The camera pulls back and we see that Daphne is talking to no one, as two staff members walk past her in the waiting area. They look at her like she's a crazy person but keep walking. Maybe Pinehurst is a rehab center for failed heroes? Linderman's hologram gives her a file of people to recruit, and they include printouts of Knox's and Mohinder's Facebook profiles. Daphne wrinkles her nose up at recruiting sketchy people, but Linderman says they're merely lost sheep who need purpose. This show is full of megalomaniacs. I need some Valium.
In the new world, there will be a law against making fun of your bad hair.
Car de Bennet
In the land of One of Us, One of Them, Bennet's driving a Company car with Sylar noisily munching an apple in the passenger seat. The English major inside of me wants to scream that Sylar chomping on an apple symbolizes the fall of man and the rise of sin, or sin-eaters. In addition, he's literally eating an apple, the symbol of knowledge that man wasn't supposed to eat in the first place. He's not supposed to kill people and pick their brains, but it's the hunger that overrides his human decency. So he chomps away because he can't help himself, he's addicted to the knowledge. Also, Jesus figures! He's eating the apple so others don't have to, just like a martyr. Plus the Book of Genesis, and the return of Adam! IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Oh, throw loss of innocence in there, too, since he took Claire's brain virginity.
Or it could just be that they needed to give Sylar a prop to annoy Bennet with. Yep, that's probably it. And Georgia O'Keefe paintings look nothing like vaginas, what are you talking about. Bennet turns off the radio abruptly and tells Sylar it was Mama P's idea to set them up together. Bennet doesn't sugarcoat anything as he says he would've let Sylar rot for terrorizing Claire and killing others. Sylar's all, "Dude, rehab doesn't happen overnight, ask any Lohan family member." He's absolutely right. Hypocritical Bennet re-asserts that killing is in Sylar's nature, proving once again he doesn't believe in tabula rasa. Ah, the good ole' nurture versus nature debate. Well, Bennet, maybe you should stop assuming before you make an ass out of you and me.
House of Vortex Vacuums
Claire's doing her best to snarl at the Vortex man, and he seems really reasonable, asserting that he understands why she would think he's a monster, but that he never intended to hurt anyone. The acting and accent of Vortex Man is painful, and there's no way he's going to burst into his rendition of the song "Night Man," is there? Damnit.
Bubbles just isn't the same when he's not injecting heroine. Come back to the drugs, Bubs!
Claire, ever the vigilant researcher, notes that he was accused of killing a man. Yes, with a vortex unintentionally, Genius, not with an intentional bullet through the head a la Papa Bennet. I don't understand where her warped sense of justice is coming from considering she's seen people wrongly accused, and people forced into situations with no positive solution. Even Mr. Muggles would be more compassionate. Also, the next time you want to do some damage, bring a gun worthy of Doom>, not a wimpy taser that's going to get sucked up by a vortex, leaving you helpless once again. Or at least some ninja stars.
Mohinder's Lab
I've always been bothered by the dim lighting in labs depicted on TV. How the hell do they get any precise work done? I'm assuming Mohinder's affliction's gone into overdrive, plus the lighting budget got slashed in half. Perfect for a scientist morphing into a lizard/snake/cold-blooded slimy thing. Mohinder drags in the sassy black drug dealer's body and puts him in the back. Maya enters in a chipper mood, still dressed up as J.Lo circa 1993, complete with acid wash jeans, and points out the "Missing" poster for Mohinder's totally dead neighbor from apartment 4. Mohinder starts kissing Maya's neck as she glances down at the floor and notices...a streak of ketchup that's doubling as the drug dealer's blood. For the first time ever, she's smart enough to get the hell out of there and quickly excuses herself ("I gots to go shopping!"), but I bet she'll have a brain fart and come back. And die, I hope.
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Comments (1)
I thought syphilis was the disease of late!!! Oh, Marcia-Marcia-Marcia!!!
Can't believe I'm the first comment here . . . but thanks for recap-did you really know that it was Parkman's Dad doing the ghost before it was revealed? Just goes to prove how dense I am, just taking it all in . . .
The time inconsistencies are annoying, esp in the lamo Hiro arc . . . how can you escape from someone who can time travel . . .
Also confused about good versus bad here, in the now and the future, in the company etc . . . oh well, guess I'll keep plodding along and see where this journey takes us. It's a weird world when Mama P is a good guy! Is it me!?
1 of 1 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on October 21, 2008 10:22 AM