Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Apocalypzzzzzzz
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.23.2009
...and the commandos move, busting into room after room. They do that cheap trick where they dramatically focus on a room that turns out not to be the right one, but it's only a matter of time, and the fugitives know it, so Matt, at his breaking point, takes out one of the guns Peter brought back and puts it to Bennet's head, but Bennet saves his skin by barking that Daphne's alive. He invites a disbelieving Matt to read his mind, but Matt says they don't have time for that -- until Mohinder volunteers to hold the commandos off, the unstated implication being this is his way of making up for not telling everyone about the initiative, or whatever. The fact that Matt was TOO DUMB TO CHECK DAPHNE'S PULSE BEFORE HE LEFT HER BY THE PLANE isn't mentioned, but that's what my Caps Lock and I are here for, I guess. Matt goes back into Bennet's mind...
...and it's two days earlier. Bennet is walking down a hallway in Building 26 several steps behind a gurney when a female voice calls out, "This one's alive," so Bennet rushes over to see that it's Daphne, who's unnervingly crying out in pain. Bennet announces that it will take "three times the normal amount to keep this one down," and if anyone has an explanation for that math I really don't want to hear it. Also, may I point out that it's now clear she was shot IN THE SHOULDER, as it seemed at the time even from our vantage point, so how could anyone credibly have thought she was dead? Stupid, I have to say. Anyway...
...Mohinder beats the crap out of a few soldiers, but gets zapped multiple times even as he's trying to run away and finally goes down...
...and upstairs, Matt's holding a gun on the door as Bennet tries to tell him that he's not a killer. Matt: "You should have just taken the damn watch and stayed home." Matt, you did see about the crossword puzzles, right? The soldiers then burst in and tell Matt to drop the gun, and after he deliberates for about a million years, he finally complies. Bennet calls for them not to hurt Matt as they drop him to the floor and cuff his hands behind his back, and as they put a mask on his face, Bennet insists that he walk him out...
...and we cut to him doing just that. However, when they get to the bottom of the stairs, another charge clatters in front of Matt's feet, and when it goes off and the soldiers cover their eyes, Matt gets whisked away, and all I can say is it's a good thing Peter's pretty buff. Bennet looks up into the sky and sees Peter and Matt fly off into the night, and I spend the commercial break hoping that Peter's careful to touch only Matt's clothes, or they'll both fall to the ground while telepathically cursing each other out.