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
Charlie declares that he's a magician and Hiro again tries to tell her that it's not magic; he has a superpower. He starts to tell her about a very bad man who's going to come and kill her, but he stops before revealing that little nugget of info and tells Charlie that tomorrow, the swallow will slay the dragon. Charlie's like, what, are you Confucius now? Hiro's like, oh, what, so all Chinese people look alike? Charlie's like, you're Japanese. Hiro's like, WHAT, YOU NO LIKE-O NO JAPANESE PEOPLE? And Charlie's like, whatever, dude. Go get some more plates off tables and teleport them into the goddamned future for all I care.
Vegas. Niki's sitting on top of her sister's grave. We get a look at the headstone, and it says that Jessica died in 1987, when she was just eleven years old. DL walks up and notices that Niki's got a bottle of something wrapped up in brown paper. "Having a drink with your sister?" he quietly asks. "Thinkin' about it," she answers. She tells him that it's important for her not to forget about her sister and then she says that her father's back and he wants to meet DL and Micah. DL tells her that nobody's meeting anybody unless Niki wants them to. She says that her father has money and they could use it to send Micah to private school. DL gamely says they should have the man over for dinner and then they can all say a prayer for Jessica. Niki looks at her husband like he just sprouted wings and a halo and is strumming "Stairway to Heaven" on a harp.
A Freeway Outside of Manhattan. Nathan and Heidi are driving home from Peter's party. Nathan's grousing about Peter being a hospice nurse, and Heidi's being sweetly supportive of Peter's choice. "He's selfless and empathic," she says. I think she means empathetic here, but the writers probably felt that wasn't anvilicious enough so they went with "empathic". Nathan says that Peter's also self-righteous and that Papa Petrelli did what he had to do to take care of his family. Wait, so, back at the party, Nathan wanted to take their father down along with Linderman and Peter didn't think that would be a good idea, but now, suddenly, Peter's self-righteous and Nathan's supporting his father's choices? Sloppy writing! I think we have a new drinking game, people; every time there's sloppy writing or inconsistencies on the show, you have to drink. Good lord. We'll all be hammered by the first commercial break.
Nathan continues to blather on about how he understands the choices his father made and that he himself inherited the same responsibility. What responsibility is that, Nathan? The one where you lie down with mobsters so your family can live in a huge mansion and host fake brunches on Sundays? "I didn't ask to be Dad's favorite," says Nathan, apropos of nothing. "I never asked to be loved more than Peter. But that's just the reality." Jesus, what kind of family is this? Unless Peter was a convicted felon or a perennial drug addict or something else serious, I see no reason why Papa Petrelli should love one son more than the other. That's just bad parenting, if you ask me. Of course, I can't keep a houseplant alive longer than three days, so perhaps I shouldn't be commenting on other peoples ability to successfully raise human beings.