Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste My Soup!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.10.2008
At the dinner table, Arthur compliments the soup Angela's made before asking, "Something on your mind?" You'd think a lawyer would be wary of making such a poor choice of words. Angela asks if he can't see inside it, and wonders if without his power, he'd know her at all anymore. Arthur possibly doesn't realize yet that her mind is dark to him, but regardless, that point becomes clear when he looks behind him to see The Haitian there. This, I liked, although it does underscore the fact that The Haitian is in many ways the most powerful figure on the show. Arthur looks at her, and the final piece is revealed as he starts to cough roughly, and she sarcastically asks, "Indigestion?" He doesn't seem to get it yet, though, so she asks him if he thinks he still knows her, and he replies that she's his wife, and he knows her like he knows his own heart. She smiles, deeply sad, and asks what she's going to do. "Am I gonna kiss you, or am I gonna kill you?" He's Italian, Angela. Those two things often go hand in hand.
So Elle's idea apparently wasn't to leave the room so the two boys could have gay sex -- instead, she's gotten more glassware for Trevor to demonstrate his power on, and she gushes almost orgasmically about how she just loves that, and he's so special. Sylar, however, has had enough of her word-of-the-day manipulation, and TKs Trevor into a bookcase, saying that he may be special, but he can't do that. Sylar holds Trevor in place as he grits to Elle that she needs to leave, but she has a crisis of conscience and lightly zaps "Gabriel," which causes him to lose his hold on Trevor for the moment. She begs Sylar not to do this, but he menacingly gets to his feet and asks who she is, and she backs up a couple steps, which prove not to be enough when he sends her flying. Bennet starts to get ready to intercede, but Sylar tells Elle to get out, and Elle does not have to be asked twice. Obviously, she could have incapacitated him, but I think her convictions in the matter simply weren't strong enough. Sylar then turns back to Trevor, who's just now recovering enough to try to use his power, but Sylar telekinetically holds his hands in place, and then wastes no time in cutting his head open. If only that fate befell everyone that uses finger guns.
Outside, Elle runs frantically for the van and tells Bennet they need to make Sylar stop, but Bennet is in his scientific-wonder mode, saying it's incredible -- he actually exposes the brain. Well, yes, cutting the skull open can yield that result. Elle breathes, "Oh my God"...