Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.24.2006
Are you getting all this exposition? Because my fingers are getting tired...
Nikki and Micah head up to a house with a lot of cacti in front of it. Micah says he hates this house because there aren't any books in it. Nikki says she'll be right back, she just has some stuff to take care of. Micah wants to go see his father, but Nikki doesn't think that would do any good. "Your dad's not in any position to help us right now," she says, dragging him up to the door. Micah asks what his mother has done and she just tells him that she would never let anything happen to him and that she loves him more than anything in the world. "Mom?" he says. "Why'd you look at yourself like that in the fishtank?" She doesn't get a chance to respond because the door opens and a woman with a large amount of hair appears in the doorway. "How long?" is all she says. Nikki says it'll only take a couple of hours. Big Hair tells Micah there's ice cream in the fridge, and he and Nikki enter so that Big Hair can give Nikki what-for about borrowing $30K from the mob. Big Hair asks if she's been gambling again, but she hasn't; she needed the money to pay bills and get Micah into private school. She's two weeks overdue with the payback and says that she thought she could handle it, but she's under a lot of stress right now. Big Hair's like, uh, yeah, join the club, stripper.
Nikki's on the verge of tears and she says she feels like she's losing it a little bit. She says she's seeing things and that she feels like someone's watching her. Big Hair's all, uh, DUH. The thugs are watching you and they're gonna put you in the hospital. But Nikki's like, no, no, no, besides them. Like, I feel like I'm watching myself! From a mirror! And I'm really angry in the mirror! Only she doesn't say any of that because that would sound like crazy talk to Little Miss Big Hair over there. Big Hair just tells Nikki that she needs to come up with the $30K plus interest, like, now, or the mob is going to slit her throat. That never makes sense to me -- why, if you lend someone money and they don't pay you back, would you kill them? It hardly seems like they're going to be able to pay you back WHEN THEY'RE DEAD. Nikki just tells Big Hair to watch Micah and leaves.
Then we're at a big ol' train fire with dozens of firemen running around trying to put it out. Claire and Nerdeo just happen to be passing, and they stop and watch the chaos for a minute. "Cool, huh?" gasps Nerdeo. Yes, Nerdeo. Fire, death, and destruction are extremely cool. Jackass. Claire asks how hot he thinks it is in there and before he can answer, she hands him the tape from before and tells him to turn on the camera. She ducks under the barrier and runs directly into the fire as he tapes her. She heads into a burning car and sees a man trapped by fire. The flames don't even touch her. She grabs him and runs out and her cheering uniform has a couple of flames attached to it. A fireman sees them and immediately runs over to put out the flames. He throws her to the ground with his coat over her and she just tells him she's okay. When he removes the coat to check for burns, he discovers that she's completely unscathed. She just looks at him like, "Yeah? So? I'm indestructible, okay? WHAT OF IT?" So... she doesn't want anyone to know about her powers and yet... she goes running into a burning fire to... keep her anonymity? That... makes ALL sorts of sense. Yes it does! She runs off before anyone can get her name or ask her where she got that adorable fire-retardant cheering outfit.