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By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.30.2007
Out in the pub, Caitlin's busy cleaning up when a couple of guys walk in and give her the eye. She says that the Shamrock Boys just left, but it's fairly clear that these dudes aren't here for the boys; they're here for Caitlin. Peter watches all this from the back room, unsure as to whether he should come to Caitlin's aid or run for the hills. He chooses hills and climbs up to the window. Meanwhile, Caitlin reaches under a towel for a gun, knowing full well that these guys aren't just dropping in for a pint. She spins to shoot them, but one of the guys grabs the gun before she can fire. She knees him in the nuts, and he throws her up against the bar and whips out a tire iron.
Just then, Peter appears, and knocks the guy back with a blue ball of electricity from his hand. The other guy whips out a rifle, but before he can shoot, Peter sort of instinctively waves his hand and the rifle flies away and slaps against a far corner. The guy takes a shot at Peter, but Peter just casually pulls back his left hand and takes a rather generic punch...that winds up catapulting the guy into a wall across the room. Caitlin breathes heavily, looking at Peter and wondering what she's just seen; Peter seems to be doing the same thing. Hee.
Superhero SuperHigh. Claire's at her locker as the bell rings. Of course, West shows up, because he's her stalker for today. He gently teases her about her love of lizards and how he thought she'd be more into unicorns. Claire's like, "Unicorns? What is this, 1982? Do I have ribbon barrettes in my hair? Am I holding a Trapper Keeper? For fuck's sake, dude, I'm BLONDE, I'm not one of the Square Pegs!" West says he thinks it's cool that she's into genetics, but Claire says she's not "into" genetics, and West gets all lecture-y on her ass again and tells her that she doesn't have to hide every interesting thing about herself, and she's like, "Dude? If you want me to make out with you, then you'd BETTER STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO." But West gets all excited about biology and genetics and tells her that he's just found this book by some Indian guy and it's about people who've evolved, just like Claire was talking about. Claire covers her obvious interest by snarkily saying that she's leaving all her awesome genetics textbooks for summer reading. West wants Claire to see the book, but she says she doesn't really care about all that, and that if he loves lizards, that's cool, she's gotta go. She turns to bleep-bleep her car but...it's not there. "Where's my car?" she says in disbelief. "If it was up your butt, you'd know it," says West. I'll just say right now that I don't get the car being stolen side plot, and if it doesn't have more significance than Claire being an idiot and not locking the car, then I'm going to have a fucking bone to pick with Tim Kring. A big huge brontofuckingsaurus bone to pick.
1671. Hiro and Yaeko step down from the horse as he apologizes for being a lousy rider. She says she owes him an apology, because she thought he'd run off with their money. He promises that her father will be rescued, and she says he's as honorable as he is brave. They stop beneath some cherry blossom trees and say some stuff that's pretty stilted and romantic and I think they're actually saying the same stuff Hiro used to hear in the stories his father told them. She's totally falling in love with him and he with her. She asks him to remove his mask, but he won't. He tells her he has things to say that he can't with the mask off. Hiro tells Yaeko that it's no surprise Takezo Kensei's love for her will be the stuff of legend, and she blushes. She raises her face up to be kissed. Hiro stops time and takes off his mask, apparently about to kiss Yaeko. But then he gets this really sad look on his face and stops. When time starts again, Yaeko is still waiting to be kissed, but she opens her eyes and sees that the cherry blossom trees are showering her with petals and Kensei has disappeared.