Heroes Recap: Cautionary Tales

OK, so I’ve been gushing about “Cautionary Tales”, here’s a quick recap - hopefully I don’t miss anything. If you’re here, you know that HRG got shot just like the Isaac painting predicted. And then he regenerated - from the blood that Bob took from Claire? Don’t know. Maybe HRG had some of her blood stashed away for a rainy day. Already I’m digressing. In other storylines, several other questions were answered. Bob is Elle’s father (that’s a huge part of the HRG story). Adam/Takezo did in fact kill Kaito Nakamura. This episode was also Hiro’s coming to accept that his father must die. Matt’s powers are gaining greater strength - he can actually manipulate people now…and Molly’s still annoying.

Let’s start with the minor subplots. Hiro wants to go back in time to change his father’s fate. When he does go back, his father convinces him that although he’s got godly powers, Hiro must not try to act like God. They travel back to Hiro’s mother’s funeral and that’s where Hiro meets young Hiro. From that meeting, he realizes that he is acting childish and let destiny unfold. He brings Kaito back to the not so distant past and lets him die. But he does discover that the killer was Takezo Kensai - and that seems to scare Hiro, or at least surprise him.

Matt is still on a mission to put the picture puzzle together. Through his developed power, he convinces Mrs. Petrelli to spill the beans on everyone in that photo…all of those answers, we already knew because of what we’ve learned so far this season. Adam is 400 years old, the Company’s research, etc.

Now onto the good stuff. The Bennett’s are leaving town, but Claire refuses to leave. She goes to school and is approached by Bob - as some school district person. She catches his mistake - he called her Miss Bennett, so she runs from him. He follows her home and then kidnaps her while tying Mrs. Bennett up. Where’s Mr. Bennett? He was out looking for West.

West actually kidnapped Noah Bennett as soon as he walked out of the door of his house. HRG convinces him that Claire is not a spy and they end up becoming teammates in the battle to get Claire back. HRG had asked Mohinder to use Molly’s powers to find where West was. Mohinder, now having turned his back on the plan to take down the Company, lies to him and sets him up to be “taken down.”

Oh, and Mohinder has a new partner now - Elle. Bob’s very own daughter. Man, she acts sexy. So, Mohinder and Elle are about to take down HRG (after asking nicely for Claire’s blood, of course), when West comes out of nowhere and knocks out Elle. I would have enjoyed that if I were West. Then HRG turns the gun on Mohinder, but West stops him from shooting him. You shoulda done it Bennett - you shoulda killed the annoying Doctor. Instead, they kidnap Elle and that sets up the showdown between Bob and HRG: two dads looking to get their daughters back by any means necessary.

Before I go any further, I want to say that Jack Coleman deserves an Emmy for his acting on Heroes. HE is the only character that delivers consistently superb acting. To see him morph from cold blooded killer to loving father time and again is just amazing. And to see what he did in tonight’s episode was just unbelievable. One of my favorite lines was when a soaked Elle tried to use her electrical powers and she got self-zapped, HRG looke at her and asked: “Stings like a bitch, doesn’t it?”

Back to the show. Bob and HRG meet up at the beach, they swap kids and as soon as West takes off with Claire, Elle zaps him - they crash land and HRG shoots Elle in the arm. As he’s about to shoot Bob, Mohinder puts one in HRG’s eye. Bam! HRG hits the ground and my jaw hits the floor. But, it looks like the writers had a trick up their sleeve. HRG was too important a character on the show to let die. So they found a way to keep him alive. We’re led to believe that someone’s blood helped him regenerate his eye and he’s ok now - we should have seen that coming, what with last week’s Nathan healing episode. But whose blood was it? Adam’s? Claire’s? That remains a mystery. What doesn’t remain a mystery is Season Two of Heroes. Bravo!

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Holy Shit, HRG’s not dead!

He regenerated! And if I’m not mistaken, Mrs. Bennett said he was Claire’s real dad? WTF? Recap coming - though I might be too excited to actually get it straight. This was, by far, the best episode of Heroes this season. By far.

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Holy Shit, HRG is Dead!

Mohinder shot him! Wow, I didn’t think this could happen. Dammit.

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Heroes Recap: Four Months Ago

This was the episode we had all been waiting for. And it turns out, the Heroes writers were giving us, for the first seven episodes, a first person view of Peter’s amnesia. Chapter 8 was where Peter regained his memory, and, as a result, we learned about what happened between the end of Season One and the present day - through Peter’s memory. Here’s the recap.

Nathan had taken Peter into the sky to explode. Peter knew he could regenerate, but Nathan couldn’t. Nathan was willing to sacrifice his life to save the world. Peter didn’t want that to happen, so he told Nathan to let go. It was too late. Nathan was severely burned and after Peter exploded, he recovered and swooped up Nathan (all in a matter of seconds) and took him to the ER. There, Nathan endured a slow recovery, but was badly scarred. Until….

Adam came along. Adam, the 400 year old Takezo Kensai. Before we get into how Adam helped Nathan, let’s talk about how Adam and Peter met. Oh, and Elle too. After the explosion, Bob found Peter and brought him into the Company “Hospital” to cure him. It seems like Bob knew about everything that was going on. He claims to have been cleaning up Linderman’s mess. Anyway, he convinced that he could heal Peter and he held Peter in the hospital for 3+ months. Peter’s neighboring cellmate was Adam/Takezo Kensai. His nurse, of sorts, was Elle (Kristen Bell). Over the course of the three months, Adam convinced Peter that he was being held in a prison, not a hospital. Peter tested his theory and realized that this was true. So they escaped. Adam claimed that he could use his regenerative blood to help save Nathan’s life. And he did. They simply escaped by walking through the walls, because Peter could do that. The Haitian, along with some pills, were keeping Peter’s powers latent. Peter had stopped taking the meds and apparently was able to use his powers again. So they escaped through the walls and went to the hospital where Adam injected some of his blood into Nathan’s IV. Voila - healed!

I have to pause here to think out loud for a second. Whose side is the Haitian on? One day he’s with the Company, the next with HRG. We were given some mumbled clarity at the end of the episode, where the Haitian thought he was doing Peter a favor by wiping his memory and locking him up in the shipping container and resolving to never do this again. But I’m still a bit confused about all that.

So that’s the Peter story. He was locked up in a hospital for 3 months. He met Adam and they are going to save the world. Adam might be a bad guy, though. That remains to be seen.

The other storyline was Nikki’s. I’m not sure why it’s so important to talk about her story when my best guess is that she’s going to be offed pretty soon. But it turns out that she too was given some meds by Bob (yep, he knew about Jessica too), but she stopped taking them. Another personality popped up - Gina. Gina was eventually the death of D.L.. He got shot up at an LA nightclub where Gina had gone to party. Yeah, D.L. survived the bullet wound from Kirby Plaza, but he didn’t survive this one. After D.L.’s funeral, Nikki decided to admit herself to the Bob Hospital…where she eventually became Suresh’s partner.

And that was really all there was to it. I know I left some things out, about how Ma Petrelli lied to Nathan’s wife about his condition. And how Elle told Peter about her miserable life, where she caused fires and killed people at a very young age. She caused that house fire about 16 years ago. The same house fire that baby Claire survived? Hmmm. I’m convinced Elle is HRG’s daughter. Oh, and I forgot to mention that they made a point to showcase her, umm, well endowed chest throughout the episode. And yeah, I forgot to mention the whole Wonder Twins story. Because it is pretty pointless. Maya discovered her sickness/power when she caught Alejandro’s bride making out with another man at their wedding. Boooo. Blah.

In the coming weeks, Hiro will try and save his father, and other things will happen. Til then, bye bye, so long and farewell.

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Heroes Recap: Out of Time

This episode of Heroes, “Out of Time,” continued to bring the pieces of the puzzle together. We got some answers about what happened in the four months that have passed. Nathan finds out that Peter is still alive - through the Company. Nikki is as good as dead, Molly wakes up - because Matt loves her. Matt conquers his fathers mind while Suresh turns his back on Bennett. West finds out about Claire’s dad, Mr. HRG, and looks genuinely scared. And, finally, Hiro returns to the 21st century - but so does Takezo Kensai. In fact, Takezo and Peter had planned to take the company down before Peter got amnesia. But Takezo isn’t Takezo anymore…he’s Adam. Read the rest of this entry »

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