Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C+ | 253 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.10.19
Sylar and Samuel are strolling through the carnival, as Sylar wonders why Samuel would take him in and hide him from the police, since he doesn't even know him. Samuel says of course he knows him: "You may not realize it, but you're a man of great powers." The word "powers" gets to Sylar, and he tells Samuel how he raised his hand at the police station last night and threw a man across the room. He wonders what's wrong with him, and Samuel says nothing's wrong; Sylar's special, just like everyone else here. He asks a random guy pushing a cart full of stuffed animals to show him what he can do, and the guy makes the cart and animals invisible and then brings them back. So maybe he made the carnival invisible when the cops came into the meadow? Samuel applauds and Sylar finally figures out that everyone here is like him. Samuel calls Lydia over, introduces her, and they shake hands. As they're shaking, there's a zapping noise and Sylar jerks away as if he's been shocked. Samuel asks what's wrong, and Sylar says, "I remember shaking a lot of hands. Like I was a politician or something. Is that possible?" That's the dumbest thing ever, because first of all, why would that make him so shocked he jumped away from shaking a hand and second, THIS IS NOT LEADING TO A BIG REVEAL FOR US. We know he has been living as Nathan. We also know he's actually Sylar. Unless we find out he's actually HRG shapeshifted into Sylar, this storyline is not going to tell us anything surprising. (I really am trying not to be annoyed, but why is this being built up so much just to reveal something we all already know?)