Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 657 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT You May Not Believe It…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2008.12.08
Nathan's interviewing the Marine who rates speaking pay, and learns that the man is under the impression he's to be injected with some kind of safe performance-enhancing drug. That makes me think of its potential application in sports -- don't you think baseball would be a lot more interesting if people superzipped around the bases or flew up in the air to catch pop-ups? Nathan haltingly tells the guy that the drug will permanently change his life in ways he can't even imagine, but the dude is on board with that, as he lost most of his unit in a showdown in Iraq, and he's beaten himself up since for not being better than simply human. Nathan gives this cornpone story his smiling seal of approval, like, an episode ago you felt the same way so strongly that you were willing to strand your powerless brother in a hostile jungle, and yet you just needed further convincing from another person you've never even met? Make this guy Commander In Chief, stat!
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?"