Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Future's So Blight, I Gotta Wear Hades
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.29.2007
Superstudio. Mohinder's trying to explain to Matt that each string represents a particular person, but Matt's too busy grunting and scratching himself to pay attention. He just wants to get back to kicking Hiro's ass. Because that's a much more productive use of his time. Mohinder says this is a living map of the past, and Matt asks why a terrorist would be so interested in the past. Because he's not just a terrorist, JACKASS. He's a time-traveling, teleporting terrorist! God, PAY ATTENTION. Mohinder says that maybe Future Hiro thought he could change the past. At this point, it becomes clear that neither Mo nor Matt actually know that Hiro's a time-traveler; they only know he can teleport and freeze time. But Mo supposes that if Hiro can bend space, then he can also bend time. Lord -- have they not been watching this damn show?
Mohinder picks up the last comic that Isaac ever drew and comments that Hiro being able to time-travel isn't any stranger than being able to read minds, and Matt just smart-asses that it is, actually, MUCH stranger than that. Because Future Matt is a fucking half-wit. Mo asks if Matt's ever wanted to go back and change his past; put his life on a different path. Matt bitterly responds that he used to be that guy, but not anymore. But apparently, Hiro's still that guy. Mohinder excitedly goes to the strings and picks out to specific moments on the timeline that were important to Hiro. One is the bomb, the other is-- Mohinder stops. He reads the sticky on the picture of Hiro and Peter meeting in the subway car. He realizes that this is the day he received his father's ashes.
"I was with Peter Petrelli that day," he says. "On the subway. He said he saw a man who could freeze time." Matt wonders if this was Hiro, but Mohinder doesn't know. "He said he had a message for Peter." Mohinder kind of looks around at the strings as Matt repeatedly asks him what the message was. Mohinder starts to run up the stairs out of the studio, but comes back in to say, "Save the cheerleader, save the world." He looks down at Matt, who suddenly realizes he's standing right smack dab in the middle of the floorpocalypse. He steps back off of it and we flash to white...
... only to wind up at the only restaurant in Texas, the Burnt Toast Diner. I was wrong in the last recap -- the diner isn't in Odessa, it's in Midland. But still. Claire serves a couple of plates to counter customers and her hair is a dark brown, which actually looks quite pretty on her. She retreats to the end of the counter to watch a program about the White House. A young, handsome guy comes out to stand by her, and he comments that for someone who doesn't like the president, she sure does perk up whenever he's on TV. The guy calls her "Sandra" ["aw, her mom's name" -- Sars] and it would appear that they're in love and going to be married. She's forgotten to check out some place for the reception, and he asks her if she's getting cold feet. She isn't -- she's just been distracted, what with trying to stay off the government's radar and the whole hiding-from-bad-guys thing.
Speaking of hiding from bad guys, Claire's fiancé observes that the "creepy guy with the glasses" is back and he's sitting in Claire's section. Claire's like, "You think he's creepy NOW, you shoulda seen him with the horn rims!" She heads over to deal with her dad. He tells her immediately that someone knows about her and that she has to leave immediately. He brought a bag for her that contains ID and money, probably, although he doesn't say what's inside. "What am I supposed to tell Andy?" she asks. "Tell him nothing," he says. "Just go." Claire says she can't do that to him because they're getting married, and Bennet looks at her in surprise. "Have you told him?" he asks. "No," she says. "All I want is a normal life, Dad." He says he tried to give her that, but it's not safe there anymore.