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Welcome back to the show, those of you who are still watching! Two months have passed, and many of the main Heroes are trying to blend in and lead normal lives. Not surprisingly, given how the last chapter ended, Nathan is now the Chairman of the Senate Commission on Homeland Security. On TV, he tells an interviewer about his churchy beliefs and his efforts to protect the American people from an unnamed threat, and as he does, Tracy gets captured by a commando team whose protective suits, it seems, were designed to repel her powers. They're also led by Zeljko Ivanek, which is pretty sweet.
Hiro is still powerless, but instead of being bitter, he's thrown himself overenthusiastically into training a reluctant Ando as a superhero. Ando's not particularly interested until Hiro is captured by the commandos, but he doesn't manage to do anything about it. Needs a little more training, I'd say.
Claire's hanging with Angela and considering colleges, but is worried that Sylar is still out there somewhere, even though Angela tells her Sylar's dead. But Claire is in the right, of course, as Sylar is not only alive but has found his real father, who tells him that his brother gave Sylar to him. Sylar goes to find the brother, but instead at his house the commandos try to take him. However, they're completely unprepared for how powerful he is as he makes mincemeat of them. Meanwhile, Claire is horrified to learn that Angela is conspiring with Nathan to keep Claire distracted while he "takes down" Matt and Peter. Claire calls Paramedic Peter to warn him, so he gets in a cab -- driven by Mohinder. Oddly, there's no mention of their last meeting at Pinehearst, nor is there any sign of the lesion the show went to such dramatic lengths to reveal at the end of last episode. After Peter gets out, Zeljko Ivanek gets in and forces Mohinder at gunpoint to drive to his minions, but Mohinder uses his super-strength to get away and run until he's intercepted again -- by Bennet, who's in cahoots with Ivanek. Back at the Petrelli ancestral mansion, Peter finds Nathan and accurately calls him a "self-loathing hypocrite," and Nathan responds by using Peter's weakness for brother-touching to distract him so Bennet can incapacitate him. Cold, but very smart.
Matt and Daphne are working as bodyguard and delivery girl, respectively, but even as Matt tells Daphne not to use her powers so they can just live normal lives, he's still seeing foreboding visions of NeoIsaac, who eventually tells him that he's been called to be a prophet, just like he was -- and just like that, Matt's drawing the future, and then Claire turns up just in time for them both to be captured. time he'll want to draw the future far enough in advance to be able to do something about it. Nathan has Claire released, but the rest of the prisoners are put on a plane in shackles -- but Claire escapes her driver and stows away right before the plane takes off. On board, she manages to arrange for Peter to absorb Mohinder's super-strength, and soon Peter is taking down the guards while Claire's heading up to the cockpit -- to find Bennet acting as co-pilot. Awkward. Peter then absorbs Tracy's power (seems he can now only hold one power at a time) and accidentally freezes part of the plane, blowing a hole in it and sending it hurtling to the ground as Peter desperately hangs onto Mohinder's hand. Despite what seems like a blatant attempt to rip off Lost, the show made me forget all about Chapter Three here. Not that I wasn't eager to do so anyway, but I appreciate the thought regardless.
Want more? The full recap starts right below! As I said in the recaplet, welcome back! And to try to start the new chapter off on a positive note, whatever else can be said about this episode, it most certainly was not boring, which already puts it ahead of almost anything in the two installments. (The Sylar scenes excepted, that is.) So:We open on a closeup of a digital clock that reads 7:12. I wouldn't normally mention such a trivial detail, but since the show seems to want to be Lost all of a sudden, maybe the numbers will be significant. The phone rings, and Tracy looks at the caller ID before answering and kittenishly greeting the Governor, who apparently tells her to turn on the TV. She complies, and we see Nathan being interviewed by some guy who talks about his "seemingly meteoric rise" in the Senate and how his access to private citizens' life information basically makes the Patriot Act look like the creation of bleeding-heart liberals by comparison. Nathan disingenuously chuckles like the good neocon he is as he describes himself as a "humble junior senator" from New York who just happens to be the Chairman of the Senate Commission on Homeland Security, and if Nathan achieved this in a few months you have to figure Hillary Clinton is watching and wondering where she went wrong. Tracy, looking not all that amused, assures the Governor that she knew nothing about Nathan's little interview here, as she hasn't talked to him in almost two months. After suggesting rather strongly that she's resumed providing, er, free services to the Governor, she hangs up, and the tone of the scene changes as the interviewer brings up rumors of "frequent private meetings" at the White House, and asks what's up. Nathan tells the guy that they're protecting the American people from a serious threat, and they need to take "precautionary measures." At that moment, Tracy focuses in on the open bathroom window, and then looks warily back at Nathan before moving and shutting and locking said window. But she quickly comes face to face with a man dressed like some sort of commando, all in black with a mask over his face. She grabs his arm and tries to freeze him, but is terrified when she sees his clothes somehow absorb her power. She tries to flee, but a few other commandos appear and surround her, weapons at the ready. After a stupid assertion about how she doesn't beg, a last begoggled commando, clearly the leader, appears and unceremoniously zaps Tracy with what seems like a flying taser charge, and she goes down as Nathan is changing into a t-shirt that reads "I'm A Religious Zealot! Ask Me How!" As he tells his minions to be sure to cover Tracy's hands, the commando leader removes his headgear to reveal that he is Zeljko Ivanek, who is awesome in every way and who I haven't had the pleasure of recapping since he played the Pernicious Peewee on Oz, and it was at this moment I knew prospects for this chapter were looking up indeed. ZI makes a call and tells whoever answers to inform "Petrelli" that they got "the first one." And for the first time in a while, the show has earned this: DUN!
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.
At the scene of a car accident, Peter, apparently now a paramedic, is administering CPR to a prone and blood-soaked man. His fellow EMT tells him to give it up already, but Peter doesn't stop until his friend grabs his arm and says there's nothing he could have done -- the guy bled out in the car, and they couldn't have extracted him any faster because he was pinned in there. Peter: "I should have been stronger." So Tracy doesn't beg, and you should have been stronger. Anything else we don't need to know?
At the Petrelli Ancestral Apartment, Claire is sitting in front of a number of college brochures artfully laid out on the table in front of her. Angela appears and asks if Claire has any favorites yet, and adds that getting her GED was the best thing Claire could have done. Look, no disrespect, but I doubt the colleges Claire mentions here -- Georgetown, Smith, Hamilton -- are going to look twice at someone who went to approximately 18, 734 high schools unless some major strings are pulled by her powerful family, and in that case I don't think the equivalency test is going to enter much into it. I'd also point out that February is not really the time to be thinking about college applications, except this show can't possibly get that process any more wrong than Gossip Girl, a show about high school, so I'll stick to hitting Heroes when it actually deserves it. Claire is not feeling the whole college thing anyway, so Angela sits down with her and says that she's discussed it with both her dads and they all feel that this is Claire's best shot at a normal life. Claire urgently replies that that will be impossible as long as Sylar is out there, and while Angela assures her that they found Sylar's remains, confirmed by dental records, Claire is unconvinced, saying she can still feel him. And this is possibly the episode's first real problem -- how is it that Sylar is out there again? I don't see how he could have undone whatever it was that Claire did to incapacitate him. Anyway, Claire goes on that she knows Bennet's hiding things from her again, and mentions a man in Memphis who disappeared under suspicious circumstances, including the upstairs part of his house being filled with salt water, and also that her dad has been going on "business trips," and she should be out helping him. Or, you know, stopping him from committing unspeakable acts of evil. Either one. Claire blows off Angela's last attempt to get her to drop it, and stalks out of the room...
...and we don't have to wait long to see that she's right, as Sylar enters a watch shop in Baltimore as The Inkspots' "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" plays on a turntable within. Sylar picks up a watch, and moments later, someone cocks a shotgun and points it in his direction. It's the owner, a man in his mid-sixties, who threatens to shoot Sylar and calls him a thief. You're more right than you know, Pops. Sylar, for his part, merely looks at the man blithely and says his name: "Martin Gray." He goes on that Martin lived in Queens twenty-seven years ago, and one night he went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. "Or so the story goes. Kind of cliché, don't you think?" As Homer Simpson once said, seems like the classy thing to do would be not to draw attention to it. Sylar informs Martin that he's his son. "And I have some questions for you." At least Martin gets the commercial break to try to figure out which answers won't get his head sliced open.
Matt's doing something or other when Daphne superzips in, and his disapproving glare and sigh is more reminiscent of a disgusted father than a relatively new boyfriend, which is so not a place I needed to go here. Anyway, Daphne is working as a delivery girl, and while she promised she wouldn't use her super-speed for the job, she points out how long it takes to get across midtown on a bike, and I have to say I feel her there. Matt snits that Daphne suffering her way through abysmal traffic is "the idea," so I was wrong in that there was no spousal vibe here, because he's coming off like Darrin Stephens when he whined at "Sam" not to use her powers. And that's an apt comparison, because I'd love to have an Endora type around to make Matt's life as annoying as he often makes mine. When Daphne suggests they go to the zoo, Matt sniffs that some people have to put in a full day's work, and after some dismissive exposition from Daphne about how Matt's a bodyguard (might want to get down to your fighting weight, dude) Matt continues being self-righteous, which Daphne rightly describes as "boring," and just as Matt's talk of a normal life is threatening to put me into a permanent vegetative state, he sees NeoIsaac again. Daphne tells Matt normal is okay and gives him a kiss, but he still looks freaked out. If he's been seeing NeoIsaac all this time, I can better understand why he's being all squirrely, but it would be nice if he did so with many fewer words.
At the Petrelli Ancestral Apartment, Claire tiptoes down the stairs and hears Angela on the phone talking about her. She sneaks closer as Angela talks about the guy in Memphis about whom Claire found out, and then Claire surreptitiously picks up another extension (two phones on the same land line ten feet away from each other? Right) to hear Nathan saying he was counting on Angela distracting Claire. He goes on that today is crucial and she needs to be kept away from Peter and Matt while they're taken down, and then since we haven't heard Angela in a while it's no surprise when Claire turns to see her grandmother staring at her. Claire gives Angela a look of steely death before getting the hell out of there, leaving Angela to sigh to her son, "I think we have a big problem now." Can we just get rid of Angela? I mean, Peter was on her side against Arthur, and Nathan was against her. Now she's with Nathan? Why? I enjoy Cristine Rose, but this character is preposterous.
Gray is telling Sylar that he's a different person than he was back then, and it was a long time ago. Sylar: "Maybe for you." Maybe for everyone who watches this show, too. I'm pretty hopeful for the direction this chapter indicates, but they have to figure out what the hell they're doing with Sylar or (probably best) get rid of him, because I'm tired of wishing Zachary Quinto, whom I really like, off my screen, and Ongoing Daddy Issues are not any kind of solution. To wit, Sylar asks, "How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? And how many seas must a white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand?" Well, maybe not that last part. But seriously, Sylar, do what so many of us with absent fathers do -- be an enormous queen. You'll give blowin' in the wind a whole new meaning. Anyway, now that I've attached a less boring mental image to this scene, let's get to the part where Gray tells Sylar that his mother was a "sick, infantile woman," and he got Sylar when he was given to him by his brother, who needed money. He writes down an address, and after Sylar uses his power and notes that Gray is telling the truth, Gray dismisses him. Sylar toys with the idea of using his deli-slicer index finger, but decides against it and leaves.
We're back with Peter and his hot co-worker, who says he saw Nathan on TV that morning and asks Peter if he's going to see him while he's in town. Peter says they're not really talking at the moment, which is all the opening the guy needs to tell Peter that Nathan gives him the cold chills -- the co-worker is of Iranian descent, and he takes Nathan's rhetoric as thinly-veiled hostility. "We're different, so we're scary." This strikes an obvious chord with Peter, but before they can discuss the matter further, Peter gets an urgent call from Claire, who tries to tell him (after mentioning she's in New York; he didn't already know that?) about the possibility of Nathan having people with abilities rounded up and taken away and Angela being involved. Peter either doesn't take his niece as seriously as he should, or he's an idiot, because his plan upon hearing this news is to go talk to his mother, who's probably somewhere down the line from Dick Cheney on the list of people I'd go to with a civil-liberties emergency. But first, he gets in a cab...
...and discovers that the driver is Mohinder. (What's with all the hand-held this episode, by the way? Did someone see Rachel Getting Married recently?) They smile at each other, and completely gloss over the ass-kicking Mohinder got the last time they met in favor of sharing a light callback to their cab scene in the series premiere ("Ever get the feeling you were meant to do something extraordinary?") and the grins they exchange make up the kind of nice moment that really should happen more on this show. Mohinder answers the question, saying he used to, but not anymore, and all their old friends are under the radar now, except Nathan, of course. Mohinder muses that what Nathan's doing may be right, as unchecked mutant powers can be dangerous, and he was living proof. Speaking of which, that ominous lesion that was on Mohinder's face at the end of the last chapter is nowhere to be seen. Peter thinks segregation, internment camps, and people hiding underground could be the result, but Mohinder says that's a risk he's willing to take. Man, we're not even going to get a scene break before the ironic comeuppance -- you see, Peter hops out at his destination (87th and Madison, if you're trivia-minded), and once he's gone, another fare gets in -- ZI. He points a gun at the back of Mohinder's head, and I don't blame him for quietly obeying ZI's order to drive rather than testing out the strength of the Plexiglas there. They head off...
...and soon pull onto the top level of what looks like an indoor/outdoor garage. ZI's minions are there in full gear with a big SUV, and as they approach, ZI gets out of the car and tells Mohinder, "I want you to get in the van." At least he didn't say anything about him looking about a size fourteen. Mohinder gets out, but grips his car door purposefully, and the thing you know, he's ripped the thing off its hinges and bashed ZI in the face with it, although he doesn't add a crack about ZI not tipping, which is kind of a shame. He does, however, smartly use the door to deflect several shots from the commandos, but one finally makes it through, and he drops his shield and makes a run for it, heading down the Guggenheim-like winding ramp until a car blocks his path -- and it's driven by Bennet, who tells him to get in if he wants to live. Doesn't quite sound the same without an Austrian accent, I feel obliged to tell you. Bennet squeals his tires as he asks Mohinder a series of questions ever-increasing in their suspiciousness, the last being, "What did Peter Petrelli tell you today?" Even Mohinder realizes this can only mean bad things, but it's too late to do anything about it, as Bennet has driven him right back to the commandos. As ZI woozily yet still menacingly limps toward them, Bennet apologizes before zapping Mohinder in the leg with a tranquilizer, and Mohinder staggers out of the car before falling to the ground and losing consciousness. Bennet doesn't say, "That's for shooting me in the eye that time, jerky," but you know he's thinking it.
Peter enters the Petrelli Ancestral Apartment and calls for Angela, but finds Nathan instead, who's unconvincingly conciliatory toward his brother. Peter's not fooled by the act, calling Nathan a "self-loathing hypocrite," and if Milo Ventimiglia would only take some acting lessons I could really commit to liking Peter here. Nathan continues holding out a poisoned olive branch (even using those words minus "poisoned"), saying he regrets the things he said at their last meeting, and that he'd like Peter's advice. Peter: "What advice could I possibly give you besides 'kiss my ass', Nathan?" Well, if you're going to go that route, a visual aid seems appropriate. Nathan asks his brother out on a date that evening, and even though he promises it'll be "just dinner," you know it's the prospect of inappropriate touching that gets Peter to accept. Peter starts to leave, presumably to shop for cologne and a new outfit, but Nathan calls after him to ask what abilities he has these days. Peter replies by asking what the last ability Nathan saw him use was, and after Nathan duhs that it was flight, Peter leaves without another word.
Back at the Brooklyn apartment, Matt is startled to discover his spirit guide/turtle out of his tank, when NeoIsaac (or, more precisely, a vision of him) appears and tells him his calling is to be a prophet. Matt whines about a normal life, but NeoIsaac, in his elliptical, meandering way, basically tells him to STFU, and before you know it Matt's eyes have gone white and he's drawing the edition of 9th Wonders. I hope Isaac Mendez's estate gets some royalties.
Hiro locates Ando through the GPS embedded in his ulna, and tries to apologize through the audio link, but is disheartened when he realizes Ando is at a strip club. However, it turns out he's safely outside, winking at some girls while sitting on his bike with his Bluetooth earpiece in. Not exactly James Dean, but we'll go with it. Hiro babbles at Ando until the commandos show up and shut him up by dragging him away (they're... kidnapping a foreign citizen on foreign soil? Oooookay), which sends Ando after him. If only he could use his power to supercharge the bike, he'd get to Hiro a lot faster.
Matt's drawing is interrupted by an urgent knock, and his eyes return to normal. He gets a gun out of the desk, because nefarious characters on this show always make their presence known by rapping loudly on doors, and then opens up to find a Land Shark, which immediately bites his head off. Well, actually, it's Claire, but wouldn't the other thing have been funnier? Anyway, she tells him about Angela and Nathan and whatever, and he shows her the drawings he made, which are all of him standing around like an idiot, which is apt, because when they look at one of someone shooting him through the window, they just stand there until a dart breaks the glass and hits Matt in the neck. The commandos bust in, and that's all she wrote for these two for the moment.
Peter arrives home to find Nathan waiting for him, and what was the point of even making the dinner date if he was just going to do this? Why break it up into two scenes? Lame. Anyway, Nathan tries to sell Peter on his agenda, and basically says that he'll protect Peter if he'll admit that Nathan's doing the right thing here. Peter tells him to go to hell while moving to a distance close enough still to be illegal in many states, and Nathan hangs his head before asking for a hug. It seems like Peter's a moron for falling for the same trick twice, but as I said in the recaplet, he's powerless against the prospect of brother-touching, and exploiting that is one of the smartest and most cynical things Nathan has ever done. Because yes, after a long embrace in which both brothers learn how the other's deltoids have changed over the past two months, someone zaps Peter from behind, and he goes down. Nathan leaves with a "Don't hurt him," and Bennet merely raises an eyebrow.
We see a house with a sign in front of it that reads "Samson Gray, Taxidermist," and then Sylar appears and enters. Inside are all the predictable stuffed animals, a picture of his young self, a snow globe, and less predictably, a still-burning cigarette. After Sylar discovers this last, a dart hits him in the back, and when he turns, he gets lit up with three more. The commandos then attempt to capture him, but the tranquilizers have no effect, and the confrontation turns out to be as much of a mismatch as most 80s Super Bowl games. Sylar eventually lifts one of the commandos into the air and tries to get him to talk, but he won't, so it's a brain examination for him. If he doesn't take the time to stuff the guy's corpse, he really has no sense of humor at all.
Ando's back at the Ando-lair trying to figure out the password, and after he recalls that Hiro said it was someone important to him, he tries "Kaito" and "Kensei" before an affectionate smile comes across his face and he types "Ando." Aw, but it's interesting that he didn't even think to try that girl in Olde Japan who almost bored us all to death in Chapter Two. Maybe between the firehouse and the Spandex Ando's become less convinced of Hiro's heterosexuality. Anyway, the computer shows Hiro's present location...
...before we fade into said location, an airplane hangar somewhere or other, bright with overexposed yellow tones. Nathan is waiting, some commandos in tow, as a van pulls up and the prisoners are marched out. They're dressed in orange jumpsuits with black masks, goggles, and ear-muffling headphones, chained to each other, and the cumulative effect is to give the situation a chilling gravitas that it might not otherwise have had. Attached to the jumpsuits is a keypad and LED readout connected to a thin tube, which I'm assuming is a setup to keep the Heroes pumped with power-inhibiting drugs like The Company used. Nathan watches the tableau, looking more resolute than conflicted, until ZI approaches and says they have a couple situations. The first is easy for Nathan to guess -- they failed to capture Sylar. He grits that he told ZI they needed to put a bullet in the back of his head, and ZI assures him they're sending a cleanup crew, but there's something else. He waves over a commando, who leads a diminutive prisoner over to them, and removes the mask to reveal... Claire. Nathan and ZI exchange dark looks, and Nathan orders her cuffs removed. She woozily breathes that she hates him, and he'll never get away with this, but he leads her toward a waiting car and tells her whether she eventually forgives him or not, she needs to go home and forget everything she's just seen. She's still defiant, so he goes on that he's given her a free pass. "Don't make me change my mind." I wouldn't blame her for that, Nathan. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you've changed your mind about various issues -- your plan, your political affiliation, your sexual orientation -- ten times since this scene started. He loads Claire in and whispers some instructions to the driver, and they take off. When they're gone, the chain gang gets forced-marched onto the plane...
...but in the car, Claire quickly shakes off her grogginess (if the writers intended that to happen quicker than normal because of her power, good on them) and kicks the driver in the head HARD, knocking him out. The car stops (hard to see if Claire hit the brakes herself or it just ran out of momentum) and Claire shakes off the rest of her constraints and hops out, seeing the plane rolling slowly forward. As we intercut with some shots of Nathan in the hangar, she runs to the plane and hops into one of the wheel bays right before it takes off...
...and inside, commandos keep watch over the prisoners, who are all strapped into seats. One of them is wearing gloves, so that's got to be Tracy. A hatch door opens near the prisoners, and Claire pops through, unnoticed by the commandos. Tensely, she makes it over to one of the prisoners and takes off his mask to find Hiro. After removing his IV and then replacing his mask, she moves on, and I'd imagine she heard about him losing his powers, but it would be funnier if she just decided to try someone more historically competent. Urgently aware that her time is probably running out, she gets another mask off -- and finds Peter. She succeeds in rousing him, but when she tells him they need to break his shackles, he groggily says he doesn't have the strength. However, when he looks to him, he sees a dark-skinned hand and breathes Mohinder's surname. The solution to his predicament comes, and he tells Claire to get Mohinder's IV out, because presumably he needs his power to be active in order to absorb it. Once Mohinder's at all awake, he and Peter reach their fingers to each other, and when they touch, Mohinder's power flows into Peter. I rightly made fun of the religious overtones last chapter, but this one I think wasn't intentional. Anyway, Peter uses his absorbed super-strength to break his bonds, and as he goes to town on the guards, Claire gets to work unmasking and de-drugging everyone -- Hiro, Tracy, Matt, and some woman I don't recognize. Peter knocks a taser loose from the guard with whom he's fighting, and after Claire picks it up, he tells her to go to the cockpit. She complies...
...and after incapacitating another guard, she moves to the pilot, threatening him with the taser as she tells him they're going to make an unscheduled landing. She turns to the co-pilot... and it's Bennet. It's a big situation and every moment counts, but I can't say I blame her for taking a moment to gape in shock.
Peter's still tossing guards around left and right, but when he tries to free an as-yet-still-masked prisoner (could this be the Missing Memphis Mutant?), he accidentally touches Tracy's hand and absorbs her power -- and it seems that in the new version, he can only hold one power at a time. Clever way to make Peter a Hero again, him being all-powerful, and also explains why he doesn't just fly safely away. Now if they'd only figure something out for Sylar, we'd be in business. Anyway, without the super-strength, Peter gets his ass kicked, and when he's tossed to the side, his hand freezes out a portion of the wall. And I give Ventimiglia a lot of crap, but the "Houston, we have a problem" look on his face as he realizes what's about to happen is pretty awesome. He just manages to grab onto something before the wall blows out, sending some of the guards and cargo out into the night. The pilot calls for help as everyone hangs on...
...and the sound fades into the ironic dreamy theme music. The masked mutant's chair breaks free of the wall and gets sucked into the night as well as we see everyone's silent screams of terror. The netting to which Peter is hanging on breaks off, and he starts to fly away as well -- but Mohinder, who's used his strength to free himself, grabs him and hangs on to the wall for both their lives. As the plane heads for the ground, Peter starts to lose his grip on Mohinder's hand... and that's all until week. But I'm sure Greg Grunberg hopes this works out better for him than last time.
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