Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste My Soup!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.10.2008
In Queens, Bennet is watching via a hidden camera as Sylar, in his apartment, is looking at a map showing the locations of Heroes and rifling through other information like he's going to get rid of it. He's interrupted by a knock at the door, and when he answers, it's Elle, holding her offering in one hand: "Hi. Do you like pie?" I'd be surprised. Elle then acts chagrined at her rhyme, which is funny, and Sylar, charmed, smiles and invites her in. It is nice to have these two actors working together so much. Elle sets down the pie as Sylar tells her he's so glad she came, and he wasn't sure she would. Elle replies that she's been wondering how he's been, and Sylar almost heartbreakingly smiles in wonder as he says he's better, great in fact, thanks to her. He goes on that he's getting rid of the stuff in his apartment that makes him think "bad thoughts," but, gesturing to the papers on the table, she asks what he's taking about. He uncomfortably clarifies that it's a list of people like him, and Elle smiles: "Nice, single guys like you?" You're setting me up hard here, Elle. She jokes that she should take the list, but he gets serious as he grabs it from her, crumples it up, and tosses it into the wastebasket. He apologizes before telling her that he has "kind of a power," and when she feigns a lack of understanding, he demonstrates his telekinesis to her as Bennet watches with a sly smile, which I'll let pass if he'll promise not to bring the whales up again. Sylar breathes to Elle that the other people on the list have powers too, and then brightens: "What kind of pie did you bring me?" Hee. Quinto kills me. Elle tells him it's peach, and Sylar smiles enthusiastically that that's his favorite. Unfortunately, when his back is turned, Elle fishes the list out of the trash as Bennet gives another appreciative smile. Good thing Eric Roberts is around this episode to make him less creepy by comparison.
Eric Roberts leads the cuffed Pine into Primatech as he compliments Meredith's work again: "You were born for this." Meredith eagerly asks if that means she's now an agent, but Eric Roberts cautions her that "getting scum off the street" is the easy part. "The real test is loyalty." Well, she could have turned on you after your jaw took a fistful of metal, so I'd say she's at least off to a good start. Eric Roberts, however, says that the true test is following orders with no questions asked, and I'd think, given what he just experienced, that he'd be a lot warier of throwing around anvils like that. Eric Roberts gives Meredith a keycard and instructs her to put him in a particular cell, and she goes to comply, but her enthusiasm dies when she sees Flint. She says she thought he got away, but he grins: "An invisible man tackled me in the alley." I was psyched for the shout-out to Claude, but then I realized that Bennet shot him years earlier, so I just got mad. Nice microcosm of my reaction to the episode. Flint simps that he's going to be an agent, and Meredith, realizing that The Company probably requires an IQ over 80 from their operatives in addition to undying loyalty, smells a rat. Eric Roberts then appears and asks if there's a problem, and Meredith denies that there is before leading Pine away. Flint hicks it up to Eric Roberts, who merely raises an eyebrow at the odd thing in the cell in front of him. Heh.