Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 719 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Suck It, Peter!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2008.10.20
Puppets! Clowns! Freaking me right the hell out! Meredith looks like she can only move her eyes as Doyle and his SUSPENDERS lean in and tell her he's going to make her love him "again." Meredith says she told him "all night long" that she doesn't love him -- in fact, he disgusts her. If she's been sitting there all night, I wonder if he let her go to the bathroom, and if so, what gestures he had to use to get that accomplished. He gets that look psychos get when they're trying to drown out the voices, and tells her that even when he was on Level 5, he knew they'd be together again someday. He then positively simpers as he says he'd like a "destination wedding," and Meredith refrains from making a comment about hell as she says if he doesn't release her, she'll kill him. This gets his back up, and he tells her what we already know, that she can't move unless he makes her move. But this isn't merely a demonstration of his powers for the people that missed last week -- he's making a point to her, as he forces her to pick up a wineglass, shatter it, and hold the jagged remains up in the air. He's sublimely creepy and she's out of her mind with fear as he drops his head in one direction and she's forced to mimic him, (and it really looks like her head is being pulled by some unseen force, which makes the whole thing ten times scarier) which lengthens out her neck right by the wineglass, which he then has move inexorably toward her exposed flesh as she side-eyes the approaching doom and begs him to stop. With the glass now stuck in her neck to the point it's drawing blood, he tells her, without a trace of his earlier cheeriness, that she will love him. "I promise you that." He finally releases her and has her put the glass back on the table, and I hope I didn't miss anything important in that scene because there's no way I'm watching it again.
At Pinehearst (in Fort Lee, NJ, as the chyron tells us), Knox and Adam are walking down a hall, and Adam affably inquires about Knox's power. When he hears what it is, Adam says that he's not afraid...
...but we cut to him getting tossed onto the floor at the feet of Papa Petrelli's bed. Adam looks at Knox and says he's wasting his time, but Knox merely looks ominously in Papa Petrelli's direction, and when Adam gets to his feet and sees who it is, he approaches warily. (By the way, Papa Petrelli is being played by Robert Forster, who has been in a billion things but might be best known for being nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Jackie Brown.) He tells "Arthur" that he heard he was dead, and Papa Petrelli doesn't verbalize a response, but his telepathic answer is probably "That's not a word you should have mentioned." Adam freaks out, and tries to escape, but his fear has made him no match for Knox, who drags him back to Papa Petrelli's bedside. Adam begs for mercy, and says he could be of use to him, and it's a testament to what a great twist this was that I still wasn't sure what was about to happen. But Knox forces Adam's forearm into Papa Petrelli's grip, and Adam seems to age hundreds of years in seconds before literally turning to dust before our eyes. Awesomely, his suit collapses now that his body isn't there to hold it up anymore, and just like that, Papa Petrelli pulls the tubes out of his neck, which instantly heals, and says it's good to breathe again. So Papa Petrelli doesn't merely copy powers, like Peter does, but thieves them permanently. Of course, if he did that to Peter or Claire or Sylar, it wouldn't kill them, because they're not hundreds of years old like Adam was, but it's interesting to know that they could conceivably lose their invulnerability. Anyway, that was really well done, and as I said in the recaplet, I'll miss David Anders, but at least his death was awesome.