Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 90 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Future's So Blight, I Gotta Wear Hades
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2007.04.30
Mohinder picks up the last comic that Isaac ever drew and comments that Hiro being able to time-travel isn't any stranger than being able to read minds, and Matt just smart-asses that it is, actually, MUCH stranger than that. Because Future Matt is a fucking half-wit. Mo asks if Matt's ever wanted to go back and change his past; put his life on a different path. Matt bitterly responds that he used to be that guy, but not anymore. But apparently, Hiro's still that guy. Mohinder excitedly goes to the strings and picks out to specific moments on the timeline that were important to Hiro. One is the bomb, the other is-- Mohinder stops. He reads the sticky on the picture of Hiro and Peter meeting in the subway car. He realizes that this is the day he received his father's ashes.
"I was with Peter Petrelli that day," he says. "On the subway. He said he saw a man who could freeze time." Matt wonders if this was Hiro, but Mohinder doesn't know. "He said he had a message for Peter." Mohinder kind of looks around at the strings as Matt repeatedly asks him what the message was. Mohinder starts to run up the stairs out of the studio, but comes back in to say, "Save the cheerleader, save the world." He looks down at Matt, who suddenly realizes he's standing right smack dab in the middle of the floorpocalypse. He steps back off of it and we flash to whiteâ¦
â¦only to wind up at the only restaurant in Texas, the Burnt Toast Diner. I was wrong in the last recap -- the diner isn't in Odessa, it's in Midland. But still. Claire serves a couple of plates to counter customers and her hair is a dark brown, which actually looks quite pretty on her. She retreats to the end of the counter to watch a program about the White House. A young, handsome guy comes out to stand by her, and he comments that for someone who doesn't like the president, she sure does perk up whenever he's on TV. The guy calls her "Sandra" ["aw, her mom's name" -- Sars] and it would appear that they're in love and going to be married. She's forgotten to check out some place for the reception, and he asks her if she's getting cold feet. She isn't -- she's just been distracted, what with trying to stay off the government's radar and the whole hiding-from-bad-guys thing.