Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1404 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Apocalypzzzzzzz
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2009.02.23
Outside, Bennet hops into a parked cab, the driver of which is Mohinder, who looks very surprised but much less pleased. As he starts driving, Bennet tells him that something big is happening, and he needs his help. Mohinder is understandably skeptical, so Bennet goes on that Mohinder has a unique perspective, having been both "ordinary" and "extraordinary," and tells him there's a government program being put together, and it's going to blow up in the planners' faces. Bennet begs Mohinder to help him, saying they can save lives...
...and then Matt comes out of it and accusingly confronts Mohinder with what he saw. Mohinder tries to explain that he wasn't talking to anyone at the time, and he thought it best to keep quiet. Matt sneers that Mohinder didn't want him in Bennet's head because he was afraid of being exposed, but Mohinder firmly tells him Bennet did approach him, but he turned him down. Matt responds by throwing Mohinder into a mirror, like, nice to draw attention to yourself with loud noises coming from your room, and when it breaks, a large shard conveniently falls near Bennet's reach. With his super-strength, Mohinder has no problem keeping Matt pinned, so Matt's reduced to yelling that sounds like it's going to turn into crying as he points out that Mohinder could have warned him and everyone else. Mohinder makes the reasonable argument that he didn't exactly believe Bennet, and after some more sweatily panted lines, they realize that Bennet is long gone. Sorry, boys, but can you blame him?
Mohinder and Matt run out and start looking for Bennet, but in another area of the parking lot, Bennet skulks around and then rips off a car antenna, which he uses to force the lock on one of the cars. He gets in and starts hotwiring, but is rudely interrupted by Peter's feet crashing onto the windshield. Bennet looks up in chagrin, and Peter's like, "Hi." Heh. We then cut back to the hotel room, where Matt and Peter are using duct tape to secure him, and Peter opines that they should get out of there while they still can. Matt, however, is more into going back into Bennet's mind, and when Mohinder tries to side with Peter, Matt rats him out for knowing about the government initiative in advance. Peter changes his mind, and Matt probes again...
...and we see Bennet, slip of paper with an address in hand, knocking on an apartment door as we see it's now one week ago. Danko answers and is surprised, but lets Bennet in, who we see is carrying a bottle of liquor as he says he thinks they got off on the wrong foot. Booze is certainly a candidate to turn things around. Bennet goes on that he thought it would be a good idea if they each understood where the other was coming from, but Danko's really not interested, as he thinks Bennet's loyalties are divided -- even when he was at Primatech, he danced the line between company man (aw) and family man. "I'm not much for dancing." That's too bad, because I'd pay to see you do a foxtrot. He says that winning the war they're fighting will take focus, which Bennet lacks. Danko, by the way, looks more wraithlike in this black-and-white footage than I thought possible. Is this makeup, or does Zeljko Ivanek live in a root cellar? Bennet, in a much more unflappable mood than the last time they met, counters that he's read Danko's file too, and he's known guys like him -- simple, unconnected, never off the job -- and they think that makes them perfect. Danko: "Not perfect. Just better than you." This guy's a tough nut, Bennet -- maybe you should have brought flowers, too. Bennet thinks the key to capturing Heroes is to understand their humanity, not their abilities. "But you have to be human to do that." Danko admits that Bennet is a valuable asset, but asks if once they begin engagement, he's going to take orders, or he's going to continue undermining him "with every glance." Bennet tells him he's the boss...