Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You May Not Believe It…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 12.08.2008
Daphne superzips Matt and Ando to Manhattan, and Ando complains that he likes teleporting better. "Less windy." I knew that was the explanation for Daphne's hair! Matt finds the surly dispatcher and tells him why they're there, and the shifty look the guy gets at the mention of Isaac's name is all we need to know, and Daphne and Matt soon also reach the conclusion that the guy is hiding something, prompting Matt to probe his mind and learn that not only does the guy know about the sketches, but he's also been "skimming off the top" to the tune of fifty-two hundred bucks so far this year. I use quotation marks because that's one of those expressions that drives me nuts -- you can't really skim off the bottom, regardless of what the plotlines on Dirty Sexy Money this season would have you believe. The guy tells them the sketches are in the safe in the back, and when he's gone, Ando expresses his glee before asking Daphne why she's been such an ally to Hiro recently. Daphne starts to explain that she's making amends, but Matt, nauseatingly, interrupts to say that she's doing it because it's the right thing to do, like, let her finish a damn sentence before you sound the trumpet of what a good person she is, you officious pantywaist. They then see the dispatcher biking away outside, and the boys freak out a bit before Daphne's like, "Did you forget how we got here already, morons?"
But in case you, too, don't know where this is going, we get some "dramatic" shots of the guy in traffic, until Daphne superzips past and then comes to a stop in his path with her arms folded on her chest and a bored look on her face. Heh. I so prefer "whatever" Daphne to watery, regretful Daphne, I cannot even tell you. The guy swerves to the side and rather impressively ends up tumbling up one side of a cab and down the other, and Daphne's face goes to whatever squared as she walks over to the guy, who concedes defeat. So did this scene play out like it was supposed to in the sketchbook, or what?
Hiro is wasting flour and eggs to the point where pastry chefs everywhere are in tears, so it's just as well when he hears his parents rehashing the stuff they were discussing earlier. Hiro's bummed to hear his dad opine yet again that Hiro will never amount to anything, like, way to sugarcoat things for your wife who has hours left to live, and then behind him, Hiro's younger self pipes up that they're talking about him, and his dad's probably right. Hiro turns back, and then his two selves hilariously push up their glasses and cock their heads in unison.