Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT January 22nd? We have to wait until January 22nd? Shut up, NBC.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.03.2006
Zach and Claire meet up on the soccer field. She asks him for the tapes and when he hands them over, she puts them on the ground and steps all over them. She claims that they are now destroyed. I'd take a match to them as well, but whatever. Zach apologizes for breaking her out of her house arrest to go to homecoming. Claire says he shouldn't feel bad; he did it because he's her friend. "Probably the best friend I've ever had." Aw. Zach points out that he's only been her friend for two weeks and Claire says, "Hey, I didn't say it wasn't pathetic." Zach looks at her for a moment. "You know, you could've been killed." "I know," says Claire. She says she has to go and Zach promises that he won't say anything to anyone. Pretty soon here, it won't really be up to him to keep his mouth shut.
Hiro and Ando are trolling around the Greyhound bus station, waiting for someone. A bus pulls up and out of it comes Isaac. They run over to him. "Hiro Nakamura, I presume," says Isaac, again pronouncing Hiro's name correctly. For some reason, this makes me kind of love him. It's not "Heeeero Knockamooora," after all. But the only reason I know that is because I know a couple of Japanese people and I love any movie that comes from Tartan Video or Asia Extreme. Yes, I have a sick love of Asian horror movies, what of it? So, Isaac greets Hiro and Hiro responds, "Mystery Sock?" And then he flashes the damn Spock sign at him because that's what geeks do when they meet each other, right? Except, no. Not so much. (And special thanks to jeromycraig on the boards for the inspired nicknaming of Isaac as "Mystery Sock"; bloody genius, man.)
The three men enter the Burnt Toast Diner as Isaac looks over the comic that Hiro and Ando have been using as their bible. Isaac comments that "this book hasn't even gone to the printer yet" and that it's incredible that Hiro actually went to the future. They all sit at a table and Hiro says that Isaac's power is very strong. Isaac's not sure. "I can only do it when I'm chasing," he says. Hiro and Ando: "Whuh?" "Uh, stoned," says Isaac. Hiro and Ando: "[Crickets.]" "On drugs," says Isaac. Hiro and Ando: "Mystery Sock!" Isaac finally gives up trying to explain heroin to them and instead asks Hiro what else he saw in the future. Hiro tells him about the bomb and how it exploded the city and destroyed many things. "And I saw you!" he says, excitedly. And then he remembers how he saw Isaac in the future and immediately regrets saying anything about it.