Chapter Twelve 'Godsend':
Volume: One
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Original airdate: January 22, 2007
Synopsis:
Peter lays in a hospital bed, experiencing the vision he had right before fainting and falling into his coma two weeks earlier. While his mother worries, Nathan talks with Simone and says Peter was talking about absorbing too many powers and Simone chastises him about not believing in Peter’s abilities. He decides he wants to see the artist that made the paintings that caused all the issues happening around him.
DL returns the money to an agent representing Linderman, but his debt isn’t totally cleared yet as the agent reminds him that he stole from Linderman, and will be in touch when he requires his services.
Niki meets with her lawyer, but Jessica coerces her way out to make the lawyer think she is crazy with multiple personality disorder. DL and Micah arrive at prison to visit Niki, who is brought to the visitor location under heavy guard, showing that they’ve encountered Jessica before, as the lead guard has a bandage on his face and clear signs of losing an altercation. As she talks with DL and Micah, she starts to panic and wants to hold Micah but the guards grab her and force her up against the wall, restraining her. Later, after a psych evaluation, she is confined in a straight jacket and sent to a padded cell.
Claire, at home with her father, feigns having no memory of what happened the night Jackie was killed. She goes to school and talks with Zach, asking if they could be friends, and he says it wouldn’t work. She goes to meet The Haitian who talks with her about how she can’t talk to Peter Petrelli because she’s not supposed to remember him, and that while she feels alone, she really isn’t. He talks of his abilities, of how his gift cannot give people their memories back, explaining to an incredulous Claire that their abilities are gifts from God and should be respected accordingly. She goes to Zach again, and convinces him to come out with her to the abandoned oil rig, and just as he did originally, he videotapes Claire falling and hurting herself, and then healing.
At Primatech, HRG watches over Sylar, now heavily sedated and back in his cell, telling the doctor in charge that while Sylar deserves to die for what he did to Eden, his death hasn’t been authorized. Elsewhere in the building, Parkman and Hanson raid the place with a SWAT team, but find nothing, with Hanson’s superior berating them both and telling Hanson she will be benched for this. Hanson, angry with Parkman, cuts ties with him, as he goes to HRG and tells him that he will find out what he’s up to. He returns home to his wife, and confesses his ability to her.
At the museum of natural history in NYC, Hiro and Ando walk around, eventually finding the display of Takezo Kenzie, a wild savage folk hero from Japanese history that once wielded a sword that helped him focus his power, enabling him to become a leader. It was that same sword that Isaac painted in his painting of Hiro facing off against a T-Rex. Hiro decides that he has to get the sword in order to restore his powers and tries using his ability, but to no avail. He struggles again and seems to be able to slow time down, enabling him to get the sword and get out of the room, running into a statue of a T-Rex, before he escapes the museum safely. Unfortunately, when Ando joins him later and they pull the sword out, they realize it is a replica, donated to the museum by The Linderman Group.
Mohinder meets with an FBI agent who talks to him about the list of names Mohinder and his father had and the person he calls Sylar. The agent talks of how Sylar is not a name that shows anywhere, and tells him about a girl named Sarah Ellis who was just found dead of a gunshot wound, ruled as a suicide. Mohinder recognizes the picture of Sarah as being Eden.
At Isaac’s loft, he surprises Simone by being here and being totally clean, though she doesn’t seem to be as into him as she once was. Nathan talks with him as they discuss his painting of what looks like a man exploding, but then Hiro and Ando show up, telling Isaac about the fake sword and how it belongs to someone named Linderman. At the mention of the name, Nathan looks up and he and Hiro recognize each other, and have a back and forth about what they need to try to do together to stop the future he saw from happening.
Mohinder returns to his apartment to find HRG waiting for him, with a gun. Mohinder is quite standoffish due to HRG’s spying methods, but HRG tells him that his father’s list is of great importance to him. Mohinder tells him he plans to contact the people on the list to warn them about HRG, but HRG suggests that they could actually make a difference together, and gives him his card and access number if he changes his mind.
Peter, again experiences his vision, but this time seeing more of it, sees Nathan telling him he can help him as Peter explodes, causing him to awaken finally. He leaves their hospital and tries to get a flight to the desert, hoping to be away from New York when he does explode, but notices a man stealing from people’s purses and tables at a restaurant. He chases him down, calling out to him and confronting him. The man is shocked that Peter sees him, and the two push and struggle against each other, accidentally knocking over street vendors’ items off their tables, while people stand around, staring and wondering why things are falling down when there’s no one even near them.
Back-issues:
Aron Malsky was played by Kevin Chamberlin. He’s done a lot of voice work in recent years, but also starred in The Nightmare Gallery (an anthropology professor's obsession with a paranormal mystery threatens her job, marriage, and sanity as she fights to find a missing student), The Grotto (when her fiance dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling nightclub in the California desert where she discovers eccentric performers and a heartbreaking secret), and the Disney series Jessie (a Texan teen moves to New York City to follow her dreams and ends up as a nanny for a high-profile couple's four children).
John Ross Bowie was the lawyer. He’s best known from the Big Bang Theory where he played Barry Kripke. He’s recently appeared in Reno 911: It’s A Wonderful Heist (tv movie), and was a main cast member in Minnie Driver Speechless (the family of a special-needs teen is good at dealing with the challenges he faces--and excellent at creating new ones).
Chapter Thirteen 'The Fix':
Volume: One
Written by: Natalie Chaidez
Directed by: Terrence O'Hara
Original airdate: January 29, 2007
Synopsis:
As Peter struggles with the man he saw stealing, the man tries walking away, with Peter following. The man tells Peter his name is Claude Rains and to leave him alone. Peter asks him to help him with his powers, that he is going to the cause of an explosion in the city, but Claude refuses and leaves.
Elsewhere, Matt and Janice bond over his mind reading ability, before he tells her about how he was kidnapped and how he is determined to find out what HRG and The Haitian are doing. She is slow to believe, but he heads off to work to appear before a review board for his actions. He hears the thoughts of the captains about his fantastic story, asking him if this is really how he wants the report to go through, with the captains hoping he does so they can get him off the force. Matt changes his story, saying he lied due to wanting to appear like a hero after failing his detective test so many times. As a result, they brand him a liar with a suspension from work for now. He returns home to find their pipes have burst a leak and he quickly begins fixing it, after which Janice gives him the news that she is pregnant, reaffirming to him that their marriage is intact despite his earlier misgivings.
Hiro and Ando return to their car but find themselves confronted by an intimidating man with a gun. They run but then are pursued by more men in a van. They try hiding but eventually are captured by them, and driven to meet “the boss” who turns out to be Hiro's father.
Niki meets with Dr. Witherson who wants to help her with her multiple personality disorder, but Niki refuses to do anything, adamant she just be given drugs to keep Jessica down and out.
Meanwhile, DL finds himself having a hard time trying to be a father, and uses his abilities to get in to see Niki and get her help. She tells him that he has to do better because she is safer locked up. While he’s there, Micah heads out on his own and uses his ability to get a lot of money from an ATM. When DL returns home, he tells Micah that they both need to try to make things work for now, as Niki can’t be there right now. Micah then reveals his secret ability to his father.
At Primatech, a sedated Sylar rests but with his vitals appearing highly irregular. HRG tells the doctor to just keep him alive, one way or the other.
Niki, having a change of heart, decides to work with Witherson, citing her son needing her as the reason. Witherson asks to talk with Jessica, a standard procedure, but Niki refuses, leaving Witherson to leave, saying that if she can’t talk with Jessica, Niki won’t be seeing her son for a long time.
Nathan goes to meet Mohinder and get answers about what is actually going on, but after hearing that Peter is different, that his ability makes him like a sponge, able to soak up other people’s abilities, he and Mohinder theorize that absorbing too much could make him dangerous to himself and others, especially if he were to absorb an unstable ability. Nathan goes to leave but Mohinder wants to go with him, thinking that if he can study Peter, he may be able to help all of those people who have abilities.
Claire and Zach search through their family’s computer, hoping to find something about people with abilities, but find nothing, when HRG returns home. He talks with Claire who feigns total disinterest in a “partner project” that she and Zach were assigned to. After he leaves, she tells Zach she needs to talk with someone who can help herewith answers, and hangs some wind chimes outside her window, a signal to the Haitian that she wants to talk. When they finally do, she asks him about her real birth parents and he tells her what he knows: that her mother died in an explosion in Texas 14 years earlier, believing what HRG told him once.
Nathan and Mohinder find Peter at his apartment and explain their plan to help him, but Peter is incredulous at the idea that he can cure him and fix it all, refusing to be his guinea pig before running out into the hall. Mohinder and Nathan rush out but they see nothing, asking the bodyguard where Peter went but he too sees nothing. As they see an open window and rush off thinking Peter went out that way, Claude appears, holding his hand over Peter’s mouth so they can both hide from them. They go back inside Peter’s apartment, and despite calling Peter an empath and a pain, decides that he can’t let Peter just kill everyone, and tells him to come along with him.
Claire later admits to her father that she feels like the time for bears and talks can’t last forever, seemingly wanting to get rid of the stuffed animals she always held so dear, and telling her father that it’s time she dealt with her own problems. She then starts to research her real mother and after many attempts, finally gets in touch with Meredith Gordon, a woman who says she was told her baby died in a fire 14 years earlier, before lighting her cigarette with a flame that appears from her fingers.
Back at Primatech, while conducting more tests, the doctor reports to HRG that Sylar just died. However, Sylar suddenly awakens and kills the doctor, putting him in Sylar’s place on the bed, covered with a sheet. HRG shows up to see Sylar, and is shocked to see the dead doctor, turning to see Sylar standing there, asking him, “How’s Claire?”
Back-issues:
We’ve seen director Terrence O'Hara before, but as an actor in the pilot episode of Voyagers! where he played the character Tom.
Claude is played by Christopher Eccelston, best known for his work as the Ninth Doctor in the 2005 reboot/restart of Doctor Who, where he did just one season. According to rumors, he bowed out due to problems with upper management. His first big success was in ten episodes of the 25 episode series Cracker (Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist who helps the Manchester Police profile and interview criminals but his personal life is a mess: he's a chain-smoking, gambling-addicted alcoholic and his wife keeps threatening to leave him), and he followed up with Our Friends in the North (a drama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends). He went on to have further success in the Marvel Universe, appearing in Thor The Dark World. He most recently played the part of Fagin in the series Dodger, a new take on the Oliver Twist story.
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