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
Her mom comes into the kitchen and Claire whips around, hiding the partially mangled hand behind her. Mom's still blathering about being a cool mom or whatever and Claire's hand is dripping blood all over the floor. She finally gets to her point and says, "You should know who you are and that it's enough. Because who you are is special." "About that," says Claire. "There's something I need to say. Something I've never talked about because it would upset you and dad. I think I'm old enough for you to tell me who my real parents are." Her mother just immediately hugs her and tells her that of course she's old enough. Claire goes to embrace her mother with her mangled right hand and sees that it's completely returned to normal. There's a male voice off-screen and it seems that Mr. Bennett has returned home. Mrs. Bennett goes to greet him as Claire shoves the puffy dog away from her spilled blood that he seems to be LICKING UP. Ewwww. Claire runs up to her daddy and goes to hug him and he isâ¦Bad Glasses Man! Oh, that can't be good. This opens up all kinds of wrongness. Does he know about her real parents and that's why he adopted her? Or he doesn't know and this will turn very bad very soon? This will only end in tears and destruction. And yet? This is still totally awesome.
Tokyo. Hiro's on a train. The clock above his head says "11:43." I'm assuming that's "PM." A poster across the way advertises New York City. Hiro stares at it. He closes his eyes. He concentrates. Suddenly, the clock above his head starts speeding forward as his cheeks shake. He opens his eyes and the clock above his head says "1:00." The train doors open and everyone slips past him and, suddenly, instead of people passing him, it's cars passing him and he's in the middle of Times Square, right in the heart of the Big Apple. He looks up and spins around and throws his arms up in the air and goes, "YATA! HURRO NEW YORK!" Hee. I want to make him my pet.
New York City. Isaac's den of iniquity. Simone and Peter approach the door, and it seems that she's told him about Isaac's future-predicting paintings. She goes to turn on the lights, but nothing happens. Peter pulls out a flashlight and shines it around. He steps on a syringe. Looks like Isaac couldn't quite handle the cold turkey. They find Isaac on the floor, overdosed, but alive. Peter tells Simone to call 911 and she pulls out her cell phone. Peter looks off to the side and sees a painting. He gets up and props it up against a table. It's Peter in the painting and he looks like he's flying. Or falling. I'm not really sure. Isaac regains consciousness briefly and says, "We have to stop it." Then we see another one of his comic-y paintings and it depicts what looks like a nuclear bomb landing right next to the Chrysler building. "We have to stop it," he says again.