Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT January 22nd? We have to wait until January 22nd? Shut up, NBC.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.03.2006
Paper Company of Clandestine Operations. Eden's guarding Sylar's door when Bennet walks up and asks if anything's gone on inside. She says Sylar slept through the night and Bennet goes to enter the room, pressing a series of numbers on the keypad. There's a close-up of him doing this, but it's just a random series of numbers. Or is it? Bennet tells Eden to stay put because he's headin' in alone. Eden: "Pout. Pouty pout pout."
Inside the room, Bennet hits a switch on the wall and a cell behind some hopefully thick glass is revealed. What are we, on Lost now? Sylar's inside, lying on a bed. Bennet tells him that he lost a lot of blood and that they sewed him up as best they could. But they left him with a scar shaped like an "S" with some hatch marks through it -- hope that's okay! Sylar flips off his blanket and stares at Bennet really, really, REALLY hard. Bennet's all, oh ho no, boy-o! Your powers won't work in here! Nice try, though, Gabriel. "My name is Sylar," husks Sylar. Bennet's all, uh, yeah, NOW it is. But not too long ago, you were an insignificant watchmaker named Gabriel Gray. How is Gabe these days, huh? Still pondering how to fix a watch for seven years without going clinically insane? Or have you abandoned your former self in favor of this stubbly, limping guy with the whirligig eyes?
"I restored timepieces," says Sylar, limping around his cell. "Do you know why I was so good at it?" "Why don't you tell me?" says Bennet. "Because I can see how things work," says Sylar, moving toward the glass. "What makes them... tick." I'm ashamed to say that as much as Sylar creeps me out, those white pajamas are kind of... hot. Bennet says that they're interested in what makes things work too; specifically how Sylar seems to be the only superhero of his kind who has more than one ability. "I guess that's what makes me special," says Sylar. Oh, you have no idea, dude. You're "special" alright. If by "special" you mean, "Puts Alka-Seltzer up his ass while reciting Walt Whitman backwards. And in Greek."
"That's important to you, isn't it?" says Bennet. "Being special?" "It's important to everyone." "I think you're insane." Hee! Jack Coleman's delivery on this is awesome. It's like he's saying, "I think you're late for a meeting." "I think the infusion of so many alterations to your DNA has corrupted your mind," says Bennet. "All this power has degraded you." And made you batshit. Sylar says he's still here, alive and well. "And as soon as I get out, I'm going to collect one more ability... from your daughter." The smug smile on Bennet's face drips right off. "Sweet, innocent," taunts Sylar. Bennet: "That's enough!" Sylar: "Ripe, indeeeestructible." Bennet: "I SAID, THAT'S ENOUGH, GABRIEL!" Sylar: "MY NAME IS SYLAR!" He slams his whole body up against the glass and practically licks it with his frothy tongue. Bennet just smiles and steps back from the glass, turning off the light as he goes.