Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2137 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Boom Goes The Dynamite?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2009.03.02
...and we cut to the other side, where Bennet is telling Danko and the others that Matt's a powerful telepath, but when he uses his ability, "his senses become raw nerves," and they can use that to disrupt his thoughts. How many asterisks did Matt's power come with? He pulls the fire alarm...
...and sure enough, Matt starts to lose focus, which of course means that he's going to lose his hold on the guards barricading the command center. Moments later, the recording is complete, but then another message pops up from Rebel warning them they have thirty seconds. The power then cuts out, which is a blessing in disguise because the alarm goes with it, so when they run into two guards outside, they're able to mentally subdue them. However, Nathan and Danko then show up behind them, and Matt kind of inexplicably sends Peter on without him, saying he can hold them. I mean, certainly it's important for the recording to see the light of day, yet at the moment, Matt is using the two guards to hold back Nathan and Danko, and it seems like he could have kept doing so while escaping. Anyway, the power comes back on, and with it the alarm, and against that noise, Matt stands no chance and is taken.
Well, after that tense and action-filled scene, it makes sense to cut to something boring -- how does Sylar and that stupid toy car sound? He intones that something terrible happened there -- his father did something to him. Luke thinks it's probably good that he blocked it out, but Sylar snaps, "It eats away at your soul." Does Sylar say anything these days that isn't a 9.8 on the Drama-Meter? Who talks like this? Anyway...
...we pick up the flashback where we left off, and Sylar's dad brings him over to, presumably, his uncle, money is exchanged, and then Sylar's dad is out of there. Sylar chases after him and sees him get into a sedan with a woman in the passenger's seat. He gets close and sees them arguing, and then Sylar's dad raises a finger and telekinetically slashes her head open, with red blood intruding on the black-and-white screen by splattering across the back windshield. They're not trying to tell us that Sylar inherited his power from his father, are they? Since we know from onscreen evidence that that's absolutely untrue? Good. We get a quick look at Samson Gray, who looks a bit like a bulkier Jeff Bridges, as he pushes his wife's corpse out the door and drives off, which is cold. Still kind of wussy for Sylar to be all "Mommy?" out loud in the present, though, or at least it seems Luke thinks so from the "This is the object of my idol worship?" look on his face.