Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 657 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT He's Alive, I Tells Ya! ALIVE!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2008.10.13
When we return, Sylar only has to hang on for a few more seconds before the vortex closes up, causing Claire to fall flat on her face. She looks at Sylar balefully, which seems like an overreaction given the immediate circumstances, but she's probably still pissed about the brain thing. Teenagers can hold such grudges. Sylar asks if she's okay, and Claire makes me giggle with her petulant response: "Peachy." Bennet pulls Claire into an unreturned embrace, and then Sylar, who went out to check outside, returns and says Canfield is gone. Bennet turns to Claire and asks where Canfield was going, and he at least sounds like he knows he needs to tread somewhat lightly here as he says Canfield is dangerous, but Claire responds that he isn't, and who is he to talk anyway, having brought Sylar here? Sylar steps forward and apologizes, saying when he touched her, he could feel the pain he caused her, but Bennet gets all Protecto-Dad and tells him he doesn't get to talk to her. "Ever." Nice try, Bennet, but in a couple episodes they're going to be IMing about how you just don't understand them. You should see the emoticon they're going to pick out for you! Claire desperately tells Bennet that Canfield isn't a killer -- he's just having problems, like she did, only he has no one to help him like Bennet helped her. Bennet puts on his kindest, most fatherly face as he tells Claire just to let him talk to Canfield, and if what she says is true, he'll make other arrangements. "You can trust me, Claire. I wouldn't send anybody to Level 5 that doesn't belong there." Claire looks pointedly at Sylar, which suggests that on some level she doesn't believe Bennet even now, but tells him Canfield is at the Griffith Park carousel. You can only play the "you can trust me" card while baldly lying once, Bennet. I hope it's worth it.