Episode Report Card Erin: A | 48 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Save the cheerleader. Save the -- wait, how does it go?
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2006.10.23
He smiles at Hiro and says that he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. "It's okay," says Hiro, speaking better English than I think he's supposed to. "I keep-o shecret." Hiro looks around to make sure no one is listening in and then tells Nathan that he bends time and space and teleports into the future. "We are most special," he says. Nathan gives him this look like, well, I know SOMEONE around here who's "special" for sure. He kind of looks away and looks back at Hiro. "Alrighty, then!" he says, looking distinctly uncomfortable. Hiro then tells Nathan that he went to New York and saw the future and a big boom happened. He makes a couple of explosion sounds and gestures and Nathan just looks at him like he's wearing Anna Nicole Smith as a hat. "I can see where that might be a problem," he says dryly. "Oh, don't worry," says Hiro. "I stop it. Am hero." Nathan grins. "Lucky us." Hee.
A black car arrives outside and honks. Nathan's ride is here. He gets up to leave, but stops and turns back. "In this future that you see," he says, "you don't happen to know whether or not I win the election, do ya?" Hiro chews on Nathan's name for a second or two until finally he goes, "Ah! HAI HAI HAI!" and claps his hands together like a child. Hee. "Yes!" he says. "I know you! Nashan Petrerri! Election. You win. Very big win. Lando-slido!" Heeeee. Nathan loves this. He grins and pats Hiro on the shoulder and says he has to get back to Vegas. "Oh!" says Hiro. "Give me lide-o?" Nathan's all, hmm? "Lide-o," says Hiro again, making a steering wheel motion with his hands. He mimes honking the horn and goes, "Boo boo!" Jesus. I know his cute-as-a-button schtick is getting kind of old, but that still made me titter like a schoolgirl. I have to watch that again. Nathan's recent supersonic flight seems to have loosened him up a bit, because he just goes, "Sure! What the hell?" and beckons to Hiro to join him in the car. "Where you from?" Nathan asks. "Tokyo, Japan." "Ah. Never been there," says Nathan in this tone that suggests that, just as soon as he's got the time, he's totally going to fly there. Without a plane.
Meanwhile, Claire's lying in her hospital bed with a sad expression upon her face. Her father enters and he calmly touches her hand (ew!) and says that her dog-lovin' momma told him that Claire lost control of the car. "That's what I told her happened," says Claire. Bad Glasses Man immediately gets what she's saying and closes the door. He pulls a chair over to the bed and asks if there's something she wants to tell him. She does. She ran the car into the wall on purpose. There's a look of barely hidden glee on BGM's face because he obviously thinks that Claire's about to tell him of her powers, which means he can totally study her without having to drug her and hide her in a basement somewhere in Vegas.