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By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.30.2007
Claire leaves for school shortly thereafter and the second she does, Mrs. Bennet shows a newspaper article about Kaito Nakamura's death to her husband. "I knew this would happen" is all he says. "What do you mean, you knew this would happen?" she asks. He doesn't answer. She reminds him that they no longer keep secrets from each other, so he'd better cough it up already. He smiles at her and then brings her into his office and shows her one of Isaac's paintings. It depicts Kaito in the exact position he died in, surrounded by a pool of blood. "This was done by a very gifted artist from New York, Isaac Mendez," says Bennet. "Everything he's ever painted has come true. Except for a series of eight -- I was only given the first." Mrs. Bennet can't believe there are seven more of these paintings, and wonders what's in them. Bennet declares that he doesn't know, but he's going to damn well find them.
Superroof of Superheroes. Ando is being questioned by the police. Parkman arrives with his chief, and hesitates before crossing the yellow tape because he's spent so much time on the other side of it that he's...forgotten how to cross it? I don't know. He says he wants to "savor the moment" of finally being a full-on detective; his chief welcomes him to the big leagues. The chief fills him in on Kaito's death, and shows him the picture of Kaito with the big "S" symbol on it. Matt immediately recognizes it, of course, but pretends he doesn't, saying he's never seen it before. The chief walks him over to the edge of the roof where Kaito was knocked off, and mentions that Ando swears he saw another man push Kaito off the edge, but that there's only one body. "Well, either the killer fell twenty stories and got up and walked away, or flew away," says the chief. "You know somebody who can do that?" Matt looks at him like, "No, not at all. I don't know any flying people. Or, like, I DID know a flying people, but he done gone and blowed himself up. Along with his brother. Who is currently wet and shirtless in a badly-named fake Irish pub. So...yeah, no. Don't know any flying people!" Angela Petrelli's fingerprint was found on the photo, so Matt thinks they should bring her in immediately. The chief just gives him a "no shit, Sherlock" look, and leaves.
Matt goes over to Ando and asks him whether he's ever seen the "S" symbol on the picture before. Ando says that he has: it's a kanji that means "great ability" or "godsend." He says that it's also the crest of Takezo Kensei, a hero who featured greatly in the stories Mr. Nakamura used to read to his son, Hiro. Matt mumbles that he'd like to talk to Hiro, and Ando just looks sad and says that he'd like to talk to him, too.