Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 1058 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT An Eclipse! An Eclipse!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2008.11.17
Sylar's shirt has seen better days, and he rests on his hands and knees as Elle grits that she'll kill him for murdering her father. He tells her that she deserves her vengeance, and he'll take whatever she's got, so she zaps him again with the full force of her electrical anger. You'd think his eyebrows would fall out under the assault, except I always figured those things had superpowers of their own.
Daphne and Matt have made it to Primatech, and Daphne, noting the empty halls, opines that it's "like a ghost town." On cue, Matt sees NeoIsaac standing silently down the hall, and for that to happen you'd think she'd at least have had to chant his name five times while looking in a mirror. NeoIsaac moves, and Matt chases after him...
...right into Angela's room. He's chagrined to find her in a waking coma, and when he uses his power to try to mentally connect with her, he only sees a brief flash of her horrified reaction when she saw Arthur before convulsing in pain. He says he has to help her, and Daphne tells him she's going to get a nurse. Once she's out of the room, though, she superzips away, so either she's up to something, or she meant a wet nurse for some reason I can't quite figure.
Arthur looks at a file and sees a picture of Kaito, then of Claire, before Daphne arrives and urgently tells him that Matt's trying to help Angela. More haltingly, she asks if he's responsible for her condition, and Arthur answers by non-answering: "Mrs. Petrelli will be fine." Daphne asks if Matt can be left out of the situation, but Arthur threatens her with the specter of Whatever The Shit She Did That Got Her In So Much Trouble, so she asks what she needs to do. Arthur tells her to stay with Matt, and if he tries to help Angela, "then I'll be waiting." You've been in like five scenes already -- could you wait off-screen for a change?
Peter tells Claire they need to split up and blah, and eventually confesses why he's being so insistent about shielding her -- the alley they were in is the very scene of Future Claire ending his future self, and she's on the path to becoming a killer. He begs her to go home, but better people than he have tried that this season already, so it's no surprise when Claire says it won't happen, and what's more, it's his fault. "You should have never come to Odessa to save me. You should have never become my friend, or my hero. Or my boyfriend." Once you start on those, it's kind of hard to stop. She adds that she can't leave him now because she owes him a debt, and then Knox and Flint catch up to them again and Claire sends Peter off. But when they face each other, Flint tells Claire: "We didn't come for Peter. We came for you." As Grandpa Simpson would say, that's an onion in the ointment. Claire at least doesn't waste time with words as she tries to hightail it out of there, but she gets approximately two feet before Knox tackles her. Damn, Claire, that would be embarrassing even if you hadn't been making yourself out to be such a badass. Peter hears Claire's outburst and pauses, but it doesn't seem like he can do anything as Knox starts to lead Claire away. I wonder if Flint would act differently if he knew it's his niece Knox is manhandling? Or what his reaction would be to learning that he and Peter are kind of hookups-in-law?