Episode Report Card Erin: A | 48 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Save the cheerleader. Save the -- wait, how does it go?
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2006.10.23
Big black earth-moon-sun eclipse of Heroes.
After the break, we get a white-light-divided montage that catches us up with the Heroes as some emo-like song plays on the soundtrack. Matt's still strapped to a table; Ando and Hiro are passed out in an alley somewhere; Peter's flying sonically through the air; Isaac's painting with his possessed eyes; Claire's in a hospital bed without a scratch on her; and Niki's in Nathan's hotel bed, but her scratches, if any, remain to be seen. Nathan's aide enters and rudely wakes her, demanding to know what she did with his boss. Well, Mr. Nosy Parker, what she did involved an exchange of bodily fluids and possibly even some mild bondage, but that's really none of your damn business, now is it?
Niki wakes up and is all, the who? The aide's having none of it and asks her again where Nathan is. She has no idea and, in fact, doesn't even know how she got there. He tosses her dress at her and says she's coming with them. Down in the lobby, however, Linderman's henchwoman approaches and tells him to leave poor Niki alone. The henchwoman, by the way, is played by none other than Nicole Bilderback of Bring It On fame. ("She puts the 'itch' in 'bitch'.") Man, I love that movie. So, anyway, Whitney tells the aide that they're working on the disappearance of Nathan and, if he'd like to review the security tapes, he can come with her. He gets the picture and walks off with the other henchmen.
Niki stands there, not sure what to do. Whitney tells her that she did a good job with Nathan. "You're free to go home, secure in your solvency," she says. Niki demands to know what she did to her, and Whitney just quips that, as she saw it, a lot of things were done to her. Heh. Niki can't believe it; she says that she left and didn't go through with it. Whitney tells her that Linderman reviewed the tape, and he was quite pleased with her performance. She pops the DVD into a player and we see a shot of Niki and Nathan in bed together and it's quite the steamy scene. Niki seems to want to confront her, but the evidence that she actually did sleep with Nathan is staring her right in the face, so when Whitney tells her to go home to Micah, there's really not much else she can do except follow the instructions.