Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.24.2006
It's time to check in with Mohinder Suresh, the hottest professor of imaginary subjects ever to hit the sultry streets of Madras, India. He's standing up in front of a class, talking about the narcissism of mankind. He says that, although man has colonized the four corners of the planet, he is not the pinnacle of evolution; that honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. He goes on to describe how roaches can live without food for months, exist without a head for weeks at a time and are resistant to radiation. He ponders that if God made himself in his own image, then perhaps God is a cockroach. I think God would have something to say about that, don't you? She gets angry enough when St. Peter says she's having a bad hair day.
Suresh says that "they" say that we use only a tenth of our brain power which isn't true at all and actually kind of stupid that the writers included it in this show. It's called Google, dudes. I suggest you use it before committing shit like this to script. Suresh says that the Human Genome Project has discovered that tiny variations in people's genetic codes are taking place at increasingly rapid rates. "Teleportation, levitation, tissue regeneration, is this outside the realm of possibility? Or is man entering a gateway to a new evolution? Is he finally standing at the threshold of true human potential?" He stops abruptly when he sees a rather furry little man standing in the doorway. He brings the class to an end and the students leave. Furry Man doesn't say anything as Suresh just prattles on about how he knows he sounds like his father and the university can fire him too if they like but there's truth to what his father was researching. Namely, that there are real heroes on the planet. Furry Man finally gets to speak. Unfortunately, all he does is tell Suresh that his father is dead.
Once outside, Suresh books through the streets in a downpour as Furry Man tries to keep up. Furry Man tries to explain away Suresh's father's death as normal, saying that driving a taxi in New York City is dangerous, but Suresh says his father thought someone was following him and that he died because of his theories. Suresh is going to his dad's apartment to get his papers and research. "He was this close to finding the first of 'them'," he says. "His 'patient zero'. He tracked him to Queens, New York." Furry Man tries to stop Suresh from following in his father's footsteps, but Suresh is a man possessed. He needs to know why his father died and to know that it wasn't all for nothing.