Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boom Goes The Dynamite?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.02.2009
Well, after that tense and action-filled scene, it makes sense to cut to something boring -- how does Sylar and that stupid toy car sound? He intones that something terrible happened there -- his father did something to him. Luke thinks it's probably good that he blocked it out, but Sylar snaps, "It eats away at your soul." Does Sylar say anything these days that isn't a 9.8 on the Drama-Meter? Who talks like this? Anyway...
...we pick up the flashback where we left off, and Sylar's dad brings him over to, presumably, his uncle, money is exchanged, and then Sylar's dad is out of there. Sylar chases after him and sees him get into a sedan with a woman in the passenger's seat. He gets close and sees them arguing, and then Sylar's dad raises a finger and telekinetically slashes her head open, with red blood intruding on the black-and-white screen by splattering across the back windshield. They're not trying to tell us that Sylar inherited his power from his father, are they? Since we know from onscreen evidence that that's absolutely untrue? Good. We get a quick look at Samson Gray, who looks a bit like a bulkier Jeff Bridges, as he pushes his wife's corpse out the door and drives off, which is cold. Still kind of wussy for Sylar to be all "Mommy?" out loud in the present, though, or at least it seems Luke thinks so from the "This is the object of my idol worship?" look on his face.
Angela and Nathan are sitting in his car, and he asks her if she's Rebel, as whomever it is has been helping Peter and also knows all about Building 26, and given that she has all that information (really?) he wonders who else it could be. Angela tells Nathan that besides the fact that she's computer illiterate, she knows what side her bread is buttered on, so to speak, as Nathan is the one keeping her safe. God, he must really hate Peter if he's willing to protect the woman who gave him his unwanted powers and a daughter that hates him but not his own brother. Of course, she may not be Rebel, but when she tells him she'd never betray him, we know she's lying, based on her conversation with Bennet at the end of last episode. Speaking of Peter, Nathan says that his theft of the files has made people want him dead, and I can only assume he means "more people," because Danko made his position pretty clear earlier. Angela thinks Nathan can still protect him, but he's not so sure. Peter then calls and tells Nathan to listen good: He'll give back the recording for Matt and Daphne. Nathan can't believe he'd trade what he has for such a small prize, but Peter ignores him and tells him if anything happens to any of the three of them, the recording gets played on the nightly news. Nathan agrees to his brother's terms, and asks where they should meet...