We look up from the Missing poster to see the neighbor cosily swaddled in what I believe is Mohinder lizard jizz, which is stickier than rubber cement mixed with the stuff they use to make Super Balls. The cocoon is certainly a frugal alternative to the Murphy bed - you can just hang from the wall!
I'll bet his skin is going to be better off when this is all done.
Vortex Man, House of Bad Accents
Claire, our favorite village idiot, is sitting in a chair, helpless. Vortex man figures out quickly that she's not with The Company, and then asks if she's with Pinehearst. Vortex man is super-nice, because he pretends that Claire was there to hold him hostage (the tables have now turned) in an effort to preserve what little ego and self-esteem she has left, and he explains to Claire that he didn't ever want to hurt anyone, and that the murder she accuses him of was just an accident. Claire's very supercilious and condescending, implying it was over a broken lawnmower. I can't say Vortex man is winning me over, either, but at least he's got useful powers. He thanks the Bush administration for locking him away without a lawyer or a trial, taking away his wife and kids.
Claire's face starts to fall when she hears him pour out his heart about wanting to be normal (aww, don't we all?). He tells her to scram, and Claire's perplexed that he would just let her go, unharmed. Vortex man asks for a head start before she calls The Company, and Claire offers to help. Ah, the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler! They're magic!
Loveshack of Heroes
Tracy and Nathan get dressed as he asks her why she tried to kill herself. Hmm, Nathan, you're a Senator. Make one of your aides or interns do some research, they already bought you your lame desk. He coaxes her a bit more, and Tracy confides she accidentally killed the reporter who was going to run the story tying her to Niki Sanders. She thanks Nathan for the sex, leaves a twenty on the nightstand, and declares that she will turn herself in. Good luck with that one, since calling the eyewitness tipline was so effective. Nathan tells Niki she can't show them her powers, explaining that he got shot when he called his ole' press conference before he could make the big reveal. Oh, and that God gave him his powers. Nathan's all like, "Sure, who else would give me these powers and devastatingly good looks?" and Tracy retorts, "A doctor, in Reseda, California." GOT 'EM.
Emmy face.
House of Vortex
Claire pulls up her high-tech files and hands Vortex man the last known phone number of his family. Seriously, I bet your kid has a MySpace profile, Mr. Vortex. Vortex man's wife immediately picks up the phone, because that's what happens in Heroesland, and he excitedly tells her to meet him and bring the kids at Griffith Park's carousel. The phone cuts him off mid-sentence, so you know Sylar and Bennet have arrived. Vortex man freaks out and immediately thinks Claire set him up (she's not that smart, didn't you figure it out yet, man?) after he realizes Bennet's her dad. Claire is processing that Sylar's accompanying her dad, and flips out. Bennet keeps his gun on Vortex man, who has no choice but to grab Claire. Vortex man hightails it out of the house after throwing down a vortex in the middle of the living room. He does, however, warn her to grab a hold of something.
Claire holds on to some bric-a-brac as Bennet clings to a post. Sylar, on the other hand, manages to get himself to the other side of the room and grabs Claire's hand just as the wrought iron cabinet/doodad she clings to gets sucked away into another dimension. Perfect timing. She stares daggers at Sylar, especially since he had to rescue her, and I can't help but wish Claire had gotten sucked into the Twilight Zone. For a second, I thought she would intentionally let go, if only to avoid holding hands with her brain rapist.
The portal to the world of the Undead closes, and Sylar checks to confirm that their suspect got away. Bennet embraces Claire, who has no idea what to do or think right now. She just mentally craps herself, and demands an explanation for the Bennet-Sylar partnership. I demand an explanation of why you're dressed like Trinity from The Matrix, Claire.
It's like Lethal Weapon. Your dad's Danny Glover.
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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