Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Save the cheerleader. Save the -- wait, how does it go?
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.22.2006
The Niki and Ando Show, Now With Even More Stupidity! Ando's strapped to a chair with his hands behind his back (and not in the kinky way) as Niki realizes that he's one of her customers. She tells the feds as much ("I run a web site.") and then asks Ando how he found her. He tells her he found her through the WhoIs database and that perhaps, considering her profession, an unlisted listing might be a good idea. She tells him he shouldn't have come because this is her home. "I mean, what'd you think was gonna happen?" Aw. Ando apologizes and says that they chatted so much, he just thought... maybe she'd help him. Aw, again! Niki just nicely tries to tell him that he's got the wrong girl and that the person he "met" on the Internet isn't her. "You get the difference, right?" she asks softly. "Do you understand?" The expression on Ando's face is heartbreaking.
The fed asks if she wants them to take Ando in for trespassing, but she just tells them to let him go home. They immediately release him from his bonds and Ando tells her it was nice to meet her. Aw! He bows quickly at her and Niki looks at him kind of sadly. The fed tells Niki that they're leaving a squad car outside in case D.L. decides to show up. He leaves and Niki goes to check on Micah. He's in his room, futzing with computers or splitting the atom or something. She walks back out into the hallway and for some reason, she calls out "Hello" to someone. There are some flashing lights, but nothing too supernatural, so she must have a sixth sense (or twelfth sense, if it's ikiN doing the sensing) that someone's around. She walks into her bedroom and sees that no one's there, then turns around and leaves. The camera pans back, and there's D.L., in a spot where, seconds before, there was nothing but a door. He calmly looks down the hallway and, even though I'm pretty sure he's a good guy, he looks pretty damn evil right here.
Oh, good god. Hiro's still not driving his car. He's just sitting on it, tossing the keys aimlessly, waiting for divine intervention. It arrives in the form of Ando, who is extremely lucky that his friend has never BEEN IN A CAR BEFORE. "I guess... we call the artist again," says Ando. Hiro smiles at him sweetly. They do need each other after all!
Isaac's Den of Iniquity. We see a big pool of red paint (or blood) on the floor and, as the camera pans up the easel, we see that it's dripping off the canvas that Peter has just finished painting. There's a crude representation of Claire at the bottom corner and the top of her head is cut off and her body is surrounded by blood. I think we all know what THAT means. It's pretty obvious that, while Peter might have siphoned off Isaac's sight, he by no means siphoned off his talent. The finished painting is pretty bad. But we get the point: Claire's in danger of being SylarizedTM. Peter and Isaac stare at the painting for a couple of seconds. Finally, Isaac rasps, "How'd you do that?" "I don't know," responds Peter. "We have to save her," says Isaac with determination.