Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dawn Of The Dead Dads
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.18.2007
Japan. The chapter title appears on two headstones in a cemetery. Hiro and Ando are attending his father's funeral. Hiro gets up to speak, but instead of saying something, he decides to walk off to a distant hill and stare at the sky. Ando follows, asking what's up, and Hiro tells him that they don't know who killed his father, and that he can't honor him in the present until he goes back and rights the past.
So Hiro blinks his eyes to go back in time and save his father because, apparently, he learned nothing from fucking with time during the Kensei situation. He winds up on the Superroof a week in the past, and catches the tail end of the scene between Angela and Kaito. He crouches off to the side as they discuss the ElderDeaths and their sons and how Kaito believes they deserve all the suffering they can get for what they've done.
The Biggest Apartment in Brooklyn. Matt's looking at a full picture of the ElderHeroes, who have all been identified via Post-It Notes stuck to the photo -- except for one woman in the top row. Her stickie just has question marks all over it. Matt seems to be frustrated, and rubs his brow ferociously. Molly enters, wishing him a good morning, and telling him that she slept nightmare-free for the first time in months. I don't know what it is about this kid, but she creeps me out. I think it's her gums -- they look like they're taking over her mouth. I mean, I know she can't help that, but it still skeeves me. So, anyway, Matt pours Molly some cereal as she goes over and looks at the photo. She asks what it is, and he tells her that it's a puzzle, and that he has to find the people in it. She offers to find them for him, but he refuses, saying that he asked her to do that once before and he never will again. Matt and Molly sit down to breakfast, and he tells her that he just wants her to be a normal little girl. She says that she's not normal, but he doesn't care -- he wants her to just go to school and eat too much candy and watch too much TV; you know, normal. They hug, and she asks why they can't be their extraordinary selves. Without realizing it, Matt thinks at Molly that she should just do it for him. Molly's eyes open up and she suddenly says, "Okay, I'll do it for you. Back to normal." Matt's like, "Whoa. Wait a second. Did I just make that happen?" He experiments by thinking at Molly that she should come back to the table and finish her cereal, and she turns and walks right back to the table and eats her cereal like a cult member or something. Matt just watches her guiltily.
Costa Verde. Mohinder meets Tobby poolside, and they discuss the plan to nab Claire out of her father's clutches. Tobby mentions that the plan involves taking out Bennet, and Mohinder's like, "I assume you mean KILLING HIM, right?" Tobby insists that it's a euphemism, but Mohinder's not so sure. Tobby recognizes that Mohinder feels a certain loyalty to Bennet, but assures him that he made the right decision in joining up with The Company instead of taking it down as originally intended. Mohinder says that he's not choosing sides; this is about using Claire's blood to cure everyone, and doing the right thing. Tobby says that that's what he digs about Mohinder the most: his moral compass always points true north. This is why he's getting a partner whose moral compass points more toward hell and damnation. They end up at a lounge chair filled with the half-naked body of Elle, and Tobby introduces her as his daughter. Mohinder's like, "Wait -- your daughter's my muscle? She's the executioner?" And Tobby's like, "Well, duh." Needless to say, nurturing father is not a role Tobby is familiar with. Elle twits at Mohinder about his busted-ass nose. Tobby asks whether she's been working on her sharp-shooting; he doesn't want her getting too close to Bennet. "Hey Fight Club," she says, looking at Mohinder. "Get a load of this." She points her finger like a gun at a tasty beverage across the way and pulls the trigger, shooting a spark directly at it that shatters the glass. She turns back to Mohinder and blows the smoke from her fingertip with a smile. Hee.