Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 919 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Shouldn't That Be "The Fly Effect?"
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2008.09.22
Oh, great, we're back in the desert with Matt. No disrespect to the Israelites, but I have the feeling this storyline's going to at least seem to last forty years. Matt wanders. He passes a vulture. who's like, "Don't go too far -- lots of meat for the picking." He wanders. He hallucinates. He passes out, face down...
...And in an ironic segue, we cut to jaunty music (Iggy Pop's "He's Frank") playing as Sylar struts down the street. We then suddenly switch views to a black-and-white recording from a camera inside a car, which quickly pulls up to Sylar. The two occupants get out and tell Sylar to get on the ground, and the male shoots him. Iggy Pop tells us, "He's a peculiar boy." I've certainly always thought so. Sylar merely staggers back a step, leaving them to look at each other ineffectually for ten years before he mercifully knocks their incompetent asses away, and the male goes flying into the windshield, apparently breaking the camera in the process...
...And we pull back from the static-y image to see that Bob (Tobby) has been watching the feed. He tells Elle that they were two of their best agents, and I'm going to assume he's saying this to drive home the point that she screwed up, because I've seen more subtle attempted apprehensions on episodes of Cops, and if that's the best the Company has to offer, they are up shit's creek indeed. Elle apologizes for letting Sylar get away, and says she can still stop him, but he looks at some files as he offhandedly and faux-rhetorically asks why he should keep putting her in a position where she's just going to let them both down. "That's not fair to either of us, is it?" Elle looks at him like she can't believe even he could be quite this passive-aggressive, but in fairness he is about to have his skull sliced open, so it's good he got to go out on a high note.
We get a closeup of a computer screen that's being used to digitally analyze fingerprints, and we see Hiro is watching this when Ando calls his name. Hiro's like, "Don't startle me like that, you traitorous electrified punk!" Or so was implied by his girly double-take. He accuses Ando of sneaking up on him, and I know he's freaked out by his trip to the future, but it's hard to sneak up on someone after CALLING HIS NAME FROM HALFWAY ACROSS THE OFFICE. Ando asks who all the mysterious guys are, and Hiro tells him that they're expensive and discreet private detectives. Although the subtitles actually say they're "discrete," which could be another reason why they cost so much. Anyway, Hiro explains that they're trying to get an ID on Flashette, and presently, one of them comes up with the news that her name is "Daphne Millbrook." Fine, spoil my fun. The guy gives Hiro her address, which is in Paris, and Hiro makes to teleport out of his office like, two seconds later, and though I'm willing to believe the guy made it out of the room, you still might want to CLOSE THE DOOR JUST IN CASE. Ando asks if Hiro isn't going to take him along, and Hiro's like, "Oh, yes! Why would I possibly forget that! Surely I am not afraid of you possibly killing me over the formula that I'm just going off to get! That could not be it at all!" They pop out of there.