Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1370 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Like Coyote Sands Through the Hourglass...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2009.04.06
...and in the hallway, Bennet gets a very ugly look on his face before moving away from the locked door. I'd almost feel worried for Sylar if I didn't want him dead, and also didn't know that that will never, ever happen.
Lilith shows up at Danko's apartment (did he just take a four-hour lunch for some reason?) and then Matt appears behind her, gun in hand. They all head inside, and after Matt closes the door, he sneers that when he was a cop, he was surrounded by "basket cases" like Danko -- men whose jobs were such a nightmare they would seek out anything to ease the pain. Probably true, but if I were Lilith I'd be like, "I may be the ESL version of Pretty Woman here, but I'm not so dumb that I think that's a compliment." Speaking of whom, Matt tells Lilith that her boyfriend kills people for a living, and instead of being turned on by that, Lilith is shocked. Matt then uses his power to force Danko to come clean about his identity and his job, and also what he did to Daphne. He admits that he didn't tell her the truth because he knew if he did, she wouldn't love him, and Matt, realizing that Danko truly cares about Lilith, again makes like he's going to shoot her in cold blood, saying it's the only way Danko will understand what he did to Matt. Danko, however, calls his bluff, inviting him to go ahead while promising he'll continue with the program no matter what. Lilith is, understandably, rather devastated to hear all this, and Matt apologizes, getting overcome himself as he points out that this is what Danko's reduced both of them to. "In his world, there is no room for mercy." After another moment of indecision, Matt finally lets it go, literally and figuratively, as his gun clatters to the floor, and Danko doesn't waste any time picking up his own weapon off a nearby shelf and leveling it at Matt. Lilith screams for him not to, but Matt tells him to go ahead, and he shoots -- but time suddenly freezes. Hiro enters and, seeing the bullet in midair, marvels, "Oh. Close one." Heh. He gets Matt into a chair and wheels him out of there, and then time restarts. After Danko runs out into the hall and sees no one, Lilith faces him: "Monster!" Takes one to know one. She tells him to stay away from her, and runs out as Danko is left to sad-face his way into the commercial break.