Chapter Two "Ink":
Volume: Five
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: Roxann Dawson
Original airdate: September 28, 2009
Synopsis:
While Claire zones out in her dorm room, ignoring Gretchen’s knocks, and Matt keeps seeing Sylar out of the corner of his eye, Samuel readies himself to go find someone to possibly join their group, telling Lydia about his past and how he was always supposed to be clean and prim and proper. Once he found his power though, that all changed for him. He says Joseph was his compass and he wants his compass back but Lydia says he can’t replace his brother. Samuel says he has a candidate now and wants to see if he deserves to sit at their table. Samuel absorbs the ink into his hands and leaves.
A woman named Emma lies asleep when suddenly her bed starts shaking violently, her alarm clock blinking brightly, but the woman simply reaches over and turns her alarm off. As she gets ready for the day, she notices water dripping from the faucet and sees a strange glimmer as the water drops fall onto a spoon.
Parkman and his boss are awaiting a warrant to search a house, with the boss telling him to just relax. Parkman gives him his 30 days sobriety pin, admitting to him that he “used.” Sylar appears and tries to goad Matt into letting him loose, but Matt is determined to keep him locked up in his mind. The boss says he won’t let Parkman go in if he can’t keep it together, to which Parkman agrees.
Inside, Parkman and his boss search the house, with Parkman constantly being interrupted by Sylar. He does help Matt by telling him to check the closet and he finds the criminal, securing him to a chair. The boss tries to get the man to give up the drugs but he refuses, Sylar continues to taunt Matt, and even starts trying to help him find the truth about the house, when they find a stuffed animal. Parkman continues to search trying to ignore Sylar who keeps telling him he has zero confidence and that’s why he will never be loved.
Matt finds a ransom note that was being pasted together from magazine clippings and begins yelling at the criminal asking where the girl is, eventually being bothered by Sylar enough into using his powers to hear the thoughts that she is under the stairs. Matt tears apart a small door and finds a dead girl causing him to go crazy on the criminal, beating him. The boss comes in wondering what he’s doing and Matt tells him about the girl but the boss goes to look and sees nothing except gift wrapping supplies. Matt, distraught, looks for the cut up magazine being used for the ransom note and it too is completely intact. When he goes to get the stuffed animal, he can’t find it, with Sylar laughing, telling Matt he used his own power against him. Matt and his boss talk about what to do next, with him telling Matt to lawyer up but Matt instead uses his powers to make his boss believe the criminal attacked them and that Matt was defending him. Sylar tells Matt that he is finally becoming more like him and how every day can be just like this, unless he will help him find his body.
Claire finally answers the door thinking it is Gretchen again but it is her father with housewarming presents. He offers to take her out for lunch and she leaves to go get ready, bumping into Gretchen who wants to talk about what she saw. Claire denies it all but Gretchen is shocked she would try and lie about it. Upon returning to the room, Gretchen meets Bennet and he offers to take her out with them for lunch to which she agrees much to Clarie’s annoyance. At lunch, Gretchen says she is changing her major due to being recently fascinated with the mysteries of the human body, mentioning a girl she saw on youtube who can’t feel pain, alluding to Claire. Bennet says he is retired but always finding reasons to go back to work, giving Claire the evil eye, thinking Claire told her about her ability.
Claire defends her when Gretchen goes to the restroom, not wanting to get the Haitian involved, telling him she will not talk to him going forward if he does, wanting to clean up her mess herself. Back at the dorm, Gretchen apologizes for pushing too hard and tells her about how she once was bullied, being called a bulimic. In turn, Claire tells her she will tell her the truth, wanting a confidant in her life. The two become closer as they discuss Claire’s abilities, but a call from her father interrupts them. Claire stands up for herself and he apologizes for being harsh at the restaurant. The two hang up with a new understanding of their responsibilities going forward. Returning to Gretchen, she asks her to be her roommate.
Peter opens his door to meet an enthusiastic delivery man who then tells him that he’s been served, now being sued by someone he saved. Peter goes to find out information about the man suing him, but when he talks to the nurse, she simply hands him a clipboard and points to a sign that says all requests must be submitted in writing. Peter does so begrudgingly and makes small talk as he notices the woman is listening to headphones and not hearing him at all. He hands her the clipboard and she prints out the information as he notices that the headphones aren’t even plugged in. As she gives him the printout, her mug accidentally gets knocked over and falls onto the ground, shattering, as she starts to see several flickers of light from the breaking shards.
Peter goes to find the man suing him, and it turns out to be Samuel using a different name. He talks to Peter, calling him by name, trying to play on his empathy about being the only one who can take care of his family now that his brother is gone. He talks to Peter about being spread so thin since he’s working so much but Peter tells him he doesn’t remember him being on the bus and just leaves. Hasem approaches Peter and tells him that some people think that Peter causes the accidents he saves, given how many times he’s always on the scene first, expressing his frustration that they are not quite partners, feeling more like Peter’s chauffeur.
Samuel breaks into Peter's apartment and looks at his news clippings. Touching one of them, he injects his ink into it to change one of the victims to look like himself. When Peter returns home, he sees the picture and begins to realize he may have been mistaken. Peter tracks Samuel down and apologizes for doubting him and promising to make it right. The two talk about family and grieving and Peter tells him about his time in hospice, caring for others and how he changed to a paramedic in order to save lives instead of watching them pass. Samuel says he’s exactly who he hoped he would be, giving him an extended handshake and telling him he is dropping the lawsuit and Peter tells him to visit his home since he made the trip all the way out here, despite Samuel telling Lydia earlier he had no desire to.
The nurse Peter met, Emma, is talking with her doctor through sign language about seeing glowing lights in a cup of coffee. The Doctor tells her about synesthesia and perhaps her body is trying to tell her something. She tells her to interact in the world with others but she chooses to just wear her headphones to avoid it, fearing people’s reactions when they see she is deaf.
Emma later sits in the park watching a cellist play for tips when she starts seeing a glow from his strings as he plays. Fascinated, when the man goes on a break, she approaches the cello, plucking through strings and seeing different colors. As she begins playing it expertly, she sees the colors shine brighter and brighter, emanating all around her and the stunned listeners in the park, amongst them Peter himself.
Samuel meanwhile returns to his childhood home, walking up to the door, seeing a party going on inside. He talks to the woman who answers the door, telling her of how his mother and father worked there as maid and butler, and how his brother recently died, but she rebuffs him, refusing him entry. Later, Peter and Hasem are called to that home due to a sinkhole having opened up underneath it, killing three people, as Samuel watches from afar. Peter suddenly feels a pain in his arm, looks down, and sees a compass tattooed on it, the needle spinning wildly.
Back-issues:
Deanne Bray played Emma and she is actually deaf, although she does have very limited hearing in one ear and uses a hearing aid to help with that. She does a lot of work helping deaf children and wrote a book (with a colleague) called Grow With Your Child, a book for hearing parents with Deaf children filled with games and activities to learn sign languages with specific grammatical features. She has a number of one-off roles in movies and TV shows, and she headlined a series called Sue Thomas: FB Eye (Sue Thomas is a deaf woman who works for the FBI in Washington, DC and uses her ability to read lips and solve tough crimes that her hearing colleagues and listening devices can't crack. Assisted by her dog Levi). It ran for 56 episodes, and also co-starred Yannick Bisson of Murdoch Mysteries fame.
Chapter Three "Acceptance":
Volume: Five
Written by: Bryan Fuller
Directed by: Christopher Misiano
Original airdate: October 5, 2009
Synopsis:
Tracy, finally able to return to her old life, gets herself ready, dressing to the nines in order to go find the governor who is elated to see her and offers her her old job back. They agree to meet later for dinner, but when she shows up, talking about wanting to do more and make a real difference in people’s lives,the governor makes it clear that he really wants her for just one thing: her body. She retires to the restroom, temporarily losing some control of her powers, but then regaining her composure, goes back out to the governor and leaves without him.
Hiro talks with Kimiko who announces that she and Ando are getting married, and asks him to give her away at her wedding, to which he agrees. Ando is distraught because he is worried that Hiro will die before that happens, but a call to the Dial a Hero hotline interrupts them. Hiro goes to the roof where he sees a man named Tadashi who is ready to jump to his death below, having shamed his family for photocopying his butt on the company photocopier and then getting fired because of it. As the man jumps, Hiro goes back in time to steal the photocopier’s plug so that Tadashi can’t use it, but when Hiro returns to the present, the man is still ready to jump. Hiro tries another 46 times but each time he comes back to the present, Tadashi is ready to kill himself. Hiro finally tells him to find something he loves to do instead of continuing in this job, that life is precious and short, and realizing himself that he shouldn’t be keeping secrets, deciding finally to tell his sister about his impending death. As he does, he has a sudden pain in his head which he quickly recovers from, but he then suddenly disappears before Kimiko’s stunned eyes.
Peter goes to Bennet to talk to him about a compass tattoo that appeared on his arm but finds that it has disappeared. Bennet tells him he really doesn’t want to start going on wild goose chases trying to dig up clues and such like the old days. Claire shows up to hang out with her dad and the two have a conversation about his regret of what he’s done during his life and him trying to find his place in the world again but Claire tells him that he helped her out in her life.
At the carnival, Lydia talks with Edgar about Samuel’s choices of people he is bringing into the family, but he interrupts, asking Lydia to go with him. Using her powers again, she creates a tattoo of Bennet, with Samuel getting angry that he’s seeing him again, saying he is no longer interested in them, but Lydia says he may have changed his mind. Elsewhere, Bennet begins piecing together photos and articles about the carnival people, one particular article written about a compass that may have changed the world.
Angela brings Nathan/Sylar a box of items from Nathan’s past, hoping it will help bury Sylar’s memories. The memories that come up, however, are of a time when Nathan was partying late at night with a girlfriend who later ran away from home and never contacted him again. He talks to Peter, showing him his newfound powers and talking about his memories, with Peter pushing him to find the truth. Going to the girl’s house and meeting her mother (Angela’s dear friend Millie), he begins touching objects around the pool and seeing what actually happened; that both he and the girl slipped on the pool diving board into the water, but she ended up hitting her head on the side of the pool, killing herself. Unable to push the memory aside, he talks with Angela who admits that she covered it all up because it would have ruined his life. Going against Angela’s advice to let it be, Nathan/Sylar goes to Millie and admits to her what happened. Millie asks him to leave, then later goes to dinner with Angela to tell her about how Nathan came to her. Later, Nathan finds himself attacked and kidnapped by a man, then thrown in a ditch, shot and buried. Millie then receives a phone call, telling her that the package has been delivered. Once healed, Nathan starts climbing out of the shallow grave, revealing that his face has reverted to Sylar’s.
Back-issues:
Tadashi was played by Akihiro Kitamura who has a number of projects to his name, including young Sato in Cobra Kai. Recently, he was a lead in Himalaya (Cryptozoologist Yuma Sato enters a newly discovered Himalayan ice cave to search for the mythical "Snow Ghost”), and Ghosts of Hiroshima (77 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a malevolent force lingers at the site of nuclear calamity. Those who encounter this vengeful spirit are forever consumed by its wrath). His most notorious role is probably as a lead in the Human Centipede series.
The 3 times we see Ando typing emails in the episode, he is applying for leave for Hiro, then himself, and finally for Kimiko.
Bad Body Double by Imogen Heap
Heroes EU:
Running in Circles
Edgar and Lydia share a secret bond.
Boom
H.R.G. tries to save a young fire-starter.
Webisodes:
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 3
Written by: Harrison Wilcox
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: October 12, 2009
Synopsis: Lydia's daughter is in trouble - and so is Edgar.
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 4
Written by: Foz McDermott
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: October 19, 2009
Synopsis: Samuel discovers Lydia has a daughter. Lydia receives an unexpected visitor.
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