Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 655 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT He's Alive, I Tells Ya! ALIVE!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2008.10.13
Moving on to a scene that's only marginally less creepy, Mama Petrelli is sitting at her office desk when her eyes flutter closed. No sooner have they done so, however, than we hear a scream, which awakens her with a violent start. When we cut to the hallway in which she had her last terrible vision, she opens the door, and Tracy is lying on the floor, dead from a neck wound. Mama Petrelli gapes, and then her vision cuts to the side, where she sees Nathan, sitting up but also dead, from what looks like Sylar (or Peter) having cut his head open. She walks forward, and then sees Peter with his hands covered in blood, so we're meant to think he killed them, as Mama Petrelli does, but he then falls down dead, and we see a pipe buried in the back of his head, and that was also unexpected and very nicely done. You'd think things couldn't get any worse for Mama Petrelli, but when she turns, she gasps in abject horror and says it can't be as a man she obviously recognizes is standing before her. He tells her she can see the future, and he can't have that. She tries to steel herself as she says she'll stop him, but he puts a bloody hand on her shoulder and demurs: "Don't be ridiculous. You won't even be able to move." That still sounds better than the puppets. We flash to the ring on his finger, and then close in on Mama Petrelli's eye...
...and then she's back at her desk, seemingly only able to move her eyes. I hope someone else knows how to get Peter out of that coma. Except for the part where I totally, totally don't.
Daphne superzips up to the Pinehearst building, and after she looks around a bit, suddenly Linderman is behind her asking if she completed her task. She tells him that everyone's on board, but expresses her distaste for what happened with Ando. He blows off her concern, even using the phrase "No pain, no gain," and the thought of Malcolm McDowell as a sports coach isn't really working for me, so let's move on to the part where he tells her she has to recruit one more person -- Matt. Well, if you offer him a ride out of that desert, I think he'll do pretty much anything. Linderman tells Daphne what Matt can do, although he doesn't mention his telepathy, instead focusing on his other ability: "He can make you see things that aren't there." Daphne's like, speaking of which, I can sneak up on anyone -- but not you. She swings a hand at Linderman, which simply goes through him, and crows that she knew it -- he's not really there. Linderman chooses not to explain, telling her just to bring him Matt, and Daphne sighs that she doesn't really have a choice, which doesn't seem clear to me but I've only got two minutes left here. She walks away, looks back to find Linderman gone, and then superzips out of there -- but once she's gone, she sees a man appear from around a corner -- Maury Parkman. I figured this was coming at some point from Mama Petrelli's vision, although now that I think about it, it seems odd that she didn't make a bigger deal of it, what with him being an ElderHero and all. On the other hand, she had Adam released herself, so who knows what the hell she's thinking. Maury heads inside...