Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 919 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Shouldn't That Be "The Fly Effect?"
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2008.09.22
When we return, there's a loud alarm going off, and a groggy Elle sees some bespectacled guy (I thought on first viewing it was Bennet, but this guy is younger) standing over her, followed by Peter-in-Jesse, who tells her his real identity again before Knox whisks him away. Elle's electrical explosion apparently freed the prisoners from their cells, and she sits up and watches them go before catching sight of Bennet dragging an unconscious Sylar off somewhere. And while Bennet may not be able to kill him now, I don't think it's going to be from lack of trying. Elle looks like she's losing consciousness again...
...So we head back to Paris, where Hiro and Ando are checking through the purloined goods for the formula. Ando then tries to take a gold brick off a shelf full of them, but underestimates its weight (nice touch; gold is frickin' heavy) and drops it. Hiro's like, "Figures." Apparently it hasn't occurred to him that his pissypantsed little attitude might be the very thing that causes Ando to snap and zap him in four years. Ando asks what's up with all the shade being thrown his way, so Hiro, to his credit, tells Ando what he saw in the future, although he doesn't mention Ando's powers, merely calling him a "villain." Ando speculates that it was a robot or a shapeshifter that Hiro saw, but it seems pretty clear from their interaction that Future Hiro, at least, thought he was dealing with the real Future Ando, which to me makes the likelihood that it wasn't him a lot smaller. Hiro's like, whatever, and says they need to set a trap for Daphne. "That's what Batman always does with Catwoman." Hee. That makes me want to see Hiro have a scene with Eartha Kitt -- I think she'd fluster him to the point where he'd pop off to a desert island and never come back. Hiro thinks they need a ransom, and muses to himself, "What treasure does the world's fastest thief hold most dear?" [He briefly considers some 9th Wonder comics, which Daphne must have picked up after she met one of the book's stars, although I can't imagine they're still printing them. - Zach] The answer comes when he sees a medal hanging from its ribbon nearby, and checks it out: "First place, hundred yard dash, twelfth grade." Hiro looks mighty pleased with himself, but the Mona Lisa smiles like, "You think you're so clever, but wait until you see what would have happened if you'd picked me! See, I have reason to smirk!"