Chapter Six 'Strange Attractors':
Volume: Five
Written by: Juan Carlos Coto
Directed by: Tucker Gates
Original airdate: October 26, 2009
Synopsis:
As Matt makes love to Janice, Sylar takes over Matt’s body, something he realizes the next morning when he awakens to Sylar taunting him. Matt decides he has to leave Janice until he can rid himself of Sylar, otherwise Sylar will continue taking over his body and possibly cause harm to his family Janice tells him to stay at the apartment instead of leaving, while she leaves with their son to go somewhere safe. Matt starts drinking while Sylar continues insulting him and Matt discovers that while drinking alcohol, Sylar’s grip on him lessens. Matt drinks himself blind, causing Sylar to pass out and disappear. Janice returns home with Matt’s boss where they see Matt suddenly pass out. When he awakens he tells Janice he succeeded as his boss hands him his sobriety pin, telling him they just start over again. Janice yells at him she loves him and he leaves to go take a shower, but Sylar has returned, and takes over his body, eating an apple, and talking to Matt. Janice watches, concerned, from the other room, along with Matt’s boss, as they see Matt seemingly talking to himself and laughing.
Claire and Gretchen talk about what happened between them and their feelings for each other when suddenly a group of people burst into their room, attempting to kidnap them. Claire goes into full hero mode and begins attacking back until Becky reveals it’s just the sorority, inviting them to officially join and take part in Hell Week activities. They take the two, bound and masked in the trunk of their car to a slaughterhouse, where they have set up clues and a prize for them to search for. One of the girls is very on edge and gets paint splattered on her right away, causing her to get even more freaked out, so the girls eventually break into teams, with Gretchen and Claire going off together, as invisible footsteps follow them. As they talk about their experiences with relationships and sex, a meat hook comes crashing towards them almost hitting Gretchen. As they talk, Claire reasons that maybe she isn’t the target but that Gretchen is, alluding to how her roommate died. As they continue searching for clues, straps suddenly surround Gretchen’s neck but Claire rescues her before she is impaled with a metal rod to the wall. Claire grabs a nearby hook and swings, cutting Becky who turns visible and runs out of the room as the two other girls enter the room and see what has happened. Gretchen helps Claire down and everyone watches as Claire heals.
Meanwhile, Bennet is trying to get the police to release Jeremy, but given how the parents death is not as clean cut as it seems, and the fact that they have Jeremy’s diaries that talk of killing animals and many thoughts about death, they are keeping him until their investigation is finished. Bennet calls in Tracy and arranges things so that she has the credentials as Jeremy’s aunt. She talks with him, telling him about her own experience with her powers and how she too lost control, and that it will all be ok. Tracy leaves the station to be confronted by Samuel who somehow teleports her to the carnival, where he explains that she and Jeremy need a home, and that they can have one in the carnival where everyone is just like them. He tells her that Jeremy belongs here, and wouldn’t need to be invisible when he can perform such miracles. She asks to go back, but he hands her a compass first, and then asks Lydia to return her back to the police station. Sylar sees Tracy and recalls Nathan’s memories of her and asks Samuel about them. Samuel tells him they aren’t his memories, leaving Sylar to wonder if the real him isn’t in his head, where is the real him? Eventually Jeremy is free to go, but a mob has gathered, suspecting him of killing his parents. One man in particular rushes Jeremy and grabs him, while Jeremy’s powers go into overdrive and the man starts bleeding, collapsing dead in front of everyone. Bennet begs Jeremy to save him with his power but Jeremy gives in to the cops and returns to the police station. Unfortunately, a few of the cops take matters into their own hands and at gunpoint, chain him to the back of a pickup truck. Jeremy doesn’t protest, feeling that it is his punishment for what he has done as the truck drives away, dragging him behind it. Bennet and Tracy find him on the road later, abandoned. Tracy, feeling guilty, blames Bennet, asking him if they can ever just live instead of needing to stay invisible. As she begins to leave, she looks at the compass in her hand, pointing in a clear direction.
Back-issues:
Sorority girl Ash was played by Danica Stewart. Her biggest claim to fame was 711 episodes of the soap opera Passions.
Randy Flagler played the mean cop. He is best known for playing Harold Capp on Chicago Fire for 259 episodes (so far). The character is from two previous series, Chicago Med and Chicago PD.
The sheriff was played by Raphael Sbarge, best known for playing Doctor Hopper on Once Upon A Time. We previously saw him as Mark Simonson, John Loengard’s former supervisor, in Dark Skies (he was played by two different people across two episodes).
Candice Patton played Olivia, another of the sorority girls. Aside from various one off roles here and there, she is best known for playing Iris West in the CW series The Flash for 10 seasons. Funnily enough, she was cast in a main role for half the 40 episode series Sorority (an interactive drama where a girl tries to figure out a web of deception and lies, involving a website for viewers to interact with stars from the show. Each episode was short, 3-5 minutes).
Chapter Seven 'Once Upon a Time in Texas':
Volume: Five
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite & Aury Wallington
Directed by: Nate Goodman
Original airdate: November 2, 2009
Synopsis:
Hiro arrives in Texas, three years earlier at the Burnt Toast Diner in order to try and save Charlie. After borrowing some clothes from a nearby clothesline and explaining to the young boy his backstory about him being a good guy there to stop a bad guy, the boy gives him a white cowboy hat because good guys wear white. Sylar appears behind them so he can enter the diner as he did in the original timeline, and the boy notes that he is wearing a black hat.
Meanwhile, back in the present day, after Samuel sees Lydia’s tattoo of Charlie, he asks his friend Arnold, a dying time traveler, to send him back in time to get Hiro.
Back in the past, Charlie talks with Sylar about his watch and rattles off some facts that Sylar finds fascinating, and using his gift, asks her if she thinks her enhanced memory is due to the blood clot in her brain, revealing his own gift, leaving her rattled.
As Hiro watches from afar, Samuel confronts him and they go off to talk with Samuel telling him that this is a very different situation than the slushy he spilled previously, asking him if it is worth it. When Hiro turns around he realizes both Charlie and Sylar are gone. He heads to the backroom and just as Sylar is about to kill Charlie by slicing her head open, Hiro stops time and wheels Sylar away, putting him in a bus suitcase bay. He returns to Charlie and realizes that if he saves Charlie NOW, his past self will never go back in time to save her, and thus never fall in love. He goes to his former self in the bathroom and restarts time and tells him what he must do to preserve the timeline. The past Hiro goes back to the past as he would have originally while our future Hiro takes past Hiro’s place in the present, preserving the original history. Hiro also talks to Ando at Samuel’s insistence, telling his friend who he is and where he is from, noting that he must wait here for Hiro to return and Ando agrees.
Bennet talks with Sandra on the phone at the Burnt Diner. Bennet’s partner, Lauren, shows up and the two chat with a bit of a flirty edge, talking about how close they’ve gotten with Bennet saying it's nice to be open and have a friend to talk to. Lauren believes them to be more than friends and leaves him her motel key but they’re interrupted by a phone call from Eden who has arrived in town with Isaac Mendez. After he chats with Isaac who is glad to clean from drugs and not wanting to start up again in order to paint more, Lauren goes to Bennet and sympathizes with him before kissing him. Bennet pushes her away and she apologizes for it, and the two refocus on their efforts to catch Sylar. Lauren tells him jokingly that she is Haitian-ing him but Bennet tells her to not to, because he doesn’t want to forget.
Hiro goes to Charlie and hugs her, telling her he wants to take her on a trip around the world and doesn’t want to spend anymore time apart from her. She chooses Japan as their first destination, Takezo Kensei’s birthplace to be exact. And begins rattling off facts about the area very quickly and seemingly out of her control. Hiro snaps her out of it and she tells him the aneurysm is rupturing. Hiro decides that Sylar can actually help her by removing the blood clot but when he goes to find him, Sylar has escaped and pushes Hiro against the bus with his telekinesis, asking for answers. Hiro asks him to fix Charlie but Sylar tells him he’s dying first and tries to attack him but HIro freezes time again and moves them away. Sylar tries to attack again but Hiro continues the same pattern, telling him that if he saves Charlie he will tell Sylar his future. Sylar is confident that soon enough he will be able to heal, referring to Claire, but Hiro manages to place enough doubt in him that Sylar agrees. Sylar and Hiro go to the diner and Sylar manages to excise the aneurysm, saving her.
Bennet goes to see Claire and the two hang out for lunch. Claire and him have a conversation about his job and his dreams about what he always wanted to do, which was being an English teacher, showing off his knowledge of his plays. She tells him he should do what makes him happy but he tells her is happy, as she leaves to get back with the other cheerleaders. Bennet looks at Lauren’s room key in his hand and heads off to meet her. He enters the room but tells her that he can’t do what she wants. She dismisses his standard argument about workplace romances and calls him on his feelings for her, to which he admits to, but also maintains that he loves his family and hopes one day he will be able to tell them the truth. He tells her he needs her to help get Sylar and she agrees to help as they head back out.
Hiro tells Sylar how he does go on to collect many powers and become the strongest of all, but that in the end he dies alone, completely. He freezes time again and drops Sylar off in the alleyway from earlier. Nearby hearing the cheerleaders, Sylar resumes his normal course in the timeline.
Back at the diner, Charlie talks to Hiro and tells him that she can’t go with him, that she was okay with dying and now that she has been cured by Sylar, she can't handle the fact that he will go on to kill so many people. When asking him why she gets to be saved, he tells her because he loves her, but she claims it’s just selfish and leaves.
Back at the office, Bennet is approached by Lauren who gives him an envelope she found on her desk. He asks her if they’re pretending that nothing happened at the diner, opening the envelope and finding the motel key and a letter from Lauren saying that she has gone Haitian. He apologizes for mistakenly seeing her at the diner and two part. He goes to the diner and drowns his sorrow alongside Hiro, talking of the rough road to true love, wishing him good luck.
Charlie returns to the diner and tells Hiro that she feels bad for what she said. The two reconnect with her handing him folding paper that she was using to fold a thousand origami cranes and they kiss. She leaves the diner but when Hiro goes outside to join her, he can’t find her, only Samuel who tells him that he took Charlie back to the present. He tells Hiro to take him there and through much pain he does, but no one in the carnival helps him find Charlie. Hiro eventually finds Arnold’s corpse, and Samuel tells him he had the same condition that Hiro has. Samuel admits that the last thing Arnold did was to trap Charlie in time, and that he won’t tell Hiro where she is unless he helps him out, taking care of his own transgressions that would wipe out the good he has done at the carnival. Hiro asks what must be done and Samuel reveals that eight weeks ago he made a mistake, as the camera pans elsewhere to the lifeless body of Mohinder.
Back-issues:
Elisabeth Rohm played Lauren. She has been in a number of lead roles in lesser known movies such as Transit (with Jim Caveziel), The Whole Truth (an acting coach makes it big ... Not in Hollywood, but by coaching criminal defendants on how to win over juries. But when one of her clients turns on her, she's now the one being judged), and Blood on Her Name (a woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family). She’s been in several TV series including Bull, Angel, Stalker, The Oath, The Client List, and Law & Order. This past year, she has a supporting role in Devil On Campus: The Larry Ray Story with Billy Zane (Larry Ray moves into daughter's dorm, manipulates her friends by exploiting insecurities, and promises personal transformations through disturbing psychological tactics aimed at gaining control over vulnerable students).
Heroes EU:
Yang & Yang
At the carnival, Amanda encounters Sylar.
Smoke & Mirrors
Amanda's carnival odyssey opens some eyes.
Webisodes:
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 7
Written by: Zach Craley
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: November 9, 2009
Synopsis: As Samuel and Amanda spend some time together, Lydia and Edgar plot to get her back.
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 8
Written by: Foz McDermott
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: November 16, 2009
Synopsis: Samuel Introduces Amanda to the rest of the carnival crew and welcomes her into the family.
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