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
We return to a shot of a wall with several Heroes' photos on it: Peter, Matt, Sylar, Hiro and Mohinder, among many others. This is in Nathan's office, and we're back to him telling the story in the future, but it really adds nothing other than to let us know that ZI's name is "Danko," so I'm going to skip these little interludes from here on out unless Nathan does something interesting with his wardrobe -- specifically, cutting down on it.
The morning after the plane's destruction, Nathan is barking at Danko for ordering an air strike, but Danko tells him he's the field commander, and the second the plane was hijacked, Nathan's prisoners were re-designated as terrorists. He sums up his philosophy: "If you have a rabid dog, you don't put a chain around its neck and pray for miracles. You put it down!" I take it Danko wondered what all the tears were about at the end of Old Yeller. He adds, with a baleful look over at Claire, who's tied to a chair and being watched like a hawk several yards away, that Nathan's daughter turned a simple transport flight into a national security emergency. Nathan says he'll deal with Claire, and Danko scores points with me: "You do that." Nathan and Bennet exchange a look...
...and then we're with Peter, who's running for his life when Tracy calls to him. She's freaking out about her life and why Nathan would do this, but Peter gets her to her senses. And by "to her senses," I mean "to shut up," so it's no wonder his stock continues to rise. The two of them resume running.
Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro have come across... an RV? Given that you can hear their aircraft overhead, it seems odd that the commandos wouldn't have secured this location that's out in plain sight, but Matt's being led by a vision of NeoIsaac, as it turns out, which he follows into the RV. When he reemerges, he's got paper and pencil, and he...draws. Dramatically, if the score is to be believed. While he does, Mohinder and Hiro steal some clothes off the laundry line to replace their conspicuous orange prisonwear, and I guess we're meant to assume that the RV owner fled the scene because of all the military activity, but this does still seem rather convenient. There's a rather funny moment where Hiro considers donning a T-shirt that reads "Rednecks are better lovers" and then thinks better of it, and it's not that the joke is so incredibly clever but that the show does so much better when it's not taking itself quite so goddamn seriously. Anyway...