Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | 1150 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT One Peter Down…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2008.10.06
Peter steps forward and tries to tell Claire how he's not the same guy as FP, but she's not interested in the slightest, so he asks her how she got this way. Claire: "I learned how to take care of myself." She points the gun at Sylar, but Peter has absorbed Daphne's power, so he superzips toward Claire and decks her. So why did she take The Haitian before and not now? Did Daphne superzip them all out there (doesn't seem like that's how her power should work, anyway) and they couldn't take The Haitian because her power wouldn't operate in that case? Whatever -- until I'm convinced the show cares, I'm not going to, either. Daphne zips toward Sylar, knocking him through a wall, and when he gets back to his feet, he sends Noah into the kitchen to take cover. Daphne superzips circles around Peter, punching him like a speed bag (oof, sorry) and then running away, while Knox menaces Sylar, who's a brave little toaster, saying that he knows Knox feeds off fear, and he's not afraid of him. Knox, however, has a terrified ace up his sleeve -- Noah, and he uses his fear to throw Sylar down onto the table, which breaks, and then kick him and the debris across the room -- right into his son. Sylar frantically digs Noah out, but it's too late, and as Peter and Daphne both watch in horror (she's got kids too!) Sylar turns into his old self before our very eyes as he starts whaling on Knox, while Peter takes advantage of the opportunity by TKing Daphne into the wall, knocking her out. Sylar pounds away, but his hands are now glowing, Ted Sprague-style, and after he subdues Knox he cries out in pained rage. Peter desperately calls, "Gabriel!" and starts toward him, presumably hoping to do for Sylar what Nathan did for him, and Claire, having gotten back to her feet, points her gun, but they're both too late, as Sylar explodes, and we pan back to see a huge mushroom cloud. So this is the future they saw, and Peter unwittingly helped create it. Why is anyone even bothering to try to save the world here? It never works!