Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 57 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT January 22nd? We have to wait until January 22nd? Shut up, NBC.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2006.12.04
Clea tells him to basically suck it up and deal with his wife because she's human and she made a mistake, so cut her some slack. Matt's like, uh, I never cheated on HER, so why should she suddenly get a free day-pass to the fair of infidelity? Clea scoffs at him. "Statistically speaking, law enforcement attracts a certain sort of male personality," she says. "Oh," says Matt, not a little flirtatiously, "and what sort of personality would that be?" "Dogs," says Clea flatly. "And the female personality?" asks Matt. "Bitches," says Clea. "We keep it in the canine family." Heh. Back to the case at hand, Matt wonders aloud if Sylar had accomplices, which would account for the extra footprints. Clea thinks Sylar lost too much blood to get out of there by himself, so she says they should talk to Peter.
Speaking of Peter, he's curled up on the cot in his cell. Nathan, looking devilishly handsome in a tux with his tie undone, enters the cell with a grim look on his face. Peter wakes up and asks what Nathan's doing there, and Nathan just responds that Peter gets into trouble and Nathan drops everything to fix it. "Isn't that how things work?" he says. He walks over to engage in our first BroYay moment of the evening as Peter dazedly wonders why Nathan's not reading him the riot act. Nathan says he's just glad Peter's okay. So are we, Nathan. So are we. Peter asks him why he destroyed the painting and why he tried to stop him from coming to Texas. "Because that painting showed you dead, Peter," says Nathan. "And when I got the call, I almost believed it."
"I thought I'd be a hero," says Peter dejectedly. "Yeah," snots Nathan. "How'd that work out for ya?" Bitch. He sits next to his brother and says that he's meant to do a lot of things, but saving the world isn't one of them. "You gotta learn to recognize when life is bigger than you are," he says. Oh, fuck you, Nathan. I love the Pasdar, but this moment is making me hate Nathan. Even though he's really not Nathan. More on that in a second. Nathan says that Peter's not a fighter. "But that's okay. The world needs nurses too." Shut your hole, Nathan. Peter tries to convince his brother that all of the Heroes are the same and that they're all supposed to stop the bomb Isaac painted. But Peter doesn't think he can do it. He looks away in shame. "That's because you can't," Nathan whispers in his ear. "How can you stop what's coming," says Nathan, his voice changing, "when you don't know anything about power?" Peter turns back and it's Sylar sitting WAY TOO CLOSE to him. Peter freaks out and scurries back on his bed, but Sylar's already disappeared. Dream? Premonition? Sylar astral projecting from his own cell across town? You be the judge.