Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 655 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT He's Alive, I Tells Ya! ALIVE!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2008.10.13
Hiro manages to choke out that he needs Adam's help, and Adam asks the reasonable question of why he would help Hiro, given that he buried him alive. Hiro, however, chooses to answer simply by squinting out his Number Two Face, after which Adam is back in the closed coffin. This deft nonverbal parry, however, is followed up by a tiresome conversation about how Adam killed Kaito and he's a VILLAIN but Hiro's a HERO and heroes must take RISKS to SAVE the WORLD, and I'd be totally bored were it not for the fact that Adam has been keeping up a steady stream of invective toward Hiro and continuous knocking on the inside of the coffin. David Anders just totally rules. Hiro calls in that he'll give Adam another chance if he behaves, and the knocking ceases and Adam singsongs, "Okay!" Hee. Hiro zaps Adam back out, and as soon as he mentions the formula, Adam laughs at The Company's predicament. "Even I told them to destroy it." Ando asks if, then, he knows who would steal it, and Adam slyly says maybe, but asks what's in it for him if he tells them. Hiro: "When we finish our mission, I promise to put you in a more special cell." If that's indicative of Hiro's negotiating skills, it's just as well he's not actively running his dad's company. Adam tells them to forget it, but when Hiro makes to put him back, Adam asks him to wait, and spits that he's a "Japanese Nazi." Hiro's like, "I should really argue this point, but this episode has five hundred scenes and we're already over our time quota, so I'll let it go." Adam suggests Mama Petrelli as the thief, but when he learns that she gave them their assignment, he tells them he's out of ideas. Hiro zaps him back into the coffin, which shouldn't be funny but it's David Anders so it totally is, and Adam calls from within that he knows how to find the big villain. "I have a plan!" Hiro gets excited at the word "plan," even though every time he uses it the world gets closer to extinction. Ando looks more skeptical, because he is the brains of the outfit.
Establishing shot of a building marked "Pinehearst," and the logo of the double helix next to the name is rather suggestive, no? Inside, Linderman asks Daphne how she feels about recruiting, and Daphne's reply is unfortunately not "Don't get the wrong idea from my hair." Instead, she asks for clarification, and Linderman replies that it would be on behalf of "an organization for a new world order." He goes on that they could live in a world where people like her are embraced and their gifts acknowledged and respected, and Daphne's fine with that as long as she keeps getting paid. In other words: This entire conversation is completely unnecessary. If the show asked whether that was true in every scene, it would be more exciting. And a lot shorter. Linderman instructs her to invite people like her to join them, and gestures to a stack of files in front of him. "Everything you need to know is right here." It'd be pretty funny if the first one contained a conditioner ad. I mean, Linderman's hair is pretty spiky, but I think even he has his limits. But no, the files actually contain pictures of Knox and Mohinder, and after a quick look at the attendant information about them, Daphne concludes that they're some pretty nasty people. "I don't like getting my hands dirty." Linderman has rarely looked shiftier as he says that they've merely lost their way. "It's time for us to give them purpose." Daphne stares like she's trying to look through him, which will make more sense later.