Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crash And Burn
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.09.2009
...we cut to Tokyo, where Ando is attempting to find some way to get to Hiro's current location, which is "Russellville, Arkansas," and the presumed travel agent on the other end of the line is having exactly none of it, even though Ando tries to tell her that Arkansas is where Clinton is from. If Arkansas won't even acknowledge that at this point, it seems a long shot that the agent will give a flying fuck. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, because after the agent leaves Ando moshi-moshi-ing to dead air, Daphne comes superzipping up, explaining that Hiro bragga-blabbed the location of the secret lair to her. That doesn't explain how she discovered from which noodle shop Ando elected to make his calls to travel agents who think he's insane, but I suppose she's fast enough to have checked them all out in the time it takes most people to slurp down a bowl of udon. Anyway, Daphne's worried about Matt, because he didn't come home the night before, and "he always calls." I'm so surprised. Ando tells Daphne Hiro's been kidnapped, and offers that the same thing might have happened to Matt. He adds that Hiro's in Arkansas, and when Daphne asks how he knows, he tells her they have GPS trackers. Daphne: "Of course you do." If she's dead, I'm going to miss her. Ando explains about his travel difficulties, and Daphne responds by grabbing his arm and superzipping them both out of there.
Wow, NeoIsaac is still supposed to be sitting in the chair next to Matt, but whoever they got to stand in for this shot is a little bit more, um, Caucasian. If he's even alive -- I actually think it might have been a Cabbage Patch doll. Hiro and Mohinder emerge from the RV in their new duds, and despite the fact that Hiro will tell anything to anyone and mentioned it in front of Mohinder like three scenes ago, Mohinder is only now absorbing the idea that Hiro no longer has his powers. I will give him points for not mentioning anything about an eclipse, though. Mohinder suggests Hiro turn himself in, and maybe he won't be harmed, given that he no longer has powers. I don't think I'd trust them to be that reasonable, given that they INVADED FOREIGN SOIL to get him in the first place. Can't really drop him back in Japan all "Oops, our bad!" Hiro, however, elects to give a tiresome speech about his duty and warriors and blah, and thankfully Matt decides to come out of his trance at this moment. Everyone inspects his artwork, and they discover that Daphne's going to get shot near the crash site, and what is the point of this power anyway? I mean, no one has even been able to avoid the outcomes of the paintings or drawings or whatever, so what is the point, seriously? Sometimes they act like the drawings are so important for guidance, but they always come true anyway, so it's just stupid. Anyway, they all head back.