Episode Report Card Erin: A | 100 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT This Just In: Sylar Has Mommy Issues.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2007.05.07
Cut to Sylar, shuffling his way down a crappy hallway. Hiro and Ando peer in from a window. He knocks on a door and Ellen Greene opens it. She immediately hugs him and thanks the Lord for bringing her son home safe. Yeah. I clued into her whack-ass craziness right here. "Hi, Mom," says Sylar. Hiro: "HUH?" Ando: "SATAN HAS A MOTHER?" Audrey II: "FEED ME, SEYMOUR." His mother pulls him inside and he gives her a box that contains yet another snow globe for her collection. She really doesn't need any more, Gabriel. They're covering every square inch of her apartment. She's trying to collect the whole nation, apparently, and now she's just missing Oregon. Just shove a bunch of wet leaves into a bowl, fill it with rainwater and seal it up, lady. That's your Oregon right there.
Sylar's mom strokes her globes like they're crystal balls. Clearly, she's insane. Sylar points out that the clock on the wall is broken and she says she should have thrown it away years ago. Sylar points out that the clock was his father's, but she just says that it's junk. He gets really offended by this and says that it's a beautiful piece that just needs some attention. He starts to work on it as his mother picks up a snow globeâ¦with a picture of him as a child inside. Okay, 1) pictures of people in snow globes is fucking creepy and 2) that's totally a childhood picture of Zachary Quinto and it's HILARIOUS.
Sylar sets up a makeshift workshop on the table. His mother comes over and starts stroking his shellacked hair as she tells him how proud she is of him for traveling the world. He says he's sick of traveling and wants to stay there for awhile. She's all, "Queens? What the hell would you want to come back to Queens for?" Well, really. Sylar seems to think that if he stays in Queens, he won't kill all those people. He doesn't say this, of course, because that might make his mother go full-boar mental on him. She nervously gets up to make him a sandwich, but he doesn't want one. She thinks that, if he's going to stay in Queens, he should call some guy about a job. Sylar says he has a job, thanks. He fixes watches. She scoffs that that's a hobby. They engage in a passive-aggressive battle of the wills in which it becomes clear that his mother disapproves of his love for clocks and watches and Sylar has only ever wanted his mother's approval and love.