Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1531 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Future Imperfect
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2008.09.22
We see a TV broadcast from Odessa about the shooting, and Present Claire, at the Bennet house in Costa Verde, is of course out of her mind with worry over her biological father. She calls Peter, who answers his cell (in an ambulance! You'd almost think he's trying to kill Nathan!) and tells her Nathan's alive, but is in bad shape. Claire says she should be there, and that her blood can help, but he tells her he needs surgery, and she should hang tight. You'd think Claire would point out that Peter could pop out to her and get her to the hospital before the doctors would even have a chance to scrub up, but of course Claire has no reason to suspect that Peter wouldn't have Nathan's best interests at heart, so it's believable that her mind wouldn't think to contradict him in the heat of the moment. On the other hand: What's West up to?
Nathan gets rushed into the ER, and among the information we hear the staff barking at each other is that Nathan was "down" for four minutes. Yikes. The guy in charge boots Peter out, who watches worriedly as Nathan gets the paddles. Peter sits against the wall...
...and we dissolve to later, when the doctor chucking something against the wall in disgust pretty much tells us everything we need to know. Peter gets to his feet, and the doctor is like, "I'm sorry." Um...thanks? Peter enters to stand next to Nathan's corpse, and ruffles his hair as he wonders who plastered the pancake makeup on him. Seriously, I know he lost a lot of blood, but he's putting to shame both kabuki dancers and the cast of True Blood. Peter kisses his brother's forehead and says it should never have happened this way, and you'd think he's been on a television show long enough not to tempt fate like that. Because sure enough, after a couple cuts back and forth, Nathan suddenly comes to life, although between the makeup and the disorientation he certainly seems more like a zombie than anything else. We don't get to see just how freaked out Peter is, though, instead cutting to the title card.