Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 703 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Flip That Script
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 2009.03.09
When we return, Matt is panicking, but he gets a stay of execution when a message comes up on Asian Tech With Speaking Lines's monitor that he's been kicked out of the system, presumably by Rebel. Bennet has arrived, and after surveying the scene for a moment, which includes taking in a live news report that speculates that Nathan knows Matt personally, asks what's going on, but Danko's too busy watching over Asian Tech With Speaking Lines's shoulder...
...and back at the scene, Nathan suggests to Matt that he read the minds of the SWAT team, as they've got to be thinking about how to disarm the bomb. Another approach might be for Nathan to ask, "Does anyone know how to disarm the bomb?" but perhaps he rejected it as too obvious. Matt tells him the drugs are starting to wear off, and after a "this wire/no, THAT wire" exchange that played funnier in the promos...
...Asian Tech With Speaking Lines gets the bomb back on line, and tries again...
...but they've succeeded in ripping out the correct wire, and Matt tosses the deactivated bomb away. Matt sighs in relief, but when he turns around, Nathan clocks him in the face, knocking him out. Nice glass jaw on the security guard! With the ambient noise drowning him out to everyone but the viewing audience, Nathan apologizes, but says he can't have him using his power. I'm guessing he's referring to whatever the big secret was that she shared with Nathan at the end of last episode, even though that's weird because he just invited Matt to read his mind like three seconds ago, but again, he could just be referring to the goony head-tilting. Also, this time they succeeded in averting the disaster foretold by Matt's painting. Funny how that only seems to happen with explosions that threaten to kill off series regulars.
Sylar shows up at some ramshackle house out in the sticks, and enters Taxidermy Central to find his father Samson, played by the wonderful John Glover in what I'm sorry to say is going to be a wasted appearance. Sylar introduces himself as his son, but Samson doesn't get up or even turn around as he asks what brings him all the way out there. Sylar tells him he abandoned him and killed his mother, but Samson is unfazed as he asks what happens now. Sylar replies that he's going to kill him, but when Samson finally turns to face him, he gets a rude awakening, as he's got a breathing apparatus and trachea tube, and Samson confirms what you're already thinking by saying he's got terminal cancer, so the prospect of Sylar killing him really isn't all that intimidating. For emphasis, he lights up a cigarette, and while Samson's not exactly CGB Spender, Sylar still feels overmatched as usual to me here.