Sylar starts to apologize to Claire profusely, explaining that when he touched her hand, he felt the pain that he caused her. Bennet cuts him off abruptly, barking that he's not allowed to talk to Claire, ever. Sylar is the reason why I'm watching this show, because his character development is spot-on, and you can see the anguish in his eyes as Bennet chastises him like he's a child who just pooped on the carpet.
Bennet grasps Claire by the shoulders and slowly asks her to tell him where Mr. Canfield (sorry, he'll always be Vortex man to me) is. Claire pleads with her father, explaining that the guy has problems just like she has problems. No-hands cartwheels and pyramids are really, really hard to execute well! Plus homework and SATs, gosh darn it, life is so hard already without an existential crisis to tend to.
Bennet tells her that she can trust him, and that he'd never send anyone to Level 5 who didn't belong there. Well, um, The Company put you in Level 5, Bennet, so why the hell are you still playing by their rules? If I were Claire, I'd just pretend to go catatonic and not peep a word to anyone. However, we all know she's going to run to the Griffith Park carousel and cause a scene.
Unmarked sketchy dive bar
Hiro's Engrish is getting worse, as he, Adam and Ando enter the pool hall/dive bar. Adam proclaims that the place makes a mean Appletini, and that the bar is also a go-to destination for mercenaries for hire. Hiro drops a Star Wars reference, equating it to a cantina, but hell, I don't hear any happy music or see any robots. Adam jauntily orders the usual, and trouble's a-brewing as soon as the bartender whirls around. Looks like our favorite indestructible man slept with the barkeep's lady and feathers are still ruffled. Bar fight!
Ok who isn't turned on right now?
Barkeep throws a punch, Adam ducks, and Hiro takes it squarely in the face like the chump he is. Ando vainly tries to activate Hiro's time-freezing powers by manually blinking his eyes and squeezing them open and closed (hee!). Hiro would be dead without Ando. Adam, of course, is outta there.
Level 5, The Company
Nathan and Tracy enter what looks like Sylar's cell, to find that Mama P has heavily sedated Present Peter. A strong dose of color on those drab prison walls would really boost morale, Mama P. Nathan demands to know what's going on, and Mama P acts all uppity as usual, demurring that she heard Tracy went to visit Orville Redenbacher (Dr. Zimmerman). Orville used to work for The Company in R&D. Tracy asks for help removing her powers, and Mama P bitchily replies that the work is classified. "You want me to go public with this?" threatens Tracy. Nathan, crouched over Peter's body, knows his Mama is hiding something. Who's the baby
Apparently, Dr. Orville created synthetic abilities for The Company, and a number of infants were injected with the serum. DUN DUN DUN. Tracy, Niki and Barbara as well as Nathan were given abilities via shots. Well, so much for the God-Given Delusion. Nathan, would you like an autographed copy of Dawkins' book?
But God told you to give me the formula, right?
Laboratory of Creepy Crawlies
Did any of you ever have that playset where you could make multi-colored gummies shaped like rats and tarantulas? Or at least remember the commercials? They were slightly traumatic, especially when they came out with an edition where you could make them goo-filled. The kids in the commercials were so damn gleeful, you just know they were the boys in your class who'd make farting noises in their armpits while you'd walk down the aisle.
Maya enters and I immediately mute the volume, because I know this scene will be packed with a lot of M. Night Shyamalamadingdong-esque scary screechy sudden noises. Instead, I put on "Thriller" because we all know that song and its accompanying dance are far superior. Anyway, the red mood lighting in Mohinder's lab is pretty odd, and Maya whirls around in an interpretive dance of her journey as an illegal immigrant before smacking into the rubber cement/jizz-nest of Apartment 4's semi-dead guy. Whatever, he had a semi-charmed kind of life anyway. She grabs a butter knife to cut the guy out, but hears the door open. There's aluminum foil plastered everywhere on the window, so either Mohinder is making a robot costume for Halloween, or he couldn't afford drapes.
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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