Episode Report Card Erin: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT So, This Time It's "Stop The Plague, Save The World"?
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.04.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Matt and Nate pay a visit to The Company facility and inform Tobby that Papa Parkman is coming to kill him. Tobby's recommendation? Hang out and wait for the guy to show up and then have Mohinder inject him with the virus. Since Matt's the only one who can stop his father, he gets the enviable task of meeting the man head-on.
Peter and Caitlin wander around the empty New York until they get captured by guys in HAZMAT suits. They're taken to a decontamination unit where they're stripped down and scrubbed because an episode without a shirtless Peter is not an episode worth watching. He gets the lowdown on what's happening in the future, and it's what we thought: the Shanti virus is what's killing everyone and it's gruesome.
Hiro's still stuck in past, held captive by Kensei along with his girlfriend and her father. Yaeko gets herself out of the shackles and wakes Hiro out of his opium haze so that he can blink them the hell out of there. Hiro decides to destroy all of White Beard's guns but when he's about to blow them up, Kensei appears and they have a big old swordfight. It ends when the place is about to explode but Kensei refuses to leave with Hiro. Hiro escapes, and the place blows to smithereens. Hiro finally goes back to the present and learns that his father died.
Mohinder and Niki partner up so that she can help him administer the virus to Papa Parkman once he's caught. But Papa Parkman starts messing with Niki's brain, so she attacks Mohinder and steals the virus. Unfortunately, it appears that Papa Parkman is the least of their problems; Adam Monroe has escaped; he's the real brains of the operation and he wants revenge. Nathan learns all this from Tobby, as well as the fact that Peter is alive. Niki busts in while they're chatting as Matt figures out how to trap his father in a nightmare of his own making. Before Nathan can stop her, Niki injects herself with the virus. When Mohinder injects her with the antibodies, he discovers that the virus has changed and his blood is no longer a cure.
Bennet and Mohinder appear to be having a tiff, due to the fact that Mohinder shows up in one of the future paintings with a gun and Bennet seems to value the lives of his family members over Mohinder's. Of course, at the end of the episode, when Tobby gives Mohinder a gun and tells him to go capture Claire, as she's the key to saving the world from the virus, it would appear that Bennet's concerns about Mohinder are valid.
Back in the future, Peter meets up with his mother, only he doesn't remember her. So she reminds him who he is and what he does. She tells him that his brother Nathan died during the first outbreak and now Peter needs to travel in time and save the world from the virus. Unfortunately, when he finally travels through time, he does so at a moment when Caitlin isn't with him, and he just…goes back to Montreal without her, trapping her in the future. Once he's there, he tries to travel in time again, but can't. He hears someone behind him and reflexively shoots some blue sparks at someone, and that's when Kensei appears from around a corner and introduces himself as Adam Monroe. "Don't you remember, Peter?"
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Previously on Heroes: Hiro made out with Yaeko and broke the time/space continuum. The Company developed a superpower vaccine that was more like a virus, and Mohinder worried that it would mutate into an incontrollable plague. Claire and West played a nasty trick on a heinous cheertator. The Wonderless Twins finally made it to America with their hot hitchhiker Sylar. Peter and Caitlin flew to Montreal where they received a note from some guy named Adam informing them that the ElderHeroes are evil, and then Peter squinted and he and his lassie wound up in a deserted New York, circa 2008.
We begin this episode back in Japan, 1671, and I cannot WAIT for the end of this particular storyline. Hiro's being held captive via the opium-suckage method. Kensei's keeping him in a tent along with Yaeko and her father. Yaeko pleads with Kensei to let Hiro go, but her former paramour is all, "Yeah, no. Not so much. Also? White Beard gave me Hiro and half the country and YOU as my princess, so you might want to keep it down, there, sweetheart." Yaeko swears she'll never be his girl because she loves Hiro. Kensei's not only bitter about this, he's getting kind of drunk on the power of being a bad-ass superhero, so he just declares that he's going to change history and walks out.
Odessa Warehouse of FuturePaintings. Bennet's taking a bunch of pictures of the paintings for posterity and we finally see the one that we couldn't see last week: it's of Peter, standing in front of a window with a backwards biohazard sign on it. Bennet calls Mohinder in New York and asks if The Company has given him a gun. Mohinder's all, "Muh?" Bennet says that he's found the paintings and that one of them prominently features Mohinder with a broken nose pointing a smoking Company gun. I totally thought that was Sylar or Peter in the painting, not Mohinder, but now that I get a good look at the perma-stubble, yeah, it's totally Mohinder.
Mohinder asserts that he doesn't have a gun. Bennet says he needs Mohinder's help to interpret the paintings because they're "all random." But...they're numbered, dude. That's...not random. Bennet says he's going to forward the digital images to Mohinder, but Mohinder's all, "No no nonononono! Don't do that! I have a partner now! And by 'partner,' I mean, 'warden.'" He says that The Company no longer trusts him (did they ever?), and Bennet just says that his family is in danger and this makes the light bulb go on over Mohinder's head because he now realizes that Bennet thinks he's expendable. Especially since he shows up in a painting with a smoking gun and Bennet shows up with...a bullet in his eyeball. "We were supposed to take down the company together," says Mo angrily, "but I don't know WHAT your agenda is anymore." Niki shows up just then and says that Tobby needs to see them. Mohinder hangs up and Bennet takes a match to the paintings.