Episode Report Card Erin: A- | 58 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2006.11.27
Burnt Toast Diner. Charlie's standing outside, looking sad. Hiro runs out and tells her about a samurai film festival in Austin that night. Charlie informs him that that's over three hundred miles away, and he just cheerfully says they can make it there in time to see Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, and Hidden Fortress. He thinks this would be perfect prep work for their trip to Japan. Charlie's not so sure, and she resists his attempts to drag her off. Hiro's worried that she doesn't want to go to Japan anymore, and she says she still wants to go, and that he makes her very happy. He says she does the same for him. She goes on to say that she doesn't usually let people close because, well, she has a blood clot in her brain and she's dying. "Butâ¦I'm supposed to save you," says Hiro. Charlie says he did save her, because before he arrived, she'd decided to give up. But he made her feel more joy than she ever could have imagined. "Hiro," she says, welling up with tears, "I love you." Aw. They go to kiss and suddenly, Hiro's in the middle of his coworkers, who are all doing their daily exercises on the rooftop of their building. One of them comments to Hiro that he and Ando are supposed to be on vacation in America. So Hiro's managed to accidentally teleport himself back to the future. And no matter how hard he tries, no matter how many colossal craps he tries to take, he can't get back to his girl.
Gabriel's Clock Shop of Resentment. Gray's fixing a watch when a man enters the shop. It's Brian Davis. Just in case we were out trying to eat people's brains during the previous scenes, we get a flash of Gray finding the sticky in his hand, like, we're WATCHING THE SHOW, let's assume we KNOW WHO BRIAN DAVIS IS. Gray stands up and says, "My name isâ¦" He looks down at the watch he was fixing and the name on the face is "Sylar". "My name is Sylar," he says, looking over at Brian. "Gabriel Sylar." Minutes later, Sylar and Brian are standing at a counter as Brian stares really hard at a cup. It shakes and quivers and then finally it sort of jerkily moves across the counter. Not so much a "superpower" as it is a "half-assed power," huh? Sylar is more impressed than I am, because he declares the ability to be "incredible." Brian wants him to make it go away. Sylar thinks he's crazy to want to remove such an awesome ability. Brian doesn't want it.