Episode Report Card Erin: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2006.11.27
Hiro's sitting at the same table and Charlie comes over to pour him a cup of coffee. He introduces himself and informs her that he's there to save her life. Charlie's like, uh huh. How 'bout I just pour you this coffee and I go over and enjoy my birthday candles with the rest of the non-crazy people in the place? For utterly no reason whatsoever (other than she's just one of those irrationally friendly people who takes in strays and calls the guy who eats paste and wanders the town square with his underwear on his head a "colorful character"), Charlie beckons Hiro to join her over at her candle-blowing ceremony, and they have their picture taken together. Hiro looks like he's passing a particularly difficult kidney stone in the resulting photo.
Chapter Ten: Six Months Ago, the title informs us over the next scene. We're in a watch and clock repair shop in Brooklyn. Zachary Quinto of So NoTORIous infamy is diligently repairing a watch. It's a delicate operation and he's clearly an expert at it. Also? His skin looks like it's made of brie, it's so smooth, and his hair resembles that of a Devo member. He looks weird, is what I'm saying. And kind of hot. But that's probably due more to the fact that Zachary Quinto is kind of hot. Papa Suresh enters and calls Zachary "Mr. Gray". He hopes that Gray can help him, but Gray's more interested in fixing his watch. Papa Suresh says his watch is fine, but Gray tells him it isn't and that he has a knack for knowing when things are broken. He has a talent for knowing the way things work and how the parts should go. Suresh points out the watch Gray was just working on and says it looks complicated. Gray responds that the housing of the watch is standard, but the insides are complicated German parts. He's been working on it for seven years. I guess we're supposed to take away from this that Gray is obsessive-compulsive and also likes the inner workings of things.
Gray fixes Suresh's watch and tells him there's no charge. Suresh stares at him and suddenly, Gray looks at him, all, you didn't come here for the watch, did you? Well, no, he didn't, actually. Especially considering he didn't even KNOW the damn watch was broken. Sloppy writing gives me hives. Suresh says he came to find him, and we learn that Gray's first name is Gabriel. So his name is Gabriel Gray. Huh. A messenger angel who's neither black nor white, good nor evil? Subtle, writers. SUBTLE. Suresh introduces himself and immediately starts talking about his evolutionary theory. "I believe you are a part of it," he says, handing over a copy of his book. He tells Gray to read it and, if he's interested, he can contact him via the phone and address he's written inside the book. Suresh leaves to go drop in on other unsuspecting superheroes.