Episode Report Card Erin: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve...
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.08.2006
Tokyo. The title card says "Hiro & Ando," so I guess we've finally learned Buddy's name and I can stop calling him "Buddy." Ando is watching Niki strip on his computer because obviously, in Tokyo, porn sites aren't blocked on workers' computers. He seems to be downloading it to his video iPod. Hiro pops up and Ando asks him where the hell he's been for the past two days. Hiro excitedly (is there any other way?) claims that he teleported into the future. Ando's like, yeah. And Anna Nicole Smith isn't a chicken-grease-covered drug-addled lawyer-marrying slut-bar. Hiro holds up his copy of 9th Wonders and says that it tells the story of his entire journey. He demands that Ando read it. Sure enough, as Ando pages through it, we see Hiro's trip.
Ando thinks Hiro's been hitting the sake, but Hiro just says that he found the author of the book, only he was dead. I love the way Hiro pushes his nerd glasses up onto his nerd nose with his whole nerd hand. It's so nerdish! Hiro explains about the nuclear bomb in New York and then says that it's up to he and Ando to stop it. Again, Ando's all, dude? Sake much? Hiro's all, you're in here too! He opens up the book to a page that repeats, word for word, the conversation they're currently having. Ando pretends that Hiro's crazy and says they have to get back to work. Hiro says he can prove everything to him beyond a shadow of a doubt. Hiro's wristwatch alarm starts to beep and he shouts that they have to get going because a little girl's life depends on them!
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Oh, good Christ. Peter's trying to fly again. When will he give it up already? Fortunately for him, he's decided that the whole rooftop ledge idea is a bit dangerous, so this time, he's just... on top of a jungle gym. Heh. He keeps jumping and hilariously landing face-first in the playground sand. Milo has really nice forearms. I'm not so crazy about his hair, but I can work with it. He climbs up onto the bars over and over as a little kid in a red cape made out of a towel watches him. The humiliation of falling several times in front of a child eventually becomes too much for Peter, so he heads off for some REAL humiliation at the hands of his brother Nathan.
Nate asks if Pete's going to come to his fundraiser party tonight and Pete says he is, but he needs to talk to him about something else. He tells his brother that he tried to fly again and Nate's like, dude? Ixnay on the iying-flay. Pete says he could fly last night, but today, he nearly broke his neck trying. "Well, that would've solved ONE of our problems," snots Nathan. He's such an ass. Peter says he went to the library to look up books on human flight and found Papa Suresh's book on activating evolution. He starts reading from the book out loud, which I'm sure Nathan appreciates because he's not IN THE MIDDLE OF ANYTHING. The book says that if genes determine obesity and blood pressure, why couldn't they determine human flight? Or something like that. I don't know. I'm too busy wondering if Adrian Pasdar's cheekbones taste like sugar.