Episode Report Card Erin: B | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT So many heroes, so little time.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2006.10.02
Brooklyn. Suresh is beneath the desk, checking out the bug planter's handiwork as Pixie watches. She can't believe someone would want to bug "Papa" Suresh's apartment. Suresh is all, uh, what's with the "papa"? Pixie's all, I am stupid and fucked up his name all the time and aren't I cute because I called your daddy "papa"? No. No, you are not. And I kind of agree with Wing on this: she's totally the real bad guy and the bug planter was just a red herring. Why else wouldn't he have killed Suresh when he had the chance? I mean, other than it didn't suit the plot at the time?
Suresh finds a bug in the electrical plate and shows it to Pixie, telling her about Bad Glasses Man in his father's apartment in Madras. She thinks he should just ask his dad about all this and Suresh is all, but, um, he's dead. Don't you know that? I can't tell if Pixie's a really bad actress or if the actress PLAYING her is just a really bad actress. [" She was in Brick, too, and I felt the same way. Her acting style is...I don't know, 'airy.' -- Joe R] Either way, she's not having any effect on me whatsoever. I don't know why I care when there's a whole lotta Mohinder over there to look at. Pixie blah blahs about making extra food and bringing it over to Papa Suresh and how he'd tell her about his theories and his map. Yes, because the man was being chased down for his research but somehow telling it all to his little pixie neighbor is totally harmless, huh?
Suresh says that Pixie was closer to his father than he ever was. She says that she had no idea anything was wrong and that she knocked a couple of times, but Papa Suresh wasn't around. She had a first edition of Darwin's Origin of the Species that she wanted to show him. Pixie goes on to say that Papa Suresh told her he was being watched and she just thought he was eccentric. She asks if Suresh thinks they're being watched now and he just answers that "they" could have killed him if they'd wanted to and, for the time being, he's more valuable to them alive. He says that he needs Pixie to tell him everything she remembers about the map and his father's theories.