Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 03.30.2009
At the club that apparently does not have a metal detector or bouncer that frisks at the front door, Sylar and Danko briefly fight it out to look like the person that belongs in the place the least, until Sylar smiles broadly and says that Odo's there. He adds that his current form fits his pattern of imitating powerful men, and then the camera swings over to reveal he's taken Danko's shape for the evening. Much as I abhor this storyline, that made me laugh, not that I can say the same for Danko, who looks like he'd give an arm, a leg, or possibly both just to forget everything about this day.
Back at the club, Danko starts over toward his doppelganger, which is a terrible idea for several reasons, so it's just as well that Sylar stops him. He explains that obviously, Odo thinks that Danko's powerful, so he's parlaying that into getting laid, and, from the fact that he's making out with a girl already, he's doing a decent job of it. "He's a better you than you!" Heh. Odo, however, looks up from his macking long enough to see Sylar and Danko chatting, and bails. Danko and Sylar go after him, but he seems to have a good-enough lead, especially when the two of them get bogged down in a crowd on the dance floor. If only they'd forget about Odo and just bust a move, I'd forgive a lot about this subplot.
Claire drags Nathan back into their room and chides him for flying, probably letting us know that my earlier warning was justified, and then explains that her regeneration power was obviously responsible for her ability to drink more at one sitting than Hemingway. As Claire helps him out of his vest, Nathan apologizes for screwing everything up and for always denying the truth when problems arise. Claire, wiser to the ways of drunks than I would have guessed, suggests they have the conversation in the morning, but he plows on, saying he worries about her all the time and chastising himself for the way he handled the situation when he first found out about her. He sits on the bed as he goes on that he gave her the free pass in order to win her over, and adds that he knows he's cocked everything up, but promises, as he settles into bed, that he'll try to fix the mess he's made. I wonder if that means he's going to clean up the trail of vomit he obviously left between the bar and the motel. He concludes that he's going to fix everything for Peter, Angela and Claire, and Claire wipes away a tear as she allows herself to believe there's a chance in hell Nathan will remember all this in the morning. She tenderly covers Nathan with a blanket...