Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boom Goes The Dynamite?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.02.2009
...which Danko examines thoughtfully on his computer. He says to no one in particular, "I think I know where they're headed," and even though his reasoning is erroneous, he's come to the right conclusion, much as just happened when he said Matt should be killed. Title card.
Claire and Alex are sitting on the living-room sofa, and Claire introduces Sandra to Alex as he sits there in the classic shoulders-hunched, hands-nervously-clasped position of Someone's Getting A Scolding. Claire says he's her new boyfriend, and the reason he was hiding in the closet is that they're Doing It. Alex gets a priceless look of horror on his face as Claire continues, "And I know it's wrong. Very, very wrong." I hope she's saying that exclusively for Sandra's benefit, or I'll start to be seriously worried about her eyesight. Sandra asks Alex if he knows that Claire is only seventeen, and my brain's starting to lock in the face of all the possible jokes about Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia, so let's move on to where Alex denies having touched her. "I've barely even made eye contact." Claire looks betrayed, but I'm not sure Sandra was buying what she was selling from the beginning, although it is a good cover story for the fact that he apparently stinks at the moment. They finally come clean, and Sandra flips that she brought him into the house, given the danger involved, but Claire says she didn't know what else to do, as Bennet was after him. Just as well not to bring Rebel up at this moment, I'm thinking. Sandra adds that Claire lied to her, and Claire freezes, because she knows what's coming next. And as we all cringe in anticipation and remembrance of our own similar childhood moments, Sandra plays the Parents' Trump Card by saying she's "so disappointed," and if Alex barely even looked at Claire before, you can bet your ass he's not going to choose this awkward moment to glance her way.
Oh, how I did not miss Sylar and Luke, but here they are, and Sylar's driving as Luke uses the purloined laptop to confirm that they're not being tracked. Sylar notes that he sounds disappointed, and Luke basically says he'd like to see a bunch of agents show up so he could kill them, and when Sylar's the one with the grip on reality in your twosome, it's time to think seriously about medication. Luke then wonders why they're bothering with this trip, as parents suck, and he may have forgotten the cheesetastic moment the two of them had about dads and identity and finding your way in the world and blah, but I sure haven't. He says his dad used to put cigarettes out on his arm, and starts to show Sylar the scars, but before he can say, "This is what happens in my house when you spill paint in the garage," Sylar shuts up him by telekinetically flinging his face up against the window. He hilariously tells Luke he should have been wearing his seatbelt before asking why he doesn't want him to see his dad, and Luke starts to stammer something about not getting it, but Sylar cuts him off, saying his dad's the only one with answers, and that's all he needs to know. When Sylar releases him, however, he still won't shut up, saying Sylar's the most powerful guy on the planet, and they don't need anyone. Sylar isn't listening, though, and not just on general principles -- he pulls the car into an abandoned diner called "Big Jim's," and gets out and looks at it in apparent recognition. He waves a hand, and the boards start flying off the entrance...