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
Picking up where the last episode left off (with a tiny
bit of overlap), Peter is shocked to discover another
moving body in the otherwise frozen-in-time subway car.
FutureHiro introduces himself and explains he has a message
for Peter and is risking a rift to tell him. Peter needs
to save the cheerleader because it is the only way to
prevent "everything" from happening. No matter
what, the cheerleader must live.
FutureHiro tells Peter to go to Isaac, the painter.
And that when he calls him, Peter must tell him where
they meet. Confusing, but time/space distortions always
are. FutureHiro knows that Peter feels lost. But this
is what he has been waiting for. And then, FutureHiro
disappeared and time began again.
In a hospital in Odessa, several doctors and nurses
fuss over Claire. She is covered in blood which, according
to the doctors, came from her mouth. They think she was
driving. Claire insists she is fine and just wants go
to home. Her mother shows up and starts fussing over
Claire as well. As she is wheeled through a hallway into
a room, Claire turns and sees a bloody and bruised Brody
on another gurney. He catches her eye and swears at her.
Claire's mother pulls out her cell phone and dials a
number.
Nathan, still in his pajamas, is manhandled by Mr. Bennett
and Mysterious Goon (the creepy guy who has astounding
mental powers). He manages to break free but is stopped
by a chain link fence. He tells his captors he will find
them no matter what they do. He knows what they look
like. Mr. Bennett does not feel this is a problem and
tells Mysterious Goon to "take down" Nathan.
But Nathan is no longer standing in front of them. He
has jumped several hundred feet into the air. With a
sonic boom, he flies off.
Pointless Montage: Matt, Hiro and Ando, Isaac, Claire,
Niki
Niki wakes up in Nathan's bed, with one of Nathan's
goons standing in front of her, asking her with Mr. Petrelli
is. But Niki has no idea how she got in the bed, let
alone where Nathan is. All she wants to do is call her
son. The he goon wants to take her with him for questioning.
However, Niki is saved by one of Linderman's people (the
woman who works for the hotel). Niki has no recollection
of spending the night with Nathan. The last thing she
remembers is leaving after deciding not go through with
Linderman's ploy against Nathan.
After she is shown a video of herself having sex with
Nathan, Niki is told to go home to her son and rest easy
now that she is no longer tied to Linderman.
Still a little shaken, Peter tries to explain to Mohinder
what Hiro told him. He suggests they try to talk with
Isaac again. Mohinder will have none of it and walks
off.
Janice (Matt's wife) is more than a little frustrated
with whoever she is on the phone with. Matt is missing
and she cannot get any answers. When she turns around,
however, she spots him on the couch. She ends the call
and throws the phone at him. Matt thinks he just drank
too much the night before and passed out. Janice tells
him he has been missing for an entire day and that she
called his precinct a dozen times and was finally told
that her husband is working for the FBI. Despite the
marital troubles, Janice still cares about her husband
(and in her mind, says so, allowing Matt to hear it as
well).
Hiro and Ando are tossed out of a van into the desert.
Their luggage is thrown out after them. Ando curses as
the van speeds off down the road. Hiro spots a diner
and the two head inside for a meal. Ando blames Hiro
for getting him beat up and for losing all their money.
He is sick of Hiro wanting to save the world. For his
part, Hiro is sick of Ando complaining about everything.
He tells Ando to go hang out with his internet stripper
(Niki). So Ando leaves.
Hiro looks out the diner window and sees Nathan descend
from the sky. As Hiro watches in utter shock, Nathan
skids to a halt on the ground and winces at the friction
burns from the gravel against his bare feet. He walks
into the diner in all his shirtless, shoeless glory,
asks for a cell phone and sits at the counter.
Matt whispers a hurried order to a steakhouse before
confronting Janice. She asks why he is not at work but
rather than answering her, he lays it all out in the
open, everything that is wrong with him. In short, he
needs to try harder. Janice admits they both could be
trying harder. As their marriage mends in an instant,
Matt explains that they are both calling in sick for
the day.
A giddy Hiro walks up to the counter and sits down next
Nathan. They introduce one another and, in broken English,
Hiro explains how they are both special. Nathan can fly
and Hiro can bend time. Hiro tells Nathan about the future
he saw, with the big boom. Nathan brushes him off and
gets up to leave but stops to ask if Hiro happened to
see if he won the election or not. After a moment's thought,
Hiro energetically tells of Nathan's landslide win. Hiro
asks for a ride and Nathan agrees.
Mr. Bennett sits down next to his daughter. Claire tells
him she rammed the car into the wall on purpose. Mr.
Bennett tells her to start trusting him and she admits
she lied to him about what happened at the bonfire. She
tells him Brody tried to rape her and that she fell down,
hurt her head, and woke up somewhere else. She has no
proof and knew Brody was going to get away with it.
Claire pleads with her father not to tell anyone. Mr.
Bennett calms his daughter, promising that no one will
ever know.
Peter finally manages to talk to Isaac, who is bitter
and angry about Simone. Peter explains about seeing Isaac's
painting of Peter flying and how he actually flew. But
Isaac has no answers and tells Peter to find them for
himself. So Peter starts to look around the studio, at
all the paintings. He finds the painting of Claire with
the foreboding shadow looming over her. He has found
his cheerleader.
Back in Vegas, Nathan and Hiro say their goodbyes and
Hiro heads for his rental car. But he has no idea how
to drive.
While riding up the escalator, Nathan runs into Niki.
She has no idea what happened the night before. Neither
does he. All Niki wants to be is a good mother and not
the person she sees in the mirror. She tells him she
was blackmailed and that they will blackmail him too.
Nathan realizes they were taped. Niki apologizes, but
Nathan stalks off.
Matt and Janice, dressed to the nines, sit down to a
romantic dinner that Matt has prepared, filled with memories
of their past. Janice basically accuses him of cheating
on her and Matt gets a little defensive. But the negative
moment passes and the two passionately embrace.
In the hospital, Mr. Bennett walks into Brody's room
and pulls the curtain around the bed. Brody's threatens
to sue, insisting Claire crashed the car and is nuts.
But Mr. Bennett dismisses everything Brody says. He roughly
covers Brody's mouth with his hand and offers to give
the lad a new life, one without all the mistakes of this
life.
Mr. Bennett pulls back the curtain to reveal his mysterious
goon. He tells the man to "hollow" Brody out
and to "take everything." Mr. Bennett leaves
and the goon pulls the curtain again.
Peter has pulled together several of Isaac's paintings
so that they tell a story. He sees himself and two others
(Hiro and Ando) trying to save a cheerleader (Claire).
Isaac is disgusted with himself for throwing away his
life. Peter insists that Isaac has to finish the painting.
But Isaac cannot paint without his drugs and has no money.
If Peter has money, that is another story.
But Peter is too busy staring at the painting to respond.
He sees something in the canvas, the rest of the painting.
He can finish it, despite not being able to paint. And
he has drawn the future in the past, in stick figure
format, after talking to Isaac. Peter closes his eyes
and when he opens them, they are glossed over (just like
Isaac's were). He begins to paint.
Claire meekly walks into Brody's room and confronts
him. She first tells him what he did to her was wrong
and then admits she was wrong to do what she did to him.
But Brody does not know her. Or that his name is Brody.
Claire is shocked.
Niki returns home to find a gaggle of men in dark suits
in her home. After finding Micah, she talks with the
police. D.L. Sanders, Niki's husband and Micah's father,
is on the loose. He was in custody two days ago but slipped
out. Over the radio, the officers are warned that someone
is approaching. They quickly cover Micah and Niki. Someone
is coming in the back door. But it is just Ando.
Nathan confronts Linderman's woman about the tape. He
manages to swing what could be the end of his political
career into an extra two million dollars. Knowing that
Linderman wants him in office and that the tape is useless
unless he wins the election, Nathan is able to get a
four million "donation" rather than the agreed
two million. Double the money will get Linderman a congressman
in his pocket, not just a candidate.
Matt and Janice bask in the warm glow of post-coitus
bliss. Janice is shocked at how well Matt was able to
get inside her head (if she only knew). She says all
she wants is sleep but Matt knows better. She wants ice
cream. So he heads to a convenience store to pick some
up. While there, however, he overhears a man planning
on robbing the joint.
He walks up to the guy and confronts him, telling him
to take the gun out of his pocket and just leave. With
the knowledge he has overheard from the man's inner most
thoughts, Matt is able to talk him into leaving. After
the guy runs out, Matt picks up the gun but is quickly
mistaken for a robber himself. The thoughts from everyone
in the store quickly overwhelm Matt, who attempts to
calm the situation by telling everyone he is a cop.
But that does not work and the onslaught of thoughts
is soon too much for Matt, who passes out.
Niki talks with Ando, who found her through her listing
on the WHOIS database. She explains that she is not the
girl for him, not the girl she knows on the Internet.
She asks the police to let him go and they leave with
him, but leave a squad car outside in case her husband
shows up. Now alone in her home, Niki is spooked by every
unexplained sound. And with good reason. Her husband
is inside the house, hidden in the shadows.
Hiro sits in the back of his rental car, tossing the
keys into the air. Ando walks into the garage and the
two rekindle their friendship, knowing they are stronger
together than apart. Ando suggests trying to call the
artist again.
Peter has finished the painting, much to Isaac's shock.
Peter is just as shocked, he has no idea how he painted
it. The phone rings. Isaac tells Peter to ignore it,
explaining that some Japanese guy has been calling and
leaving messages. But Peter, remembering Hiro's words
to him earlier, picks up the phone. After asking for
Mr. Isaac, Hiro introduces himself. Peter, filled with
a sudden confidence, introduces himself and tells Hiro
he has a message for him.
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