Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1182 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Crash Course
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2009.02.02
We're back with Peter and his hot co-worker, who says he saw Nathan on TV that morning and asks Peter if he's going to see him while he's in town. Peter says they're not really talking at the moment, which is all the opening the guy needs to tell Peter that Nathan gives him the cold chills -- the co-worker is of Iranian descent, and he takes Nathan's rhetoric as thinly-veiled hostility. "We're different, so we're scary." This strikes an obvious chord with Peter, but before they can discuss the matter further, Peter gets an urgent call from Claire, who tries to tell him (after mentioning she's in New York; he didn't already know that?) about the possibility of Nathan having people with abilities rounded up and taken away and Angela being involved. Peter either doesn't take his niece as seriously as he should, or he's an idiot, because his plan upon hearing this news is to go talk to his mother, who's probably somewhere down the line from Dick Cheney on the list of people I'd go to with a civil-liberties emergency. But first, he gets in a cab...
...and discovers that the driver is Mohinder. (What's with all the hand-held this episode, by the way? Did someone see Rachel Getting Married recently?) They smile at each other, and completely gloss over the ass-kicking Mohinder got the last time they met in favor of sharing a light callback to their cab scene in the series premiere ("Ever get the feeling you were meant to do something extraordinary?") and the grins they exchange make up the kind of nice moment that really should happen more on this show. Mohinder answers the question, saying he used to, but not anymore, and all their old friends are under the radar now, except Nathan, of course. Mohinder muses that what Nathan's doing may be right, as unchecked mutant powers can be dangerous, and he was living proof. Speaking of which, that ominous lesion that was on Mohinder's face at the end of the last chapter is nowhere to be seen. Peter thinks segregation, internment camps, and people hiding underground could be the result, but Mohinder says that's a risk he's willing to take. Man, we're not even going to get a scene break before the ironic comeuppance -- you see, Peter hops out at his destination (87th and Madison, if you're trivia-minded), and once he's gone, another fare gets in -- ZI. He points a gun at the back of Mohinder's head, and I don't blame him for quietly obeying ZI's order to drive rather than testing out the strength of the Plexiglas there. They head off...