Summary
Before the recap begins, a quick refresher on the characters:
Niki - the woman who takes off her clothes and sees
herself in the mirror
Peter - the nurse who thinks he can fly, Nathan's brother
Isaac - the druggie who can paint the future
Hiro - the businessman who can stop time
Claire - the indestructible cheerleader
Simone - the dying man's daughter
Micah - Nikki's genius son
Nathan - a politician and Peter's brother
Mohinder - the professor whose father was killed for
his research
Matt – the police officer who hears voices
Matt wakes up in room bathed in a blue light. Mr. Bennett
looks down at him and tells him he is fine. Matt is strapped
to all sorts of strange machines and is strapped to a
table. Also in the room is the mysterious man Matt saw
in the bar before he passed out the other night. Mr.
Bennett informs Matt that he will not be able to read
thoughts as long as the mysterious man is in the room.
But Matt is able to pull the name Claire from Mr. Bennett,
who seems happy that Matt is progressing so well.
Mr. Bennett leaves. The mysterious man places a hand
on Matt's forehead. Matt screams.
Hiro and Ando find themselves at a Las Vegas casino.
Niki and Micah are also there, with the police officer
who pulled them over earlier. They are taken to meet
with a woman who suggests Micah waits outside. The woman
tells Niki that Mr. Lendermen is willing to forgive her
debt in return for a favor. They want Niki to act as
insurance. Niki tells the woman she's not a whore.
In Odessa, Texas, a woman performs an autopsy on Claire.
She was found naked in a river, dragged there apparently
in an attempt to hide the body. The coroner removes the
wooden branch from the side of Claire's head. The phone
rings and the coroner walks out. Claire wakes up, takes
stock of the situation, and pulls the flaps of her chest
back together.
She hops off the table, pulls on a lab coat, and hides
behind the open door. When the coroner walks in, Claire
slips out. The door closes after her, leaving the stunned
coroner alone in the room.
Isaac sits on a table next to a window, the morning
light shining on his face.
Simone and Peter wake up in bed.
Ando and Hiro walk through the casino.
Mrs. Bennett and Claire's sister walk down the stairs
and Mrs. Bennett calls for Claire to come to breakfast.
Claire sneaks back into her house, still wearing the
lab coat.
Nathan talks about the upcoming election with one of
his goons. He is heading to Las Vegas to see Leberman
about a campaign donation. Out of nowhere, Mohinder rushes
up, calling out to Nathan. He tries to warn Nathan, telling
him he is in danger. But Nathan ignores him and has his
goons push Mohinder away from Nathan's car.
In Manhattan, Peter and Simone talk about what happened
the night before. They talk about love and Isaac. The
door buzzes. Peter climbs out of the bed to answer it.
It is Nathan. He tells Peter about Mohinder's little
visit. He gives his brother some money to go find his
answers and to disappear. Peter is becoming a liability.
Simone has to rush off to work, to a new exhibit of
Isaac's paintings. After an awkward conversation about
the future of their "relationship," they decide
to give it a little time.
Mr. Bennett calls Claire down for breakfast. He notices
her dirty, muddy feet and asks if she was out all night.
At first, she denies it, but then admits she was out
with the quarterback. Mr. Bennett tells her to always
be honest and that she can tell him anything. He kisses
her on the forehead and leaves for work. Claire sits
down on the stairs and cries.
Mohinder berates himself for his behavior in front of
Nathan. Eden walks in with a package that came for while
Mohinder was out. It is an urn with his father's ashes.
Mohinder admits that he has not shed a single tear over
his father's death. He says he has no business being
in New York City and begins packing. He is going to go
back to his own life and stop trying to live his father's.
But, in an awesome stroke of timing, someone knocks
at the door. It is Peter, who calls through the door
that he is looking for Chandra Suresh. After Eden yells
back that Chandra does not live there anymore, Mohinder
opens the door. Peter is holding Chandra's book and tells
Mohinder that he might be one of the people Chandra wrote
about, someone with an ability.
In Las Vegas, Ando succeeds brilliantly in losing all
his (and Hiro's) money at the roulette table, much to
Hiro's chagrin. As the ball slows down, Hiro closes his
eyes and stops time. The ball floats in midair. Offering
a silent prayer to the heavens, Hiro stands up and places
the ball in twenty-six black, where Ando has placed his
last chip. He then straightens up a glass on a waitress's
tray.
When time starts again, Ando wins a bundle. Hiro feels
bad about what he did, calling it cheating. But Ando
wants Hiro to do it again. He reminds Hiro that Peter
Parker sells pictures of Spider-Man. Hiro relents.
As Niki makes herself up in front of a mirror, she tells
Tina about her black outs. She has been having violent
dreams in which someone, inside her, with her, has been
tearing people apart. Tina suggests that maybe Niki saw
something horrible and it broke her. Micah walks in and
asks his mother to play Scrabble. But Niki has to work,
so Tina will play Scrabble with Micah.
Mohinder and Eden whisper about Peter in the doorway.
Eden wants to follow up on Peter's ability, Mohinder
is not convinced. Eden leaves and Mohinder sits down
to talk with Peter, who tells him that he flew once after
talking to his brother and he drew the future once after
talking with Isaac. Perhaps he can only do things after
being in close contact with people who actually have
powers. He says he will take Mohinder to see Nathan,
but then realizes Nathan is in Vegas. So he says he will
take Mohinder to see Isaac.
Simone walks into Isaac's studio and the two discuss
finances. Isaac needs money for painting supplies, which
Simone takes to mean drugs. Isaac shows her the sketch
of Simone and Peter kissing in the rain, which he insists
he drew seven weeks ago. Simone still does not believe
that Isaac can paint the future, but Isaac certainly
does. As Simone walks out, Isaac looks down at a painting
of New York City exploding that covers the floor. He
tells himself he is going to be a hero.
Claire talks to Zach about what happened the night before
with Brody. He tells her she should tell someone about
what happened, but Claire says no. She does not have
a mark on her. She tells Jackie that she cannot remember
anything. When Brody sees her, he rushes off. The girl
who saw Claire and Brody walk off at the bonfire stares
at everyone.
In Vegas, Ando plays poker, with a little help from
Hiro, who stops time and switches his cards. Niki sits
at a bar, drinking. Nathan and his goon walk in, talking
politics. Niki bumps into Nathan (accidentally, of course)
and the two get to talking. She flirts, he flirts back.
Mohinder and Peter stand on the subway on their way
to see Isaac. Mohinder is a bit skeptical about Isaac's
heroin addiction and, as a scientist, skeptical about
everything Peter has told him. They get to talking about
Mohinder's father and Mohinder tells Peter why he believed
in what his father believed in -- because he was his
father's son. But Peter is convinced there is more to
Mohinder than just blind devotion to his father.
Mohinder explains that, due to world events like terrorism
and global disasters, everyone senses deep down that
something is not right. But while his father had a romantic
view of evolution, Mohinder seems slightly more pessimistic.
Isaac places a clean canvas on an easel and prepares
to paint. First, he gets his painting supplies together.
Then, he gets his drug supplies together. After shooting
up, Isaac falls to the floor. He sees himself standing
on top of Claire's high school and then sees Claire run
out screaming. She stumbles on the concrete steps out.
Isaac paints Claire, with a foreboding shadow over her.
His eyes are almost opaque and his is oblivious to Peter's
calls from the door.
At the school, Lori (the mysterious girl who likes staring)
confronts Claire. She asks what happened between Claire
and Brody. Claire says nothing happened. Lori tells Claire
that she, too, once went off with Brody and "nothing" happened.
The two watch as Brody tries to kiss another girl in
the hallway and is rebuked. He seems angry.
Hiro and Ando, wearing dapper suits, are bodily ejected
from the casino. Their suitcases are tossed out after
them. Ando wants to hit another casino while Hiro wants
to continue their mission. A group of men, lead by a
man who Ando and Hiro ripped off at the poker table,
confront them in the alley. Hiro, who cannot speak English,
asks Ando what is going on. Ando says he will take care
of it and tells the men to back off, that his friend
has powers. One of the men punches Hiro and Hiro falls
to the ground.
Nathan and Niki stand in front of a large window, looking
out at the desert. Nathan asks Niki if she has ever thought
about soaring out over the desert. Niki replies that
she once took a helicopter ride. But Nathan was talking
more about actually flying. Niki seems confused, but
the conversation quickly turns to Niki's relationship
status. Her husband is in jail and she has a child.
Nathan tells her that he has two boys and is still married,
in a happy relationship. And then he kisses Niki. She
pulls away, saying she had a surprisingly great time.
She thanks Nathan, says good night, and walks away. Now
alone in his room, Nathan takes a drink.
Out in the hall, Niki stands in front of an elevator.
She sees herself in the elevator's sliding doors; on
one side is her own reflection, on the other the mystery
Niki. When the elevator doors open, an arm shoots out
and grabs Niki by the throat. He asks Niki what her son
will think about his mother not honoring her obligations.
But Niki's reply is shocking: "Niki isn't here anymore."
As the elevator doors close, the sounds of the man being
brutally attacked can be heard. When the elevator doors
open again, he is thrown into the hall. NotNiki places
the heel of her shoe on his head and threatens to put
it through if the man ever threatens "our" son
again. She walks off down the hall, confident and in
charge.
Nathan opens his hotel room door and finds Niki (or
is it NotNiki) standing there. She walks in. They both
know what is going to happen. Nathan locks the door.
As Niki removes her dress and sits down on Nathan's lap,
a tattoo is seen on her bare shoulder. A camera in the
smoke detector on the ceiling sees it as well.
On the subway again, Mohinder balks at Peter's suggestion
that they go back to see Isaac next week. He does not
want to turn into someone who stalks heroin addicts.
In a flash, the subway lights go out and everything freezes.
Everything but Peter. He waves his hand in front of Mohinder's
frozen face and looks around, shocked.
Isaac wakes up on the floor. He stares at the painting
of Claire and the shadow. Still feeling the effects of
the heroin, he spots another painting of her.
Claire sits on the concrete steps outside her school.
Brody and his football chums walk out. Claire says she
stayed late to work on banners for Spirit Week and asks
for a ride home. Brody complies. She asks if he has a
stick shift and then asks if she can drive.
Brody's care flies down the road. She speeds through
a red light. Brody suddenly realizes that Claire knows
how to drive stick shift. When Claire confronts him about
what happened the other night, Brody tells her she came
on to him and calls Lori a slut, saying he will call
her the same thing. And he is not going to stop raping
girls and, according to him, there is nothing Claire
can do.
But there is. And she tells him that. And then she drives
the car straight into a wall.
Mr. Bennett and the mysterious man stand over Niki and
Nathan, asleep on Nathan's bed. Mr. Bennett tells the
mysterious man to "just take the one" and the
man walks forward.
Peter explores the frozen subway. He is very, very alone.
Or at least, he is until a man who looks very much like
Hiro walks up, clad in black. It is Hiro, only from the
future. Future Hiro tells Peter he looks different without
his scar. He has a message for Peter...
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