Episode Report Card Erin: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Heroes Here, Heroes There, Heroes Everywhere!
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.15.2006
Vegas. Hiro and Ando are riding an escalator, doing their finest Rain Man impersonations, complete with matching grey suits. Hiro is kvetching that they shouldn't be using his powers for personal gain, they should be saving the world. Ando says there's no law against looking good while they do it, but it's pretty clear he just wants to gamble some more. As they near the end of the escalator, two casino security guys grab them and kick them out of the casino, along with their luggage. Hiro's all, now? Now can we go? Ando's all, what? We're hitting another casino! Hiro's thinking maybe bringing Ando along wasn't such a good idea. Just then, the cheated cowboy comes walking up, and before Hiro can stop time and get them the hell out of there, Ando opens his big fucking mouth, and one of the cowboy's henchmen knocks Hiro out with one punch. I'm thinking that Ando needs to just... make himself useful already. He's really starting to bug me.
Adulterer's Paradise. Nathan is entertaining Niki up in his stellar hotel room. She loves the view. "Everything looks so pretty when you're up high," she comments. "Yes, it does," agrees Nathan with a cocked eyebrow. Hee. He should know, huh? They share some champagne and Nathan ponders what it would be like if they could just soar over the desert. She starts to share a story about a helicopter ride she once took, and Nathan says he wasn't talking about a helicopter; he was talking about actually flying. Niki's like, uh, I can't fly. But I can split into two totally different people pretty damn quick. It's really cool! Wanna see? Nathan would rather see something else, though, and he quickly moves the conversation onto a more personal level, asking about her husband. She doesn't have one, she says, because he left her. Then she tells him the truth about her husband and says he's a criminal. Nathan asks her if she has kids, and again, she tells the truth. Nathan tells her he has two boys himself. He says it's weird having kids. Like you have to be two different people. Oh, this dialogue isn't clunky AT ALL.
Niki, of course, warms to this line of conversation immediately, saying that the person that everyone sees and the person you really are are different. She asks if he's married, and he says he is. He says he's very happy, and Niki says her questions stop there. Nathan moves toward her and they kiss. Man. I wish I'd get heinous jobs like this assigned to me by Linderman. I'd totally get myself into thirty grand worth of debt just to make out with Adrian Pasdar. So pretty. Niki stops herself and says she can't and he says he knows, but she really can't. She steps back and says she had a really great time and before they can kiss again, she leaves. It seems like she really liked him.