Chapter Twenty-One 'The Hard Part':
Volume: One
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: John Badham
Original airdate: May 7, 2007
Synopsis:
As Claire prepares to leave with Angela, Peter tries to convince her that they met for a reason and that she shouldn’t leave. Claire mentions Ted, leaving Peter to theorize that he could be the one who explodes instead of himself, asking Nathan to get help to find him. Nathan says he will make some calls, proceeding to call Linderman.
Ted uses his powers to start a car while Bennett warns Matt about calling his wife to say goodbye, explaining that The Company’s new tracking system, called The Walker System, doesn’t use isotopes or satellites to track people and that he is putting them all at risk.
Meanwhile, Sylar, using Isaac’s powers, finds himself patting a picture of Ted and combining it with Isaac’s other paintings, realizing that he is destined to take his power and explode. In a panic he calls Mohinder and admits he thinks he is going to do something bad, but when he hears Mohinder dialing 911, he ends the call, and makes another call, asking the person on the other end if he could come over. Hiro and Ando hide behind a painting, listening to Sylar talk with someone, but he overhears Hiro’s heartbeat and tells them to come out, using his telekinesis to move the painting but Hiro and Ando teleport away.
Mohinder then goes to meet Thompson to reject their offer to work for them instead telling Thompson that they will tell HIM what he needs to know in exchange for his father’s formula. Thompson agrees, explaining that The Company finds people with abilities and helps and protects them, shows Mohinder Molly, revealing that she has the same virus that Mohinder’s sister had, and hopes that he can save her. Mohinder talks with Molly and learns of her ability, and after chatting with her about his sister, comes up with the idea to use his own antibodies to come up with a cure for Molly’s virus.
DL tells Jessica that he saw Linderman’s car pull away, but a weirdly unconcerned Jessica says Linderman needed Micah for a job. DL is astonished that she would allow this and leaves to try and save Micah himself. Niki, in the mirror, tells Jessica that DL will get killed if he goes alone as Jessica runs after DL.
Micah tells his mom, Candice in disguise, that he wants to go home, but Niki/Candice explains that Linderman helped them and they now need to help him, with Micah relenting. Later as Niki/Candice goes to take a shower, Micah tries escaping but only finds himself running through door after door, all leading back to the same room, due to her ability to cast illusions. She tells him that he needs to listen to Mr. Linderman or she will make him see things that will mess him up for life.
Hiro and Ando decide to follow Sylar as he has combed down his hair and donned his glasses to appear more like his old identity of Gabriel Grey. They find him at his mother’s house, talking with her about his life and his job which she looks down upon, thinking a simple job as a watchmaker is not big enough for her son, telling him he could be so much more. Sylar shows her his freezing ability as creates a snowfall in the house, to which at first she is enthralled, but as Sylar continues he starts activating more powers as snow globes start whirling around the room, one eventually hitting and hurting his mom’s face. She retreats to her bedroom, telling him to go away, but Sylar argues with her, eventually struggling with her as she tries to leave, getting impaled by a pair of scissors she was holding. Hiro stops time and enters, torn between Ando telling him to kill Sylar and his own belief that killing should be hard, and not wanting to turn out to become like Future Hiro. In the end he raises his sword to kill Sylar but he breaks out of Hiro’s time stop and grabs the sword, telling Hrio to go ahead and kill him, but when Hiro hesitates, he freezes the sword before HIro and Ando teleport away with the sword, now broken into two pieces.
In his office, Nathan meets with Thompson who tells him to not worry about Ted, reiterating that the explosion needs to happen for the best reasons while outside this office, Peter and Claire have arrived, with Claire shocked that Nathan is talking with the man who tried to take her away. Peter tries to convince her to not freak out, telling her that if they save themselves, who will save everyone else, but Claire is not having it and decides to leave. Peter finds her at home, packed, but convinces her to stay, giving her a gun, reasoning that if he starts to lose control, she is the only one who could get close enough to him to kill him and prevent the explosion. He explains that he knows about the bomb happening due to his other ability of being able to draw the future, showing her his predictions, and she recognizes Ted, giving more credence to Peter’s theory that they’re all there together for a reason.
Angela visits Nathan to again try and convince him of the need for the bomb to explode, using President Roosevelt’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World War 2 as a justification. After more talk, Nathan resigns himself that he needs to go through with it.
Claire and Peter wait in Kirby Plaza, looking for any sign of Ted, while Claire laments that she just wanted to be normal and ended up hurting everyone she cared about, only feeling like she was a part of something after she met Peter, as he confirms his own similar feelings. Suddenly, Claire recognizes her dad walking with Ted and Parkman and rushes to him. The reunion is cut short however as Peter’s hands begin to glow just like Ted’s and he starts to lose control, as the others look on in horror.
Back-issues:
Ellen Greene played Sylar’s mom, Virginia. Best known for originating the role of Audrey in The Little Shop of Horrors, off Broadway and the motion picture. She returned to the Audrey role in 2015 with Jake Gyllenhaal in a one night performance. She began her career as a cabaret singer in New York City before filmmaker Paul Mazursky cast her in Next Stop, Greenwich Village in 1976 (the ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early fifties New York). She was in a 2001 movie called Sex and A Girl (a girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents. She looks like a young Holly Hunter in this movie). IMDB credits her as a lead in the movie, but it doesn’t appear on Ellen’s own IMDB page, although a trailer for it does.
She’s made various appearances on TV series such as Miami Vice, Sesame Street, Cybill, The X Files, Suddenly Susan, Hannibal, The Young and the Restless, and Pushing Daisies to name a few. She’s also made cameos in movies such as Naked Gun 33 & 1/3, Glory! Glory! (a radio preacher's operation is controlled by his honest but colorless son. When the preacher is promoted into a media superstar by a savvy huckster, the son is left behind), One Fine Day (Clooney and Pfeiffer, two strangers and their children’s lives intersect on a stressful day in NYC), Wagons East! (John Candy’s final filmed performance (in the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns), Talk Radio (a rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national), and Me and Him (a man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane). She was also a lead voice in Rock A Doodle (in order to defeat the wicked Grand Duke of Owls, a young boy, transformed into a cat, teams up with a group of barnyard animals to find the rooster who can raise the sun). She even appeared as an art director in a spoof documentary called Superman 50th Anniversary.
Chapter Twenty-Two 'Landslide':
Volume: One
Written by: Jesse Alexander
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Original airdate: May 14, 2007
Synopsis:
As Peter’s hands glow, filled with Ted’s ability, Claire takes the gun out of her purse, ready to shoot Peter, but he tells her to wait, and manages to dampen down the powers, regaining control. Bennet tells him, Claire and Ted to go to a small town in Nebraska until they are contacted while he and Parkman will infiltrate the company. Nearby, unseen by them, Sylar uses his super hearing to hear their plans. As the trio leaves to get to Nebraska, Peter starts to hear Sylar’s thoughts about Ted and how he can use his fugitive status to help him. Cop cars suddenly surround them and Agent Hanson appears to subdue Ted as Claire and Peter run away.
Nathan talks with Linderman who tells him that it’s up to them to decide what happens next, and that Papa Petrelli was also a part of their organization but that he gave up. Heidi interrupts them and Linderman makes an excuse to leave, telling her as he holds her hands that he wants to give her a gift to honor his upcoming victory. After he leaves, she expresses her disgust for the man, and suddenly starts moving her feet, as they realize she can stand, with Nathan realizing what Linderman did.
Ando comes up with the idea to go to a sword repair shop to repair the sword, but before they go, they see Nathan and Hiro try to talk to him, telling him about the future he saw and how Nathan turned evil. Nathan says there is nothing he can do to help, with Hiro calling him a villain as Nathan drives away. Once Hiro and Ando reach the repair shop, Hiro’s father appears and despite Ando’s protests about him being there to take Hiro back to Japan, Hiro goes with him to the back of the shop. Mr. Nakamura expresses his surprise that Hiro is the member of their family that actually ascended, revealing he knows about Hiro’s abilities, but doubted that he would have the strength to wield his gifts. Mr. Nakamura explains how he was part of a group that fought to save the world but that some of its members lost their way and now, Hiro must stop the evil that has arisen, and that he will teach his son how to do that. Hiro expresses disbelief that his father is capable of training him, but Mr. Nakamura unsheathes his own sword, a different set of eyes reflected in the metal of the blade, and he shows Hiro that he is much more than he seems, as the two begin training.
Micah comments to Candice that she should use her powers for good and be a hero but she says he just hasn’t learned yet how the world can be very mean, that Linderman will change all of that as he heals the world. After Linderman tells Micah he will make sure he and his family never have to worry about money again, Micah and Candice go to a polling place, with Candice taking on the form of a middle aged black woman, asking the worker there if she can take her “son” into the booth with her and show how democracy works. Once inside, Micah talks to the electronic voting machine to switch votes over to Nathan’s side, revealing that they don’t have to go anywhere else to do this again because all the machines are networked, as he proceeds to create a landslide victory for Nathan. Afterwards, he appears wiped out, and asks Candice to go home.
Parkman uses a ruse with his mind reading abilities to get him and Bennett into the company’s offices, but stop short when they see DL and Jessica arrive, easily bypassing security themselves, and the four agree to work together. Jessica and DL go to Linderman’s offices and confront him and the man quickly offers her a great deal of money with more to come if she kills her husband right there. Jessica considers as DL tries to convince her to think of Micah, but to no avail. Suddenly Jessica releases control and Niki refuses the money, but Linderman pulls a gun on her, leaving DL to jump in front of her, taking the bullet. Linderman steps closer to Niki to kill her but DL uses his power to reach into Linderman’s head from behind and pulls out part of his brain, killing him instantly. As DL dies, he tells Niki that it wasn’t Jessica who was the strong one, it was her all along.
Back at the sword shop, Hiro relates a Takezo Kensei tale that his father told him when he was a child, and learns the lesson of cutting out his own heart in order to be strong enough to save what is most important to him, ready to face Sylar. Unfortunately the sword repairman tells Hiro that Ando bought a sword himself and left, on his own mission to kill Sylar.
Sylar hijacks the FBI van carrying Ted, and manages to slice open his head, taking his power. Later the crash causes a delay for Peter and Claire as they try to escape the city, and after seeing that Ted is dead, rush back into the city.
Parkman and Bennett make their way to Molly’s quarters, but Thompson appears, shooting at them. Bennett manages to get the jump on him and shoots him dead in the head. Once arriving at Molly’s door, they enter and find her cowering behind her bed, with Bennett shocked that it’s only a little girl, thinking it was an older person. Mohinder comes from behind and attacks Matt, grabbing his gun and holding it on Bennet, who in turn aims his own gun at Molly, as the three are stuck in a standoff.
Nathan takes the stage at his campaign rally, having been declared the winner in a landslide victory and talks with the crowd about showing everyone what they’re capable of, of how they can heal the world with their love, compassion and strength, as Sylar stands on a rooftop, watching it all, as he plays with Ted’s powers, smiling and whispering a single word: boom.
Back-issues:
The extras like Nathan’s kids, his aide, the Sword Shop owner, they’re all either regular character actors or this was their only role (like the two kids).
When Micah Sanders touches the screen in the voting booth, we see the name Dena Allen, Current Occupation: Business Owner. Dena Allen is the series' Set Decorator.
When Micah is given a stack of comic books, the book on the top of the pile is "Hulk: Gray", which was written by writer/producer Jeph Loeb, and illustrated by Tim Sale, who does most of the artwork in the show.
Do you think there's something different about Kaito's refection in the sword?
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