Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 906 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2009.03.30
Peter enters the church (was he standing out in the rain all this time?) just as a service is wrapping up, which I'll admit is about where I usually like to come in. He finds his mother in a pew and sits with her, asking if she thinks hiding in a church is going to keep the agents away, but she tells him she hasn't been able to sleep for a long time (at least, not since last episode), which means any guidance she would normally be getting from her dreams has been absent. Looking haggard and sounding despondent, she says the dreams only come when her sleep is earned, and I know she's having a crisis, but I still find it pretty appalling that she slept well after, say, setting a human being up to be in a snuff film with Sylar. She reminisces about her wedding taking place in this very church, as well as Peter's first Communion and even "Nana's" funeral. About that last, she adds, "You were probably too young to remember, but you held my hand." Aw. She says their family once had love in it, and it's all her fault that that's no longer the case. Peter, not clear where she's going with all this, asks if she's come to the church to be forgiven, but Angela's despair is strong: "I'm not sure that even God has that in him." Well, I suppose my own attitude would be pretty bleak if I hadn't had any REM sleep for a week.
So Nathan's downed some tequila with these guys, and he proposes putting some money on a drinking contest, starting now. Too bad he doesn't have Lucille Bluth around to play ringer for him. Claire pulls him aside and asks if he's nuts, but Nathan waxes nostalgic (and a little drunk already, I'd say) about how they used to do this in his Navy days, and damn if I did not just get an image of Nathan in uniform. When I reopen my eyes some time later, Claire gives up and tells him to go for it, and he tells the frats to line them up. It's a really bad idea, but I'd still rather watch him do this than try to save the world.