Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste My Soup!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.10.2008
Bennet looks like he's had about a gallon of coffee, so intently is he watching Elle work her pie-fueled magic on Sylar as she tells him using his power must feel amazing. He confesses that it does, but it can be overwhelming, too -- "like a drug that you can't get enough of." Elle asks how many other people with powers are out there, but Sylar tells her he doesn't know, nor does he want to. He likens himself to an addict (...great), and explains that he covets the powers of others -- except since he met her, he feels like maybe it's not necessary for him to be so special. "Maybe I can just be Gabriel again." Elle, however, takes his hand and tells him he is special. "You're special just the way you are." If you think that's a cheesy line...
...you're not alone, as when Elle comes running up to the van, Bennet gives a golf-clap delivery: "Special. Just the way. You are." Awesome. He snarks that he thought she was about to burst into song, but Elle uncomfortably tells him she doesn't think Sylar is going to kill again, and she thinks they should look into someone else on the list. Bennet won't hear of it, but when Elle points out that the suicide attempt could easily have been a wake-up call, he gets it: "You like this guy." Elle can't face him to deny it, and then really gets agitated when Bennet offers a name on the list, "Trevor Zeitlan," and says they need to see Sylar kill. WHY? So dumb, seriously, not to mention the part where they're sacrificing innocent people to that end. Elle says she won't do it, but Bennet offers to turn her loose in New York, suggesting she become a waitress, before telling her that she needs to follow orders to be an agent. "You're not an agent, you're on your own." Hey Bennet, doesn't she get enough of this from her dad? Speaking of whom, Bennet adds that Bob's been training her to be an agent since she was four, and then, Svengali-like, suggests they introduce "Mr. Zeitlan to Mr. Gray."
At Petrelli Manor, Linderman is apologizing to Arthur, who tells him how badly he's screwed things up. Linderman wonders if a second attempt on Nathan's life is advisable, but Arthur tells him the plan for New York has been in the works for years before adding, "Sometimes I worry you're outliving your usefulness." Unlike Nathan, Linderman knows a threat when he hears it, so he offers that he knows a guy in Montreal who worked for him in Vegas, and he's good and can be flown in that night. However, we don't get to hear Arthur's reaction, as the camera swings around to reveal that Angela has just entered the room and heard enough to learn of her husband's betrayal. She rushes to the kitchen and grabs a knife with which to hold Arthur at bay, but he attacks her with his mind: "It has to be done, Angela." She's aware of what he's doing at first, probably because her own mental abilities give her some measure of resistance, but he keeps at her, and as Linderman watches, she finally says it: "Peter has to die." Oh, fine, she said the other brother, but my way would have been a lot better.