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Peter chases Claude and demands that they be friends, or at least enter into a mentor/mentoree relationship. Claude tells Peter to go screw. Matt sits around uselessly reading his useless wife's useless mind. Sylar festers away in his cell, still dead to the world. So does Niki. Hiro and Ando are chased down by a bunch of thugs in a van and they spend the beginning portion of the show hiding beneath a car. Heh.
Once the action picks up, Nathan visits Mohinder, and they go off in search of Peter. Claire and Zach do some deep-diving into Mr. Bennett's computer but find jack-all. Matt's really not digging his gift all that much, so he declares to his useless wife that he's going to get his revenge on Bennett and the Haitian Sensation. Micah and D.L. are having problems getting along, and it's pretty clear that D.L. is crap at raising children. I blame prison. They're having money problems because D.L. refuses to take off his clothes in front of a camera for money.
Claire begs the Haitian Sensation to tell her anything at all about her birth parents and he gives up that her real mom died fourteen years ago. Claire heads right on over to the internet and, after some research, finds a likely (dead) candidate in a small Texas town. She thinks her dead mom might have family, so at least it's worth a shot to contact someone to find out. Sylar dies, but then totally wakes up seconds later, soâ¦not dead? I guess? Matt gets suspended from the force and goes home to fix a plumbing problem. Yes, it's about that exciting. His useless wife lets him read her mind, and he finds out that she's pregnant. This fills him with unabashed joy, even though he has no job and the baby's probably not even his.
Peter returns to his gargantuan apartment long enough to pack a bag and meet up with Nathan and Mohinder, who just want to help him. Peter pulls a runner, only to be intercepted by Claude just outside the door, effectively making them both disappear, so that Nathan and Mohinder go chasing a cloud. Claude and Peter partner up for what I can only hope is a great adventure. D.L. phases into Niki's cell and whines at her about how hard it is to take care of Micah without her. She tells him to suck it up and go raise their son. I don't know why they're worried about Micah; he can break into ATM's with his special ability, so he looks like he's doing just fiiiiine without them. Niki's psychiatrist demands to talk to Jessica, but Niki has little-to-no control over her alter-ego, so that's pretty much a bust.
Hiro and Ando are abducted by the van guys and, after a long-ass ride around town, they come face to face with their captor. It's Hiro's dad. And Hiro's dad is George Takei. Awesome. Claire finally tracks down the woman she believes to be her mothers' family, only to discover that the woman actually IS her mother, and she's totally not dead. She can also totally light shit on fire with her fingers. And, finally, Bennett goes to check on Sylar's body, but he discovers Henchdoctor's body instead, and Sylar's in the corner, looking psychotic, and also sporting a damn thingy implanted in his skull. He has only one thing to say to Bennett: "How's Claire?" Ooooooh. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Oh, no. It's never a good sign when Moyawnder's voiceover plays OVER the previouslys. I might need to bring a pillow and a blanket to this recap, y'all.
The voiceover says some crap about expectations and urges as we get a replay of last week's show. A quick synopsis: Claire doesn't trust her father, Sylar's crapped out on the floor of his cell with Hissy McCockroach, Matt hates Bennett and headed up a stupid raid on Primatech Paper, Bennett paid a visit to Mohinder, Claire jumped off a building to get her friend Zach back, and Peter woke from his coma only to wind up chasing down an invisible man. "Is this transformation a gift or a curse?" asks Moyawnder. I'll tell you what's a curse, Moyawnder...
The current episode picks up right where the last one left off, with Peter chasing down the wallet-stealing homeless-outfit-wearing invisible man. We get a repeat of the scene where Christopher Eccleston throws Peter up against a pole (dirty!), and innocent bystanders wonder where the hell the angry voices are coming from. I actually like that the show does this -- the initial replay of the episode's final moments. It's very comic book-y, which is awesome.
So, Christopher Eccleston's got Peter in a chokehold and he demands to know how Peter can see him. Peter manages to gasp out an explanation of his power mimicry. Christopher Eccleston steps back. "Fantastic," he says bitterly, channeling The Doctor. "You're one of those." Hee. Peter's all, hey now, wait a minute -- you know someone else like me? And he sounds all surprised about it. Dude? Your brother can fly, Hiro can time-travel, and Isaac can paint the future; for all intents and purposes, YOU actually know someone else like you. Yes, he's awfully pretty, but not so bright, huh?
Peter chases after Christopher Eccleston as he pushes people out of his way and they look around like, "What the fuck just hit me?" Peter wants to know who he is and Christopher Eccleston says, "Me? I'm no one. I'm Claude Rains. I'm the Invisible Man. Now get away from me. Forget you ever saw me." Peter somehow jumps to the conclusion that because Claude here can run around stealing wallets while wearing a grungy overcoat, he can help Peter figure out how to control his ability in order to save the world. He demands that Claude help him. Claude's all, uh, what the hell would I do THAT for? Peter's all, because the world is going to blow up! Claude's all, okaaaaay, and? Peter's all, we have to stop it! Claude's all, uh, I don't know about you, mate, but I'm going to go steal a pint and call it a day. Peter continues to try and convince Claude to help him, but even though Claude does look a wee bit upset at the idea of New York being blown up, he's too cynical and bitter to think that helping Peter will do any good whatsoever.
Claude starts to leave and Peter's all, you can't hide from me! I'm... I'm going to follow you! Yeah, that's it! Claude's all, dude? I wouldn't recommend that. I'm one feisty Invisible Man over here. I'll get all transparent on your ass. Now bugger off, Little Boy Bangs. He stalks off, knocking into people and trash cans as he goes. Peter materializes out of thin air as soon as Claude's a good distance away. And he looks like crap, by the way, which is a nice continuity touch.
Meanwhile, Niki's in a padded cell, wrapped in a straightjacket, as God intended. An orderly sticks her in the butt with a needle loaded with what I hope is a whole lot of antipsychotics. Niki immediately starts to relax and loll around on the floor. Speaking of lolling around, Matt and Mrs. Matt are doing some lolling of their own. They're lounging on the sofa as Matt reads his wife's mind. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to the kitchen and get myself some grain alcohol while this scene plays. Tell me when it's over, will you?
Thanks. I'm back. Bennett checks on Sylar, who's now strapped to a table in his cell as Henchdoctor gives him the once-over. Sylar is twitching and sweating and looks generally awful. But he's shirtless, so none of that is really important, now, is it? Bennett enters and Henchdoctor tells him that Sylar's vitals are really irregular. "After all we've done to him," says Bennett, "I'm not surprised." He tells Henchdoctor to keep Sylar alive, no matter what. "If he crashes, you bring him back, again and again," says Bennett. "When he dies, it'll be on my terms, not on his." Sylar twitches some more, and we can see that there's a little white thingy poking out the back of his head. I don't know what it is yet, but people really shouldn't have white plastic thingies sticking out of their heads, so I'm thinking that whatever it is ain't good.
Cut to Hiro and Ando at a parking lot, arguing with the attendant about how one day of parking can't possibly cost almost fifty bucks. Welcome to New York, dudes. It costs fifty bucks just to get out of your apartment in the morning. Hiro tries his constipation face on the clock, trying to turn it back a few minutes so they don't have to pay the exorbitant parking fee, but nothing happens. "Darn," he mumbles in Japanese. Ando gets the car keys and Hiro whines that his power is lost until he gets the sword. Yes, we know. Hiro says the sword focused the old samurai's powers and it will do the same for him. Uh-huh, we heard that one too, dude. Ando's all, but if you don't have the power, how can you steal the sword? Hiro's not sure, but he knows that he has to get the sword because it's his destiny. Yep, we're clear on that one as well. Thanks for repeating your plot to us, though; we might have been in the bathroom removing lint from our bellybuttons during the entire last episode.
Hiro and Ando blah blah blah about the sword some more, pondering how swords must be used respectfully, but they're also for killing, so that's why they're sharp, etc. Hiro wonders if he's going to kill the Bomb Man; maybe THAT'S his destiny. Hm. Maybe that IS his destiny. And maybe it's MY destiny to order some dumplings with hoisin sauce because my mind is seriously wandering right now, this scene is so boring. Wait. It's about to get a bit more exciting. There's a guy leaning against their product-placed car. The guy sees them and Hiro comments that he doesn't look very friendly. No, he doesn't. And neither does that gun he's pulling out from his holster. Hiro and Ando run off, only to be stopped by a car that screeches to a halt in front of them. They yell for help, but the guy who gets out of the car looks just about as unfriendly as the guy with the gun, so it's clear that our Bouken boys are under siege.
Hey, Heroes Eclipse! Can you tell me what your significance is to the whole show? Because you've been around since the beginning, but you've never really been explained. I dig that you're the whole Earth/Shadow/Light credit sequence and everything, but really, I'd like to know what the hell you're here for, buddy, and just what the hell you had to do with the creation of the Heroes. You can email me your response any old time, dude. Muchas gracias.
We catch up with Mohinder at his Brooklyn palace as he's staring into a microscope one might find in, say, a high school science lab. Wow, he must be a scientist or something! There's a knock at the door and it's Nathan, sheepishly introducing himself as the guy Mohinder yelled at awhile ago. "I believe I came off as a deranged lunatic," Mohinder calmly says with a smile. Yes, but you're a pretty deranged lunatic, so it's okay. Nathan asks if he can come in, and Mohinder and his pink sweater of girliness invite him inside. Seriously, what is he wearing? That sweater's so pink it's practically neon. Oddly, it's a very good color on him, but it's still a whacked-out sweater for a guy to wear. Also? It's a v-neck, which is a little too leisure-suit for me. Like, Paul Newman wore cashmere v-necks under suit jackets in The Color of Money, and that was okay because, hi, he's Fast Eddie Felson, but the v-neck without a t-shirt under it look is so very wrong for Mohinder.
Wait -- what was I talking about? Oh. Right.
Nathan says that he's looking for his brother, and Mohinder says, "That makes two of us." Nathan's all, huh? Mohinder's all, been calling him for two days, dude. Boy's not picking up his messages! Nathan says that Peter's run off, and he's afraid that his brother's going to somehow hurt people. He asks Mohinder if he can explain what the hell's happening to his brother. Mohinder brings up The List and says that it contains the names of 36 individuals who carry a genetic marker that Papa Suresh believed gives them their special abilities. "And you think Peter is one of them?" asks Nathan. "As are you," says Mohinder. Nathan sidesteps the discussion of his superpower and says that he wants to talk about Peter.
Mohinder says that Peter's DNA allows for a blend, like a mosaic, giving him the ability to mimic others. "Like a chameleon?" asks Nathan. "More like a sponge," says Mohinder. Ew. That's not very super-hero-y. "What's your superpower, Little Boy Bangs?" "I'm a SPONGE! Up, up and a splat!" Mohinder explains that Peter's ability could be dangerous to himself and others if he absorbs too many powers or comes into contact with a superhero with unstable powers. "Can you fix it?" asks Nathan. Mohinder says it's possible -- but they need to find him first. Nathan's all, uh, thanks for the info, dude, but I'll find my lover--erm, I mean, "brother"--on my own, thanks. Mohinder stops Nathan from leaving and says that Peter's the most important person on The List -- if he can find him, he can do more than help just Peter; he can help everyone on The List. Nathan kind of looks at him like, huh, I didn't know you had balls! Mohinder grabs his coat and they head out to find Little Boy Bangs.
Cut to the boy himself, walking out onto a rooftop. Claude's there, messing about with some pigeons. He's all, dude? What'd I say about the following? Peter's all, I need your help! Also, do you live up here? Claude's all, it's a ROOF, dude, not a hotel. And you're not terribly smart, are you? Peter says that he used to take care of a man who lived in this building, Simone's father. So he thinks it's not a coincidence that he's met Claude -- he thinks they were destined to meet. Claude's too busy futzing with his birds to bother listening to Peter's ramblings. Again, Peter asks for Claude's help in controlling his ability. "I need to control it, like you do," says Peter. "What're you talking about?" says Claude. "It can't be controlled." Peter says there has to be a way to control it. If he can't, New York will explode. Oh, and so will he. Claude's all, an exploding man? Are you mental? Where'd that come from? "My dreams," says Peter. Claude's like, what are you, Patricia Arquette now?
Peter says that he thinks he found Claude for a reason, that he's supposed to teach Peter how to stop this exploding man thing. You know, the only reason I'm not recapping this entire scene as "Peter asks Claude to help him and Claude says he won't x 5000" is that I love both of these actors so damn much. But, really, that's what this entire scene consists of. Peter asks Claude to help him. Claude says no. Peter asks Claude to help him AGAIN. Claude doesn't say that he will. Peter asks AGAIN. Claude plays with his birds. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Claude finally says that you can't control it, that you wake up one day and suddenly, you have this thing that you can't really do anything about, and you just have to suck it up and deal. He gets up to leave, and Peter grabs him. "I'm trying not to die!" Peter says in desperation. "There's got to be something you can do!" Claude grabs him by the collar and says he can kill him right this second and solve the whole damn exploding man problem RIGHT NOW. He ponders that maybe this was the real reason they met -- Claude's supposed to kill him in order to save the world. Peter looks scared. Claude says that he needn't bother looking for him; he won't be returning to the Rooftop Ramada any time soon. He leaves, and Peter walks over to the edge of the roof and emotes from behind his wall of bangs.
Odessa. Claire and her new BFF Zach are parked in front of Bennett's computer, looking for hidden information on Claire's real parents. The man kidnaps Heroes and erases their memory, Claire; let's assume that he's smart enough not to leave sensitive information about his adopted superhero daughter strewn about his laptop, okay? Claire thinks that since Zach's a computer geek, he can find the holes in the "password protected nanny-blocker stuff." Heh. Zach tells her to watch the damn door in case Bennett comes walking in. Claire says her dad's at work, so it's just her, Zach, and Mr. Muggles. There's a shot of Mr. Muggles, and he kind of growls and the closed captioning hilariously says, "[grumbles]." Hee.
Zach declares that the computer is a secret information-free zone. Claire's peeved, saying that her dad's kept her whole life a secret, including her ability and her biological parents, and you can't just hide shit like that. Zach channels me and says that if Bennett's the man that Claire's describing, he's not likely to be storing secrets on the family computer. Suddenly, Mr. Muggles barks and leaps out of the chair. Claire tells Zach to shut down the computer and they run to the kitchen to put on the Innocent Faces of We Were Totally Not Messing With Your Stuff before Bennett walks through the door. Their attempted ruse doesn't quite work, seeing as Zach and Claire aren't really supposed to be friends. Bennett's immediately suspicious, especially after he sees the computer screen on in his den.
Zach and Claire cover quickly, saying that they're lab partners and that they were using the computer to do some research on their presentation subject: the manatee. "Also known as the 'sea cow,'" says Zach. Heh. Bennett smiles, but he smells a rat, so he asks to speak to Claire alone. Zach retreats to Claire's room after a nice moment where he pretends not to know where that is and Claire pretends to tell him for the first time. Bennett's all, sooooo, you and Zach? Kind of unlikely pairing, eh? Claire's all, I know, right? Our science teacher's an ass. She's conducting some weird social experiment or something. "Worst. Day. Ever," says Claire. Bennett just tells her that she and Zach used to be friends, and she might find that they actually get along. She smiles and heads upstairs and Bennett's smile falls from his face like a Colorado avalanche. Upstairs, Zach congratulates Claire on a nice save. "So, what now?" he asks. Claire picks up wind chimes and hangs them in her window and says that she needs to talk to someone who has some answers. The wind chimes send a signal the Haitian Sensation. It's like the BatSignal, only without the fancy floodlight.
Zzzzzzzzz. Snork! Oh, sorry. Nodded off there. Man, if I ever have trouble sleeping, I'm just going to play the Matt and Mrs. Matt scenes over and over again. They're better than sleeping pills. Matt's explaining the whole abduction scenario to his wife, and she's all, so, he kidnapped you and then... gave you this ability? And Matt's all, TOTALLY! And I'm gonna git him for it! Only... Matt had his ability before Bennett ever showed up, so, really, he shouldn't be attempting to get revenge on him for that. Kidnapping? Yeah. Rampant experimentation? You bet. Being snotty at the botched raid? Of course. But for his actual ability to read minds? Not so much, dude.
Mrs. Matt thinks this is all crazy, and Matt says again that Bennett and the Haitian Sensation "did this" to him, even though they really didn't, and that he has to find them in order to figure out what this is all about. Mrs. Matt thinks at him about going to the F.B.I. Matt hears this and says he can't go to the F.B.I. because they'll think he's crazy. He cuts their boring-ass conversation short by saying that he has to go get his ass handed to him by three captains at a review hearing. He heads into the house. Mrs. Matt follows. Inside, he turns on the faucet in the bathroom and water barely gurgles out, and Matt tells his wife he'll call the plumber, and she's like, are you always going to be in my head? And he's like, whatever, I'm bored. And she's like, you and me both, brother. And he's like, well, why don't I leave, then? And she's like, that'd be great. Then we can get on to the scene and stop boring people with our boring story and our boring lives.
Parking Lot Prison. Hiro and Ando are hiding beneath a car, wondering if the bad men were trying to steal the painting Simone gave them. If they don't deliver it to Linderman, though, they won't get the sword. Ando wants to know why everyone's always chasing them. Hiro says it's because he's special. "Well, I'm not special," says Ando. "And I'm tired of getting chased." Hiro says that Ando's free to surrender, but he won't, because heroes never give up. Someone gets into the car above them, starts it up and drives off. The boys stand up and see a black van coming toward them. They run, but it catches up with them and one of the guys gets out and grabs Ando. They drag him back to the van as Ando calls out for Hiro, who's managed to escape over a fence. Hiro stands there for a second, unsure of what to do. Then he jumps over the fence and offers his special self in trade for Ando. "Release un-special Ando and I go with you!" says Hiro. One of the guys just grabs Hiro, and both boys are flung into the van. "You came back for me," says Ando in surprise. "This is how we roll," says Hiro. Hee. And aw.
Meanwhile, Niki's just waking up in her padded room, and she's not wearing her straightjacket. She immediately panics, wondering why the jacket was removed, and the woman lounging across from her introduces herself as Dr. Witherton, a psychiatrist. She's practically napping, this woman's so relaxed. Niki's freaking that she's not restrained and says that the drugs she's fed help keep Jessica weak. She demands a shot, but the doctor's not having any of it. She says she read Niki's file and knows all about Jessica and Niki's past and the porn site and her sister's untimely accidental death. All Niki says is that she wants another shot. The doctor says that it looks like they're dealing with a classic case of multiple personality disorder. Niki's all, dude? I break people in half, okay? That ain't no MPD.
The doctor does some mental health chattering about how Niki can make something of herself while in the hospital, and Niki just looks like shit and thinks about how good a horse tranquilizer would taste right about now. The doctor says she wants to help Niki, but Niki has to want to help herself. "What I am," says Niki, "you can't fix. Just gimme another shot and go away." The doctor refuses to and she takes the straightjacket and leaves.
Family of Heroes Homestead. D.L.'s on the phone, talking to someone about how he's trying to pay the rent and it's really tough or something. Micah enters and snottily asks if D.L. has seen his damn lunchbox or what? D.L.'s all, it's where you left it. Micah's all, well, I left it in the car. D.L.'s like, then it's in the car, you little shit. Micah's like, well, WHERE'S THE CAR? D.L.'s like, dude? It's in the shop. And you best be watching your damn mouth before I come over there and watch it for you, little man. Micah just snots that D.L. makes crap lunches anyway, so there. They continue to argue about how good a mom Niki was and how shit a dad D.L. is and how Niki always managed to find a way to make money, and Micah thinks his dad should restart his mom's garage porn business because that was a real cash cow, that idea. Micah goes to school and D.L. wonders what the child labor laws are in Vegas.
Odessa. Claire meets up with the Haitian Sensation, and he's pissed off that she keeps contacting him because it could get them both in trouble. He asks if Bennett's becoming suspicious of her, but she says he isn't, and that's kind of the problem. Everything she says to him is a lie, and it's breaking her heart. She needs to know that one thing in her life is real. She asks him if he knows who her real parents are. He says that he knows nothing of her father, but her mother died in an explosion in Texas fourteen years ago. Claire's crushed. "This is the last conversation we have about this," he says gently. "Now you need to go back home and forget about your real parents." He walks off, leaving her alone beneath the Suicide Tower.
Bennett Family Manse. Bennett enters, and his wife babbles at him about Mr. Muggles's grooming or something, and he just asks where Claire is because he's not obsessed with his daughter, no, not at all. Mrs. Bennett says Claire's at the library getting books for the manatee project. She notices that Bennett's in a deep blue funk and asks if he's still worried about Claire. He says that Claire's had a rough couple of weeks, and Mrs. Bennett says that, aside from some memory loss (hee!), their daughter's doing "just peachy." She says that it's Lyle they should be worried about. "That boy has been so absent-minded lately," she says, carrying the dog out of the room. Heh. Bennett just raises an eyebrow at her retreating back. His phone rings. It's Henchdoctor. He says that he did everything that he could, but he couldn't save Sylar. The man's dead. "Well, that's less than ideal," Bennett says coldly. He tells Henchdoctor to get the body ready for shipping and that he'll be in later. In Sylar's cell, the Henchdoctor starts to undo the restraining straps. When he's not looking, Sylar's eyes pop right open. He's alive! Alive! And shirtless!
Odessa. Claire and Zach are at a café, looking up a news story about a fire in Kermit, Texas, fourteen years ago. Zach zeroes in on an item about a woman named Meredith Gordon. It says that she and her 18-month old baby were killed. They realize that Claire must be that baby. "But I didn't die," says Claire. "Somebody thought you did," says Zach. He suggests that, even though her mother is dead, maybe she has family that Claire can contact. He says that one of them may even know who her real father is. Claire considers this.
Matt's at his review hearing, getting chewed out by his superiors. They think he's batshit crazy. Matt listens in on their thoughts and uses the knowledge he gleans from there to turn his story around and declare that the entire Sylar-in-a-secret-Bennet-run-prison is a lie. He just made it up so he could look powerful and possibly convince his superiors to make him a detective. So, instead of thinking he's crazy, now they think he's a liar. They suspend him and ask him to turn in his gun and his badge. Matt's flattened by this, probably because he was thinking that if he dropped the crazy-ass story, they might just let him keep his job. Later that day, he returns home to find Mrs. Matt up in the bathroom, freaking out over the busted sink. "Now are you gonna fix the pipes?" she asks. He asks for a wrench. Yes, it's about that interesting.
Non-Magic Bus. Hiro and Ando are being driven around in the Black Van of Bad Guys. There's a slick-looking guy in the back with them, and I think we're supposed to assume that this is Linderman. I never thought that, though, because I'm a spoiler whore, so I totally know who this guy is and why he's kidnapped the boys. Hiro says that he has a special power and he's on a mission and the unctuous guy says he knows all about the power and the mission. Then he speaks in Japanese and says that Hiro's wrong to think he's on a mission to save the world. Hiro's all, who the hell are you? Unctuous Guy says that he works for a man with real power and that this man knows precisely what Hiro is up to. He then hands them two first-class tickets to Tokyo. Ando perks up at the sound of "first-class," but Hiro shoves the tickets away, saying that they can't let temptation take them away from their mission. He says that he is pure of heart and can't be tempted and when he meets the Big Boss, he'll tell him exactly that. Unctuous Guy's like, yeah, I'd like to see how well THAT works out for you.
Peter's Palatial Apartment of Gargantuanness. Peter's packing a bag. He grabs a picture of Nathan and him and adds it to the satchel. Aw. Nathan and Mohinder enter. Mohinder's wearing his Scarf of Fugly Colors, but it doesn't look as bad here as it did in the previews. Or perhaps it's just the hideous pink sweater that's distracting me from the fugliness of the scarf. Nathan says they're there to help him and notices the bag. Peter says he thought he'd just get away for a little while, but Nathan's not buying it. He wants to help, but Peter says he can't be helped. Mohinder thinks that maybe he can help him, if Peter allows himself to be tested. Peter's all, and what? You can cure me? Whatever, dude. I don't have time to be your guinea pig. I'm outta here. Nathan's all, I'm not letting you run away, dude. Peter's all, or what? You gonna call the cops and tell them your little bro's going nuclear? Nathan threatens Peter with possible mental hospital incarceration. Peter drops his bag and moves closer to his brother, shooting Mohinder a "Could you possibly bugger off?" look. Mohinder moves away.
"I know you want to help me," says Peter, practically kissing Nathan on the mouth. "You're my big brother. And you fix everything. But you can't--you can't fix this one this time." Nathan thinks he can. Peter pretends to agree to sit down and discuss this, but only so he can duck and run. He flings himself toward the front door as Nathan and Mohinder try to catch him. Out in the hallway, one of Nathan's henchmen is standing there, undisturbed. Nathan's all, dude? You're supposed to CATCH Peter, not WATCH HIM LEAVE. The guy's all, the who? The window at the end of the hall is open and Mohinder wonders if maybe Peter flew out of it, seeing as he'd just touched his flying brother on the shoulder and all. Nathan and Mohinder look out the window, but see nothing. Nathan shoots Mohinder a look and leaves. Mohinder looks back at Peter's apartment and we see that Peter didn't fly away; he's invisible. Claude has him up against the wall (dirty!) with his hand over his mouth, and they can't be seen. It's an awesome shot, too, with Claude looking all creepy and Peter looking slightly freaked out. It's a very comic book-y shot, which I totally love.
After the break, Claude helps himself to a cold beer and twits that Peter's apartment could be a lot nicer due to his family connections. I don't know about that, Claude; my entire apartment could fit inside Peter's refrigerator, and I make a decent living as a web editor. Peter's a damn unemployed hospice nurse with superpowers and he's living in an apartment that would go for a cool two million on the open market, dude. Seriously. Peter explains that he's a nurse and Claude says, "A nurse who's an empath? Very cute." "Empath?" says Peter. "What's that mean?" "Means yer a pain my ass, mate." Heh. Peter points out that Claude followed him this time, so he's obviously not as big of an ass pain as Claude would like to think. "Well, I'm not very much of a people person," says Claude, touching all of Peter's stuff, "but I'm certainly not gonna let you kill 'em all. You seem pretty sure of that pending apocalypse of yours." Peter thinks they can avoid the apocalypse if Claude helps him control his ability.
"You don't know what you're asking," says Claude, swigging his beer, "what you have to go through. You might want to reconsider dying. Hell of a lot easier." Oh, how I love to watch Christopher Eccleston swig beer. Peter thinks he can handle it. "That's what they all say," quips Claude. "'They'?" says Peter. "How man--how many people have you taught before me?" Claude hunches forward with a serious look on his face, but doesn't provide the answer Peter's looking for. Instead, he just says, "Come on, mate! I'll steal us a cab!" Peter's all, but what about the "they"? Claude just wrenches the door open and goes, "You comin' or not?" Peter's all, yay! An adventure! They head out.
Matt's Bathroom of Good Intentions and Dying Plotlines. Good god. Is this story still going on? I might need some antihistamines or something; this storyline's giving me hives. Matt finishes fixing the sink or whatever, and Mrs. Matt applauds and giggles. He tells her about his suspension. He says that he thought this mind-reading thing was going to be a good thing, but now he's lost his job and he's about to lose his marriage. His wife says he's not about to lose their marriage, they just have to trust each other. They kiss and she asks him to read her mind once more. "We're having a baby?" Matt asks with a smile. She nods, and he laughs, and they hug, and he's so happy about adding yet another expensive item to their one-paycheck household.
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Padded Prison. Niki's on the floor, sleeping. D.L. phases through the wall and asks his wife what's happened to her. She's a MPD nutbar who's in prison, dude. That's what's happened to her. He holds her, and she says his shirt smells like home. She asks after Micah and D.L. says he's fine, but he can't raise him alone. He needs her. He has to find a way to get her out of there. She says she has to stay there for the rest of her life. He says he needs her because he's having such a hard time without her. She says that Micah needs boundaries and a strong hand and that D.L. has to provide those. Then she tells him to go, and he phases back out of the room.
Meanwhile, Micah decides to use his secret talent to perform a little highway robbery on a neighborhood ATM. He touches the screen with his fingers, and it asks for the PIN, and Micah closes his eyes, and a bunch of twenties come shooting out. He touches the screen again and somehow tells the machine to give him five hundred bucks (he never touches the keypad itself, so I'm not really sure how he does this). He grins and takes his "winnings."
Bennett Family Manse. Claire's sprawled on her bed, talking to Zach on her cell. She says that there are only twelve people in Kermit with the last name of Gordon and that the three she's called have never heard of Meredith. Her dad knocks on the door, and Claire scrambles to hide her research beneath the covers. He enters and she says she was talking to Zach about their report. Bennett says that that's what he's here about -- he has a book on manatees for her. Unfortunately, it's the same book Claire's already looking at on her bed. Wow. She and Zach are really going all out on this ruse. Claire's even studied up on the subject, which becomes clear when she spews out some facts about manatee extinction.
Bennett sits on her bed and Claire looks distinctly uncomfortable, like her dad's going to make a pass at her or something. She's probably just worried that he's going to feel that big phone book beneath his ass. He asks her if everything's okay because they haven't talked in awhile. "Actually, there is something," she says. "The bears. My stuffed bears. I think it's time for them to migrate." Bennett looks crushed. "I'm almost sixteen, Dad," says Claire. "Bears and talks can't last forever." Bennett says that, no matter what age she is, he'll always be there for her. Claire thinks it's time for her to learn how to deal with her own problems. Bennett looks up and sees the wind chimes in the window and, for some reason, he gets this suspicious look on his face, like, heeeeey, aren't those Haitian Sensation's wind chimes? He leaves and Claire's face crumples, the happy daughter routine clearly taking its toll on her.
Cut to Niki, sitting at a table with her wrists in manacles. The shrink enters and asks her if she's had a change of heart. Niki says she's concerned for her son and that her family needs her. So she needs to get rid of Jessica. The doctor thinks that talking to Jessica is the first step to helping get rid of her. Niki's not fond of this idea. The doctor asks again to talk to Jessica. Niki shouts that she won't let that happen. The doctor threatens her with not seeing Micah again for a very long time, and Niki grows visibly agitated. Uh-oh. Not a good idea to threaten Niki, like, ever. Then she kind of calms down and gives the doctor a look like, this ain't gonna happen, lady. The doctor gets up to leave and Niki stops her. "Wait," she says, getting a look on her face that indicates she might try to bring Jessica into the conversation some point soon.
Family of Heroes Homestead. D.L.'s pacing. Micah enters and his father demands to know where he's been. Micah says he was out walking around and D.L. orders him to sit the hell down. D.L. has a Come to Jesus moment with his son, saying that his mom's not coming home and he's having a hard time being a good father to him. He says he can't get a job, he can't pay the rent and his own father never taught him to be a decent father, but that's what he wants to be. So he and Micah have to pull together to make this work. Micah apologizes and says he promises to try harder. "Maybe this will help," he says. He opens his backpack and pours out hundreds of crisp twenty dollar bills. D.L's all, what in the HELL? "Where'd you get this from?" asks D.L. "You know how you and Mom have a secret?" says Micah. "Well, I have a secret too." Hee.
Non-Magic Bus. Hiro and Ando. Driving around. In a van. The van parks, and Hiro asks where they are. "Your secret headquarters?" Hee. Hiro demands to be let go. "That's up to the boss," says the henchman. He slides open the door and gets out, slamming it behind him. Ando wants to go home and tells Hiro to tell the boss whatever he wants to hear. Hiro tells his friend not to be afraid; he won't betray him, no matter what. Ando's expression is like, dude? Go ahead and betray me. Just get me the hell outta here. The van door is opened again and Hiro and Ando come face-to-face with their captor: Mr. Sulu. That's right. George Takei, people. George "Sulu" Takei!
"Father?" warbles Hiro. HiroPop just stares at his son. "GULP!" says Hiro's subtitle. Heeeee.
Back with Claire, she's dialing a number on her cell. It rings, and a woman on the other end picks up. Claire says that she's looking for someone related to Meredith Gordon. "Any chance you're related to her?" she asks. The woman on the other end asks who this is, and Claire gives her name and says she's calling from Odessa. "What is this about?" asks the woman. "And how do you know the name 'Meredith Gordon'?" "I think she was my mom," says Claire. "Is this some kind of joke?" asks the woman. Claire says it isn't, and the woman says that Meredith's daughter died in the fire. The screen splits as Claire says that's what she's trying to say -- she didn't die and she's looking for any information she can find on her mom. The woman on the other end, who's a dead ringer for Claire, says that Claire made the right call. "This is her," says Meredith Gordon. "Mom?" breathes Claire. Meredith puts a cigarette in her mouth and lights it. WITH HER FINGERS. Kick. Ass. "Yeah," says Claire's mother with a shaky smile.
Sylar's Secret Room of Surprises. Bennett enters and sees Sylar's sheet-covered body on the slab in the middle of his room. Bennett goes inside and walks over to the body. He whips back the sheet, revealing that it's not Sylar on the slab, but Henchdoctor! Ack! Bennett spins around and there's Sylar, creepily staring at him with a gleam in his eye. He smiles at Bennett and we get a look at the back of his head and there's a fucking THING sticking out of it. It looks like a plastic shunt or something. What the hell? Sylar jerkily tilts his head and says, "How's Claire?"
AIIIIIIEEEEEEE!
on Heroes: Simone might make out with Isaac while Peter watches (dirty!), Peter may or may not explode, Jessica shows up (and it looks like she attacks the good doctor), Claire goes to see her mother, and Sylar pays a little visit to the Bennett household. Oh, and apparently, Claire's daddy? Has really hairy forearms. Talk amongst yourselves.