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
Nathan and the one frat boy whose eyes are still open are sweatily continuing to pound tequila shots, lots and lots of them, and I know Nathan grew up a WASP but I still think he's in the high weeds here. Claire agrees with me, suggesting that they call things off, and gets her wish when her dad slurs some noble sentiments and then passes out. However, when the frat boy reaches for the money, Claire bets Nathan's watch for a rematch, which the guy calls "really nice," although after the 22 shots the guy says he's had I can't believe he can remotely discern what it is, let alone its quality. He also has the faculties to realize that him having done 22 shots to Claire's none isn't exactly fair, so Claire gamely smiles, says she'd better catch up, and starts pounding away as my liver begs me not to make it watch any more of this.
Sylar returns to Odo's place, only to find Danko waiting for him, gun in hand. Danko calls him "predictable," which is true in that his presence is always going to succeed in boring and angering me simultaneously, and opines that Sylar would do anything to get the shapeshifting ability. If this is their way of reducing Zack Quinto's screentime commitment while keeping the Sylar character around, they'd get points for being clever if they weren't fixing the wrong problem. Danko goes on that Sylar wanting this ability above all others is consistent with his profile, since he likes to take on "accents and affectations," and while I can only remember one time that was actually true (the whole performance with Maya and her hot, hot brother), his larger point that Sylar has been a monumentally inconsistently-written mess-- I mean, that he's "so desperate to be someone else" is taken. Sylar snaps, "You have no idea what I want," like, TRUE, and Danko replies that he could just end Sylar's and our misery now, but of course he's not going to do that, even though he came with a pointy weapon to bury in Sylar's skull. Sylar sits down and tells Danko that while he may have come prepared, he can't catch Odo without his help, and says he can round all the Heroes up. "Then you can take your shot." Can we get that in writing? Danko holds his gun up close to Sylar, but then pulls it away, and Sylar smiles at him until Rip van Winkle finally wakes up.