Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 657 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT You May Not Believe It…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2008.12.08
Sylar gets into an elevator, and while he had put on a clean shirt before he visited Sue, he hasn't changed since, so he's got a shirt that's stained differently but just as artificially, and I hope the wardrobe people got a two-for-one discount, at least. As jaunty muzak plays, he regards the only other passenger, an Asian guy who looks extremely nervous, possibly due to the fact that Sylar looks like he took a post-prom roll in the hay with Carrie White. He asks the guy if anything's wrong, and when he gets a negative, his new power kicks in, of which he observes, "Does kind of tingle." The guy looks like he does not want to know, and I can't say I blame him. Funny little scene, though.
Back at the messenger house, the dispatcher has recovered from his little stunt, and has also retrieved the sketchbook, which he says he found in the messenger's locker after he was canned. Oh, didn't see that one coming, did you, messenger? Seriously, though, this comic thing is so unbelievably dumb. If the future's set the way Isaac drew it, why are they bothering to find it and act it out? Wouldn't it come to pass regardless? And if it isn't set in stone, shouldn't they be trying to change the eventualities they don't want to come to pass? Whatever, anything to do with time on this show is just completely fucked, moving on. Anyway, Daphne opens the book and sees a drawing of Hiro with the caption: "Lost In Time." They pointlessly chat about what that means, before Matt turns the page and sees a drawing of a girl...
...which fades into a shot of Claire looking out from the terrace at night. Real dynamic and important moment for Isaac to include in his sketchbook! Claire then looks behind her and sees a figure in the door, which is eerily reminiscent of Kaito looking back and seeing Adam right before he died, a little touch I liked. Hiro comes out and solemnly tells Claire they can go home now, and that he's got the catalyst now, but it turns out that Arthur has just popped in behind Hiro, and they don't even bother insulting us by trying to explain because this one doesn't make sense even in the Jenga-like "logic" of the Heroes-verse. Anyway, after wasting precious seconds staring like a slackjawed yokel, Hiro tries to pop out of there, but Arthur grabs and draws him forward with an invisible grip, and thieves the catalyst and his powers away before tossing him off the side of the building. So besides the ridiculousness of Arthur knowing to turn up here, two things: Why didn't Arthur take his powers and kill him back in Africa instead of exposing us to the ten-year-old "storyline"? And after the incredibly touching scene with Hiro and his mother, in which the biggest point was her belief in him, was it necessary for him to lose the catalyst almost as quickly as he lost the formula? Anyway, Arthur then comes close to Claire and tells her he needs a message delivered. "Tell Angela it's over." Won't Claire need to serve her with papers for that? Anyway, he pops her out of there and then disappears himself, but we stay with the overhead shot and pan right to reveal Hiro, wrapped around a flagpole and hanging on for dear life...