Episode Report Card Erin: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Peter Is Da Bomb. And Not In The Good Way
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.22.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Bennet's being held captive by the Evil Eric Roberts, but he manages to throw some thoughts toward Parkman, and Matt starts taking orders from him in his mind. Bennet orders Matt to bust RadioacTed out of his own cell, and they in turn bust Bennet out of his. They all join forces and agree to head to New York to take down some tracking system so that Claire can be safe or something. Yeah, that didn't make a lot of sense to me either, but who cares? They're back, baby!
Linderman reveals to Nathan that, not only does he have a power of his own (healing), he also used to be partnered up with a bunch of other superheroes in the past. He claims that they all went bad, but since Linderman wants to blow up New York just so Nathan will get into the White House, I'd say his perception of good and bad is a little fuzzy, wouldn't you? Nathan agrees with me because he tells Linderman to go and shite. But later he kind of starts digging that painting of him in the White House, and I think he's going to let a lot of innocent people die just so he can get a blow job in the Oval Office.
Peter repeats his visit to Mohinder's place and once again finds the poor man stapled to the ceiling. Sylar appears and starts to rip Peter's skull open, but Peter heals too quickly for him to gain access to the gray matter inside. They engage in a gnarly little battle that ends with Peter dead and Sylar knocked out by a newly brave Mohinder. Mo then takes Peter directly to Mama Petrelli's house, interrupting a heartwarming chat the old lady is having with Claire about how Claire needs to shut her pie hole and go to France already.
Meanwhile, in Vegas, DL is suddenly onto Jessica impersonating Niki (did I miss something somewhere? When the hell did THAT happen?) and he declares that he's taking Micah away and that Jessica better just suck it up and deal. Jessica actually seems to consider this as an option because, hey, she's really not exactly PTA mother of the year, you know? Linderman then requests a meeting with Jessica and tells her that he needs to borrow Micah for a bit. Jessica tells him to go fuck himself. So Linderman brings in Candice the Wonder Morpher to impersonate Jessica impersonating Niki, and Candice hands little Micah right over to the Big Bad Boss. What the man has planned for the poor boy is anyone's guess.
Nathan returns home to weep over his dead brother's body. Claire busts in and wants a moment of her own with her dead uncle. She removes the glass from Peter's head and he totally comes back to life. Everyone acts surprised, but Mama Petrelli just informs them that she's known about her "special" sons since long before even THEY did. Nathan then tells Claire that he loves her and everything, but could she go to Paris already because dude's gotta go fondle some interns in the Lincoln bedroom, dammit!
After Sylar disappears from his floor, Mohinder calls Bennet, only to have Evil Eric Roberts show up instead. Their meeting is relatively unfruitful and only serves to creep Mohinder out because Evil Eric Roberts is really skeevy. Sylar's across town, paying a visit to Isaac, who appears to have grown an extra set of brass balls because he bravely faces off against Sylar even though the man is seriously murderous. Sylar kills him anyway. Bye, Isaac!
And, finally, Hiro and Ando have landed five years in the future and the bomb's already gone off. So they decide to go visit Mystery Sock. Instead of finding their friend, however, they just find this whacked-out version of his studio andâ¦Future Hiro! And he looks mighty pissed to see them, let me tell you. But his soul patch is the BOMB. Um. Unfortunate choice of words, no? Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on Heroes: The show went on hiatus, but only after teasing us with Sylar stapling Mohinder to the ceiling, Peter getting his emo bangs sliced off by Sylar, Claire meeting her grand-mère Madame Petrelli, and Nathan meeting the elusive Linderman, as played by one Malcolm "I'm not really creepy, I was just born this way" McDowell. Oh, and Hiro got his stupid-ass sword and used it to go into the stupid-ass future with Ando, only to discover that the bomb went off anyway and they must have failed at one or more of their stupid-ass tasks.
Because Mohinder's busy being stapled to the ceiling, Linderman kindly steps in to deliver the voice-over for this episode. He says that people think he collects art, but what he really collects are lives, fixed in paint. We see Isaac painting and get a time-capsule series of shots that show his heroin needle, paints, and paintings. I'm probably going to just tell you what Linderman says during this previouslys segment because man, they've been off the air since 1972 and this entire thing is just a whole lot of exposition in a teeny tiny space of time. It's very well done, of course, but it's really just scenes from the last nine bajillion episodes tied together by Isaac's paintings and Linderman's voice over.
At any rate, Linderman goes on to say that Sylar's a monster who has lived to kill again, and that Niki is so protective of Micah that she fractured her own soul to take care of him. Well, now, that's an angle that hasn't occurred to me before. And while we're waiting for Linderman to drop yet another startling observation onto the voice-over, we get a miniscule scene between D.L. and Niki that has never shown up in any episode ever. And I checked. It's basically D.L. demanding to know whether it's Niki or Jessica who's in control and Niki just whispers that she doesn't know. When the hell was THAT supposed to happen? Or is it happening now? Because I thought these were supposed to be previouslys? Huh?
Whatever -- most of what Linderman says in this voice over is really just narrative-speak and doesn't have a lot of bearing on the rest of the episode. We get a replay of Candice as Mrs. Bennet, and Claire meeting Ma Petrelli, and Matt telling Evil Eric Roberts that HRG doesn't know where Claire is, and Hiro getting his stupid-ass sword and diving into the future. "All perfect moments, frozen in time," says Linderman. "Alone, each tells a single story. Together, they can tell the future."