Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.26.2006
Just then, a big van comes speeding up and starts threatening their car. There's no one else on the road, so it's clear that the van is coming for Nathan and Heidi and no one else. It rides up on their bumper and starts ramming into it a couple of times. Heidi freaks out and looks around at them and when she turns back to look at Nathan, he's just... gone. She calls out for him and we see that he's actually up in the air, looking totally helpless and completely not in control of his flying ability. Guess he wasn't wearing his seatbelt, huh? That might've kept him in the damn car instead of in the air where he doesn't belong. He's just hovering there, watching Heidi ride off in the car that he's no longer driving. The van pushes the car into a barrier on the side of the road as Heidi screams. It crashes and Nathan crashes to the ground. At the same time across town, Peter reaches his hand up in the middle of a nightmare. He wakes with a start and the phone rings. Looks like he's just had his "I knew something bad had happened to him" moment he talked about in the first episode. Although, in that episode, he mentioned something about being 300 miles away at the time of the accident, which, unless Nathan and Heidi were driving to Syracuse, seems to be yet another inconsistency. Everybody drink! Also? Milo Ventimiglia does all sorts of wrong things to a white v-neck t-shirt, lemme tell you.
Later that same night, Peter runs into the emergency room waiting area and goes directly to his brother, who's sitting with his head in his hands. Heidi's been in surgery for ten hours and there's something wrong with her spine. Peter hands Nathan his phone so he can call Mama Petrelli. Peter asks if he's hurt and Nathan says he landed three hundred feet away from the wreck. He has no idea how he got there, and, in fact, remembers very little of anything that happened. Peter tells him the cut on his forehead is bad and that he needs to lie down. Nathan won't lie down until Heidi's okay. He can't get a signal on the phone and Peter asks if he remembers the other car. Nathan's all, what other car? Peter's all, whaddya mean "what other car"? The other car, doofus. The one ramming into you from behind! (Hee. I'm twelve.) Nathan touches his brother on the shoulder (because a scene in which the Petrelli brothers are not touching each other is clearly a scene where they are not in the same zip code) and looks around all covertly and shit, as if someone is watching them from the nurse's station or something. "Who told you that?" asks Nathan. "I had a dream," says Peter, "right before you called." "My wife's in surgery," says Nathan, cupping his brother's cheek with his hand as if he's going to lean in and kiss him right on the lips, "and you're dreaming. That's great."