Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 03.30.2009
Claire joins Nathan in the cantina and triumphantly slaps down several large-ish bills, and if I were Nathan my first reaction wouldn't be mere mild interest in what she had to do to get them, but I never said my parenting skills were anything to write home about. Of course, I DON'T HAVE KIDS. Anyway, Claire sold a necklace that Bennet gave her, but Nathan tells her she didn't have to do that, and, with a look toward several nearby fratty-looking American boys, says he's got everything under control, and I can think of about a thousand ways that sentence will end up not being true and approximately zero where it is. Claire's expression agrees with me, so Nathan whines that their situation isn't exactly simple. Claire's like, how about calling off the dogs you let loose, and in response, Nathan asks for a little gratitude for the free pass and rescuing her and blah, like, NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY IF YOU WEREN'T WILLING TO BETRAY YOUR OWN KIND JUST ON THE OFF CHANCE YOUR ABILITY WOULD EVENTUALLY BE REMOVED! I enjoy watching Adrian Pasdar, but man, does Nathan need to shut up, both retroactively and going forward. Claire asks why he gave her the damn free pass in the first place, and he evasively says he had his reasons before grabbing the wad of cash and heading over to the frat boys. Claire asks what he's going to do with the money, and Nathan replies, "Turn it into more." Claire looks like she just hopes her necklace isn't going to fund a donkey show.
Peter enters the church (was he standing out in the rain all this time?) just as a service is wrapping up, which I'll admit is about where I usually like to come in. He finds his mother in a pew and sits with her, asking if she thinks hiding in a church is going to keep the agents away, but she tells him she hasn't been able to sleep for a long time (at least, not since last episode), which means any guidance she would normally be getting from her dreams has been absent. Looking haggard and sounding despondent, she says the dreams only come when her sleep is earned, and I know she's having a crisis, but I still find it pretty appalling that she slept well after, say, setting a human being up to be in a snuff film with Sylar. She reminisces about her wedding taking place in this very church, as well as Peter's first Communion and even "Nana's" funeral. About that last, she adds, "You were probably too young to remember, but you held my hand." Aw. She says their family once had love in it, and it's all her fault that that's no longer the case. Peter, not clear where she's going with all this, asks if she's come to the church to be forgiven, but Angela's despair is strong: "I'm not sure that even God has that in him." Well, I suppose my own attitude would be pretty bleak if I hadn't had any REM sleep for a week.