Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.12.2009
g down in the backseat saying he's not a killer, but she says he's a kidnapper and a carjacker (so she's apparently not here of her own free will), and he beat up an entire precinct somehow. He says that Warden Leo was going to throw him in a hole, and no one believes him except her. She says she doesn't even know him and calls him "Gabriel." He says that's not his name; he closes his eyes and it doesn't feel like him. She says the whole "watchmaker" thing sounds an awful lot like him, what with the ticking and all. He says he's not a killer, and she knows that. She stops driving and says he's right.Dr. Gibson gets out of the car and says he won't kill her if he's not a killer, so he should just take her car and get away. He says he needs her, but she points out he doesn't even know her. He says he doesn't even know himself. She asks him to turn himself in and let the police figure out what happened to his mother and she'll figure out what happened to him. He says okay and throws down the gun as the cops pull up. She tells him to do what Warden Leo says, and he puts his hands up. She tells the police to please put their guns down since he's turning himself in. They keep them trained on Sylar, who hears ticking. He accidentally unleashes some of Elle's electricity from his hands, and Leo shoots him several times in the chest. Dr. Gibson is right behind Sylar during the shooting but manages not to get shot. However, Sylar grabs her as he falls and starts rolling down the hill. When they get to the bottom, they both stand up, and she covers her mouth as she watches his wounds spit out the bullets and heal. She asks what the hell that was, but he doesn't know. The cops are running after them with dogs, and she tells him to run. He does.
Emma's apartment. She's arriving home after her long, stressful day or whatever. I don't care. She looks at the cello sitting there, which I think she must have stolen from that guy in the park. She starts playing, and continues to look puzzled at the colors all the while. She plays and plays, and I realize I actually miss Mohinder's narration over the awesome original theme music. I don't want all of this cello crap over the closing montage. Becky shows up invisibly at college and makes herself visible just in time to follow the new bids back to the sorority. She apparently has super-speed in addition to her invisibility. Peter's at his apartment, realizing he's more alone than ever. He says "So much for human connection," and then Hiro shows up (apparently he's been in suspended animation somewhere since he disappeared last episode and now he's finally materialized here) and says, "Peter Petrelli?" He smiles sweetly, and Peter's like, "Hiro?" Hiro collapses and Peter runs to him. Emma keeps playing until the sound colors makes some sort of laser power and slices her wall in half.
Sylar's still running through the woods as barking dogs pursue him. He stumbles out of the woods into the scene we glimpsed of him in the first episode. Carnival music picks up and he's lit up by the lights as Samuel stands outside the carnival and beckons him to come. He looks confused, but realizes it's the dogs and cops or this guy. They go through the carnival gates together. When the cops and dogs get to the top of the hill and look down, there's a giant, empty field. They wonder where he could have gone, because the carnival's apparently only visible to heroes? Or it's cloaked in invisibility? Or Samuel's used his ground-shifting to move it already. Sylar's still panicked, but Samuel tells him, "It's okay, brother. You're safe here." So, maybe Joseph's not his real brother and he just calls people that randomly? Sylar: "Where exactly is here?" Samuel: "Home." We get a final shot of the Zipper (best ride ever) and then a close-up of Sylar's face, looking like he could actually be happy here, because home is where the Zipper is, after all, whether at the edge of a forest, next to a canyon, or in a big field near a funeral.
Next week: Hiro's in the hospital, and tells Peter he's dying of a brain tumor. Peter knows medicine can't save him, but seems to have an idea of what can (uh, Claire's blood, anyone?). Some kid with a power is holding a gun to Bennett, when Peter teleports in and stops the guy from shooting him. Looks like he shoots Peter instead, but since Bennett just said the kid's a healer, I'm guessing it will all be okay. Samuel speechifies to Sylar about how he's a man of great power. Samuel would like to help Sylar know the truth so some guy with dreadlocks puts his hands on Sylar's head. We also get a close-up of a bloody face, but I can't tell whose it is. But Sylar is ready to know who he is, which will be nice, since there's no mystery in this for us.
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