Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 657 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT He's Alive, I Tells Ya! ALIVE!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2008.10.13
Adam leads Hiro and Ando into a saloon (well, it's got the swinging doors, anyway) and Hiro gets shirty: "This is your plan? Go to a bar?" You... have met him, right? Adam says he hasn't had a drink in months, and "they make a mean appletini." Hearing David Anders say "mean appletini" is one of life's sublime pleasures. Now if they can just get him to say "nitro-burning funny cars," my life will be complete. (In the British accent, of course -- he does it so well.) Hiro threatens coffin time again, but Adam explains that the bar is the place to contract "specials," and since they know Daphne was hired, it seems like a good place to find a lead. Adam tells them to try to look tough while straightening Hiro's tie like he knows that's not happening, but Hiro gets the last laugh when Ando tries to stand all puffy-chested and broad-shouldered and stiff-armed, and he tells him, "He said took tough. Not like Mr. Roboto." That made me laugh, Hiro. Domo arigato. Adam jauntily tries to order a drink, but when the bartender, who looks like something Dian Fossey would have loved to hang out with, turns to face him, we quickly learn that Adam slept with his wife. And given that the bartender is about a foot taller than Adam and twice as wide, I think it's fair to say that the wife doesn't have a type. The guy hops the bar and swings at Adam, who ducks, leaving Hiro to get knocked out instead. Oh, Hiro. Just because you were told to act tough doesn't mean dodging a punch is off the table. Speaking of judicious avoidance, Adam runs for his life (so to speak) as Ando tries to get Hiro to wake up, even playing with his eyes to try to get him to freeze time, which is funnier than it has any right to be. Anyway, without Hiro there to control him, Adam is gone.
Mama Petrelli is standing over Peter, who's unconscious and strapped to a gurney, just like Sylar a few episodes ago, which seems obviously fitting. Nathan and Tracy enter, and Mama Petrelli tells Nathan she had to put Peter in a medically-induced coma, and then explains what happened before telling him they're in trouble and looking appraisingly at Tracy. Nathan kneels by Peter's side as he introduces her, but Mama Petrelli says she knows who she is, why she's come, and even that she saw Zimmerman. Pull up a chair, Tracy -- you could be there a while. She says if that's true, Mama Petrelli can help her, but Mama Petrelli breezily tells her Zimmerman's work was classified. Tracy threatens to go public, and Nathan asks his mother what she's hiding. She considers for a moment, and then confesses that Zimmerman was instrumental in developing "synthetic abilities" -- a technology they used experimentally on a number of infants, including Tracy, Niki, and Barbara -- and Nathan as well. Peter's like, "Damn, bro, I wish I could open my eyes to see the look on your face."