Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 906 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2009.03.30
...so I guess it's no surprise when we cut to him in his car, waiting for the lighter to get hot so he can have a smoke. Del Shannon's "Runaway" is playing on the radio, and after Danko closes his eyes and continues to look ashen and not at all well, Sylar's voice pipes up from the back seat that he loves this song, and I have to confess I first couldn't decide whether to give last week's episode an A- or a full A, and the thing that put me over was that Sylar wasn't in it. After babbling for a bit, Sylar asks if Danko got his "gifts," and Danko takes a moment before evenly responding that Sylar shouldn't have. Sylar, however, talks about "an overture toward collaboration" and "pooling their resources" and the fact that Danko fascinates him, and I'm not sure why he didn't cut all these preliminaries and just wait for Danko under the steering wheel instead of in the back seat. Sylar mentions the bloodbath that occurred inside and opines that Danko's in way over his head with the new guy, and that seems like kind of a cruel expression to use where Zeljko Ivanek is concerned. Sylar, coming closer than most heterosexual serial killers would, offers to find the guy that killed the agents, but instead of taking him up on it, Danko goes for his gun -- but when he trains it on the back seat, Sylar's gone, and I'd complain about him getting out of the car in half a second without any sound, except I know better than to question any development that results in his disappearing. However, after Danko drives away, we see Sylar up on a rooftop in the storm as the bit about "I'm a-walkin' in the rain" plays, and Mr. Shannon's estate may be getting some fat licensing fees but I think the man himself is spinning in his grave. Title card.