Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1182 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Crash Course
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2009.02.02
In Tokyo, Ando's waiting with his eyes closed as Hiro gleefully opens the doors to an abandoned firehouse. After Hiro allows Ando to look, he tells him he pulled some strings and got the city to sell it to him, and now it's their lair. Hiro's plan, basically, is to be a chattier, less British version of Alfred with Bruce Wayne's money and a bit of Lucius Fox's skill with gadgetry thrown in to Ando's Batman, which sounds great in theory. However, when Ando sees the Spandex costume Hiro has had prepared for him, he tells Hiro, "I wouldn't be caught dead in this thing." If my read of the Heroes fandom is at all correct, that statement will be met with disappointment both widespread and extreme. Ando makes the obvious point that the newly-powerless Hiro is trying to live through him, and adds that his power is worthless. Hiro's enthusiasm remains undiminished, but Ando isn't feeling it until Hiro mentions the "Ando-cycle" and pulls off a tarp to reveal a pretty sweet-looking hog. He tells Ando that he "embedded" in it the latest in two-way communication, and moves over to a computer screen as he says you just have to enter the password to access it, which is the name of someone very important to him. Hiro goes on that once the password is entered, he'll be able to track Ando anywhere in the world through his GPS implant. Ando: "What GPS implant?" Here's where Ando learns not to leave Hiro open. Yes, Hiro answers Ando's query by producing a giant GPS-implant-injecting gun and shooting Ando in the arm with it, much to Ando's dismay. Hiro's mention that he did the same thing to himself and his assertion that the pain goes away after an hour do nothing to mollify Ando, and he tells Hiro he's done with him: "Get yourself another superhero!" Well, if you insist, I'll take Donnie Darko. Ando rides out on the Ando-cycle, which I suppose he's entitled to after putting up with Hiro for all these years.