Episode Report Card Couch Baron: N/A | 706 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Shouldn't That Be "The Fly Effect?"
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2008.09.22
Mama Petrelli has a vision (her power is prophetic dreams, btw) involving a lot of dead Heroes and, in keeping with Chapter Three's title, the apparent villains of the piece -- Adam, Niki (or whoever), Parkman's dad Maury, new guy Knox, who feeds off people's fear, and, of course, Sylar. She tells Future Peter that the horrible things she's seeing are due to his presence, offering up Claire's encounter with Sylar as something that wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been there to tell her to stay home. In the wake of said encounter, Claire discovers that she's no longer feeling pain when she injures herself, which causes her to feel divorced from humanity, so she…gets hit by a train, a lot, until Peter flies in and grabs her. She tries to get him to help her develop her powers, but, already freaked by the damage he's done to the timeline, he bails.
Maya comes back to see Mohinder, who's basically The Fly now, and he tells her that soon he'll be able to get rid of her unwanted powers, and then they totally do it right there on his lab table. I wish I were kidding. Mohinder's skin then starts peeling off, although if that's due to the injection or the Maya-sex is unclear. I vote for a combination of both.
Matt's still in the desert, and there's a funny bit where it looks like he's talking to a turtle, but he isn't, and there's really not much more to say about that other than that this particular desert is in Africa and some dude wants him to spirit-walk. Boooring.
Bob passive-aggressively tells Elle what a failure she is for "letting" Sylar get away. She comes back later to suggest that they use Unit 5 (that's where Bennet and the other prisoners from last episode are being held) as bait, only to find that Sylar has already killed him. She goes straight to Bennet, freeing him to help her take Sylar on, but Sylar immediately attacks her. Bennet shoots him several times, but is horrified when he regenerates. He incapacitates Bennet and then moves to cut Elle's head open, but she literally erupts with electrical energy, thwarting Sylar but also breaking open some of the cells and freeing Peter-in-Jesse (Weevil from Veronica Mars, heh) and Knox. Mama Petrelli then shows up, as she's in command now that Bob is dead, and fires Elle from the Company. Bennet comes home only long enough to tell Claire that the people Elle unintentionally freed from Unit 5 are villains, and must be stopped at any cost. Claire begs her dad to take him with her, but he won't, instead leaving a sentry to watch over his family -- Claire's fire-manipulating real mother, Meredith.
Hiro hires some expensive private detectives to get a line on Flashette -- her real name is Daphne, and she lives in Paris. He's also being all squirrely with Ando because of his experience in the future, but he takes him along to Paris, where he finds Daphne's hoarding a bunch of priceless works of art, including the Mona Lisa. He steals a cherished memento of hers as a bargaining chip, and through various time-stopping machinations, he starts to track her as she goes on a quest for the other half of the formula.
The Governor, despite the fact that it was HIS IDEA like three minutes ago, now isn't sure that Nathan is the right choice to appoint to the vacant junior senatorship of New York, so Tracy has to talk him into it. Once she convinces him, she goes to see Nathan, who of course thinks she's Niki, but it's pretty clear that she's not, as Linderman attests. On the other hand, no one can see Linderman but Nathan, so maybe we shouldn't take his word for it. Future Peter outs himself to Nathan, even confessing to trying to kill him, before telling him to make the right choices. Like, you know, NOT killing your brother. Nathan takes the offer, on the condition that Tracy join his staff. A reporter who's convinced she's Niki then threatens to go public with a video of that time Nathan and Niki did the Nasty, so she freezes him like she's liquid nitrogen and he's Robert Patrick. Future Peter returns to Unit 5 to free his present self, only to find Sylar strapped to a table, watched over by Mama Petrelli. Future Peter heads off to try to find Peter-as-Jesse, who's just now discovering what kind of murdering people he's hooked up with. Presumably both wanting to keep an eye on them and being aware that his appearance will put him at a disadvantage, though, he stays with them. And back at Unit 5, Mama Petrelli tells Sylar she's his mother. Because she didn't have enough sons who might destroy the world?
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