Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1370 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Like Coyote Sands Through the Hourglass...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2009.04.06
Mohinder shows up to his old apartment, having checked to make sure there are no agents keeping the place under surveillance, and I'd wonder how it hasn't been re-rented yet but I suppose it really hasn't been that long since it was vacated. Anyway, he uses his super-strength to push the lock right through the door, and then enters to find the place basically empty. The landlord then shows up, and there's some weak posturing between the two of them, but the point is that while Homeland Security took a bunch of Papa Suresh's papers, there are, conveniently, a bunch more down in the building's storage area. Well, if I were a government agent looking for important papers in a building that housed the premier expert on Heroes in the world, I wouldn't have checked the storage area either. That's just too obvious!
Hiro and Ando have been reduced to hitching, and the ensuing scene is absolutely pointless other than to give the actor Ken Choi some lines and to catch Hiro and Ando up to the rest of the class, which is a need that's all too common on this show. The point is, a truck pulls over, and Ken Choi is the genial driver with a Texas accent, who's all too happy to give them a ride until Baby Matt starts crying and turns off his truck, which finally clues Hiro and Ando in that Crying Baby=We're Not Going Anywhere. Kid, I know you're awfully young for me to ask you to act like an adult, but we don't need more subplots that go nowhere around here, so how about putting on a happy face?
Matt is staking out Building 26 (he got a parking spot right on that busy street? And no one from this crack spy agency is checking for this sort of thing, even though they've supposedly got their eyes on the whole country?) when Danko emerges, and Matt plants the thought in his head that something's wrong, and the person closest to him is in danger. Danko gets in a cab and heads off, and Matt starts following, although he's moving in the other direction, which in my experience means he has almost no shot of turning around and catching Danko, but things work differently on the back lot than in actual cities, I have to remind myself.