Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Like Coyote Sands Through the Hourglass...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.06.2009
Matt is staking out Building 26 (he got a parking spot right on that busy street? And no one from this crack spy agency is checking for this sort of thing, even though they've supposedly got their eyes on the whole country?) when Danko emerges, and Matt plants the thought in his head that something's wrong, and the person closest to him is in danger. Danko gets in a cab and heads off, and Matt starts following, although he's moving in the other direction, which in my experience means he has almost no shot of turning around and catching Danko, but things work differently on the back lot than in actual cities, I have to remind myself.
Bennet catches the Corpse Parade and removes the weapon from "Sylar's" head -- and nothing happens. Well, after the events at the end of the episode, I'm not sure this means anything at all. Bennet, however, is correctly convinced that this isn't Sylar, and orders a DNA analysis of the blood on the weapon. He then dramatically asks the corpse, "Who are you," like THAT matters.
Matt has followed Danko to a red brick house in the suburbs, at which he affectionately greets a blonde woman. The two of them head inside, and Matt opens the glove compartment to grab his piece...
...and he's not the only one loaded for bear, as Sandra shows up at Bennet's hotel room with divorce papers. Bennet's stunned, but she points out that he's perpetually lied to her, and adds that she's already changed the locks. He tries to tell her not to throw away twenty-two years of marriage, but she snaps that theirs isn't a marriage, just an arrangement -- a cover story. Rather desperately, he tells her he'll come back to California with her for counseling, but rather than let him shout her down, she yells, "I don't love you anymore!" The bug-eyed expression has returned, but this time it's a lot more justified. Sandra concludes by seething that he's a liar and a betrayer, and he doesn't care about his family. "I don't love you, I don't trust you -- I don't even respect you." This is the bit that made me sure it was Sylar here, and if Bennet logically thought this out, he would probably realize that there's no way Sandra would travel cross country with papers in hand to end their marriage and then not tell him about them at her first opportunity. But the point of Sylar's gambit here is to get him not to think rationally, which is why the storyline actually works for me for the most part. I mean, I still think Sylar's essentially a bored and spoiled child and nothing he does has any point, but this plan at least was clever and interesting to watch, and it's clear where he got the idea, having witnessed their little spat in the hallway when he was in Danko's form. Anyway, Bennet looks heartbreakingly panicked, but when "Sandra" is out in an alley, she morphs back into Sylar, and...oh, man, now he's wearing a shortie trench coat as he walks down the street. That's a joke not worth telling, and I know from those. Not that that usually stops me, but still.