I noticed it when he had the gun in Sylar’s face in the shapeshifter’s apartment. I think Sylar noticed it too.
Me too. ::shrug::
Yeah, but out loud??? :rolleyes: It wouldn’t have been quite so stoopit if he was just thinking it.
So when did shapeshifter touch Sylar? And when did Sylar get his telepathic-not-in-the-car-trick back?
I wondered that too, and figured it was when Sylar was walking through the dancing crowd (that was Sylar, wasn’t it?). But wouldn’t Sylar have noticed that and reacted? I’m pretty sure Sylar isn’t averse to creating a scene in a crowded nightclub.
Besides, even if none of that ever crosses Noah’s mind, he knows that death isn’t always quite as final as it’s made out to be, first hand.
He’s had his road trip back from California to expand his collection.
True. Which is why I’m wondering if he’s going to have a good look at shapeshifter Sylar’s body. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if the writer’s have chosen not to pursue that line of inquiry.
Incidentally, I’m appreciating your username/post combination. 
Oh, I just remembered what about the DNA list? Danko mentioned it to HRG when HRG replied with “Oh, you’re doing *that *now?” but in reference to sending in a team to detain someone without knowing what their power is. (Which, I agree, is really, really reckless.)
So, this list has names of people genetically apt to have special powers, but doesn’t indicate what the power might be. Who’s on the list?* Who created the list? Where’d the list creator get the information about genetics and do we know that there are specific markers in people with special powers?
*Is Angela on the list? Now that she’s admitted to having precognitive dreams, surely there are others that knew about her power. Her husband did, didn’t he? So, does the government know? Is that why they’re going after her now?
Something else, Angela referred to an angel in the stained glass window as someone that was going to help them. Could she be referring to Tracy, considering there is a fair amount of speculation that she’s alive? The angel would indicate that to everyone else, she’s dead.
I’m assuming that the list is similar to the one that Dr. Chandra had shortly before Sylar killed him. I don’t know whether Angela is on the list, but since her two sons and her husband are (were) metas, and she was briefly in charge of The Company, I’d mark her as “a person of interest.”
I thought the angel referred to the mysterious sister.
I think it’s the list Suresh’s father (or he himself made) in season 1.
Bored now.
Well, that was a waste of an episode. I was looking forward to see if dopers were right about using baby touch-n-go to fix Daphe, and all I we got was confirmation that you all were right about Syler glomming onto a new daddy figure.
Hey, I’m sure I missed this, but…why does Claire sleep? We sleep so we can heal.
*When last we saw Nathan and Claire, he was making up for being a rather neglectful father and overall total douchebag to the specials by flying in and saving Claire from the Nice Young Men in Black ransacking her room.Opting to not spend all night floating in a tree in the Bennet’s backyard, they presumably zoom off someplace where a trust fund boy like Petrelli has a numbered bank account or rich yet discreet college pals.
Or, they can fly 14 miles over the border to the beer parlour portion of Mexico. *
Nathan:”Sorry honey, force of habit. This is where my college pals and I always used to bring girls to.”
Claire: “Just drop me off here”
Nathan: “Here? We’re 100 feet in the air”
Claire: “And?”
Nathan: “No. we’re sticking together-it’s safer. I’m here to protect you. Hey, honey, let’s go to that bar! ”
Claire: “Gee, no. Look, I can go sell myself over there! Back later, with money!”
Nathan: “ ’kay honey, stay outta troub- heywaitaminute!!!, what’d you say?”
Claire: Vwoomps out the door and down the calle to make her fortune. Or enough of one to sleep indoors tonight. Best not to think about it, folks.
Peter and Angela, landing in a puddle somewhere
Angela:” God, the rain makes you look all tough and rugged. It just makes me look cold and pissed off. Right, that’s because I am cold and pissed off. I need to be here, my old church. I can’t sleep and if I can’t sleep I can’t dream our way out of this.”
Peter: “Mom, don’t you have any friends in Europe we can stay with, some numbered bank accounts, any kind of ‘I am so fucked!’ Plan B?”
Angela: “No, I have my church. This is where I come to get my guilt on. I failed you so when you were a boy, I never gave you the support you needed when you were so confused about who you were….”
Peter: “Mom, I’m not gay-“
Angela: “ …I used to be like you, all hope and optimism and cute and giggly, and I used to have these bangs……….anyhow, seeing the apocalypse every time I took a nap made me the cunning manipulative broad I am today. And well dressed- I could always see what was going to be in fashion next season….”
Peter: “Fascinating mom, really; I’m going to go talk to the plastic bleeding guy over there”
Angela: “You mean Our Lord?”
Peter: “Your Lord, maybe. We’re taking a break from seeing each other right now.”
Hundreds of miles away in Virginia, Danko and his boys find themselves in a charming, well appointed old house with the customary pile of bodies in the parlour
Noah: Gunshots to the head? That’s not at all customary.
New guy about to be demoted to bedpan duty at the Human Resources room: blleagghh….
Noah: These guys puke from seeing a GSW to the head? They can’t even snag a wily geometry teacher? No wonder the only captures you guys have are tubby puppeteers and genetics professors. Now in my day…. “
Danko: Oh god…………
“…….we’d capture guys who’d turn themselves into gasoline, jump down your tailpipe, rematerialize in your engine block and try to throttle you through the air vent. We’d just go hit a drive thru and then lure them out with a taco ….“
Danko, thoroughly sick of listening to Noah and his nyah nyah Primatech stories for the 7th day in a row, boots off to the car for a smoke
Sylar: “Those things’ll kill you-”
Danko: “Jeezus, Sylar, do you want to give me a heart attack?
Sylar:” Not really. Did you like my presents?”
Danko- “Sure, I love dead animals and semiconscious puppeteers. It’s like my 9th birthday all over again. Why are you here? “
Sylar: “You complete me.”
Danko: “ Hey, new guy, you finished with that trash can yet?”
*Sylar whistles his regards; the lighter pops out of the dashboard, and Danko finds Sylar’s gone. We see Sylar on the roof across the street, in that rain that makes guys like him and Peter look rugged yet vulnerable. Danko twitches the twitch of the freaked, lights his cigarette, probably realizing that he doesn’t have to worry about dying from natural causes, because his escort to his inevitable early grave just vanished out of his car. *
[)Sylar’s hanging out in backseats giving his partners hearty mindfucks again. And how did he vanish into the storm so dashingly? Our boy pick up a new skill? Short range teleportation, invisibility, time freeze? OK, quick roll call: Hiro, Claude, you two still with us???
On the up side, the rain improved Sylar’s hair. This matters, dammit.)
- Back at B26, Danko decides that math skills are more fearsome than brain slicing, and moves GeometryMartin to the top of the pyramid of the specials. Somewhere, Sylar feels a disturbance in the Force and realizes you’re only as scary as your last kill. The freak-hunting public have very short memories, you know. He turns up the collar of his coat-why else would one have a coat if not to look hot snapping up the collar-and makes with the next step in his killer sidekick courtship ritual with Danko. *
At the cantina, Nathan thinks he’s Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark; in an effort to support his daughter like the good father he never was, tries to outdrink a pack of frat boys who’ve been shot-training since 10th grade.
Claire: “Hey, Nathan, you know I have the self cleaning organs; how about I try the competitive drinking? “
Nathan: “Naw, that wud beeeee inappropri-thud.”
“My turn, boys. I’m Claire………
Fratty: “No way girlie, I’ve had a, like 37 shot head start”
Yanks off shirt…….“….and these are my tits”
Fratty’s : “all righty, sweetie line ‘em up!”
Nathan: (just trying very hard not to accidentally drown in a puddle of spilled Pacifca)
Back at B26:
Barf Ninja: “You are just so totally amazing boss, let me shake your hand”
Danko: ”Okaaay?”
BN: “Package for you sir. It’s ringing”
Danko :”Great, it’s probably my stalker. Hello?”
Sylar: “Found your missing agent. Well, most of him. Take a look”
Danko: “Head in the box? New guy’s head? Whatdafuck?
Not-New Guy ducking out the back door: “Luser!”
Sylar, who’d be rubbing his hands together in glee if he had a Bluetooth on: “Shapeshifter!”
The B26 guys chase through another parking garage (do they never learn?) after fake barf shapeshifter ninja, who tags a janitor, morphs, and lumbers out to the street, where Danko’s men are yet again thwarted in their hunt by rainstorms and umbrellas. (Really, is this the best of America’s counter-insurgent talent? Your standards have really fallen since the cold war, people)
Back at the well appointed murder scene, Sylar and Danko trash Martin’s place for clues, shits and giggles:
Sylar: “You need help finding these specials. I’ve become very good at it”
Danko: “Oh, kiss my bony ass; you just find your victims out of stolen Primatech files, then kill off the frailest ones. You never did try to take on that 300 lb guy who could shoot fire, or another telekinetic or, hell, anyone taller than you. Naw, you go after walking bullshit detector office workers in heels or chicks your fake parents gift wrapped for you”
Sylar: “Dad?”
Danko: “Maybe I can use your help. I’ve been looking in Martin’s house for clues about where he could be, but all I’ve found are these matches from pickup bars, a closet full of uniforms and a bunch of photos of Hot Chicks With Douchbags tm. What does it all mean???”
Sylar: “Matt?”
At the Guido bar:
Sylar: “Hey, what are these people in here……the ones who smell nice and wear the dresses?”
Danko: “Girls?”
Sylar: “Yeah. What d’you do with them?”
Danko: “Buddy, you ever thought about trying to get laid sometime other than when you’ve lost your abilities? They have other parts you can poke around in besides their heads”
Sylar: “Yeah, like that guy over there is doing?”
Danko: “He’s being me? How does he get the hot chicks? I never get the hot chicks!”
Sylar: Excuse me, can I go kill myself now? Not me me, that me, over there?
Danko: Sure. Just don’t ugly up the corpse. I’ll be needing that later
*Back at St Sanctuary Cathedral, Peter enjoys a little Jesus aided exposition about how he’s just trying to be good and virtuous and stuff, but You Never Help Me God!!! And What Have You Ever Done For Me??? Dammit, don’t tell Jesus what to do, boy! He’ll find something to do for you, don’t you be tempting your Saviour. Just to give Peter’s whiny ass its kick for the day, some be-suited guys from B26 come swarming down the aisles pestering the old ladies praying for grandchildren and assorted winos trying to nap in the back row. Peter and Angela indelicately run for it and hide in the confessionals. Because no one would ever look in a man-sized box for a man trying to hide…….Wait a minute-was that your idea, Angela? OK, we were always calling it Petrelli brain; looks like Peter got it from your side. And the wicked bone structure. The IQ gene is linked to the jawline, I get it now *
Claire, Fratboy and Nathan’s napping ass continue their tequila endurance tests
Fratty: “You weigh about the same as my leg, but you don’t even look drunk”
Nathan: “He’s right, sweetie. You’re old enough to start learning how to fake it “
Fratty: “Really, miss, is he holding you here against your will? Bang your head on the table once for yes……”
Claire: “No, really, he’s nice……… drunk, inappropriate and would sell his brother to the Sandinistas, but …. Ok, he sucks about 95% of the time. But sometimes he does good. Like right now, we’re hiding from the US Government who wants to put us in prison because he can fly, and I’m immortal and he flew to my house to save me from the Nice Young Men in Black who broke in to take me to super secret prison….”
Fratty:” OK, you’re drunk, I believe you!”
Fratty finishes off what’s left of his liver and hits the pavement; Claire scoops up her dad and her oddly earned wages and drags Nathan back to the room
Nathan: I’m all suit and bullshit and I failed everyone and I suck. I can’t even drink my daughter under a table, what kind of father am I? I just wanted you to love meeeeee splat”
Claire: Don’t worry. I think you can still outdrink your other kids.
Nathan: I have other kids?
Claire: Yeah, you’re our superman.
*The next morning, Nathan wakes up to see that he hogged all the covers so Claire had to sleep in a chair all night.Noah’d give her the bed and you bloody well know it, Senator. Feeling somewhat guilty, he goes and depawns her necklace, and probably realizes he’s never given her so much as a birthday gift in her life. Claire, realizing that while Nathan is more like a freaky uncle who sneaks booze to you at family weddings than a father, decides he’s really halfway decent as long as you keep him about 20% liquored up at all times. They fly off to somewhere where they’re probably going to captured, but at least they’re doing The Right Thing. Whatever that is.
Peter and Angela, having been saved from capture by St Noah, shake off the self pity, make some plans that involve crashing in on Angela’s sister or thematic equivalent, and walk out into the warm morning. St Noah is called to ID his final Primatech partner, who looks quite peaceful and harmless in his body bag with that hunting knife stuck in under his ear. And Noah’s not buying it for a minute, but the forensics lady would really like him to move the hell along so she can get this meatbag in the back of the van and knock off work early.
Or not. She jumps into Danko’s car, pulls what looks distressingly like an O face, and pop! Our boy’s back. So now Sylar (or is that really geometry man?) has his Candace on, and can pretend to be anyone- Hello president Sylar! Or President fake-Sylar geometry man. Hey, you never know. Now Sylar can ambiguously disappear sometime soon, Zack Quinto can go have a movie career and there’ll be an eternal uneasiness about the fact that anyone on the show behaving slightly off could actually Gabriel in disguise. Remember folks, he ain’t dead until we see his mist coming off the woodchipper. Drive safe! *
Next week: Mohinder wears a funny hat, Angela drags her kids off for a wayback trip to an abandoned mine.
Annie, my brother in Houston waits for me to send him your latest every week. Great job as usual.
Actually, they do have a great reason, but they have never mentioned it- the ability to fast heal is not dangerous to others- like bursting into flame, timetravel, mind control, and such.
Boring epi.
Told ya they blew the budget on last week’s freezies.
Some wonderings about Sylar- if he can power suck without head splicing, why would it be lethal? I gather geometry guy croaked because of the gunshot, but he’s just going to kill them out of habit now? And did he pick up dad’s hypno-whistle?
Underwater breathing doesn’t seem all that dangerous to me either. 
It seems to me that it was Nathan’s influence that got her the free pass. Her power not being dangerous may have been how Nathan justified it to everyone else, but they’re clearly not applying the same rule with anyone else.
Stellar as usual, but the winning line is:
Wouldn’t that be “out of”?
I can imagine Danko reasoning that a shapeshifter would be too much of a security risk to keep alive (though that means that he must have supreme confidence in his ability to take Sylar down when the time comes, which seems quite unlikely) or else he just saw it as an opportunity to throw Noah off Sylar’s trail, making it easier for him to work with Sylar.
I also thought that Sylar had picked up dad’s hypnowhistle, but it didn’t seem to affect anything; I think that was just a coincidence.
I’m still waiting to find out how Sylar is doing the whole “I’m in the car, now I’m not” thing. Seemed almost like a trick that Maury Parkman might have used.
Nawwww, Sylar vapours rising off the woodchipper like the fog rising off a calm pond at sunrise? But I fear further elaboration would just get gross.
Can we vote for all three, with honorable mention going to 'make Noah look like a useless tool?"
I thought it was just standard issue evil psychokiller appear/disappear spooky stuff. When he was prepping for surgery on Claire he managed to disappear in her kitchen in front of her nose, then came sneaking out right behind her. Bonus points for the reflection in the cabinet glass!
I’m thinking it’s hypno-whistle related. Sylar did whistle while in the car. Perhaps we were seeing things from Danko’s POV and actually he had been stunned for a couple minutes but to him it seemed like Sylar just disappeared when in actuality Sylar had enough time to get out of the car and go to the roof of a nearby building so he could get all wet and creepy while watching Danko from above.