Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2137 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Boom Goes The Dynamite?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2009.03.02
Nathan returns to the command center and hears from Danko that the men are ready to go meet Peter, and when the point comes up that he wanted to do it right next to a network news building, Nathan opines, "Peter's no dummy," which has to be a leading candidate for the funniest thing ever said on this show. The mood darkens, however, when Danko informs Nathan that they're not making the exchange. Nathan can't believe Danko is willing to risk exposure of their operation, but Danko quotes the President in saying that the U.S. won't make deals with terrorists. Nathan apparently doesn't think of Peter that way, but Danko is unmoved, and tells Nathan to stay out of his way. He leaves, and Bennet starts to follow, but Nathan grabs him and asks him to remember that Peter can hear his thoughts. Bennet gives Nathan an inscrutable smirk and bails...
...and then we're at the rooftop rendezvous, and Peter steps out of the shadows when he sees Bennet get out of the town car that's just arrived. He suspiciously asks where Matt and Daphne are, and Bennet verbally tells him just to come with him, but his thoughts warn Peter that he's being set up. Unfortunately, Peter is inexplicably slow to react, and even as Bennet's thoughts get louder and more insistent, Danko plugs Peter in the shoulder, and he goes falling off the roof. Well, at least the fall won't hurt -- he has to be dead already from being shot in the shoulder, or ISN'T THAT HOW IT WORKS, MATT? Anyway, Bennet and Danko rush to the side of the building, just in time to see Peter and Nathan (although you can't see the latter's face) flying back up toward them. They fly up into the night and disappear with that smoke trail that I never get tired of seeing before Danko can get a shot off, and as they both stare up at their escaped quarry, Bennet allows a hint of a smile to play across his lips, probably thinking how Angela's going to love hearing about this one.