Welcome back, Heroes fans. If you've gotten sick of Good Sylar lately, this episode promises plenty of Bad Sylar for your guilty pleasure. Are you a Claire/Gretchen shipper? You're in the right place. For the rest of us... I'll try to make this quick and painless. It's a rainy night in LA (that right there should tell you something weird is going on) there's a nice fire going and the Parkman Manor windows are all steamed up. The episode title, "Strange Attractors", is written on the window.
All we're missing is Kate Winslet's hand on the glass.
Sure enough, there are some Strange Attractors getting their freak on inside. Janice Parkman is taking a ride on the Sylar train. Before you can do more than throw up in your mouth a little, the scene is over and Matt's waking up. It was all a dream! Or was it? Janice wakes up and makes morning-after eyes at him, so it was really Bad Sylar in charge last night and our Mrs. Parkman has a thing for bad boys. I think I liked Sylar better when he'd rather slice people open than do them. Remember when we all thought he was eating brains? Good times.
Jawja
So that MacGyver trick HRG did that was supposed to make it look like Death Kid's parents were killed by carbon monoxide? Yeah, not so much. Death Kid's been booked by a local cop who's seen a few too many episodes of CSI: Miami. He forgot the most important part though: you can't do Caruso without the sunglasses.
YAAAAAH!!!!!
So it turns out that Death Kid has a rap sheet, and Buford T. Justice isn't letting him out of his sight. Death Kid can only be sprung by a family member, and oops, looks like he's killed them all off. So sorry. HRG is useless without "one of them" for backup, so he calls Tracy and bang, she's there in like 2 minutes. Maybe she should have come an hour ago and picked up Peter and driven him to New York, so he could save Hiro. Tracy is not interested in helping HRG do any bagging or tagging, but if she had doubts, wouldn't the time to express them be before driving 400-some miles? Maybe I ask too much of this show. HRG promises this is a rescue mission, not an experiment.
Arlington U
It's 4:40 am and Claire and Gretchen are lying awake in separate beds. They decide to have The Talk, because there's no better time than four in the morning to have a serious conversation. Claire says her first girl-girl kiss "wasn't bad" and that Retchin is a good kisser. That kiss was like a half-second peck. By that logic, my five-year-old boy is a good kisser. And if that grossed you out, then welcome to how my feelings on this whole dumb subplot. Then Claire drops the F-bomb("You're a great friend") followed by the L word ("I like you a lot"), and BOOM, poor Retchin is DONE. In the midst of the carnage, the door to their room flies open. Someone breaks in and Claire tackles them. Rebecca the invisible evil chick is standing at the door. Is Forced Entry 101 still taught at college? I thought my school was the only one. Rebecca scolds Claire for going "all Buffy", it's just a little hazing, that's all. At which point Claire decides to go back to sleep. Hazing is probably nothing if you have Angela Petrelli as your grandma.
So because the "friendship" conversation wasn't awkward enough already, Claire and Retchin decide to continue it while kidnapped, tied up and locked in a trunk, Claire notes that "there are entire websites devoted to this." I haven't done the research, but if this guy can be a phenom on the intarwebs then anything's possible. The conversation is put out of its misery by Rebecca opening the trunk and announcing "Welcome to Hell Week." They're in a factory, or more likely a meat-packing plant, with their heads bagged. They're locked in for some kind of scavenger hunt. Claire is probably still dozing under that bag.
CSI:Dixie
Death Kid, cooling his heels in jail and none too pleased with HRG, gets a visit from Aunt Tracy.
And somewhere under those bangs he's probably glad she's not really his aunt.
He doesn't want Aunt Tracy to bail him out because he'll just kill more people. Sorry to make light of the awful tragedy that is Death Kid's life, but come on, this is Heroes we're talking about.
LA
Somewhere in Matt Parkman's head, Bad Sylar proves he's insane by saying Janice "is kinda hot."
Only if you're into Sally Field circa 1990.
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Comments (2)
Great recap CopyHacker.
I don't get why Tracy is mad at HRG. If he had decided to let the kid go with her and be party of a family - how would that have changed things when they walked him out of the prison and he touched that guy? Where they were going wasn't the problem it was getting out of there in the first place that was.
And who wants to be part of a sorority that locks you in a trunk and dumps you in a slaughterhouse? Sheesh I thought the hazing I went through for my sorority was bad.
1 of 2 | Posted by TinkerbellAPixie | Posted on November 1, 2009 9:15 AM
Thanks for another great recap, Copyhacker!
I sort of loved when Samuel brought down the entire police station, even though it would have made more sense for him to go in and teleport Death Kid over to the carnivale. But then we wouldn't have had that wonderful representation of the South, would we?
I am so over the whole Clair/Retchin storyline. Every time they're on my TV I feel myself start to fall asleep.
LOVE bad Sylar. But him screwing Matt's wife? Ewwwwww. Loved how he outwitted Mensa candiate Parkman! Hey! I think they should do a Survivor season with Heroes characters! Now wouldn't THAT be fun to watch??
SWAK, PottyMouth
2 of 2 | Posted by PottyMouth | Posted on November 2, 2009 8:57 AM