Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 962 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 25 | Aired on 2009.04.27
...while Sylar is getting dressed in a suit, although I don't know why he's bothering, since his magic clothes-shifting power enabled him to appear in Nathan's form in a suit last episode. He then turns his attention to Nathan, telling him to wake up, and Lord, with all his powers, the best he can do is ineffectually pat Nathan's face a few times? Perhaps at least some cold water could have been tried? Anyway, despite the fact that Sylar's power can be used perfectly well on inanimate objects, the fact that Nathan is unconscious apparently prevents Sylar from taking his memories, so he decides to forget it, instead saying -- out loud, as so many people do when no one's listening -- that Nathan's diploma says he graduated Annapolis with honors, but "these cufflinks tell me a different story." Again, I do not even know what that means. Did Nathan use the shininess of the cufflinks to hypnotize the calligrapher that wrote the diploma while they bowed their heads in shame at being used as pawns in his twisted game? Anyway, at this moment, a woman comes in and says that there's someone there to see him, vaguely adding, "She claims to be your daughter?" Because again, this is consistent with the level of security at government institutions these days. Who would think to ask for a name? Sylar shifts into Nathan's form before turning to face the woman, instructing her to ignore his identical twin lying on the floor and tell the potential terrorist/reporter/Lolita to come on in. He does at least close the bathroom door so Claire, who's perhaps a little more on the ball than the silly woman we just met, won't see her real dad, and when she appears, he tells her that he found Sylar but "he got away," because it's credible that Sylar, who could cut Nathan's head open while disintegrating his torso and learning exactly where his legs have been, would run away from Nathan, who can -- gulp -- fly. "Nathan" goes on that Sylar is headed to the "Stanton Hotel" to meet the President, but he's going to intercept and warn him first. Claire asks how she knows it's Nathan and not Sylar, which is a brilliant way to get said information, and Sylar stalls for a moment in the face of her blunt-force approach until he fingers the necklace Nathan gave her in Mexico and spits out the details that power of his reveals. You'd think these people who are so hell-bent on catching Sylar would at least have gotten a handle on the powers they know Sylar has, but maybe Angela's embarrassed to admit how he came to possess this particular one, as well she might be, especially considering the reason she stated for giving it to him made no sense at the time and makes even less now. Anyway, Claire's convinced, and expresses the desire to go with him. Sylar agrees, and they get out of there...