Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 2040 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Crash And Burn
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2009.02.09
...and then we're with Peter, who's running for his life when Tracy calls to him. She's freaking out about her life and why Nathan would do this, but Peter gets her to her senses. And by "to her senses," I mean "to shut up," so it's no wonder his stock continues to rise. The two of them resume running.
Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro have come across... an RV? Given that you can hear their aircraft overhead, it seems odd that the commandos wouldn't have secured this location that's out in plain sight, but Matt's being led by a vision of NeoIsaac, as it turns out, which he follows into the RV. When he reemerges, he's got paper and pencil, and he...draws. Dramatically, if the score is to be believed. While he does, Mohinder and Hiro steal some clothes off the laundry line to replace their conspicuous orange prisonwear, and I guess we're meant to assume that the RV owner fled the scene because of all the military activity, but this does still seem rather convenient. There's a rather funny moment where Hiro considers donning a T-shirt that reads "Rednecks are better lovers" and then thinks better of it, and it's not that the joke is so incredibly clever but that the show does so much better when it's not taking itself quite so goddamn seriously. Anyway...
...we cut to Tokyo, where Ando is attempting to find some way to get to Hiro's current location, which is "Russellville, Arkansas," and the presumed travel agent on the other end of the line is having exactly none of it, even though Ando tries to tell her that Arkansas is where Clinton is from. If Arkansas won't even acknowledge that at this point, it seems a long shot that the agent will give a flying fuck. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, because after the agent leaves Ando moshi-moshi-ing to dead air, Daphne comes superzipping up, explaining that Hiro bragga-blabbed the location of the secret lair to her. That doesn't explain how she discovered from which noodle shop Ando elected to make his calls to travel agents who think he's insane, but I suppose she's fast enough to have checked them all out in the time it takes most people to slurp down a bowl of udon. Anyway, Daphne's worried about Matt, because he didn't come home the night before, and "he always calls." I'm so surprised. Ando tells Daphne Hiro's been kidnapped, and offers that the same thing might have happened to Matt. He adds that Hiro's in Arkansas, and when Daphne asks how he knows, he tells her they have GPS trackers. Daphne: "Of course you do." If she's dead, I'm going to miss her. Ando explains about his travel difficulties, and Daphne responds by grabbing his arm and superzipping them both out of there.