Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 906 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Sleep To Dream
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2009.03.30
Claire is still downing shot after shot, much to the simultaneous dismay and awe of the frat guy, whom I now totally recognize from In The Valley Of Elah. He notes that Claire doesn't even look drunk, and Claire considers for a moment before giving a palpably fake inebriated giggle, which made me laugh. She keeps up the slurry act as the frat boy says that Nathan, who's still passed out with his head on the table, seems like a good guy, but Claire demurs. She doesn't get any farther than saying she wishes Nathan would just act like a human being, however, before every organ in the frat guy's body yells "No mas!! and gives up the ghost, sending him into blissful unconsciousness. Claire collects her winnings and wakes Nathan up, who reacts to the good news of their financial windfall with a look that suggests he's about to vomit. If that read is correct, I'd suggest not flying back to the motel.
In church, the agents are fanning out, but despite the advisability of silence, Angela can't stifle her need to tell Peter something important. In fairness, though, she's in the right place for it. She says that when she was his age, she was going to be a teacher, but her power manifested and she saw "visions of a bloody future, of deceit and death -- the Apocalypse." She tried to warn everyone, but she was treated as Cassandra, so she took to lies, manipulation and betrayal as her tools to try to avert the future she foresaw. As we see a pair of wing tips methodically approaching their hiding spot, Angela concludes that her methodology cost her everything, but it's the price she chose to pay to save the world. The door opens, and she looks in abject fear -- but it's Bennet, who, after a long moment and a tortured sigh, calls an all-clear to his team, leaving mother and son to thank God for his 11th-hour favor.
At the club that apparently does not have a metal detector or bouncer that frisks at the front door, Sylar and Danko briefly fight it out to look like the person that belongs in the place the least, until Sylar smiles broadly and says that Odo's there. He adds that his current form fits his pattern of imitating powerful men, and then the camera swings over to reveal he's taken Danko's shape for the evening. Much as I abhor this storyline, that made me laugh, not that I can say the same for Danko, who looks like he'd give an arm, a leg, or possibly both just to forget everything about this day.