Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 823 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT O Brother, Where Art Thou?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2008.10.27
At Pinehearst, Flint enters the war room and corn-pones that the building is sealed, and if Peter's still inside, he's not getting out. Sylar's voice cuts in that Peter is long gone, but he's not doing as well, as when the camera pans left, we see his legs hanging a couple feet off the floor. Nice. Papa Petrelli asks that Peter please be brought in alive, not that it seems like he cares about that in other parts of the episode, and then, when Flint leaves, turns his attention to Sylar, who's floating in the air. Given the heavy-handed religious imagery this season, I'm surprised he doesn't have his arms splayed out to the sides, but there are plenty of episodes left for that, I guess. Papa Petrelli tells Sylar it's a surprise to see him, given that he turned down the recruitment offer, but Sylar's more interested in asking what his father did to his mother. Papa Petrelli tells Sylar that Mama Petrelli has done terrible things, and Sylar petulantly responds, "So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." Hmm. Getting back to the religious stuff, Papa Petrelli asks if Mama Petrelli has forgiven Sylar's sins, and when he responds that his mother accepts him for who he is, Papa Petrelli tells him Mama Petrelli is using him as a weapon -- "a blunt instrument to be manipulated and then discarded." Sylar, getting worried, protests that his mother loves him, but Papa Petrelli tells him when he was born, Mama Petrelli had a dream about what he'd become, and she was so terrified by it that she tried to drown him. He releases Sylar from his invisible grip as he goes on that he got to the bathroom just in time, as she was holding him at the bottom of the tub. The story does conceivably play, as Mama Petrelli has been pretty quiet about the whys of giving Sylar away, and Sylar knows it, looking scared as Papa Petrelli holds a hand out to him. "It's time to learn the truth about your mother."