Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sins Of The Father... And Sister
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 04.13.2009
When we return, Peter reports to Mohinder (after an aerial search, I'd assume) that Alice is definitely gone, but he found a film canister in the lab that he hopes will give Mohinder some answers about Chandra. Mohinder, however, points out that Alice's storm covered all the skeletons back up, and maybe he should take that as a sign to leave Coyote Sands alone. Peter agrees, and starts to head to the waiting car, but Mohinder says he's not going with him. Instead of being all "More room for me!" about it, Peter asks why not, and Mohinder tells him he's not ready to move on, and man, Sendhil Ramamurthy is nice to look at but is it ever painful to watch him "act." Also, I'm not sure why Mohinder's declaration that he's not ready to forgive himself translates into hanging out at the abandoned Coyote Sands, especially since he JUST SAID HE'S NOT INTERESTED IN DISTURBING THE PLACE FURTHER, but I don't care much about Mohinder at the best of times, so you can be sure I'm not going to slow down for him at Minute 56...
...so let's head over to the Coyote Sands Café, in which Angela is regretfully watching from a short distance as her family chows down...
...and in the past, she's telling the boys that they can never let something like this happen again. "No one can know about us." She's obviously been crying, but still, I'm not sure I'm buying she just lost her sister and parents, especially given how that occurrence at least partially resulted from a lie she told to the former. Different people cope differently, but still. Anyway, though, she says she had a dream that they're going to form a Company that will protect people like them, and they'll do anything to keep the secret safe. Also never really got the idea that's what Primatech was about, even on paper. (Oof, sorry -- I sometimes get punchy this close to the end.) However, without this leadup, Young Angela might not have had the chance to echo her older self's declaration that what they're going to do is "a necessary evil..."
...before coming back to the present, in which Nathan joins his mother and gives her the copy of Alice In Wonderland with the cover back on it. Angela opines that she'll never see Alice again, but Nathan gamely says she doesn't know that before offering that he gets her guilt, but she's got to let go of it. Yet again, I would suggest he's not the right person to say this, since he never had any guilt in the first place. However, I'm with him when he invites her to join them, and she accepts with a grateful smile. Once they've sat back down with the others, Peter supportively takes Angela's hand and announces that they're not a Company, but a family, and as such, they have the capacity for forgiveness. Nathan asks if he means that, and Peter replies that they're stronger together than they are apart, and besides, it's been so long since he and Nathan have caressed each other that he's almost forgotten what it feels like. He goes on that they have to stop the hunting and make their existence a secret again, and Nathan volunteers to go back to D.C. and take ownership of his mistakes by talking to the President. However, as Claire's sudden bewildered expression shows, that's going to be more complicated than it seems -- because Sylar has taken Nathan's form, and on live TV, he's telling everyone that "nothing will ever be the same." After this episode, I certainly hope not. See you next week!