Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1182 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Crash Course
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2009.02.02
At the scene of a car accident, Peter, apparently now a paramedic, is administering CPR to a prone and blood-soaked man. His fellow EMT tells him to give it up already, but Peter doesn't stop until his friend grabs his arm and says there's nothing he could have done -- the guy bled out in the car, and they couldn't have extracted him any faster because he was pinned in there. Peter: "I should have been stronger." So Tracy doesn't beg, and you should have been stronger. Anything else we don't need to know?
At the Petrelli Ancestral Apartment, Claire is sitting in front of a number of college brochures artfully laid out on the table in front of her. Angela appears and asks if Claire has any favorites yet, and adds that getting her GED was the best thing Claire could have done. Look, no disrespect, but I doubt the colleges Claire mentions here -- Georgetown, Smith, Hamilton -- are going to look twice at someone who went to approximately 18, 734 high schools unless some major strings are pulled by her powerful family, and in that case I don't think the equivalency test is going to enter much into it. I'd also point out that February is not really the time to be thinking about college applications, except this show can't possibly get that process any more wrong than Gossip Girl, a show about high school, so I'll stick to hitting Heroes when it actually deserves it. Claire is not feeling the whole college thing anyway, so Angela sits down with her and says that she's discussed it with both her dads and they all feel that this is Claire's best shot at a normal life. Claire urgently replies that that will be impossible as long as Sylar is out there, and while Angela assures her that they found Sylar's remains, confirmed by dental records, Claire is unconvinced, saying she can still feel him. And this is possibly the episode's first real problem -- how is it that Sylar is out there again? I don't see how he could have undone whatever it was that Claire did to incapacitate him. Anyway, Claire goes on that she knows Bennet's hiding things from her again, and mentions a man in Memphis who disappeared under suspicious circumstances, including the upstairs part of his house being filled with salt water, and also that her dad has been going on "business trips," and she should be out helping him. Or, you know, stopping him from committing unspeakable acts of evil. Either one. Claire blows off Angela's last attempt to get her to drop it, and stalks out of the room...