Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 03.30.2009
Nathan and the one frat boy whose eyes are still open are sweatily continuing to pound tequila shots, lots and lots of them, and I know Nathan grew up a WASP but I still think he's in the high weeds here. Claire agrees with me, suggesting that they call things off, and gets her wish when her dad slurs some noble sentiments and then passes out. However, when the frat boy reaches for the money, Claire bets Nathan's watch for a rematch, which the guy calls "really nice," although after the 22 shots the guy says he's had I can't believe he can remotely discern what it is, let alone its quality. He also has the faculties to realize that him having done 22 shots to Claire's none isn't exactly fair, so Claire gamely smiles, says she'd better catch up, and starts pounding away as my liver begs me not to make it watch any more of this.
Sylar returns to Odo's place, only to find Danko waiting for him, gun in hand. Danko calls him "predictable," which is true in that his presence is always going to succeed in boring and angering me simultaneously, and opines that Sylar would do anything to get the shapeshifting ability. If this is their way of reducing Zack Quinto's screentime commitment while keeping the Sylar character around, they'd get points for being clever if they weren't fixing the wrong problem. Danko goes on that Sylar wanting this ability above all others is consistent with his profile, since he likes to take on "accents and affectations," and while I can only remember one time that was actually true (the whole performance with Maya and her hot, hot brother), his larger point that Sylar has been a monumentally inconsistently-written mess-- I mean, that he's "so desperate to be someone else" is taken. Sylar snaps, "You have no idea what I want," like, TRUE, and Danko replies that he could just end Sylar's and our misery now, but of course he's not going to do that, even though he came with a pointy weapon to bury in Sylar's skull. Sylar sits down and tells Danko that while he may have come prepared, he can't catch Odo without his help, and says he can round all the Heroes up. "Then you can take your shot." Can we get that in writing? Danko holds his gun up close to Sylar, but then pulls it away, and Sylar smiles at him until Rip van Winkle finally wakes up.
Angela is praying when Peter comes back with the tea. Instead of rejoining her, however, he looks up at the stained-glass image of Christ in front of him, lights a votive candle in the traditional Catholic way, and gives him a message of his own, expressing his frustration that people like him are on the run and dying and he can't seem to help them. "Do you even care? What you put people through?" He adds that he's tired of fighting and is angry with his entire family, and God as well. "Please, just show up." It's some of the better acting Milo has done on the show, understated while still urgent. Maybe he gets distracted when other people are actually in the scene. A wind then blows his prayer candle out, and he looks back and sees that some agents have entered that church. He doesn't even take the time to look back at the glass and be like, "Dude, seriously?" which I think shows commendable restraint. Instead, while the agents are momentarily distracted by a priest asking what the hell (pardon my language, Father!) they're doing, Peter and Angela hustle into two adjoining confessional booths. I wonder exactly how many rosaries and Hail Marys they'll commit to saying if God will just get them out of this one.