Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Suck It, Peter!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.20.2008
Tracy is asking if Mohinder's sure this is going to work, as he prepares to inject her with something. He's like, sure, totally! And there will be no side effects, such as causing you to pass out so you can be my next meal! That definitely will not happen! Nathan and Mohinder babble for a bit about their daddy issues, and then he injects Nathan with whatever it is right before Tracy starts to feel ill. Within seconds, she's passed out, and Nathan starts to feel woozy as well. He lurches forward past Mohinder, and falls through the garbage-bag partition he has up before collapsing face-up on the floor. The last thing he sees is all the cocoon victims, and the last thing that goes through his head before he loses consciousness completely is "I survived getting shot for this?"
Sylar, happily, is still in that grey tank top, looking out the window of his cell, when Daphne suddenly superzips in. I thought Level 5 had a dampening field, but I now see it actually has a shmampening field, which is a lot less predictable. Sylar's startled, but she tells him they have to go, as the guards will be there in a few seconds. He refuses her offer, though, which she wasn't expecting, so she tells him her boss wants to work with him, because he's a killer, and "for some reason you're important to him." Sylar takes offense, saying he's not a killer anymore, before using his power to hold her up against the wall. She protests that she's on his side. "Can't you see they're trying to change you in here? Make you into something that you're not?" He growls that she doesn't know anything about him, but she fearfully counters that the man she works for does, and he wants Sylar the way he is. Sylar's anger gives way to confusion, and he releases Daphne, who superzips over and puts a card in his hand before pausing outside the window, where Flint has been standing the whole time. She tells Sylar it's so he'll know where to find them, and then takes Flint by the arm and superzips out of there. So she can convey other people along with her. Interesting. Sylar contemplates his next move...
...which is to wake Peter up. I think he could have stood to mull this over a little longer, but that's just me. Sylar frees Peter from his restraints, and he immediately starts bitching Sylar out for giving him the hunger, as if (a) it wasn't Future Sylar that did it, and (b) you didn't BEG HIM FOR IT, DOUCHEBAG. God, I hate Peter. Sylar and his rather pronounced upper chest (someone's well acquainted with the incline bench) say that they don't want to be killers anymore, and Peter circles him warily as he remembers that when he saw Sylar in the future, he'd changed, and figured out how to suppress it. "How?" THIS ISN'T THE SAME SYLAR OH MY GOD SHUT UP! Sylar finally gets Peter on point by saying that their mother is in trouble, although he doesn't add, "You know, the one you almost killed?"