Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.26.2006
He tells her that she has power and that he has power too. Charlie's like, dude? It's just a baseball stat from a Japanese newspaper; it doesn't mean you're from the future. Hiro takes a different tack, saying that there's an ancient tradition of origami... Charlie jumps in, saying that she read about this; if a person can fold 1,000 cranes, they'll be granted one wish. Damn, where'd she read that? In the Japanese newspaper from the five-and-dime? Hiro takes another dump and the next thing we know, they're surrounded by a thousand paper cranes. It's beautiful and everything, but again: CAN HE CONTROL THE POWER OR NOT? Because, if he can, then he should GO BACK TO THE FUTURE, and save Charlie or not save Charlie, but just GET BACK TO THE TIME HE NEEDS TO BE IN. Everybody drink!
So, whatever, the diner is filled with a thousand multi-colored paper cranes and they're all hanging from the ceiling. Charlie's stunned. Hiro hands her a ticket to Japan and tells her that he doesn't care if she doesn't believe him; he just wants her to go. "Only one ticket?" she sweetly asks. Hiro pulls out another ticket. "Just in case you said yes." "Hai! Hai!" she responds with a smile. Hiro just throws his arms around her. Aw.
Suresh's Apartment. Papa Suresh asks Gray why he repairs watches, and Gray responds that his father didn't really give him much choice. Gray's hooked up to a monitoring machine with sensors all over his head as Suresh talks to him. Suresh asks why he doesn't just do what he wants to do, and Gray says that Suresh used a phrase in his book: "evolutionary imperative." "That which we are destined to do," says Suresh. Gray brings up examples of this: turtles returning to die on the same beach on which they were born, lions slaughter gazelles, spiders eat their young. They don't want to; they have to. Suresh rolls his eyes, turns off the machines, and informs Gray that the good news is that he's healthy. Uh-oh. Looks like Gray's not the superhero Suresh hoped he'd be.
"What, you mean normal?" says Gray, pissed off. "You mean there's still no signs?" Suresh tells him there are none. Gray's looking forward to the CT scan tomorrow, and Suresh says that they need to be prepared for the possibility that he's wrong about Gray's potential powers. "I am so close," spits Gray, jumping to his feet. "I can feel it. You came to me! I am on your list!" Which... yeah. Why IS he on Suresh's list if he doesn't already have some sort of ability? Is it just genetics that Suresh is watching? Because if these Heroes aren't showing their abilities yet, how the hell is Suresh finding them? Drink! Gray implores Suresh to not give up on him, and Suresh just says he's got other Heroes with no evident powers to stalk, so if he could show himself out... Gray goes a little crazy here, picking up folders of potential Heroes and sputtering at Suresh about their supposed superpowers. There's a sticky on one of the folders with the name Brian Davis on it. "What, you think he's... telekinetic?" Gray snaps at Suresh. "Or are you just going to toss him aside too?" He flings the folders to the floor and it's clear that he's crossed the state line into the Land of the Loonies and that this probably wasn't a terribly long journey for him to make.