Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT ...And I Don't Care
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 04.20.2009
...leading us back to "Nathan" giving his speech. He talks about "shaking up the power structure" in Washington and whatever, which must seem pretty rich coming from someone who wasn't even elected, and then announces that the President has refused to take his calls. We see Hiro and Ando, as well as Danko, are watching this nonsense as well, as Sylar goes on about real change and shaking the President's hand and being Mommy's Special Little Boy and whatever, but the scene ends on a moment I liked, as Sylar gives a toothier smile than you ever thought possible, and the real Nathan looks at him like, "Do I really sound like that?"
At Coyote Sands, Nathan tells everyone he's going to solve the Sylar problem on his own, despite everyone's warnings that it's a very bad idea. He bails, but Peter heads after him...
...and Ando STILL will not let the stupid partnership thing go, so I can't blame Hiro for trying to freeze time again. Unfortunately, his head hurts worse than before, and his nose starts bleeding profusely. Bet you wish you hadn't spent the last fifty minutes nattering at him, eh Ando?
Matt's staring pensively at his old badge, and when Janice enters the room, he tells her he can't go with her, because he needs to fight the good fight to make sure they all can have a life together. She seizes on the "together" part, and he admits that he's not sure what will happen, but he wants to get to know her again, and he's going to fight to do so. He gets more than he bargained for, however, when the commandos storm the place, but he tells Janice to stay close to him...
...and then Nathan is busting into his office and searching his desk for something. Unfortunately, Sylar is there, and holds out a gun as he asks if it's what he's looking for. He then turns back into his true form as he says that Nathan loathes himself, because he wants to destroy the one part of him that makes him special. "Your power." Oh, phew, I thought he was saying Nathan was going to do something to his looks. Nathan sticks out his chin and says Sylar has no idea who he is, but Sylar informs him that thanks to Angela, he's got the ability to see the history of any object he touches, and now that he's gotten his special hands all over the stuff in Nathan's office, he knows that he's betrayed everyone he loves. Nathan steps forward and snarls that if he thinks anyone's going to believe Sylar's Nathan, he's got another thing coming, but Sylar says he's not going to be him. "I'm gonna be better than you." Wouldn't be hard this chapter, and yet I'd bet against him. Sylar raises his finger, taking like ten minutes to do so in case Nathan wants to put up a fight, but that doesn't seem to occur to him, so it's just as well when he's suddenly tranqued -- by Danko, who tells Sylar that as a Senator, Nathan has to be handled delicately, and Sylar, for his part, needs to turn back into the agent so he can help him out. Sylar stares at him...