Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Shattered Dreams
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 03.23.2009
...and we cut to the front door, at which a couple agents tell Janice they have a warrant to bring her and her son in for questioning. After ascertaining that they're there because of what happened with Matt Sr., she asks why they need to question a non-speaking infant, but they don't really answer, only saying that the warrant is for the both of them. She tells them Matt Jr. is at the babysitter's, and rather too-eagerly offers to take them there, so while they initially agree, it's not a shock when they send in a team to search the house. Ando and Hiro realize they're trapped, so Ando hands the baby off to Hiro and fires up his hands as Matt Jr. reaches out a hand to stroke Hiro's face, which prompts a sound effect, the significance of which will become clear very soon. When an agent busts into the room, Ando zaps him with electrical energy, but then another guy hits Ando in the face with his gun butt. Ouch. Hiro closes his eyes to brace himself -- and time stops. Like I said in the recaplet, I'm not sure this makes sense, since Hiro's ability was removed permanently, but I suppose if you think even now he's ability-ready, if you follow, it would make sense that Matt Jr. could reactivate his power, just like an eclipse would if that's what eclipses actually did in this reality. Hiro surveys the scene and celebrates, even asking the baby if he can say "Yatta." I'd certainly take him saying it over you, dude. Hiro then touches Ando and tries to teleport them out of there, but that apparently requires a different remote, as that power is still silent. Hiro, however, doesn't let that faze him, and with the aid of a baby sling for Matt Jr. and a wheelbarrow for Ando, gets his allies out of there.
Daphne wakes up in her hospital room to find a lot of balloons and flowers wishing a speedy recovery -- to Gwen Stefani. Ha! I love it when this show remembers to be funny. Matt admits to "convincing" the staff of her ersatz identity, although he doesn't mention whether he had to use his mind mojo to do so, and goes on that she's been out for a couple of days. Daphne recalls that his original cover story was that she was "duck-hunting Janice," and rather than suggest that she might have been hallucinating from the pain and infection, Matt admits that that's the name of his ex-wife. Daphne is basically out of there as soon as she hears this, even though in practice it takes her a little longer than normal, but after some talk about them not having a "believable backstory," her pointing out, again, that it's pretty silly for them to be together just because of a tripped-out spirit walk, and most tellingly, her getting him to avert his eyes while she pulls on some clothes, she tells him she doesn't want to be his "surrogate Janice," and superzips out of there. Figures that just when she goes back to her telling-it-like-it-is self, they get rid of her (SPOILER!).