Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 90 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Future's So Blight, I Gotta Wear Hades
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2007.04.30
Back in the strip club, Future Hiro finally wakes up and Ando's waiting for him. He's looking at the sword and mentions that Hiro always wanted to be a Kendo master. "I studied in Tohoku, so technically, I'm a Battojutsu master." Ando's like, "Dude! Why you always gotta correct me?" Future Hiro says it's because there's a difference between the two, and Ando says what the fuck difference does it make? You still became a hero while I becameâ¦dead. He comments that Hiro's fought a lot of battles, and Future Hiro says he did; more than he cares to remember. Ando asks how they were, and Future Hiro says they weren't nearly as much fun without Ando. They smile at each other. Aw.
Meanwhile, in Jessica's dressing room, she's imploring Peter to remember what they promised each other. He remembers. "Then why can't you just let it go?" she asks. "Hey, I'm not the one who can't let go!" he says. "You're gonna call yourself 'Jessica' onstage night after night and act like nothing gets to you? We both know that's not true. That is not who you are." "It is now," she says. "You're gonna look in that mirror," he says, "but nobody is looking back but YOU. She is gone, Niki. D.L. is gone. Micah is gone. You have to accept your loss." So this is where we get confirmation that Niki is just Niki and not Niki/Jessica. She may have absorbed Jessica, or Jessica disappeared, but whatever, she's not split apart anymore. Niki says that Jessica was right -- she should just look out for herself and not get attached. Peter doesn't buy that. Niki asks why he's so anxious to leave her then. He says he has his own reasons and that he's not leaving her; he'll be back.
She demands to know what reasons he's talking about. "What makes you think you are SO important? That you have to FIX EVERYTHING?" "Because I do," says Peter. "Why? Why does it fall on your shoulders to save everyone?" she demands, shoving him. "BECAUSE IT WAS ME!" he hollers. "The bomb? It was ME! I killed all those people. I killed Micah." Niki doesn't believe him. She thinks it was Sylar. Peter says that's not true and that Nathan lied to protect him. He says that if there's a chance Hiro can undo all this, then Peter has to help him. "You walk out that door, you don't come back," Niki says with tears running down her face. Peter glances back over his shoulderâ¦and then walks out. He moves through the club, TK-ing an ottoman out of his way. "Everything okay?" asks Future Hiro. "No!" says Peter. "Let's go fix it."