Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 962 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 25 | Aired on 2009.04.27
...but apparently accedes to Nathan's request, as we cut to the Petrelli boys getting off the elevator upstairs, and the plan is basically for the two of them to fly at Sylar with the goal of having Peter touch him. On the way, Nathan tells Peter he loves him, and Peter returns the sentiment, which is nice. They get to the double doors of the suite -- which open to spit Claire out between the two of them. After she demolishes some innocent flowers in a vase with her ass, she tells them to get in there, and to accentuate that request, we see Sylar standing there, hands crackling with blue energy. The Petrelli boys fly at him, he hits them both with electrical bolts -- and the doors close and we see nothing else, like, WHAT TOTAL BULLSHIT, MY GOD. We endure Sylar for an entire season to get to this point, and instead of witnessing the climactic battle, all we get is some drunken Foley artists breaking everything they can get their hands on? Ugh. Anyway, after the noise dies away, Claire is able to reenter the room, but she only finds Peter -- the other two went out the window. Claire asks if he can fly after them, but in a reasonably understated moment, Peter says he can't. She doesn't dwell on that, instead saying they have to find them and running out with Peter limping after her...
...and then Nathan is thrown through a window into another room much like the one we just left, landing on a piano that gives a somewhat hilarious cacophonic groan in response. However, what ensues is no laughing matter, as Sylar, unceremoniously and without a word (I KNOW!) telekinetically slits Nathan's beautiful throat. Nathan gurgles a bit, falls to his knees, and dies, and after Sylar chuckles that Claire is going to be so mad at him, his face goes serious again, and he shifts into Nathan's current form (and outfit -- stupid power) and bails.
So Matt gets off the bus in D.C. to find Angela, who's all, "About time," because in the world she lives in, driving across the country only takes the better part of an afternoon. She babbles about Nathan and how he has to come with her, and he's like, Ixnay, I have to go blow some shit up, but she opines that having Nathan around will help them, and we're too close to the end for him to point out that as far as he's concerned, that's a joke and a half, so he settles for a beleaguered sigh.