Episode Report Card Erin: A | 52 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT They're Baaaaaaack
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.01.22
After the break, we catch up with ComaPeter, who's revisiting his Future Dream once again. He has more direct interaction with Christopher Eccelston (sorry, I can't refer to him as anything but his full name; it's a problem) in this version of the dream, including a moment when Christopher Eccelston seems to throttle him. Simone enters the hospital room and hands a vase of flowers to Mama Petrelli. She goes directly over to Peter and touches his forehead, commenting that he's burning up. Yeah, but not as much as he'll be burning up come November 8th, baby!
Mama Petrelli goes off on the doctors, saying that none of them have any idea what's wrong with her son. Nathan comments that they think it has something to do with his heart. Mama P's all, twenty-six years old and he's gonna die of a heart attack? I don't THINK so. She stomps off to take a bite out of the medical staff's collective ass. Simone sits on Peter's bed. "I wish I knew what was goin' on in there," she says. Well, it's really not all that interesting, Simone; just a bunch of superhero characters running around, screaming, trying to get away from your exploding lover. Nathan, who looks exhausted, tells Simone that just before Peter lapsed into the coma, he told his brother that he thought he was absorbing too many powers.
Simone somehow gets that Nathan's giving her a dig and says that Peter wanted to see the death painting, so she showed it to him. Nathan rips at her about how she had to know that Peter would obsessively follow the painting all the way to Texas. Simone says that it was important to Peter. "You really believe all this crap?" says Nathan. "Future paintings? The end of the world?" You know, I appreciate that Nathan has a healthy sense of skepticism when it comes to superpowers and the supernatural, but, um, isn't he the one who, I don't know, SHOT INTO THE AIR LIKE A ROCKET AND THEN LANDED IN THE DAMN NEVADA DESERT? Like, I get that someone who is just discovering they have unusual abilities might be a scosh reluctant to believe that future paintings and time travel and super-strength are all real, but COME ON. You've FLOWN, Nathan. And you've done it more than once! It's not like you've just SEEN someone fly! Enough with the, "Santa Claus doesn't exist" bullshit, dude. Get with the fucking program already.