RW545 - Heroes Rewatch S01E07-08 - Hide Midnight

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom get some reprieve but don't know how to help as they discuss season 1 episodes 7 & 8, Nothing to Hide and Seven Minutes Till Midnight.

Chapter Seven 'Nothing to Hide':

Volume: One

Written by: Jesse Alexander

Directed by: Donna Deitch

Original airdate: November 6, 2006

Synopsis: 

Peter, still a nurse, talks with Charles Deveuax, and he reveals to the dying man that he can fly, jumping out of his window. Peter then wakes up as Simone rings his doorbell, revealing that her father just died. Later, they go to Isaac’s and find out he has disappeared along with all of his paintings. Simone tells Peter that the painting he was looking for was one she had sold to a buyer in Las Vegas to a man named Linderman.

Zach tells Claire that he managed to find the tape finally, but Lyle sees it and grabs it when she isn’t looking. As he watches it later, Claire sees him and tries to get the tape back but he runs outside, dodging her and Zach. He locks himself in their car but Claire begs him to give it back and to not tell anyone, fearing that the family will be broken up and that HRG and his wife will be regretful about adopting her. In the end, he gives her the tape. 

Matt talks with Janice about how things have been going better for them and she agrees. He tells her though that he needs to talk to her about something he discovered, leading him to hear her thoughts saying that she had thought she had been so careful. Stunned and shocked at this stray thought, Matt leaves suddenly.

Nathan talks with his wife, Heidi, and they decide that it will be ok to let her move into the spotlight, despite her being handicapped in a wheelchair. Together with his children, wife, and mother, they have brunch with a reporter from the Journal, who questions Nathan about things from his past, most notably if Heidi blamed Nathan for what happened to her. Peter suddenly shows up much to Nathan’s chagrin and pulls him aside. Peter asks him to check with Linderman about the painting but he says he can’t. However, Peter threatens to play up his flying story as he joins the family for brunch. Instead however, Peter plays his part of the loving brother perfectly, and even covers for Nathan’s Vegas affair by saying Nathan was only in Vegas to talk to a doctor about getting Peter some special therapy at a private clinic.

Niki goes to Tina and tells her what happened with DL, and then confides in her further about what she has been seeing in the mirror, a different person named Jessica. Tina is slow to believe her, but later, after Niki tries to call Nathan to get his help with getting Micah back and being rebuffed and dismissed by him, Jessica comes out and her confidence and power is seen by Tina as she is told, Niki doesn’t need Tina’s help anymore.

Parkman and Agent Hanson go to investigate a burn victim they found, a fingerprint found on the body, leading them to a Ted Sprague. His home is empty but apparently torched, and emitting high levels of radiation, with melted items everywhere, and holes burnt in the faces of pictures. Hanson thinks it’s Sylar but Parkman doesn’t agree. They eventually find Sprague at a hospital going off a clue Parkman found showing that Ted’s wife was undergoing cancer treatment. Ted is frantic that he didn’t mean to kill the person they found, and when they tell him he needs to go downtown with them, he freaks out and holds a nurse hostage. Parkman hears Ted’s wife’s thoughts and begins talking to him, calming him down, as he releases the nurse, a large radiation burn on her arm now. Back at the station, Parkman’s partner tells him that Hanson pulled some strings to allow Parkman to take the detective test orally instead of written due to his dyslexia. Parkman is overjoyed, but hears a thought from the man that indicates that he has actually been sleeping with Janice. Parkman socks him the face him good and walks out.

Micah complains to his father that heroes don’t run away, only bad guys too, accusing his father of being a bad guy. Suddenly they see a car accident ahead and DL rushes unto save someone trapped in the car, using his powers to get the door open. As he tries to pull her out to safety, the car begins to explode, but luckily, Hiro and Ando have shown up as well, and Hiro freezes time and gets everyone to safety. Afterwards, Hiro tells Micah about teleporting to the future and the 9th wonder comic he brought back that wasn’t even out yet. DL grabs Micah and says they have to leave however, because Ando had called the police to take care of the accident victims. 

Heidi confronts Nathan about the Vegas story Peter told, and she says she will believe him if he tells her it’s the truth, and Nathan lies, telling it is what happened. He then calls Linderman who agrees to send him the painting Peter was asking for. However, Nathan goes to Peter and tells him that Linderman wouldn’t part with the painting. The two argue about their powers and what could they actually do with them, with Peter telling him they can make a difference and Nathan refusing to see how. He tells Peter he was almost kidnapped in Vegas, but Peter doesn’t believe him.

Later, at a motel, Micah slips away from DL, finding a broken payphone but touching it and making it somehow start to work. He calls his mother, but realizes that it isn’t Niki on the phone. Jessica tells him that she needs to know where he is so she can come get him and bring him home to his mother. Micah tells him but the phone goes dead as DL appears and tells him they need to leave. Jessica gets her gun armed, and prepares to go find him. 

Back-issues:

Before getting into TV writing, Jesse Alexander wrote the screenplay for Eight Legged Freaks. He’ll later spearhead the main story for the 6 part web series Heroes: The Recruit.

Ted was Played by Matthew John Armstrong. He played the lead in Last Resort (a young couple goes to a horror-themed resort for a thrill but gets more than they bargained for when the owner turns out to be quite the killer host). A very different looking Armstrong was in The Profile (a short about the hunt for a stolen classified disk, a suspected foreign spy, and the absurd lengths a government will go through to find their 'villain'... before the end of Independence Day weekend).

Richard Roundtree played Charles Deveraux. He got his start in 1971 in Shaft, playing the title character. Shaft was so successful that they immediately got him into a James Bond style film called Embassy (A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there). Shaft’s Big Score was next, followed by Firehouse (The first African-American assigned to an all-white firehouse, rookie firefighter Shelly Forsythe must battle both blazes and racism as the fire department hunts for a serial arsonist in 1973 New York), followed by Charley One Eye (A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits), and then another Shaft film, Shaft In Africa. He’s got almost 200 credits, including George of the Jungle, to his name and he’s still working, most recently in Netflix’s Family Reunion (When the McKellan family moves from Seattle to Georgia to be closer to extended family, the transition is like being a catfish out of water), and of course the Shaft reboot with Samuel L Jackson. 

Rena Solfer was Heidi. She was the lead in the made for TV movie Another Man’s Wife (with Dylan Neal. After a tragic car accident, a family gets away to a remote mountain cabin to recover and rebuild their lives. During their vacation, a handsome man befriends them only to get revenge and destroy what is left of their fragile lives). She was a lead in the series drama The Chronicle (a young, highly qualified reporter can't find work with a major paper and signs on with a tabloid. There he learns that all the tabloid stories including aliens, bigfoot, and reincarnation are true). She also has many guest recurring roles in such shows as Melrose Place (25 episodes), General Hospital (101), Just Shoot Me, and even 24. She is currently on The Bold and the Beautiful (946 episodes so far). 

Chapter Eight 'Seven Minutes to Midnight':

Volume: One

Written by: Tim Kring

Directed by: Paul Edwards

Original airdate: November 13, 2006

Synopsis: 

Mohinder, returned to India, takes part in his father’s funeral with friends and family, later talking with his friend form the university, telling him he still has his classes and his father’s office if he wants them, pointing out a woman, Mira, who had come to the funeral as well, someone that Mohinder had a past with. Mira goes to find Mohinder the next day and she talks about how they left things, with her saying terrible things about his father. Mohinder puts it all in the past, and she tells him he should come talk with her partners at a genetic research company, if he promises that his father’s ideas and theories will be left behind. He promises to think about it, but upon returning to his computer, does not stop the computer from ending the program analyzing his father’s data.

Eden talks with Isaac who is now clean from drugs thanks to her help, but he can’t seem to use his powers to paint the future. HRG talks with Isaac, explaining that he needs him to to paint the future because he has painted Claire several times and he needs to know where the man is, Sylar, that is going to kill her. HRG explains that for years he and his friends have watched and kept track of people like Isaac, people with abilities, and that they will teach him how to use his abilities properly without drugs. He says right now, time is of the essence and that he must paint the future, but Isaac refuses HRG’s offer of drugs. Eden tries to help him, but to not avail. HRG makes the decision to force the drugs onto Isaac so they can get the information. Eden refuses, but HRG reminds her of her past and she relents. She takes the drugs, goes in to see Isaac, who immediately pushes her away, refusing to take the drugs, but a few simple words from Eden into his ear, and Isaac readily accepts the drugs, and begins to paint the future. 

Mohinder, falling asleep at the computer, has a dream about his tense, argumentative, last conversation with his father about leaving, which quickly changes to a dream about his mother encouraging his father to go if he must, before being interrupted by a young boy with a soccer ball. Mohinder in the dream follows him but suddenly wakes up. Later he goes to his mother, questioning something he saw in the dream, and she tells him that he once had a sister but she died when Mohinder was young.  Later, Mohinder dreams again, walking into his office and sees the boy again who quickly runs off. Mohinder follows him but suddenly finds himself in New York and witnessing his father’s murder. The boy appears again and holds out a key to him, the same key that Mohinder found back in New York. Mohinder awakens and ruffles through his father’s desk, finding a locked drawer that when he pulls it all the way out, reveals a file folder containing a picture of the boy, Ayer Sanjog, and articles about sleep research and new areas in the brain.

Parkman and Hanson begin questioning Ted, with Ted revealing he was drinking at a bar, when he saw a Haitian man, and then passed out, finding himself in his car in Arizona two days later with these strange marks on his neck. Matt reveals his own story and similar markings. Hanson is confused but then Special Agent Thayer comes in and has authority under homeland security to take him and question him as being a suspected terrorist due to the high amounts of radiation he emits. With a suspension, due to his punching a fellow officer, he sees Janice reminiscing about one of their past trips together. She admits to him that she cheated on him, but tells him it is over now. When she asks him if it is over between the two of them, he has no answer. 

With Ando at a diner in Texas, Hiro strikes up a conversation with a waitress, Charlie, who seems to have a lot of information in her head, able to answer questions and solve crosswords easily. Hiro is impressed with how easily she seems to have picked up Japanese and she flirts with Hiro before leaving to get an order for another customer. All during their interactions, a man sits alone in a baseball cap in a corner of the diner, watching them intently, and even moving his coffee cup without touching it. While Charlie heads to the back of the restaurant to open a can, someone slips in behind her and murders her. Hiro is distraught and makes the decision to go back in time to stop it from happening. Ando points out that he doesn’t have full control over his abilities yet, but Hiro is adamant he must do this, and tells him he will be back in five seconds. Hiro disappears, and Ando counts down from five, but when he’s finished, Hiro has not returned, the only difference in the diner being a photo on the bulletin board that shows Hiro with Charlie at her birthday party some six months earlier.

Back-issues:

Erick Avari is finally in the show as Chandra Suresh, replacing the no-name actor in the pictures and voicemail recordings. He’s a true “That Guy” character actor showing up everywhere in TV shows and movies, filing in where he’s needed. We saw him in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in the season 2 episode “Target: Jimmy Olsen” (mind controlled by doctor). He was also in episode 2 of season 1 of SeaQuest (when the Library of Alexandria was discovered).

Jayma Mays plays Charlie, and is probably best known for playing Emma on Glee. She was the lead in the two season series Trial & Error (a spoof of crime documentaries about the arrest and trial of a beloved poetry professor from a small town in South Carolina, who is accused of brutally murdering his wife, and the young Northeastern lawyer hired to defend him), Dulcinea in the Puss in Boots series, was a lead in The Millers (a divorced reporter, looking forward to the single life, finds his parents' marital problems derail his plans, with Beau Bridges and Will Arnett), and was a lead in both Smurf movies, and Mall Cop. Her latest credit was the movie Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted.

Primatech’s Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20070223090327/http://www.primatechpaper.com/

Primatech’s messages revealed: https://heroeswiki.ddns.net/wiki/Primatechpaper.com

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RW544 - Tom Hanks 80's Rewatch - He Knows You're Alone

In this episode of The Tom Hanks 80's Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan find a quite spot to strike as they discuss He Knows You're Alone.

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Tom Hanks Timeline:

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California. His parents divorce when he’s 5 years old, and he was raised by his father, a chef named Amos, with his older brother and sister. 

It’s now 1974, Hanks is in junior college in Hayward, California. He transfers into the theater program at California State University in Sacramento, after seeing Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh.

In 1977, he’s recruited to the summer session of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood Ohio. He won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in 1978, for his portrayal of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

By 1979, Hanks dropped out of college. He’s done 3 seasons with the Great Lakes festival, and he decides to move to New York City, where he lands a small part in He Knows You’re Alone. 

After the films release in 1980, Hanks is spotted by a talent scout for ABC and he’s cast in the series Bosom Buddies as one of two advertising executives who dress in drag in order to rent an apartment in an all-female building.

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The concept for "He Knows You're Alone" was developed in 1979 after director Armand Mastroianni pitched an idea for a horror film to producer Edgar Lansbury, based on the urban legend of "The Hook," in which a young couple in a parked car are attacked by a murderer. When Mastroianni realized that Lansbury had little interest in the project during the middle of the pitch, he spontaneously suggested that the aforementioned plot be a self-referential film-within-a-film. This idea piqued Lansbury's interest, after which Mastroianni commissioned Scott Parker to write a screenplay for a slasher film that began with an opening sequence in which two characters watch a horror film in a movie theater, during which one of them is murdered by a serial killer. The film was written under several working titles, including Shriek, The Uninvited, and Blood Wedding.

The film was written, produced, and filmed over a four month period between August and December of 1979. Actual principal photography took place over a fifteen day period in December of 1979, hence the very wintery looking scenes in the film.

The film was originally slated to be shot in Houston, Texas, under executive producer Samuel Z. Arkoff (who had executive-produced other releases from MGM, including The Amityville Horror the previous year), but Arkoff was unable to finance the film.

The film's climax was shot at the historic Seaview Hospital in Staten Island. According to director Mastroianni, the entire production from script to final edit took only six months to complete. The shoot was fast-paced and demanding on both the cast and crew, who had to relocate between various locations on a daily basis in order to shoot the entire script. Filming was completed days before Christmas 1979.

The film marked the first movie appearance of actor Tom Hanks, who played a relatively small part. In fact, it was said that Hanks' character was originally written to be killed off with Nancy's character, but because the filmmakers liked him so much, they omitted filming his death scene for the film. This is also the first movie appearance of Dana Barron.

It has been credited for being one of the first horror films inspired by the success of Halloween (1978) and shares a number of similarities with the previous hit.

Vini Canali - It's the Night Again

The original music score was composed by Alexander and Mark Peskanov.

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RW543 - Heroes Rewatch S01E05-06 - Hiros Halves

 

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom are completely in tune yet split apart as they discuss season 1 episodes 5 & 6, Hiros and Better Halves.

Chapter Five 'Hiros':

Volume: One

Written by: Michael Green

Directed by: Paul Shapiro

Original airdate: October 23, 2006

Synopsis: 

On board the subway, everything frozen in time around him, future Hiro talks to Peter, telling him to go to Isaac to find out what to do next, and that when Hiro calls Peter, he must tell him where they meet, before disappearing, leaving with him the words “save the cheerleader, save the world.”  When time begins moving, Mohinder is in disbelief at Peter's recollection of what happened and leaves.

In Vegas, HRG and The Haitian escort Nathan outside, explaining they just want some information from him. A call to HRG’s phone gives enough of a distraction for Nathan to flee, ultimately being stopped by a fence. HRG orders the Haitian to put him down, but Nathan quickly flies up, up, and away. He lands a few miles away at a diner, where Hiro sits, alone, after Ando left him, angry at being beaten up earlier. Hiro is overjoyed to see someone else with powers and strikes up a conversation with Nathan, before getting a ride from him back into town.

At the hospital ER, Claire and Brody are brought in on stretchers and attended to by doctors. While both are in bad shape, Claire begins to heal and is placed in a room to continue recovering. HRG shows up and asks what happened and she reveals the near rape incident that occurred with Brody, leaving him to go to Brody and threaten him, using The Haitian to take away his memory of Claire and everything related to their relationship. Later, when Claire goes to see Brody, he has no idea who she is at all.

Ms Sakamoto commends Niki on her performance with Nathan, explaining to her that her debt is now canceled. Niki is shocked that anything happened between her and Nathan, but the reveal of the tape of their tryst is proof enough. 

At home in LA, Janice Parkman. Is frantically trying to find Matt who has been missing for over a day now. He wakes up on the couch and Janice is livid but the two talk and he tells her of how he has been working with the FBI. He picks up her thoughts about how worried she was, realizing she actually still does care about him, and things begin to turn around for the two. They begin actually talking and Matt tells her to get dressed, as he orders a fancy meal to be delivered, and the two begin working harder on their relationship, ending with a little afternoon delight.

Peter goes to Isaac, but Issac is sore over the Simone incident. Peter explains how he needs his help and begins looking at Isaac’s paintings, finding one that is unfinished. Isaac is adamant hate without drugs he can’t finish it, but Peter explains that he was able to draw the future after meeting Isaac previously, and sees a vision on the canvas, beginning immediately to paint what he sees as his eyes go white, just as Isaac’s do when he goes into his trance.

Janice, famished after her and Matt’s coitus on the couch, thinks of coffee ice cream and so Matt goes to the corner mini mart to pick some up, but while there, he starts hearing thoughts and realizes someone is there to rob the place. Using his powers, he is able to talk to the man and convince him to leave, leaving his gun behind, but when Matt picks it up and people see it, their thoughts spiral out of control and overwhelm him, causing him to flee.

At Niki’s place, the police are there waiting for her, revealing that her ex DL was spotted in the area. When someone begins approaching the house, they go on high alert, but it turns out to be Ando, looking to get help from Niki. She explains that her online persona is not really her, and Ando is released. The police leave, keeping some officers behind outside, but as Niki walks through the house, DL appears without warning, silently waiting. Ando meanwhile, returns to his and Hiro’s rented car, and seeing as how they are both at a loss of what to do next, he tells Hiro that they should just go and try calling the painter again. 

Back at Isaac’s, he and Peter look at the finished paintings when the phone rings. Isaac tells him to ignore it, but Peter picks it up and hears Hiro introduce himself. Peter realizes this is the call he was warned about by future Hiro and tells him he has a message for him. 

Back-issues:

Michael Green went on to write the scripts for Green Lantern, Logan, Alien: Covenant, Bladerunner 2049, Jungle Cruise and Death on the Nile.

DL was played by Leonard Roberts. Before Heroes, he was in a biopic about boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmelling, and made an appearance in Smallville as a Kryptonian bad guy. He later had a recurring role in Major Crimes for 16 episodes, and was also a bit higher on the cast list in Fixed (a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill, and faced with a vasectomy, has a midlife crisis with his friends). He did have a lead role in Drumline (a band director recruits a Harlem street drummer to play at a Southern university) and Drumline: A New Beat (Danielle, an upper class Brooklyn girl, defies her parents in order to attend a college in Georgia so she can join - and revitalize - their once-prominent drumline), The Last Adam (a man returns home to his mostly white military town and he and his former friends learn to deal with various life situations and troublesome pasts) and Red Sands (during a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day). He was also in Pizza Man! He also played the lead role of Lando in Blackstar Warrior, a 1970’s version of the future set in the Star Wars universe. 

His last big role was in 2022 in 11 of the 29 episode series All American: Homecoming where he played President (a young tennis hopeful and elite baseball player contending with the world of high stake college sports). He was previously in one episode of All American as the same character. It ran for 92 episodes and focused on a football player from the south moving to Beverly Hills.

Chapter Six 'Better Halves':

Volume: One

Written by: Natalie Chaidez

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Original airdate: October 30, 2006

Synopsis: 

Peter and Isaac speak with Hiro and Ando over the phone, telling them of future Hiro with the sword. Looking at the paintings, and seeing that they fit like the panels in a comic book, they realize one piece is missing, a painting that Simone took a while ago to try and sell.

In Vegas, DL appears behind Niki and holds her close, warning her to not scream. The police come to the door, but she tells them everything is ok. DL tells her that he was framed and is planning to find out who is responsible, but Niki is slow to believe. However, eventually her feelings for him come back and she lets him sleep with her in their bed. In the morning, he mentions how he heard her get out of bed during the night, but she has no recollection of it, looking into the mirror and seeing a different reflection looking back again.

Elsewhere in Vegas, Hiro and Ando speak of his hero’s journey, when the gambler they cheated shows up suddenly, and makes them use their “big power” to help him cheat in a back room poker game. All goes well at first, but Ando discovers that one of the men has a gun aimed at them below the table. Ando gets Hiro away and into the restroom when suddenly they hear signs of guns and fighting going on, with someone being thrown against the door, breaking it, and someone else shouting about a woman.  After escaping from the restroom, Hiro is despondent that he didn’t save the gamblers, with Ando telling him he can just have a do over because of his powers. Hiro is satisfied with this, and together they get in their brand new Nissan Versa and head to New York. 

Clarie meanwhile, ends up meeting her birth parents, a meeting set up by HRG. Things are awkward, and Claire learns little about her abilities, only that her birth parents have diabetes, and a history of heart conditions. As HRG walks the birth parents out to their car, HRG and the two talk and it’s revealed that they are actually not the real parents, but people HRG hired to play the part. Inside, Mrs. Bennet tells Claire about how when she was a baby, they were worried she had some problem with her chromosomes and tried to find her birth parents but had no luck then. 

While Micah is ecstatic at seeing his father back, DL and Niki talk about things and what the plan is now. He and her go to try and clear his name but when they arrive at the destination, they find the men, the gamblers from the game the night before with Hiro and Ando, are all dead, grotesquely murdered.

In New York, Mohinder has decided to leave and return home, though Eden tries to get him to stay and keep looking. After a brief kiss, he leaves. Eden then calls HRG and tells him that Mohinder has left, but will be back, and details several people that Mohinder met that claimed to have powers. HRG then tells her to bring the precog in.

Upon returning home, DL and Niki discuss the scene they saw, and she admits the same thing happened in their garage. DL still is certain that he just needs to find the person who framed him and they will be safe. Niki leaves the room to grab Micah’s backpack, but upon seeing the strange reflection again, finds herself sitting on the couch, unaware of what has happened for the last few minutes. She retreats to her bedroom and begins talking with the reflection in the mirror, who tells her that Reflection Niki is the one responsible for the deaths, and is the one who has always done what needs to be done when Niki herself couldn’t. Reflection Niki tells her the plan was to frame DL, steal the money, and get away from him, which is what they need to do now, telling her where the money is. Upon retrieving the money however, DL appears and sees what actually happened and a fight ensues, with DL revealing his power of phasing through things. As Micah comes into the room to see them fighting, DL phases his hand into Niki’s chest, causing her to pass out, as he grabs the young boy and escapes. 

Meanwhile, Eden meets Issac at his loft, and asks to come in, being a huge admirer of his work. 

Back-issues

Kari Turner played Lisa. She doesn’t have a lot of credits, but she did play Tara Sculley in the X-Files, and Kathie Lee Gifford in South Park. Her biggest claim to fame is playing Harriet Sims in 112 episodes of Jag.

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RW542 - Heroes Rewatch S01E03-04 - Giant Collision

In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom hear the call but aren't sure how to react as they discuss season 1 episodes 3 & 4, One Giant Leap and Collision.

Chapter Three 'One Giant Leap':

Volume: One

Written by: Jeph Loeb

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Original airdate: October 9, 2006

Synopsis: 

In Vegas, Nikki continues to bury her victims, finding a skull ring at the site. The two meet up with Micah’s grandmother, Paulette, her ex-husband’s mother, but the meeting is short and awkward before Nikki leaves with Micah. As they drive off into the desert, Micah tells Nikki she should believe in DL, his father, and that no one will be able to find him ever. She starts to question how he knows that, but they are pulled over by a cop who tells her that Mr. Linderman wants to see her now, and they are forced to go with the man.

Claire meanwhile attends to her high school duties which include getting ready for a big bonfire if the football team should win their game. As he notices Claire checking out the quarterback, HRG tells her to be careful as he drops her off at school. Zach and Claire chat, with Zach trying to get her to realize that this school stuff doesn’t matter anymore, due to her abilities, that she has changed and the pretty blonde cheerleader is not who she really is anymore.

Hiro returns to Ando and tries to get him to believe him about his powers, rushing off when his watch beeps, with Ando in tow. Using the comic book as a guide, they go to an intersection where the book shows them saving a young girl from being hit by a bus. Ando is still skeptical but goes along with it when suddenly the situation in the book begins to occur. Hiro quickly freezes time, enabling him to save the girl, and Ando, finally understanding, rejoices with him. Together they head off on a plane to the United States, later renting a car that the comic book showed them they would need.

Peter tries to use his flight power while falling from a playground swing, but to no avail. He tries to talk to Nathan about it, telling him about a book he found by Chandra Suresh, but again Nathan wants to forget about it, telling him a reporter has been sniffing around about his suicide. 

Mohinder, meanwhile, has been burning the candle at both ends trying to figure out his father’s formula to no avail. In frustration he throws his fathers computer which reveals a hidden journal within it. Using the book, they are able to find Sylar’s apartment which has a book detailing the removal of human heads, and a secret room containing a much more detailed map than his father’s, and a small room painted with the words saying “I have sinned” and “forgive me”. 

Matt Parkman is being questioned in a room by Agent Hanson who doesn’t believe him when he says he just heard the young girl, Molly, speak to him back at the crime scene. It’s not until he hears and repeats Hanson’s own inner thoughts back to her that she asks him to help out with the Sylar case. Before they can get started, they hear Molly scream and rush to find out that Sylar is trying to pull the young girl away. Upon being discovered he drops the girl and runs, Hanson taking chase. Cornered, Sylar uses his ability to make Hanson point her gun at herself before slamming her against a wall.  Parkman shows up and shoots Sylar several times, but Sylar just gets back up again and escapes.

Simone and Isaac have a tense conversation as she reveals she tossed all of his drugs. Despondent, Issac insists he needs them to paint the future and, unable to believe him, Simone decides to break up with him. She runs into Peter at her father’s apartment, where he tells her he believes he is meant for more and has quit.

Parkman returns home to find his wife Janice angry that he missed their couples counseling. He tries to talk with her but hears her inner thoughts that she wishes he would just leave, so he does just that, going to a nearby bar. As he drinks he hears the thoughts of everyone around him until he sees one man sitting by himself in a corner, staring intently at him, and realizes there is just silence when it comes to that man’s thoughts. Suddenly Matt finds himself dizzy and collapses on the floor. 

Peter runs into Simone again at Nathan’s fundraising gala and the two chat and have a moment, before Nathan uses what happened to Peter as a way to try and get the story out there in their favor and to shift votes his way. Peter, annoyed that his brother would use him like this, leaves, later finding his brother and punching him, while Nathan says he did what he had to do with Peter saying he gets it.

At the celebratory bonfires, Claire hangs out with Brody, the quarterback, and they head off and start to make out, as a girl watches them from afar, looking worried. Brody pushes her to go further, quickly making it clear that he intends to rape her. As she puts up a fight, he ends up pushing her and she lands on a pile of wood that pierces the back of her head and she dies instantly. Brody rushes off like the complete spineless jerk he is. Later, in an autopsy room, the branch that impaled Claire is removed and slowly, she reawakens, looking down to see that her entire chest and torso has been cut open during the autopsy.

Back-issues:

Greg Beeman has a long list of TV series credits as director. He did direct a couple of features in the 1990s; Problem Child 3: Junior in Love and Bushwhacked (starring Daniel Stern).

Since we discussed Tim Kring writing Teen Wolf Too, I guess it only makes sense that we get in the writer of the original Teen Wolf… Too. Jeph Loeb actually wrote several well known film scripts in the 1980’s, including Commando (Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Burglar (Whoopi Goldberg). In the early 2000’s, he wrote episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series, Smallville and Heroes, before turning his attention to mostly adapting Batman graphic novels to the screen.

Janice is played by Elizabeth Lackey, an Australian character actor. She headlined the show Just Cause (a mother and wife is the patsy for her husband's insurance scam, sending her to prison for 5 years while he gets away with money and their daughter. She studies law while incarcerated, gets her degree, and once out on parole, works to clear her name and find her missing daughter). We’ve actually seen her before in season 5 of Sliders; she was in the episode ‘Dust’ (the Sliders arrive in the middle of an archaeological dig. They discover they are in their old home town, however everything seems to have happened hundreds of years before. Then they find a fossilized timer).

Nathan’s Campaign Manager is played by Eugene Byrd, who we just saw as the slightly sexist and overbearing Dr Harper in Quantum Leap. 

The Car Rental Girl, Riki Lindhome, currently plays in Garfunkel and Oates, with comedy partner Kate Micucci. She was in the kids series Monsters and Aliens, but shows up in all manners of genres, like The Last House on the Left (after kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics), Million Dollar Baby (an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond) and headlined Another Period (a mockumentary-style period piece comedy that follows members of the wealthy Bellacourt family and their servants in early 20th-century Newport, Rhode Island). She was in the Big Bang Theory as a Sheldon Cooper fan girl turned possessive girlfriend for a few episodes. 

Chapter Four 'Collision':

Volume: One

Written by: Bryan Fuller

Directed by: Ernest Dickerson

Original airdate: October 16, 2006

Synopsis: 

Parkman awakens, finding himself securely bound to a table, panicking and telling HRG that he isn’t who he thinks he is, that he isn’t anyone. HRG replies that he actually is someone special and tells him that Matt can’t read his thoughts since his friend, known only as The Haitian, stands nearby. As HRG starts to leave, Matt picks up a stray thought from the man and says the name Claire outloud. Impressed by Matt’s progress, tells The Haitian to go deep and clean him out.

As Nathan heads to Vegas to meet with Mr. Linderman, his campaign manager tells him he doesn’t think it's a good idea, before Mohinder appears, trying to talk with him. Mohinder’s ramblings about being in danger and a man named Sylar cause Nathan to write him off as crazy before having his security deal with. He heads off to see Peter, who he discovers slept with Simone the previous night and asks him to just go away for a while due to him being a liability to his campaign. Simone tells Peter she isn’t sure what they have yet together, but leaves, with the promise of more once she has some time to think.

In Vegas, Niki talks with Mr. Linderman’s assistant, Ms. Sakamoto, who offers her a chance to forgive her debt if she does Linderman a favor, involving a politician coming to town, Nathan Petrelli. She balks at first but goes through with it so she and Micah can get out of Linderman’s debt. She arranges a ruse in order to bump into Nathan, and things go well until they return to his hotel suite, the intention to sleep together, when Niki balks and leaves suddenly. Linderman’s goon is waiting for her in the elevator and threatens her, but Niki suddenly experiences a shift in her personality, claiming Niki isn’t there, and proceeds to beat the thug mercilessly, warning him against hurting “our” son, before returning to Nathan’s room, and finishing the dirty deed.

Meanwhile in Texas, a coroner conducts her autopsy on Clarie’s lifeless body, pulling the broken branches from the back of her head. As the woman leaves to take a phone call, Claier’s powers finally kick in and she comes to life, closing up her open chest and escaping, leaving the coroner perplexed when she returns to the room. She returns home, but HRG notices her dirty feet, questioning what happened the previous night with Claire making up an excuse. Once back at school, Brody is scared out of his mind when he sees Claire back at school, very much alive. A girl named Lori approaches Claire and tells her about her own experience of being raped by Brody, leading Claire to meet with Brody later that night, asking if she could drive his car. As Brody arrogantly tells her that no one will believe he did anything to her, Claire starts speeding and crashes his car into a brick wall, giving Brody severe injuries, while Claire again heals instantly.

In Vegas, Ando convinces a reluctant Hiro to help them win at gambling using his power to stop times and all goes well until they are finally thrown out of the casino, and afterwards get beaten up by a card player and his gang, who lost to them earlier in the evening, due to more of Hiro’s time manipulation.

Peter finds Mohinder and they start discussing his powers, but Mohinder is slow to believe since he can’t demonstrate his flying ability or his ability to draw the future. They try to see Isaac, but he is in a trance, painting a picture of a cheerleader on some steps, as a dark shadowy figure approaches her. As Peter and Mohinder travel back on the subway, time suddenly stops and Peter looks around, confused at what’s happened, when suddenly he turns to see a pony-tailed Hiro, now much older, dressed in a long sleek jacket, sword on his back, speaking very good English, and very confident as he tells Peter he is from the future and has a message for him. 

Back-issues:

Ernest Dickerson is a well known director and cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he often collaborates with Spike Lee. He directed the movies Juice (with Omar Epps and Tupac), Bulletproof (with Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler), and Bones (where Snoop Dogg plays a vampire with Pam Grier). He’s also directed episodes of many well known series.

Writer Bryan Fuller has a long history writing on Star Trek series, getting his start on Deep Space Nine and Voyager. He later went on to create Star Trek: Short Treks and Star Trek: Discovery. Before that, he created the series Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, and developed Hannibal for series. He also wrote the teleplay for the 2002 Carrie TV movie (staring Angela Bettis and Patricia Clarkson).

Danielle Savre played Jackie, and she has a pretty good career headlining movies and TV shows. Some of those are Boogeyman, Deep Blue Sea 2 (a brilliant billionaire creates five genetically altered bull sharks, which proceed to wreak havoc for a group of scientists on an isolated research facility), Tagged, A Cohort of Guests (a group of friends is having an enjoyable dinner in one of the couple's garden patio, when they are interrupted by an uninvited "guest" with a gun), Too Close To Home, The Perfect Stalker (a woman who kills her husband and then uses an imaginary character to get her neighbor to "love and protect" her), Bring It On: All or Nothing (with Hayden P), and even the penultimate episode of The X-Files, ‘Sunshine Days’ (playing Marcia Brady). Her most recent work is in Station 19, (Grey's Anatomy spin-off follows the lives of the men and women of firehouse station 19 in Seattle, Washington).

Jimmy Jean-Louis played The Haitian. He was in the movie Rattlesnakes (Robert McQueen's day takes a turn for the worst when he is held hostage and accused by three vengeful husbands of sleeping with their wives), and had a recurring bit role in the Emmanuel erotic film series. Most recently, you’ll find him in the Hulu series Jagged Mind (Billie is plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she's stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend) and Bruce Willis’s Detective Knight Series.

Nicole Bilderback was Linderman’s assistant, and we’ve seen her before as Heather Tracey, an assistant to the movie company’s owner in the last two seasons of Dawson’s Creek. 

Further Resources:

Heroes IMDb

Heroes Wiki

Heroes Graphic Novel Wiki

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