Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 25 | Aired on 04.27.2009
Nathan and Peter are stopped by a security guy downstairs, who calls Liam and is informed that Nathan is already upstairs...
...and then the Petrelli boys are pedeconferencing with Liam, who, not unreasonably, asks who the hell is up in the suite. Nathan drops Sylar's name, but when Liam asks if he's one of them, Nathan confirms that -- before thinking better of it and, after a significant look at Peter, amends that to saying Sylar's "one of us." Aw -- it's true Nathan was responsible for the waste of millions in taxpayers' money and a desecration of civil liberties that Dick Cheney would find even better than Viagra, but at least we got this One To Grow On moment out of it! Sorry, I probably shouldn't be quite this sarcastic when Nathan has less than five minutes to live. Anyway, he punctuates this change of heart by floating up into the air, and after the security guys point guns at him and Liam gives us a good view of his epiglottis, Nathan admits he's been lying to the President, and will take full responsibility for his transgressions, but right now, he and Peter need to take on the threat upstairs. He also does us the favor of reminding us that Peter is a power mimic, and given that it's been some time since he switched, I can understand why, before asking for a five-minute head start. 'That's all I'm asking." Liam stares for a long moment...
...but apparently accedes to Nathan's request, as we cut to the Petrelli boys getting off the elevator upstairs, and the plan is basically for the two of them to fly at Sylar with the goal of having Peter touch him. On the way, Nathan tells Peter he loves him, and Peter returns the sentiment, which is nice. They get to the double doors of the suite -- which open to spit Claire out between the two of them. After she demolishes some innocent flowers in a vase with her ass, she tells them to get in there, and to accentuate that request, we see Sylar standing there, hands crackling with blue energy. The Petrelli boys fly at him, he hits them both with electrical bolts -- and the doors close and we see nothing else, like, WHAT TOTAL BULLSHIT, MY GOD. We endure Sylar for an entire season to get to this point, and instead of witnessing the climactic battle, all we get is some drunken Foley artists breaking everything they can get their hands on? Ugh. Anyway, after the noise dies away, Claire is able to reenter the room, but she only finds Peter -- the other two went out the window. Claire asks if he can fly after them, but in a reasonably understated moment, Peter says he can't. She doesn't dwell on that, instead saying they have to find them and running out with Peter limping after her...