In this weeks episode of The Heroes Reborn Rewatch, Cory and Tom are moving again and hiding away as they discuss episodes 1 & 2, Brave New World and Odessa.
Chapter One 'Brave New World':
Volume: One (Awakening)
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Matt Shakman
Original airdate: September 24, 2015
Synopsis:
In Odessa at a summit, Evos and Humans gather to work on building a future together. Unfortunately, something happens and thousands of people are killed. Bennet is among the people gathered and while he survives, he cannot find Claire, and believes her to be dead. The media reports that Mohinder Suresh has claimed responsibility for the devastation.
Over the course of the next year, Evos are on the run for fear of being locked up, with one man escaping captivity, and cutting off his own hand to rid himself of his bonds so he can use his powers to escape. Some people are escaping to Canada, but after seeing that border agents are checking for people with powers, one mother and her powered son, Tommy, quickly turn their car around.
Later, the boy heads towards a church, giving the correct password of cockroach to get inside, and finds himself in a meeting with other powered humans, one of which is his high school coach. Outside, a man in a hat watches. Inside, as the gathered people discuss what to do concerning their powers, and disagreeing on their next moves, the boy gets a text message from his mother and rushes out. Outside as the boy rushes away, he bumps into a food delivery man on a bike and they exchange a few words before the boy rushes off onto a bus while the man in the hat again watches everything.
Back inside the church, one of the men in the group, Luke, tells them his story of how his son was killed in Odessa and realizes there is only one thing to do about people with powers. The door bursts open as a man runs in telling them all it’s a trap, followed by a woman, Joanne, with a gun drawn and joined by Luke, they start shooting the Evos. Despite fighting back, the Evos are killed, and the whole church set on fire as Luke and Joanne leave.
At Pinehurst School, Tommy tries to blend in but he is caught staring at Emily, the girlfriend of school jock Brad, who notices and punches Tommy. Tommy starts to raise his hands to use his power but stops himself as Brad walks away laughing. Emily later apologizes for Brad and the two share a moment, with her asking him to apply for the job at the ice cream parlor she works at, mentioning that he has been there a lot, even earning almost enough holes on his store card for a free ice cream.
Later, Luke and Joanne sit at the ice cream shop that Tommy frequents, having found his punch card on the floor of the church but Luke wants to go and focus on El Vengador. Joanne wants to finish the job here first however. Tommy, having successfully interviewed for the job there, sees Luke and goes to him, asking him what happened after he left the church. Before he can say anything, Joanne returns from the restroom and shows Tommy her gun and she and Luke force Tommy outside. Emily notices and follows them and Joanne decides to kill Emily and Tommy right there to take care of the problem but Tommy activates his powers and makes the two adults disappear. Emily promises to not reveal Tommy's secret.
Bennet, now working as a car salesman again under the name of Ted Barnes, works his job but notices a mysterious car parked outside. Later at home, he notices the same car and decides to confront it, meeting Quentin Frady who tells him he’s been looking for answers about the Odessa tragedy. Quentin brings up the idea that something has been done to Bennet since he can’t seem to recall things from his past. The cops arrive, having been called by Bennet’s fiancee, to arrest Quentin. Later, Bennet opens up a secret cubby hole and looks through his old documents, finding the name of an optometrist in the area with the words “see more clearly” written on the back. The next day he goes there, but the receptionist is not very helpful, telling him he’s never been there before. After showing her his card with the writing on it, she pulls a gun on him but The Haitian steps out from a doorway, telling him to wait across the street for him. The Haitian gives him his old glasses back but as Bennet smiles, The Haitian starts to choke him. They struggle and in the end, The Haitian’s gun is turned against him and he is shot. The Haitian tells Bennet that he himself asked The Haitian to kill if he ever came to find him. As the Haitian dies, he tells Bennet that “it’s coming.”
At a school In LA, a former soldier named Carlos is ready to give a speech about his exploits in the war and his commendations and medals received. While inspiring the students, he slips alcohol into his soda. Later, he talks with his nephew Jose as they walk home, discussing the bad blood between Carlos and the boy’s father Oscar who took over the family auto shop. As Jose cleans up some graffiti he made of the local vigilante superhero El Vengador, Carlos and Oscar have words before Carlos leaves. Later that night, El Vengador watches over the city and sees a woman running away from two men. He intervenes to help her but she pulls a gun on him and shoots him. Realizing he was set up, he gets away back to his base of operations. Carlos goes to his brother’s auto shop and sees a blood trail, leading him to his brother who is dying of a gunshot wound, revealing that he was El Vengador. Carlos confesses to having doubts about what people think about him and his medal but Oscar dies. Carlos talks to his nephew the next day and comforts him. After Carlos leaves, Jose uses an ability to push his hand through the roof tiles.
At the police station, Hat Man enters the interrogation room to see the bike delivery man, asking him what he remembers from the night he was knocked over. The man starts to speak but wants to know if there’s a reward, given that Tommy was seen running away from a building that shortly caught on fire. Hat Man pulls out a penny from a briefcase full of them and gives it to the man, telling him, penny for your thoughts. Later, when the actual police detective enters the room, asking the delivery guy about what he saw, the man can recall nothing at all.
A young girl named Miko sits alone in her apartment in Japan when she is interrupted by a young boy named Ren at her door. He tells her he is very good at a particular video game called Evernow and received a message in the game to come to her address. His hope was to find a way to unlock a game character called Katana Girl, something no one has ever done. Miko claims to know nothing about it and kicks Ren out. He returns later to try and prove his point about Katana Girl, explaining how she looks just like Miko. She again kicks him out but starts investigating it herself, going into her missing father’s office and finding a sword hidden under the floor. When she unsheathes it, she finds herself transported into a video game world.
Elsewhere, a young girl looks up at an eclipse in the sky surrounded by bright colors and looks behind her, telling someone that she doesn’t think she can control it for much longer.
Back-issues:
Luke was played by Zachary Levi, best known for Shazam, and formerly getting his fame from the series Chuck. Another worthy credit is playing Flynn Ryder in the Pixar movie Tangled, and its associated spin off series. He’s shown in various other projects in cameo appearances such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken, and was also recently in Harold and the Purple Crayon and Spy Kids: Armageddon.
Tommy was played by Robbie Kay, who most recently played Ron Weasley in the video game Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions. He had a fair amount of fame playing Peter Pan in the series Once Upon a Time and was in a TV mini series for Pinocchio, starring Bob Hoskins as Gepetto. Robbie is listed as playing Pinocchio but according to reviews, he plays a human friend of Pinocchio, who was actually played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who bears a striking resemblance to Robbie Kay.
Miko the Katana Girl was played by Kiki Sukezane, who is actually trained as a swordsman and has actual Samurai ancestry. She was in a series called The Yokai King, but Heroes: Reborn was her first big success. After Heroes, she was in the series Mirage (a Japanese spy group procedural), she was also in 5 episodes of Netflix’s Lost In Space reboot, and a Japanese horror series called The Terror (10 episodes of 28).
Ryan Guzman played Carlos. He is most known for playing Eddie Diaz in the first responders procedural 9-1-1. He has a few appearances in movies like Jem and the Holograms, as well as series like Pretty Little Liars and Notorious. Most recently, he was in the movie The Present (a brilliant boy discovers that he can manipulate time using a family heirloom. He soon teams up with his siblings in returning to the time of their parents' separation, with hopes of changing the outcome, starring Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear).
Chapter Two 'Odessa':
Volume: One
Written by: Peter Elkoff
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Original airdate: September 24, 2015
Synopsis:
At Pinehearst school, Tommy and Emily sit in a custodian shed and he demonstrates his power again, this time on a flower which disappears. Brad sees them through the window and tells Tommy later that he will leave him alone if he helps him by using his powers, taking him to his house. He introduces him to his drunken stepfather, revealing that he beats him and his mother and wants him to disappear too, like the flower. Tommy is aghast at the thought but sits near the man. After he slowly raises his hand towards the man, he sees it and asks him what he thinks he’s doing. Tommy quickly runs out of the house, but Hat man shows up and asks the stepfather for a moment of his time, showing him a penny, and being ushered inside. Later, Brad finds Tommy and hugs him, thanking him, and telling him he’s free and will watch over Tommy from now on, while nearby Hat Man watches, smiling. Later at the ice cream shop as Tommy and Emily talk, she opens a vat of ice cream and finds the flower he made disappear. He reveals that when he made the flower disappear, he was thinking of her and the day they met at the shoppe and they reason that whatever he is thinking of is where things go when he uses his power.
Bennet meanwhile has bailed out Quentin and wants to know everything he knows as they travel to Odessa. Bennet reveals that he thought he forgot things due to the trauma of the explosion, but he thinks differently now. Bennet explains they need to find Molly Walker, hoping to get to her before does. They enter the gated off site, the building remains still everywhere, and make their way down into the basements, eventually opening a secret room and looking through files to find information on Renautus and Molly Walker. They do find a box full of information about other powered individuals but Quentin finds a file that indicates Claire and Molly were NOT at the Odessa Summit. Bennet gets angry at Quentin’s interest in Claire and the whole ordeal, but he reveals that he is doing this because of his missing sister. Bennet reveals that after Claire revealed herself on TV, the two had a fight and they hadn’t talked for four years. The two make a pact to be truthful to each other in order to work together.
Ren returns to Miko’s apartment to apologize for his behavior but finds that she seems to be in the video game. He sees her being attacked and quickly logs in as his avatar and helps defeat her attackers. She continues on in the world to find her father while Ren remains behind to distract other attackers. Later, Miko is knocked out by an attacker but reappears in the real world. Ren cares for her but when she awakens she says she needs to go back into the game to save her father who has been taken to the game equivalent location of Yamagato Tower. She makes it there in the game but finds herself ambushed. She resheathes her sword and finds herself in the real world lobby of Yamagoto Tower and starts to fight off many attacking guards.
After Oscar’s funeral, the Pastor wants to talk with Carlos, telling him he hopes the brothers reconciled, telling him that Oscar died because he stood up for the underdog. As Carlos looks over his brother’s notes and investigations, he realizes that there are some cops covering up crimes. He goes to one of the cops’ homes and attacks him, interrogating him. The man is worried about being killed by his boss, but under Carlos’s duress, reveals the name Captain Dearing. Carlos goes to the Pastor and reveals what he found out. The Pastor reveals that Oscar was running an underground railroad to help Evos escape to Canada and needs his help to get two people out of the country tonight. The pastor then shows Carlos that he has a power himself.
Luke and Joanne find themselves in a kids room without a door, or light switch, or window with no means of escaping. Joanne goes on about being too bloodthirsty but Luke shoots out the lights, realizing that there was a hidden window. They break out through it and find themselves on Level 5 of the former Primatech. They quickly take a worker hostage and then upon finding a room full of other workers and guards, begin shooting and killing everyone. Bennet and Quentin hear it, and Bennet tells Quentin to get to the car. Bennet finds the room with everyone dead except for one person he recognizes. The man tells Bennet that Epic launches tomorrow but Molly Walker is needed for it to work. Quentin goes to the car but is attacked by Luke and Joanne who take the car and the Evo files.
At a casino, a man keeps winning, until a woman named Zoe approaches him, seducing him away from the tables and revealing that she knows he has powers he used to win money. He uses his powers to stop her from taking his money, holding her against the wall with telekinesis, and then further hitting her until a woman comes to her rescue and they get away. She introduces herself as Taylor and two talk and drink with Zoe saying she needs to disappear. Taylor offers her money, having more than she needs. Zoe awakens to find out she was drugged and being held captive by Taylor and the gambler from earlier who calls someone, telling them that they have Molly Walker.
Back-issues:
Eve Harlow played Taylor. She was in a small handful of episodes of The 100, as well as Star Trek Discovery, Titans, Agents of SHIELD, and Next (a former tech CEO joins an FBI Cybersecurity Agent to stop the emergence of a rogue Artificial Intelligence, with John Slattery of Mad Men fame). Most recently, she has been in the series Watson, and The Edge of Sleep (when a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died).
Francesca Eastwood plays the new Molly Walker. She was a lead in a movie called Clawfoot (follows a housewife psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor, leading to a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected results). She had a small role in M.Night Shylaman’s Old, as well as being in Twin Peaks for an episode, as a waitress. Most recently, she was a supporting cast member in Queen of the Ring with Emily Britt Rickards (in a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the United States, a small town single mother embraces the danger as she dominates America's most masculine sport and becomes the first million dollar female athlete in history).
Judith Shekoni played Joanne. She was a lead in the series Ice (a diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and otherwise treacherous world of the diamond business). Most recently, she has been in a few episodes of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, and the film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
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