Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 934 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 25 | Aired on 2009.04.27
...just as the man in question is starting not to look good at all. As all the prisoners take their leave, Mohinder examines him and says his body is rejecting his power, and warns him not to freeze time again, but you know Hiro's just going to babble about destiny and Bruce Wayne until his head explodes. Or mine does, at least.
Claire and "Nathan" get examined by security (which at least exists at the Stanton Hotel) and then meet "Liam Samuels," the President's Chief of Staff. Liam jokes to Claire that he and Nathan barely made it through boarding school together as Sylar gives him a side-eye of "The cufflinks told me THE REAL STORY ABOUT YOU, mwa ha ha ha ha!" Samuels tells them the President is making a speech that should last about 90 minutes and sends them upstairs to a suite to wait. But first, they have to sign in right there, and when "Nathan" does, Claire notices he signed with the opposite hand she thought he normally did, which is great, except she buys his lame coverup, so why bother with that little point at all? Anyway...
...Danko and Bennet bust out some tranquilizers that apparently have enough juice to take down a small dinosaur, and then Bennet stupidly turns his back on Danko, and Danko just as stupidly moves to inject him, because it makes total sense to have wasted Zeljko Ivanek on a character that ended up having no emotional journey whatsoever. Before Danko can go through with it, though, the hypo disappears from his hand and ends up buried in his neck, thanks to Hiro. Danko falls away unconscious, but then Hiro follows him to the floor in a catatonic state, which at least means there won't be any comments about how this is just like what Batman would have done.
Up in the suite, Claire's phone rings as Nathan eyes her inquisitively, and she takes a billion years to answer it, and then when "she" does, it's really Sylar in Claire's form, which is totally expected, because Sylar's a self-indulgent, moronic nine-year-old, and again, the show is so fucking in love with stupid reveals like this that I can't even stand it. This is the season finale, and this is what you think this is satisfying, or tense, or dramatic? Anyway, he shifts back into his true form and tells Bennet it's him before hanging up, and whatever, it's a commercial so let's just move on...