Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Kissing a Fool. Or Two.
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.10.08
Apparently, I'm not the only one who's irritated by this storyline.
So, run, run, run. Chase, chase, chase. Only Maya gets away and Alejandro is captured. Big shocker there. I wonder if Maya's going to think this is her fault. I wonder if she's going to cry and moan and make black shit come out of people's eyes. I wonder if I care.
Vegas. It's time to check in with Micah and Niki Sanders. If you were thinking that at the end of the last season, D.L. looked to be in bad shape, then you were on the right track; apparently, he's dead. We know this because Micah and Niki are having a serious conversation about leaving Las Vegas and getting a clean start and they're doing this in a cemetery. Micah doesn't want to leave his father, but Niki thinks they need to get out of town to start their lives over. Micah runs to his father's grave and, in a nice touch, the epitaph reads: "Daniel Lawrence Hawkins, 1976 - 2007, Father, Husband, Hero." Aw.
Fake Maui. Trust me, it's an illusion. As you will soon see. Two beach chairs are set up on the sand beneath an umbrella made of palm fronds. A cell phone rings and a comely redhead wearing a pink bikini picks it up. She tells someone that "he" is fine but still sleeping. Just then, there's a groan in the background, and the girl hangs up the phone and turns to the person in the chair next to her. It's Sylar! He's alive! The girl asks him if he wants to go for a dip in the ocean and Sylar just groggily asks where he is. She says they're in Maui. He asks who she is, and she introduces herself as "Michelle," but then quickly clarifies that she used to go by the name of Candice. So it's our old shape-shifter friend!
Candice says that after she yanked him off of Kirby Plaza, the police have kind of been looking for her, so she's decided to permanently change her appearance to this buxom Michelle character. Sylar's kind of slow on the uptake, because he just goes, "You dragged me off of Kirby Plaza?" She reminds him about how he got stabbed in the chest with a samurai sword and informs him that he's had eight surgeries so far. "Don't move," she says, "or you'll rip your stitches." Sylar looks down all, "But...I don't have any stitches! And I'm wearing a hideous red Hawaiian shirt! Help me!" Candice tells him about her special talent for making illusions, and Sylar takes her hand and asks her to show him what's really going on. "Honey?" she sneers. "You really don't want to know." He yanks her toward him. "SHOW ME!" he snaps. Unfortunately, this sudden movement causes him some pain and, as Candice dissolves the illusion, Sylar sees that he's actually in some bunker somewhere with an eight-inch wound in his gut. He screams with pain as we fly out to the Total Eclipse of the Heroes.