Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 1058 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT An Eclipse! An Eclipse!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2008.11.17
...we cut to Elle, who's still freaking the hell out on Sylar, calling him a murderer and zapping him to the floor. Sylar calmly tells her he didn't want to kill Bob, or anyone, as she should well know from what we saw last week. Especially since she wasn't around in Season One to see Sylar practically tap-dancing on the corpses of the people he offed. He stands and says he's not going to let the hunger control him anymore, and Elle replies by lighting him up again and shrieking that she'll kill him. When she pauses, though, he steps forward once more and says he understands. "You need to let it out." After some more zappy-zap and Christ imagery, Sylar's shirt has finally had all it can take, and as they look up from the floor, Elle, her energy spent, listlessly invites Sylar to kill her before putting more energy into adding, "Please!" She cries as Sylar points his finger toward her and into a commercial break.
Outside Pinehearst, Nathan is mumbling to Tracy about the name of the company coming from some spot in the Berkshires to which Arthur took him and Peter fishing or some nonsense. Tracy looks like she just overdosed on antihistamines as she asks Nathan if he's sure he wants to go in, pointing out there might be a reason Arthur hasn't contacted him. Nathan, however, says that his father has influenced every decision in his life. "If he's alive, I've got to see him."
Cut to Nathan...well, seeing him. Arthur invites Nathan to give him a hug, but Nathan is of course smarter than Peter, so he keeps his distance as Tracy and Arthur shake hands. Nathan asks if he has any idea what he's done to the family and to him. Arthur: "Hindsight being twenty-twenty, I should have told you sooner what your role was in all this." That's a really convoluted way of expressing the "I'm sorry you feel that way" non-apology. Arthur dismisses Tracy, and once she's gone, he tells Nathan that his destiny is to lead the nation, but Nathan isn't falling for this crap, and calls his father insane. Arthur tells Nathan that he's always been his favorite. "The one most like me. The strong one. The one who would never, ever become a male nurse." He tells Nathan they can save the world, and that can be the Petrelli legacy. He then puts a hand on Nathan's shoulder, which brings to mind another part of the Petrelli legacy.