In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom enjoy natures wonders and keep their enemies on ice as they discuss season 4 episodes 12 & 13, Upon This Rock and Let It Bleed.
Chapter Twelve 'Upon This Rock':
Volume: Five
Written by: Juan Carlos Coto
Directed by: Ron Underwood
Original airdate: January 4, 2010
Synopsis:
Claire, on clean up duty at the carnival, talks to Lydia about how Eli creeps her out with the way he seems to always be watching her, but Lydia says it’s just because she’s new there. She gives Claire breakfast to deliver to Samuel, and in doing so Claire sees that Samuel has her father’s files. Samuel ushers her out of the trailer quickly and tells her he needs to head into the city, telling Eli to keep an eye on her, that she isn’t allowed to leave. Claire overhears Lydia and her daughter fighting, noting that it’s the one thing making it feel like a normal place. She asks if she knows why Samuel wanted her here. Lydia just says it has become an obsession. Claire tries to get into Samuel’s trailer but Eli is there, watching her, still following her throughout the day. Later she runs from him and into the hall of mirrors, and ends up getting the jump on him, knocking him out and turning off his duplicates. She gets into the trailer and finds an old picture of Samuel and Joseph but then Doyle shows up and takes control of her, pinning her against the trailer wall, ready to kill her for trying to mess up what Samuel is doing. Claire manages to get through to him about how Samuel is planning something that isn’t good and he lets her go. She goes to Lydia who all but confirms that Joseph was killed by Samuel and that she is scared for all of them, begging Claire to find someone to help them.
Meanwhile Hiro has made his way to Tokyo, babbling nonsense, mixing up his different fandoms, and stops a man from mugging a woman, but is then arrested since he holds a knife he used to stop the mugging. They take him to Ando after they find Hiro’s business card with the address of Nakamura Industries. Kimiko wants to call a top neurosurgeon to help her brother, but Ando is convinced that Hiro’s babbling are clues and they go to get Hiro’s comics to figure it all out. As Hiro continues his nonsense clues, Ando manages to work out the clues to find a psychiatric hospital in Florida that Hiro needs to get to in order to rescue someone.
Samuel goes to the land he picked out and looks at a giant rock there, thinking back to a time in his childhood when he tried to move it and his brother Joseph just made fun of him. Later, in the city, he finds Emma, who just found out that she had been rejected for med school this year. She is reluctant to let Samuel into her apartment, but he tells her that he is the one who’s sent her the cello, showing her his compass tattoo, a design that is also on the cello. As they talk inside, he tells her that she has a true gift that she doesn’t quite understand yet and asks her to use it to try and find a man for him he’s been searching for. They go to the park and he tells her to concentrate on the man while she plays and her music and power will bring him to her. The man, Ian, approaches slowly and when Samuel talks to him, the man touches a tree and turns the color of the brown leaves back to green, revealing his power to make things grow. Samuel gives Emma a compass if she should ever want to find him and he leaves with Ian.
Eli finds Claire after she speaks with Lydia, and grabs her with his duplicates, holding her captive till Samuel returns. Samuel admonishes Eli, angry that he would do that, telling him that she isn’t a prisoner and can leave if she wants to. Claire confronts him about his brother and he confesses that he lost control and shows remorse. Together they go with Ian to the valley area and after making water come up through the earth, Ian starts to make the surrounding dry rocky area suddenly grow into a vast grassland with flowers and trees.
Claire finally checks her voicemail and learns that Nathan died in a plane crash and attends a funeral with her father, telling him she isn’t giving the compass back. Peter gives an emotional speech as Nathan is given the full military funeral, and finally laid to rest.
Back-issues:
Director Ron Underwood is a working TV director these days, but back in the 90’s and early 2000’s he directed quite a few hit movies, including Tremors, City Slickers, Heart and Souls, Mighty Joe Young, The Adventure of Pluto Nash and Stealing Sinatra.
Chapter Thirteen 'Let It Bleed':
Volume: Five
Written by: Jim Martin
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Original airdate: January 4, 2010
Synopsis:
At Nathan’s wake, Peter talks with fellow mourners about the tragic accident that killed his brother, but is uncomfortable with the staged death he took part in. Angela talks with Peter and she tells him his anger needs to be controlled and don’t go for revenge as it will just get him killed, alluding to Nathan’s wishes.
Bennet goes to pick up Claire for the wake, but she is angry at the lie he took part in making Sylar into Nathan and asks him not to go.
At the wake, Claire and Peter talk and she accidentally cuts herself but doesn’t heal because Peter has left the Haitian’s ability on. She doesn’t want him to turn it off however because this is the first time she’s felt pain for a long time, and it’s nice to have something normal. Later, Claire faces off against Angela, telling her she can’t believe anything she says anymore. Angela turns it around to Peter and asks her to be the shoulder to cry on that he needs. Claire goes to the roof to find Peter but only finds his police scanner reporting an active shooter nearby. She rushes off to find Peter there, tending to an injured woman. She takes over helping her as Peter goes to find the gunman. The gunman however finds Claire but Peter shows up and directs the shooter’s attention towards him, telling him that he understands the man’s motivation, explaining all about Nathan’s death and how he is looking for revenge too. Just as he thinks he is getting through to the man, the shooter aims and shoots Peter. Later, we see Peter on a gurney talking with Claire, happy that he managed to take the shooter down after being shot. He asks for Claire’s healing power but she tells him no at first, telling him that he needs to stop risking his life so much, and that she can’t always be his safety net. She tells him he’s not honoring Nathan’s memory and Peter admits that he misses his brother. Later Claire relents and gives Peter the healing power and he asks Claire to call her old friend West, and later we see that Peter has copied his power and starts to fly off into the sky.
Bennet returns home to his apartment and opens the window to let some air in, but instead, Edgar comes sneaking in. Bennet, walking away from the window, suddenly turns around and tasers Edgar until he passes out. He puts him in a freezer at a friend’s restaurant and calls in Lauren for some truth serum. He starts torturing Edgar for info on Samuel but Edgar isn’t talking. Lauren calls him out on the methods being used, telling him that honey tastes sweeter than vinegar, and that perhaps simply talking with Edgar may reveal better results, given that Edgar didn’t kill him right away and that he doesn’t have a compass to return home. Bennet agrees and changes his methods and Edgar, while reluctant, comes around and tells him what Samuel did to his brother. Bennet suggests a partnership and Edgar agrees. However later, after Bennett and Lauren explain that it will be a raid and everyone will be rounded up, Edgar changes his mind, not wanting the entire family to be broken up. Lauren explains it’s more of a cult but Edgar isn’t buying it and gets out of his restraints and escapes.
At the carnival, Doyle is thrown through the air and into Samuel who was using his ink to paint a picture of a woman. Doyle reveals that Sylar has returned. He faces off against Samuel and pins him to the wall of the trailer with his telekinesis, but Samuel keeps him talking, telling him of his plans for the people with powers that he’s gathered. Syalr decides to kill Samuel, but he can’t for some reason. Samuel takes the chance to attack him with the ground below him, eviscerating his face and causing Sylar to pass out.
Samuel puts Sylar in Lydia’s trailer and tells her to help Sylar figure out what is wrong. She goes to Sylar and starts to try and seduce him, as she uses her power to see his desires, and that he wants love but doesn’t feel worthy. Sylar takes Lydia’s power and sees her desire that she wants to use Sylar to kill Samuel.
Sylar asks Samuel about the woman in the drawing and he tells him she is named Vanessa and he is afraid she will reject him for the things he’s done. Samuel says that they are the same, not good, but not all bad either, trying to persuade him to stay. Sylar asks for a tattoo to see what it says and if it shows him staying, he will stay. Samuel makes the ink and injects it, and Sylar sees a picture of Claire appear on his arm. He leaves the carnival and begins stalking Claire outside her dorm room window.
Back-issues:
This is the first series episode written by Jim Martin, but he previously wrote and directed webisodes for Going Postal, The Recruit and Slow Burn.
Heroes EU:
Starting Over
Doyle's fate is in the hands of Samuel and Joseph.
The Trip Part 1
Hiro's scrambled brain leads him on a weird, wonderful trip to Florida.
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