Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 03.30.2009
So Nathan's downed some tequila with these guys, and he proposes putting some money on a drinking contest, starting now. Too bad he doesn't have Lucille Bluth around to play ringer for him. Claire pulls him aside and asks if he's nuts, but Nathan waxes nostalgic (and a little drunk already, I'd say) about how they used to do this in his Navy days, and damn if I did not just get an image of Nathan in uniform. When I reopen my eyes some time later, Claire gives up and tells him to go for it, and he tells the frats to line them up. It's a really bad idea, but I'd still rather watch him do this than try to save the world.
Back at Building 26, the guy who puked before thanks Danko for his speech, and then a phone rings. Danko, perplexed, examines a cardboard box next to him and finds the phone in question on top of it, and then answers to find it's Sylar calling, and as the "agent" makes himself scarce, Sylar babbles for a bit until he tells Danko that the guy he's after is a shapeshifter, and the proof of that comes when Danko opens the box and finds a severed head inside -- a head with the face of the "agent" that was just in Danko's presence. Danko wastes no time in running after Odo the Changeling with some agents in tow, as Sylar stays on the phone just in case some random person is fool enough to pick up the other end and talk to him.
Danko and friends actually track down Odo in the parking garage and start shooting at him, but Odo flees, on the way bumping into a janitor and grabbing his wrist in a significant manner. He does at least politely excuse himself, though, and show, if you want me to root against the guy you're going to have to make him ruder. Anyway, after he's out of sight and with what looks like a very painful effort, Odo takes the form of the janitor and runs out to the street. Danko and the agents follow him outside, but they have no chance of finding him in the driving rain and large crowd, so they concede defeat. But... they couldn't have called ahead to the front door, perhaps? I mean, I'm not an expert on these things, but do you think locking down the doors so no one could leave the building could have been accomplished by sending out a general alert along the lines of "Lock down the doors so no one can leave the building"?
Back in church, Peter has gotten a dry coat for Angela out of "one of the bins," saying it looks like something she would wear. Angela: "It should. It's mine." Heh. She explains that she made a donation the week before, and continues to flog herself for her misdeeds as she says it's supposed to go to someone who needs it. Peter counters that she needs it, and she takes it without further argument, saving Peter and me the trouble of pointing out that this way she won't risk warping the pews any further. Peter comments that he wasn't aware she was still active in the church, but Angela says she gives mere things instead of her devotion -- just like she did with him and Nathan. As Peter sits uncomfortably, she apologizes for never having provided him with any emotional or spiritual comfort, especially when he was manifesting and she didn't tell him the truth. "You must hate me." Well, if he doesn't, it isn't because you're not making a good case. Peter considers a moment but chooses neither to confirm her suspicions nor to let her off the hook, instead saying he's going to get her a cup of tea. Even that gesture makes me think he doesn't hate her, although I reserve the right to change my mind if he ends up flinging the scalding liquid into her face. Oh, no, there he is, assuring her that he doesn't hate her, and whatever happens, she's still his mother. Angela is disconsolate, however: "I'm afraid that unconditional love isn't really love at all." Honey, if you feel the need to make amends, go for it, but until then I think you should take what you can get.