Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.26.2006
"What's going on?" asks Peter, sensitively attuned to the inner workings of his brother's mind. Nathan tells him that the district attorney wants him to prosecute Linderman, his dad's biggest client. If Linderman's mob ties run as deep as the DA thinks they do, when they take him down, the whole "empire" will crumble. Peter reminds him that if he takes down Linderman, their father will go down with him. Nathan points out that Peter used to accuse Papa Petrelli of being a criminal for protecting criminals and that this is their chance to set the record straight and clear their family name. "He's still our father," says Peter. "No matter what he's done. You go after him? You're never going to forgive yourself." Nathan grabs his brother around the neck and plants a kiss on his head and then Roxy Music starts playing on the stereo and they start making out as god intended. Or Heidi just enters and starts spasmodically flailing her limbs around in an effort to entice her husband to the dance floor.
Casa de Suresh. Papa Suresh is pinning a picture of Nathan to his Map of Heroes. Gabriel Gray arrives and Suresh shows him a book full of medical images. Gray asks if Suresh is going to cut him open and Suresh just laughs and laughs. "Oh, no! That's later! After we have some nag paneer!" He tells Gray that he wants to run him through an MRI, and Gray observes that this means Suresh is trying to map the brain. Suresh says that the brain controls every action, whether it's voluntary or involuntary. It also controls every breath, heartbeat, and emotion. "If the soul exists," he says, "scientifically speaking, it exists in the brain." Gray chuckles and tells Suresh that, when he was a kid, he used to wish that someone would come and tell him his family wasn't really his family. Wow. That's one nihilistic kid. I used to wish I was Princess Leia's younger sister and that I would wind up married to Han Solo's younger brother and that we'd live on one of the moons of Endor, but I never wished my family wasn't my own. Then again, I was an only child who loved Duran Duran and thought that our new Betamax player was the bomb, so what the hell did I know?
"They weren't bad people," says Gray. "They were just... insignificant. And I wanted to be different. Special. I wanted to change. A new name, a new life. The watchmaker's son... became a watchmaker. It is so futile. And I wanted to be... important." Suresh assures him that he IS important, and Gray asks what his abilities might be. Before we can learn what they are, we switch to Bennet, who's rattling off a list of Eden's, erm, "accomplishments". Grand theft auto, larceny, robbery, arson, and suspected of murder in Oklahoma. "That's no way for a young lady to behave, now is it?" he asks. Heh. Eden has a big piece of tape over her mouth so she can't attempt to use her Electronic Voice Power Persuader on Bennet. Mindblower's in the corner, silently watching over the proceedings. Bennet tells her that she needs a goal and a purpose and then he pulls the tape off her mouth. She spits in his face and fires up the EVPP, telling him to let her go. Mindblower stares at her and Bennet just ignores her order, cheerfully informing her that, with her power, there's been no one who can say no to her. "Now there is," he says. Eden looks decidedly nervous.