Episode Report Card Erin: B | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2006.09.25
Once outside, Suresh books through the streets in a downpour as Furry Man tries to keep up. Furry Man tries to explain away Suresh's father's death as normal, saying that driving a taxi in New York City is dangerous, but Suresh says his father thought someone was following him and that he died because of his theories. Suresh is going to his dad's apartment to get his papers and research. "He was this close to finding the first of 'them'," he says. "His 'patient zero'. He tracked him to Queens, New York." Furry Man tries to stop Suresh from following in his father's footsteps, but Suresh is a man possessed. He needs to know why his father died and to know that it wasn't all for nothing.
He enters his father's apartment and sees a pair of glasses on a table. He seems to be confused as to why they're there. He opens up a box of files entitled "GENESIS." He pages through them, and there are files named "Rapid Cell Regeneration" and "Teleportation" inside. He goes to a large map on the wall and starts rearranging push pins as the camera slides past into another room where some guy stands, paging through documents. His face is unseen. His cell phone rings and Suresh hears it and realizes that he's not alone. He quickly scrambles to get his digital camera as we hear the unknown man say to someone on the phone that Suresh's father left behind everything but his computer, and that they should have a team come in and bag-and-tag everything. Suresh takes a quick digital picture of the map and takes the pushpin out of New York on the map. He disappears out the door seconds before the unknown man comes into the room. He picks up the glasses on the table and puts them on as ominous music plays. Oooh. He's just like Cigarette-Smoking Man only with glasses! He's Bad Glasses Man!
Phew. That was a lot of exposition there in a small amount of time. Good thing the next five minutes are devoted to Ali Larter slinking around in her undies.
We switch to a dusky bed in the middle of nowhere as a blonde girl waves her ass into a digital movie camera. She rolls around slowly on the bed and finally turns over, removing her blouse. We see that the camera is attached to a laptop on a table. Just as she's about to remove her bra, the computer starts beeping and she runs over to type in that the time's up for whatever masturbating individual is watching her. He wants more. She tells him it'll cost another $39 bucks and he calls her a bitch because she won't show him her cooter for free. I'd say she's more of a good businesswoman, but whatever. She walks across the room and passes a mirror and, as she does, a part of her kind of warps out of the reflection and we hear whispering. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Nikki Sanders and she strips to make ends meet while occasionally seeing weird reflections of herself in mirrors.