Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crash And Burn
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.09.2009
You know, I don't care about Sylar's Daddy Issues at all in the first place, and on top of that, his scenes are ruining the flow of an otherwise fairly tense and enjoyable episode, so you'll forgive me for going bare-bones here: Sylar is about to torture Mary when Luke erupts forth with his own power, which is the ability to manipulate microwaves. Mary is horrified, and Sylar is intrigued. Next!
Danko marches Claire into a tent, bitching about all his good men and saying the whole mess is her fault. Claire's unbowed until Danko draws a gun and looks very serious about shooting her in the back of the head, but Nathan steps out from offscreen and intercedes, and then Bennet appears and calls Claire's name while surveying the scene with eyes dark with suspicion. Nathan tells Bennet to get Claire out of there, and when they're gone, Nathan and Danko regard each other warily, and then Danko moves off, leaving Nathan to look like things are getting out of hand...
...and he pops out and calls Bennet's name, but Bennet isn't interested, instead leading Claire away as she somewhat shakily notes that Danko really would have shot her, an assertion with which Bennet agrees. He tells her to go home and lead the normal life she's always wanted, and when she asks what will happen to Peter and the others, Bennet looks back at Nathan before promising, "I'll do what I can." He puts Claire into a waiting car, and I'm surprised the driver wasn't instructed to wear a helmet. Across the way, Danko asks Nathan how many more casualties they'll take before he gets it, pointing out that just as Nathan will be a hero if the initiative works out, he'll be the political goat if it falls apart. Nathan calmly turns this right around: "We're all replaceable. Some of us more than others." Before the flies actually get unzipped, though, Nathan's phone rings, and it's Tracy, using one of the commando's phones to tell Nathan, after he shoos Danko away, that she's got Peter, and she'll turn him over in exchange for her old life back. Nathan agrees, and they set a meeting place to which Nathan promises to come alone. "You can trust me, Tracy." Now, given that Tracy made a big point of saying she thinks like Nathan, I was sure that she would know not to trust him, and her seeming betrayal of Peter would actually be the bait in a double-cross of Nathan. I think it's boring and predictable that that turned out not to be the case, but maybe Tracy's so desperate to get her life back that she'd convince herself Nathan's being straight with her here. Eh, I don't really buy it, I have to say. Anyway, Tracy tells Peter that Nathan's on his way, and Peter practically drools at the news.