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
After a nifty shot of the spinning, glowing planet Earth,
we find Mohinder in Kanyakumari, India performing a ceremony
for his father. He pours his father's ashes into the
ocean and waves a stick of incense in the air. He then
cries for his father.
In New York, Eden dabs at Isaac's forehead with a damp
rag. She promises Isaac that after he gets himself clean
he will still be able to paint. As she carefully shaves
his face with a straight blade she admits she went through
the same thing herself. Later, somewhere else in the
rehab center/wherever Isaac is, Eden looks over Isaac's
paintings. She stops in front of a particular painting
that depicts a redheaded waitress who has her hands full
with several plates of food.
In Texas at the Burnt Toast Diner, a redheaded waitress
named Charlie serves a pair of police officers. She gives
one of the officer's the answer to a crossword puzzle
question: Kanyakumari. She seems to know everything about
anything. She later tells Ando and Hiro that lately she
has been remembering lots and lots, including quite a
few phrases in Japanese.
After impressing Hiro and Ando with her Japanese, Charlie
is asked to suggest meals for them. She does so and then
leaves to give their orders to the cook. A mysterious
man, partially hidden in the shadows, watches Ando and
Hiro. Suddenly, his coffee cup moves itself into his
waiting hand. Obviously, this guy has some secrets.
Back in India, Mohinder straps on some sandals. Another
man sits down next to him and asks him if he will be
going back (to the United States, presumably). Mohinder
tells the man there is nothing for him in the States
and that he finds everyone there lonely, including himself.
After the two notice a pretty girl named Mira, the man
offers Mohinder a job. Classes start Monday and he can
move into his father's office.
At Chennai University, Mohinder turns on the light and
begins to look over his father's belongings. He begins
to pack things up but is intrigued by a locked door and
strange symbols on a computer. Suddenly, Mira pops through
the door and the two discuss their history. Apparently,
Mira said something rather nasty things about Papa Suresh
but Mohinder is willing to let bygones be bygones.
Mira has just gotten a fancy job at some scientific
institute and she offers to get Mohinder an interview
with the caveat that his father's theories do not come
up. She leaves, but not before remembering that the two
still have to say hello. He looks back at the computer.
At the F.B.I. Headquarters in Los Angeles, Audrey calls
Matt an idiot for decking another office. She is quite
upset but backs off (somewhat) after asking if the guy
deserved it. He did. The two only have an hour to get
some answers from Ted guy before Homeland Security moves
in. Audrey compares Matt to Ted, much to Matt's dismay.
She hands him a radiation badge, warning him that if
it stops being green they are in trouble.
Back at the diner, Hiro helps Charlie with her Japanese.
She is able to remember anything she reads, calling it
a skill. Hiro says his skill is much more complicated
but when she asks what it is, he pauses. His skill is
teaching Japanese to anyone. Charlie calls him sweet
and then leaves to pick up an order. Hiro is happy.
The mysterious shadowy man takes a drink.
Ted is upset. He was not allowed to go to his wife's
funeral. Things get heated (ha!) when Ted gets even more
upset and threatens to blow the whole place up. Matt
manages to calm him down and starts reading his thoughts.
Ted blacked out and when he woke up things started dying.
Matt realizes Ted went through the same thing he did
after he passed out at the bar. He asks if Ted woke up
with bruises. Ted pulls aside the collar of his shirt
to reveal a tattoo on his neck.
Matt has the same tattoo.
Mohinder continues clearing out his father's office
and finds a notebook with a key. He places it in the
box and sits down, staring at the computer. It is still
churning out numbers. Mohinder then flashes back to an
argument he had with his father before Papa Suresh left
for the United States. Only rather than just remembering
the argument, he finds himself standing in the midst
of it, seeing his father arguing with himself.
He then finds himself watching his father talk with
his mother. Papa Suresh thinks Mohinder will hate him
for leaving. Mohinder picks up a soccer ball that has
rolled towards him. He spots a boy standing and looking
at him. The boy does not answer any of Mohinder’s
questions and runs off after Mohinder throws him the
ball.
He wakes up and walks away from the computer.
Ted tells Matt and Audrey about his experience at the
bar before things went wacky. He went to a hotel bar
to buy everyone a drink. There were only a few people
in the bar. The next thing Ted knew, he was in his car
and it was two days later. He soon noticed that things
started dying, like plants. And his wife came down with
radiation poisoning.
Matt admits that he, too, woke up with two days missing.
And now he can hear things that he should not be hearing.
Ted and Matt bond over their similar experiences. They
have to find the presumably Haitian man who both Ted
and Matt saw before they blacked out.
The Homeland Security folks barge in and take Ted, letting
slip the fact that Matt was suspended. He argues with
Audrey about not telling her he was suspended and about
how Ted can help him figure out what is happening to
him. He stalks off.
Mr. Bennet heads to the office, says hello to the security
guard and then walks down a long, narrow corridor. He
then makes his way to a very, very large room (like a
warehouse) where Isaac and Eden are waiting. The heroin
is out of Isaac's system and Mr. Bennet is ready to meet
him. Eden introduces the two. Mr. Bennet calls Isaac's
ability a blessing. Isaac sees it as a curse. Mr. Bennett
promises to help Isaac figure things out. He admits he
needs Isaac's help.
At the diner, Hiro is enamored with Charlie. He heads
to the bathroom. Charlie heads to the storage room and
begins opening a large can of tomato paste. She hears
a strange sound but continues working. There is another
sound. Blood drips down Charlie's face. Another waitress
hears Charlie crash into something and goes to investigate.
Her screams bring the two police officers. Charlie is
dead.
Hiro exits the bathroom with a smile on his face. Ando
points him in the direction of the storage room and Hiro
sees what has happened. The smile disappears.
Back in India, Mohinder talks with his mother. He shares
the dream he had and asks if it was true. His mother
admits to pushing Papa Suresh to go to the United States.
Mohinder then learns that he once had a sister (she was
the one Mohinder could never replace). Her name was Shanti
and she was five years old when she died. Mohinder was
only two years old. Papa Suresh was convinced Shanti
was special and equally convinced that Mohinder should
never know.
Mr. Bennet tells Isaac that the girl he has painted
three times is his daughter. And the dark, shadowy man
Isaac painted is Sylar and he is going to kill Claire
the next day. Sylar is killing people and nobody can
stop him because nobody knows where he is. Mr. Bennet
needs Isaac to paint. But Isaac cannot paint without
his drugs. So, Mr. Bennet pulls out some drugs and offers
them to Isaac.
But Isaac is not willing to throw away his life and
literally pushes the drugs aside. Mr. Bennet tells Isaac
about something that happened fourteen years ago. A woman
was killed and left a baby behind. Mr. Bennet and his
wife took that baby in as their own. And that baby, now
fourteen years old, will die if Isaac does not paint.
He promises to try once more without the drugs.
Mohinder returns to his father's office and finds someone
typing at the computer. It is the boy from his dream.
The boy runs off and Mohinder chases after him. He runs
through a door and finds himself in a dark alley. He
sees his father sitting in his cab. He sees his father
beaten to death. He sees the boy again, pointing at him.
Mohinder walks towards the boy, who opens his hand to
reveal a key.
When Mohinder wakes up, he pulls his father's notebook
out of the box and takes out the key tucked inside. It
is an exact match for the one in his dream (but then
again a lot of keys look alike).
Mr. Bennet is surprised to hear Claire calling out his
name. After being reassured that everything is okay,
Claire explains that she needs a big ole roll of paper
to make a banner for the trophy case. She has come to
her father as a last resort -- nobody else had any idea
where to get paper that size. Mr. Bennet is more than
happy to help out but the touching father-daughter moment
is interrupted by Eden, who tells Mr. Bennet they have
situation.
Claire seems a little startled to see Eden but Mr. Bennet
quickly takes charge of the situation. He sends Claire
to the sample room with permission to take whatever she
needs. Claire leaves and Eden tells Mr. Bennett that
Isaac simply cannot paint without the drugs. Mr. Bennett
pulls out a syringe. Eden is surprised, is he going to
tell Isaac to take the drugs? No, Mr. Bennett says. Eden
is.
But Eden insists she was promised she would never have
to do something like this again, Eden was promised she
would never have to do something like this again. Mr.
Bennet reminds Eden of what she was before he found her.
She takes the syringe, reluctantly. Mr. Bennet watches
as she Isaac argues with her. But she whispers something
in his ear and he takes the syringe. She then shoots
Mr. Bennet a very evil look.
At the diner, Charlie's body is carted out of the storage
room. One of the police officers sits down with Ando
and Hiro. Charlie's head was ripped open. Quite disgusting.
She was killed the same way Isaac was in the vision Hiro
had of the future. And Hiro thinks he can go back and
fix this. He still regrets not doing anything when those
poker players were killed.
He suggests going back in time to the day before to
stop Charlie from coming to work. Ando is worried Hiro
will get himself killed in the process or find himself
somewhere else, somewhere else. Against Ando's wishes,
Hiro shuts his eyes tight and then disappears, leaving
Ando sitting alone at the table. He waits a moment and
then starts counting.
Hiro does not reappear.
Janice (Matt's wife) looks through a photo album when
Matt walks in. Someone called Janice to ask why her husband
punched another officer (that sleazy Tom character).
Matt hears his wife's worried thought that Matt knows.
And he does. When the truth comes out, Janice wants to
know if their marriage is over. Matt is not sure and
the conversation is interrupted by a phone call. It is
Audrey. Ted has escaped.
Matt leaves.
With the key from his father's notebook Mohinder is
able to open the locked drawers in his father's desk.
They appear empty but eventually he finds a folder filled
with clippings about sleep research and learning while
asleep. There is also a picture of the boy he keeps seeing
in his dreams.
With his eyes clouded over Isaac paints as Eden looks
on.
Claire lies on the living room floor, making the banner.
Her father watches her, a worried expression on his face.
Ando waits for Hiro to return. Behind him, on the diner's
bulletin board, is a picture of Charlie. Hiro is standing
next to her. Before he went back in time, the picture
only showed Charlie.
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