Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1370 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Like Coyote Sands Through the Hourglass...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2009.04.06
Bennet's steeled himself to sit down and look at the divorce papers, but when he sees "Sandra's" signature, he immediately knows something's up. Not surprising -- the signature looks like something you'd see in a sixth-grade girl's yearbook, right under "K.I.T.!" He pulls up an electronic check record to be sure (i.e., to catch up the slow class) and then, when he sees the two don't remotely match, calls the lab to check up on the results and learns the DNA belongs to Odo. After he hangs up, he says to himself, "Sylar's a shapeshifter," and NO ONE says shit like that to himself out loud. I thought we were getting back to the point where the show was going to treat the viewers like adults, but this episode is a step backwards in many ways. Anyway...
...Lilith tells Matt that she's been seeing "Jakob" for almost a year, and her understanding is that he sells schoolbooks all over the world, and also, he has a wife and two boys back in Chicago. She goes on that once his kids are grown, they'll be together, and after the hell she's been through, so to speak, it's a miracle to have him. Matt, however, has had enough of this crap, and tells Lilith that "Jakob" is a liar, and she needs to get away from him. He tells her he's going to show her what he means, and I suppose that indicates he's going to use his mind mojo, although I'm surprised they didn't stay with the scene long enough for us at least to see the preparatory head-tilt.
At a gas station, Hiro's on the phone with Mohinder, and after Mohinder narrows down the "East Coast" thing for them by saying Matt's still in D.C., he warns them that Matt's on a destructive course. He adds that it's difficult to change a man's mind when he feels he has nothing to live for, and considering what a cartoon much of this episode is, I'm surprised we don't see a light bulb go off over Hiro's head in response. Ando gets back in, and after poor James Kyson Lee is forced to make the face again, they get moving, unaware that around a rack of tires are Nathan and Claire, who are finding Coyote Sands on a map. They discuss nothing of relevance, but I'll forgive that, because when we cut to a shot of Hiro and Ando's car, we see Nathan's telltale air trail zoom past them in the sky. I'll never get tired of that.