Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.24.2006
The doorbell rings and Nikki tells Micah to get his stuff and wait by the back door. She peeks out the window and sees two large thugs standing outside. So, um, thugs ring doorbells now? I'm surprised they didn't send an advanced notice via American Greetings. Nikki and Micah run out the back door, with Nikki wearing a pair of cowboy boots over her jeans, which is just NOT DONE, people. They get into their car and peel off just as the thugs bust into their place.
We change locations and wind up in Odessa, Texas. We're in the frame of a video camera, which is shooting a large rusted structure as a small cheerleader runs up its stairs. She hollers out, "Camera ready?" The kid holding the camera hollers back that it is. He then says to himself that she must be seventy or eighty feet up and that this is all totally unreal. The cheerleader tells him she's ready and he brings the camera up just as she jumps off the structure and falls screaming down to the ground. Still shooting, the kid with the camera runs toward her and she just calmly gets up with her arm at a completely unnatural angle. Without grimacing, she just snaps her arm back into place and breathes into the camera, "This is Claire Bennett. And that was attempt number six." The cut on her face just... disappears.
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Peter's up on the roof again. Only this time, when he jumps, he appears to fly for a bit before he starts zooming into the ground. Before he can splatter into a million pieces, though, Adrian Pasdar appears and scares poor Peter awake. No shit. Adrian Pasdar. Who he is and what he's doing in Peter's dream will alllll become clear in a moment here. Peter's in a cab. He turns to see a bus stopped next to him with Adrian Pasdar's face on it. He gets out of the cab and heads into a building. Inside, Adrian Pasdar is rasping into the phone at someone. He hangs up as Peter comes toward him and says he's super-duper busy right now. Adrian Pasdar is playing Nathan Petrelli, Peter's brother. Nathan's a politician who wants to be President and who is kind of a jerkface.
Peter tells Nathan about his dreams of flying/falling and says that sometimes Nathan's even in them. Nathan doesn't have time for Peter's Freudian bullshit. Peter says that his foot hovered when he got out of bed this morning. Mine does that every morning. It's called getting out of bed, dork. "I'm telling you, Nathan," he says. "I think I can fly." Nathan's like, oh, dude. No. I'm a politician. You can sleep with a hooker, you can even snort blow off her tits, but please. Don't go mental on me, okay? Nathan suggests that Peter jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and Peter thinks he should start with something lower, you know, like training wheels for fliers. "See a doctor, get some drugs," says Nathan. "But do NOT pull a Roger Clinton on me, man." Heh.