Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Hold still, Sylar--there's something sticking out of your head.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 28, 2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Peter chases Claude and demands that they be friends, or at least enter into a mentor/mentoree relationship. Claude tells Peter to go screw. Matt sits around uselessly reading his useless wife's useless mind. Sylar festers away in his cell, still dead to the world. So does Niki. Hiro and Ando are chased down by a bunch of thugs in a van and they spend the beginning portion of the show hiding beneath a car. Heh.
Once the action picks up, Nathan visits Mohinder, and they go off in search of Peter. Claire and Zach do some deep-diving into Mr. Bennett's computer but find jack-all. Matt's really not digging his gift all that much, so he declares to his useless wife that he's going to get his revenge on Bennett and the Haitian Sensation. Micah and D.L. are having problems getting along, and it's pretty clear that D.L. is crap at raising children. I blame prison. They're having money problems because D.L. refuses to take off his clothes in front of a camera for money.
Claire begs the Haitian Sensation to tell her anything at all about her birth parents and he gives up that her real mom died fourteen years ago. Claire heads right on over to the internet and, after some research, finds a likely (dead) candidate in a small Texas town. She thinks her dead mom might have family, so at least it's worth a shot to contact someone to find out. Sylar dies, but then totally wakes up seconds later, soâ¦not dead? I guess? Matt gets suspended from the force and goes home to fix a plumbing problem. Yes, it's about that exciting. His useless wife lets him read her mind, and he finds out that she's pregnant. This fills him with unabashed joy, even though he has no job and the baby's probably not even his.
Peter returns to his gargantuan apartment long enough to pack a bag and meet up with Nathan and Mohinder, who just want to help him. Peter pulls a runner, only to be intercepted by Claude just outside the door, effectively making them both disappear, so that Nathan and Mohinder go chasing a cloud. Claude and Peter partner up for what I can only hope is a great adventure. D.L. phases into Niki's cell and whines at her about how hard it is to take care of Micah without her. She tells him to suck it up and go raise their son. I don't know why they're worried about Micah; he can break into ATM's with his special ability, so he looks like he's doing just fiiiiine without them. Niki's psychiatrist demands to talk to Jessica, but Niki has little-to-no control over her alter-ego, so that's pretty much a bust.
Hiro and Ando are abducted by the van guys and, after a long-ass ride around town, they come face to face with their captor. It's Hiro's dad. And Hiro's dad is George Takei. Awesome. Claire finally tracks down the woman she believes to be her mothers' family, only to discover that the woman actually IS her mother, and she's totally not dead. She can also totally light shit on fire with her fingers. And, finally, Bennett goes to check on Sylar's body, but he discovers Henchdoctor's body instead, and Sylar's in the corner, looking psychotic, and also sporting a damn thingy implanted in his skull. He has only one thing to say to Bennett: "How's Claire?" Ooooooh. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Oh, no. It's never a good sign when Moyawnder's voiceover plays OVER the previouslys. I might need to bring a pillow and a blanket to this recap, y'all.
The voiceover says some crap about expectations and urges as we get a replay of last week's show. A quick synopsis: Claire doesn't trust her father, Sylar's crapped out on the floor of his cell with Hissy McCockroach, Matt hates Bennett and headed up a stupid raid on Primatech Paper, Bennett paid a visit to Mohinder, Claire jumped off a building to get her friend Zach back, and Peter woke from his coma only to wind up chasing down an invisible man. "Is this transformation a gift or a curse?" asks Moyawnder. I'll tell you what's a curse, Moyawnderâ¦
The current episode picks up right where the last one left off, with Peter chasing down the wallet-stealing homeless-outfit-wearing invisible man. We get a repeat of the scene where Christopher Eccleston throws Peter up against a pole (dirty!), and innocent bystanders wonder where the hell the angry voices are coming from. I actually like that the show does this -- the initial replay of the previous episode's final moments. It's very comic book-y, which is awesome.
So, Christopher Eccleston's got Peter in a chokehold and he demands to know how Peter can see him. Peter manages to gasp out an explanation of his power mimicry. Christopher Eccleston steps back. "Fantastic," he says bitterly, channeling The Doctor. "You're one of those." Hee. Peter's all, hey now, wait a minute -- you know someone else like me? And he sounds all surprised about it. Dude? Your brother can fly, Hiro can time-travel, and Isaac can paint the future; for all intents and purposes, YOU actually know someone else like you. Yes, he's awfully pretty, but not so bright, huh?
Peter chases after Christopher Eccleston as he pushes people out of his way and they look around like, "What the fuck just hit me?" Peter wants to know who he is and Christopher Eccleston says, "Me? I'm no one. I'm Claude Rains. I'm the Invisible Man. Now get away from me. Forget you ever saw me." Peter somehow jumps to the conclusion that because Claude here can run around stealing wallets while wearing a grungy overcoat, he can help Peter figure out how to control his ability in order to save the world. He demands that Claude help him. Claude's all, uh, what the hell would I do THAT for? Peter's all, because the world is going to blow up! Claude's all, okaaaaay, and? Peter's all, we have to stop it! Claude's all, uh, I don't know about you, mate, but I'm going to go steal a pint and call it a day. Peter continues to try and convince Claude to help him, but even though Claude does look a wee bit upset at the idea of New York being blown up, he's too cynical and bitter to think that helping Peter will do any good whatsoever.