Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 2040 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Crash And Burn
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2009.02.09
Wow, NeoIsaac is still supposed to be sitting in the chair next to Matt, but whoever they got to stand in for this shot is a little bit more, um, Caucasian. If he's even alive -- I actually think it might have been a Cabbage Patch doll. Hiro and Mohinder emerge from the RV in their new duds, and despite the fact that Hiro will tell anything to anyone and mentioned it in front of Mohinder like three scenes ago, Mohinder is only now absorbing the idea that Hiro no longer has his powers. I will give him points for not mentioning anything about an eclipse, though. Mohinder suggests Hiro turn himself in, and maybe he won't be harmed, given that he no longer has powers. I don't think I'd trust them to be that reasonable, given that they INVADED FOREIGN SOIL to get him in the first place. Can't really drop him back in Japan all "Oops, our bad!" Hiro, however, elects to give a tiresome speech about his duty and warriors and blah, and thankfully Matt decides to come out of his trance at this moment. Everyone inspects his artwork, and they discover that Daphne's going to get shot near the crash site, and what is the point of this power anyway? I mean, no one has even been able to avoid the outcomes of the paintings or drawings or whatever, so what is the point, seriously? Sometimes they act like the drawings are so important for guidance, but they always come true anyway, so it's just stupid. Anyway, they all head back.
New characters Mary and Luke Campbell, a mother and teenaged son, walk down the street as the mother uses the fact of the cops around Taxidermist Gray's house to make an amazingly tortured segue into the fact that Luke apparently has been getting into fights at school. She asks why he hit the particular kid in question, and the disgust is seeping out of her voice to the degree that I'm afraid my TV's going to start leaking, so Luke responds, "He called you a whore." Well, you did ask. They go inside, and Mary hears the TV. Thinking she left it on, she heads into the living room, but is startled to see a man sitting in the chair in front of it. She stage-whispers to Luke to call the police, and then sidles forth, grabs a fireplace poker, and whirls to bash the guy over the head with it, because that's preferable to merely GOING BACK OUT THE DOOR UNTIL THE POLICE ARRIVE, MY GOD. But all this is so we can get the reveal that the man in the chair is actually the commando that Sylar menaced last week. I thought he was dead, but it turns out he's gagged and covered in blood, with a screwdriver jammed through each hand to the chair arm below. I'd imagine if she whacked him in the head, it would actually be a welcome change in the pain at this point. Sylar appears and amusingly uses the remote to turn off the TV, and Mary spins and swings the poker at him, but he merely waves it away and sends the both of them into chairs with matching ugly upholstery. Sylar tells the Campbells he and "Special Agent Simmons" have been waiting for them, as he rips the duct tape off the guy's mouth and lauds him for being well-trained. "He hardly flinched at all when he lost a finger or two." Simmons asks if Sylar's going to torture him in front of them, and that line receives a very obvious response, which Sylar tries to inject with more import by dragging it out for a thousand years: "No. I'm gonna torture them in front of you." Mary and Luke cower in fear, and Sylar's Theme Ticking sends us into a commercial break.