruled!