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By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.22.2006
She asks where he was and he says he doesn't know and she starts bitching at him about how she was picturing him in a ditch somewhere and that every time the phone rang, she kept thinking they were calling to tell her he was dead. "I didn't know you cared that much," says Matt, surprised. "I'm your wife," her inner thoughts say. "I always care." Matt hears this and tries to tell her that he's glad she cares, but, really, they haven't spoken much lately, so he had no idea. He thinks that her worrying about him is a good thing, and we thankfully leave this story to catch up with Hiro and Ando as they're getting tossed out of a van in the middle of the desert.
The van peels off and the Bouken Boys slap the dust off their Rain Man suits. Even though he's just been thrown to the ground, Hiro's still remarkably upbeat and cheerful. Although, really, I get the feeling that Hiro would remain upbeat and cheerful if he were locked in a tray at the morgue and the rest of the hospital was on fire. "Yatta! OW! Fire burn!" Ando's more than slightly peeved at the moment, and he shakes his fist after the van and calls its passengers bastards. The Bouken Boys pick up their suitcases and look around, seeing a big old fashioned diner car in the distance. "Good," says Hiro. "I'm starving." Damn. Those were nice kidnappers that dropped them off in a desert conveniently located RIGHT NEXT TO A DINER. Hiro starts walking toward the diner and Ando tells him to shut up because he's not talking to him. Heh. I think that's equivalent to going, "La la la la la I can't hear you" when someone else is saying something you don't want to hear. In other words, it's really immature. And neener neener.
The boys enter the diner and Hiro wonders if they have waffles. Ando reminds him that he's not talking to him. Then how about, I don't know, NOT TALKING TO HIM, Ando? Ando doesn't seem to know the rules of "I'm Not Talking to You" because he just keeps talking to Hiro, telling him that he's the reason he got beaten up. They sit at a booth and Hiro says they should just eat and go get the car back. Ando says that this is all Hiro's fault; all he had to do was stop time and none of this would have happened. Hiro's like, uh, dude? I seem to remember someone stopping QUITE A BIT OF TIME back in the casino because SOMEONE wanted to keep CHEATING AT CARDS. Hiro cutely remarks that the reason they got beaten up was because they were using his powers for evil, not good. They'd gone to the Dark Side and they deserved it. Ando's all, not being broke is the Dark Side? Hiro opens his menu. "Oh, waffles! YAHOO!" Oh my god, that makes me fall out of my chair every time. He's all, Dark Side, superhero powers, badness, WAFFLES! WHOOO! It kills me.