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':
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.
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