Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 90 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Future's So Blight, I Gotta Wear Hades
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2007.04.30
Speaking of hiding from bad guys, Claire's fiancé observes that the "creepy guy with the glasses" is back and he's sitting in Claire's section. Claire's like, "You think he's creepy NOW, you shoulda seen him with the horn rims!" She heads over to deal with her dad. He tells her immediately that someone knows about her and that she has to leave immediately. He brought a bag for her that contains ID and money, probably, although he doesn't say what's inside. "What am I supposed to tell Andy?" she asks. "Tell him nothing," he says. "Just go." Claire says she can't do that to him because they're getting married, and Bennet looks at her in surprise. "Have you told him?" he asks. "No," she says. "All I want is a normal life, Dad." He says he tried to give her that, but it's not safe there anymore.
Claire says she's been hiding for five years all over the country, and her father says that he brought her back to Midland. "Only after Mom left," she snips. Aw. That's sad. I would have thought they'd stay together through thick and thin! Claire's quip about her mother seems to hurt Bennet a bit and he says that he only wanted to keep Claire safe. A TV program in the distance announces that over two hundred undocumented Heroes have been rounded up in a coordinated sweep. It's been cited as the department of Homeland Security's most successful operation since the Linderman Act was passed four years ago. Nice little bit of continuity there, showing that Nathan and Linderman were actually partnered up back then. Claire looks up at the screen and then back at her father. "Enjoy your pie," she says, her voice dripping with disgust. But she grabs the bag he brought, so it appears she's going to listen to him about leaving town.
Future Hiro and Ando are watching the same TV program back at Primatech. Future Hiro is running down the roster of Heroes who are supposed to be helping them get Hiro out of custody -- D.L. can phase into the building and Candice can create illusions to distract the guards. Ando's all, "Hey, what about ME? What do I do, huh?" Future Hiro's like, "Just sit there and look pretty, okay? Oh, and get me a soda -- time travel is thirsty work, man!" But what Ando really wants to know is what is he doing NOW, like, in life, in the future. Is he married? Is he rich? Future Hiro refuses to tell him that because, well, time is a funny thing, dude. "The time-space continuum might implode because you were impatient!" Future Hiro says with a small smile. "Soâ¦my friend is still in there?" asks Ando. Future Hiro nods at him and starts to say, "There's something I need to tell you --" But Matt bursts into the room and tasers poor Future Hiro. The room fills with cops, one of whom grabs Ando.