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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