HeroesI Am Sylar
Original Air Date: April 20, 2009
Brittany – Associate Staff Writer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
Two things I couldn’t stop giggling about during this episode: Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows and ‘Crimson Arc’. Both are unfortunate for wooing the ladies. But in all seriousness, after so many close ups of Sylar, I just wanted to take tweezers to his head. This is the episode before the season finale, so let’s get recapping.
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Two things I couldn’t stop giggling about during this episode: Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows and ‘Crimson Arc’. Both are unfortunate for wooing the ladies. But in all seriousness, after so many close ups of Sylar, I just wanted to take tweezers to his head. This is the episode before the season finale, so let’s get recapping.
ReplyDeleteMatt takes Baby Touch and Go back to Janice and first decides that he wants to have a life with her. He can hear agents in a van watching the house, so he tells her that they have to go. While he’s helping her pack a bag, he finds his old badge that she’s for some reason kept, and realizes he can’t just abandon the cause. He protects her from the agents when they invade, convincing them that no one is in the house. She has a lake house and will be heading there to stay safe.
Hiro comes up with a plan to use Ando as bait for the agents – his plan is to set off a silent alarm in Isaac’s old loft, then freeze the scene – which he does. Only Ando doesn’t freeze and is delighted to know that he no longer has to be bait. Hiro lets him get taken by the agents anyway, as he is now dressed like one. In the van on the way back to Building 26, one of the agents realizes that none of the mean wore glasses and is about to taze Hiro when Ando (who was playing the role of unconscious hero) uses his ‘Crimson Arc’ (that sounds so bad) to shock the man. The two escape on foot and Hiro is about to freeze time when his head starts to hurt and his nose starts to bleed. Uh oh!
Meanwhile, Sylar has been playing the part of Agent Taub and every time he tries to shift back to himself it gets harder and harder. Danko reminds him that Sylar is supposed to be dead, but to remind himself, Sylar carves ‘I AM SYLAR’ into his arm and watches it heal before killing a man the agents were coming straight for. He writes the same words on the wall in blood then, as Taub, cockily notes that ‘he has a big ego’. In private, Sylar gives Danko the cell of the dead man who had previously gotten a text from Rebel. Danko once again tells Sylar that he has to stay dead as Sylar cries a little that parts of him take longer to change back than others. Danko tells him to find an anchor, so that when he feels lost he’ll have something to hang onto. So, Sylar-as-Taub calls for the evidence from his mother’s murder. (The woman who raised him, not his biological mother.) He remembers stabbing her and we go back and forth between a conversation the two of them are now having. Sylar speaks, then we see his mother.
Danko comes calling and says that they have Rebel and that they’re going to take him down. Getting to Rebel first, Sylar balks when he realizes it’s Micah and doesn’t kill him. Instead, he helps him escape by shape shifting into him and giving Micah a head start to his apartment. After crashing on Sylar’s sofa, Micah wakes to a conversation between Sylar and his mother, and he witnesses firsthand the shape shifting. He tries to convince Sylar that he could be the hero of all of them with that ability, but Sylar just kicks him out. But he is contemplating. Hours later, he takes on Nathan’s identity and gives a speech to the public stating that he wants a meeting with the president. Back in Coyote Sands, Claire, Noah, Angela, Mohinder, Nathan, and Peter see everything and Nathan says that he has to fix it all. Everyone vows to go with him to help which is touching, considering. (Well, except for Mohinder. At the end of the episode he’s taken by the agents.) When he gets to his office, Sylar is already there, ready to kill him when Danko tazers Nathan and tells Sylar to be Taub. Apparently, Sylar isn’t willing to take orders anymore, so Danko shoves a knife into the back of his head…only to miss and now have one pissed off serial killer with abilities and a knife aimed at him.
Where is this all going to lead for the finale next week? I have to admit, the episode for me, well…not as great as the previous two. I really could have done without the Sylar issues, and I feel like I keep waiting for some epic show down but it just never happens. How do you feel? And on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this entire season? Failure like season two or somewhere between ‘really sucky’ and ‘tolerable’? Leave me your Two Cents in the comments!