Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 1293 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ice To See You
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2009.02.16
Alex and Claire pull in somewhere, and Alex can't believe that the government is just locking people up. Claire asks if he has a power, and after a long moment, Alex confesses he can breathe underwater. If they purposely gave him a power that's eventually going to lead to him taking his shirt off, not only do I appreciate it but I think the writers have gotten smarter. He goes on that he never told anyone, and he didn't know there were others. If that's true, I wonder how they found out about him. He confesses that he always felt..."like a freak?" Claire supplies with a conspiratorial smile. She then gets serious again and instructs him not to go home or to use his credit cards or cell phone. He quite reasonably asks what he's going to do, and she tells him they'll figure it out, but her attention is distracted by a car passing behind them, which she observes via the side mirror. She says it's the second time that particular vehicle has passed, and asks if the car is registered under Alex's name. The look on his face is all the answer she needs, and they get out and run. (That doesn't completely explain how Bennet tracked them down, but I'm guessing the traffic cameras came into play again.) No sooner have they taken cover around the corner than a couple cars pull up (I suppose Bennet was waiting for backup before he tried again to take Alex) and some agents get out, one of them noting the car's still warm. Claire gets in a quick "I told you so" but the two of them don't wait around to see anything more.
Anna and some other woman apparently own a restaurant together, and they give Ando food with which to stuff his face before Anna tells Ando and Hiro that her grandfather disapproved of her decision to open the place, because he thinks women are chattel...er, "believes in tradition," which is why he arranged the marriage she just walked away from on the word of a stranger with pink jazz hands. She adds that the fiancé, "Deepak," is a powerful and dangerous man and above the law, before going to get them more food. When they're alone, Hiro, who's acting like such a baby that he might actually have been holding his breath this whole time, bitches at Ando for taking away his chance to get his powers back, or whatever, and Ando accuses him of not being able to deal with the fact that he has no abilities and is only a sidekick. Their tiresome argument is thankfully interrupted when a rather irate man who's clearly the jilted fiancé appears and storms into the back to tell Anna what's what. Ando goes back to try to intervene, and Deepak shows what he thinks of that idea by picking up a pot big enough to cook enough basmati rice for the entire wedding party...