Episode Report Card Erin: A | 100 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT This Just In: Sylar Has Mommy Issues.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2007.05.07
"You're not listening to me!" he yells. She looks shocked. "I am listening!" "No. You're making a tuna fish sandwich. I told you I didn't want one." She gets an injured look on her face and starts gathering up the fixings and angrily shoves them back in the fridge. "I made a mistake!" she says with tears sounding in her voice. "I'm sorry!" Sylar feels bad and goes to her, but when he goes to touch her, she recoils and freaks out as if his hands were branding irons. "Maybe I don't have to be special," he says. "Maybe it's okay to just be a normal watchmaker. Can't you just tell me that's enough?" She smiles and holds his face in her hands and says, "Why would I tell you that when I know you could be so much more? If you wanted, you could be President." He's already done that, thanks. Not so good at it, as it turns out. A little too much attention paid to genocide, I think. Sylar gets this look on his face that's like, "Oh, great. My mother's going to make me blow up the city because she doesn't like me being a watch repairman. Bitch."
Petrelli Election Headquarters. Peter and Claire enter as Peter explains that Nathan needs to convince the FBI to evacuate the city. Before they can enter his office, though, Claire sees Nathan talking to Thompson and pulls Peter aside. She explains who Thompson is and how he's the one she's been running from. Inside the office, Nathan tells Thompson that Linderman doesn't have a grasp on the situation and that all the pundits think he's going to lose. He brings up Ted, and Thompson says they know all about the nuclear guy. Outside, Claire continues to freak about Thompson talking to Nathan while Peter tries to calm her down by saying that they don't know what the situation is and that it's Nathan, so they should just trust him. Claire's like, "Uh, look, mama's boy, that guy in there is evil and after me AND HE'S TALKING TO YOUR BROTHER. Maybe you need to grow a pair and start admitting that you have no goddamn clue as to what's going to happen!"
Inside, Thompson suggests that Nathan's nervous. "Nervous?" he kind of squeaks. "You wanna blow up half of New York!" "Yes, we do," says Thompson in a conversational tone that makes it sound like someone's asked him if he has any bowler hats in stock. Claire accuses Peter of being scared and he totally agrees that he is. "I have to find a nuclear man and I don't know if I can contain all that power," he says. Well, when you put it that way, it really IS pretty scary. Claire wants them to run the other way, but Peter says if they save themselves, who's going to save everyone else? Good point. He says to her that she's not alone and then tells her to come with him. I'm not sure where he's going, but Claire says to herself that this is some crazy shit, so she's going to get the hell outta there.