Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 1173 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste My Soup!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2008.11.10
Out in the garden, Arthur is pruning some flowers when Angela practically skips out and asks him to reconsider coming to Peter's graduation party. Arthur does not directly call his son a fag, but the way he intones "nursing school" pretty much says it all. Angela whispers that when Peter's powers manifest, he'll become a great man, and she's in for enough disappointment on that front that I won't make jokes at her expense. Nathan then appears, and when Angela disappears, Arthur says that he's concerned, and he's asking not as a lawyer but as a father for Nathan, for the sake of their family, to hand the Linderman case off to someone else. Nathan, however, opines that Linderman is toxic to the family, and he'd be thrilled to put him away. Nathan starts to walk away, but sensing his father's unrelenting gaze, turns back and asks what's up. Arthur: "You look good in a suit, Nathan." Just in case that wasn't evocative enough of a funeral, Arthur turns and snips off a white carnation, and if this is the level of subtlety we're dealing with, why not pull a hearse around for your son while you're at it?
Oh, because we have to relive the scene where Nathan's wife Heidi gets paralyzed. So the twist is, of course, that it was Arthur who was trying to have Nathan killed and Linderman was just the go-between, and as we already knew, Nathan's power manifested at just the right time to save him (possibly fueled by adrenaline, I feel unwillingly compelled to say). Later, at the hospital, Nathan's parents show up, and Nathan wastes no time in snarling at this father that it was Linderman's guys that ran him off the road. Peter drags Nathan off to make out (no, seriously, watch the scene), but not before Nathan tells Arthur that he's going to hurt Linderman. "And when I do, if you're standing next to him, you're gonna get hurt too." I guess his aim isn't very good. Nathan tells Arthur it's time to choose a side, and then Peter yanks him away by the pants as Angela looks confused and worried. There'll be more of that coming...