Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2137 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Boom Goes The Dynamite?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2009.03.02
Sylar and Luke enter the diner, and soon Sylar tells Luke he's been to the place before, and his father was there too. We then head into a black-and-white flashback to 1980, and a young, bespectacled Sylar gets led into the place by his presumed dad, whose face we carefully are not shown. Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" plays as his dad leaves him to talk to a man and a woman. He shakes the man's hand like they just sealed a deal while Sylar plays with a toy car until he accidentally drops it into a hole on top of the short wall next to him. His dad then grabs him and starts to lead him away...
...and then Luke interrupts his reverie, saying he can remember his father. For emphasis, he rips open the paneling on the wall and finds the toy car, which I'm sure is going to spend the commercial break being really psyched to be reunited with Daddy's little boy after almost thirty years. Seriously, a toy car? This is worth spending time on?
Claire returns to her room to find a shirtless Alex toweling off after his shower, and if this is your introduction to Justin Baldoni's body, feel free to join Claire and take a deep breath before moving on. They chat for a bit about their relative experience with others like them as he gets dressed, having lost the glasses as part of his effort to change his appearance, and then he tells her she's very special, and suggests they could have gone out sometime if things were different. "I could have been hiding in your bedroom for entirely different reasons." These two are only six years apart in age in real life, so it's getting less objectionable, and he's also pretty charismatic to be able to deliver that line without a hint of lasciviousness. They laugh, but then Claire says she's not really into the whole relationship thing (ouch, Milo) as married people don't seem all that happy. Alex, his recent experience presumably not colored by his parents splitting up, says he still thinks it's worth it. Claire asks why, and he responds, "For moments like this. When someone gets you the way that no one else does." Baldoni sells this line that could have really clanked in the hands of a lesser actor, so it's no surprise when he moves in for a kiss, but Sandra interrupts them, not in her capacity as the sex police but because the agents from the van are coming toward the house. She urgently tells him to come with her...