Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | 48 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Heroes Here, Heroes There, Heroes Everywhere!
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2006.10.16
Subway of Love. Peter and Mohinder are riding back from Isaac's place as Peter tries to convince Mohinder to go back to see Isaac the following day. Mohinder's all, dude, I'm not saying you didn't experience something; I'm just saying I used to be a respected professor and now you have me stalking a heroin addict who claims heeeee caaaaaaan paaaaaint theeee fuuuuu--Mohinder's speech slows and then the car is bathed in blue light and time stops. Except Peter doesn't. He's still wide awake and moving around normally. Peter slowly turns around and sees that everything and everyone on the train are at a standstill.
We check in with Isaac, who's just waking up on the floor of his studio. He looks up at the canvases he painted while high. One has Claire being threatened by the shadow, another has what looks like Peter or maybe Nathan running from something, yet another has Hiro and what looks like Peter talking to each other beneath a ceiling of red blood with an eclipse next to them and the final painting is a close-up of Claire, looking panicked and reaching out.
We switch to Claire, alive and well and sitting on the Pantheon stairs. Jock the Rapist exits practice with his buddies and sees her sitting there. He asks her what she's doing there so late and she lies and says she was making banners for spirit week and that Jackie the Cheertator was going to give her a ride but she left without her. She asks him for a lift and he says sure. She asks him if he drives a stick shift and when he kind of nods, she asks him if she can drive. They head off to the car.
Claire's driving far too fast for her own good as she starts questioning Jock the Rapist about what happened the night of the bonfire. She thinks it's a little weird that neither one of them remember what happened. "Must've been some night," is all he'll say. "Yeah," she sneers. "Must have." She runs a red light and he cautions her to slow down. "Whoops!" she says. "You know how to drive a stick shift, don't you?" he says, cluing into the fact that she's driving like Mario Andretti. "There's [sic] a lot of things I know," she says. "Like what you did to me." Instead of begging her forgiveness, Jock the Rapist just starts spewing out a litany of crap about how SHE came onto him and begged HIM to kiss her and somehow it's his fault. Claire calls him a liar, and he just denies it.