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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
The episode begins with the narrator [[Mohinder Suresh]] speaking and [[Peter Petrelli]] standing on a building.  Peter then jumps off determined that he could fly, forcing his brother [[Nathan Petrelli|Nathan]] to save him, proving that he is the one who can fly.  However, Nathan loses his grip and Peter plummets down.  Peter then wakes up at a hospital with his brother watching him.  When asked about what happened, Nathan denied anything about being able to fly.  Later, Peter's mother relates how his father suffered from depression, beginning with delusions of grandeur, and that he had committed suicide.
In [[New York, NY|New York City]] [[Peter Petrelli]] leaps off the top of a building, but instead of Peter flying as he's dreamed, it's his brother [[Nathan]] who flies up to his rescue.  However, Peter's hand slips out of Nathan's, and he begins to fall.  Suddenly, Peter wakes with a start in a hospital bed, with Nathan at his side.  When Peter asks what happens, Nathan tells him that Peter had tried to commit suicide by jumping off the building and fell to a fire escape, where Nathan climbed up and rescued him.
 
In [[Odessa, TX]], [[Claire Bennet]] asks [Mr. Bennet|her father]] about her birth parents.  He tells her that's an adult decision and suggests she doesn't try to grow up too fast.
 
[[Mohinder Suresh]] comes into his father's apartment to find a strange man, dressed as an [[The exterminator|exterminator]], messing with the phone lines.  When Mohinder refuses to accept the man's story, a struggle ensues and the man pulls a gun.  As he tries to leave, he collides with a woman in the hallway, dropping his gun in the process.  The woman turns the gun on him and he runs off.
 
[[Hiro Nakamura]] is standing on the subway in [[Tokyo, Japan]] when he suddenly finds himself standing in the middle of Times Square.  He walks down the street, greeting everyone in broken English, when he finds a comic book (issue 14 of [[9th Wonders]]) at a newsstand.  The cover illustration shows Hiro in the middle of Times Square, arms stretched wide, as he just was moments before.  Eagerly flipping through the comic, Hiro begins to read but is interrupted by the newsagent who wants him to pay.  He tosses the man a thousand-yen note and sprints off.
 
Stopping at a closed movie theatre entrance, Hiro reads excitedly a retelling of his first attempts at using his [[power]] back in Tokyo, including a word-for-word scene of his exchange with his friend [[Ando]] about wanting to be special.  Flipping to the back of the issue, he sees that it is written and illustrated by [[Isaac Mendez]], and an address is listed.
 
Meanwhile, [[Isaac]] wakes up from his overdose, covered in sweat, with [[Simone]] tending to him.  He tries to tell her about his latest vision of the future, the nuclear holocaust he's painted on the floor of his studio, but Simone is convinced it's all just a delusion brought on by the heroin.
 
At [[Union Wells High School]], Zach runs up to Claire, who is busy talking to [[Brody Mitchum]], the quarterback, and [[Jackie]], a fellow cheerleader.  He tries to get her attention, but she brushes him off.  [[Principal Marks]] tells Claire and Jackie that the police want to talk to them about the rescue of the firefighter from the trainwreck the day before.
 
At her home in [[Las Vegas, NV]], [[Niki Sanders]] wakes up to the sound of her son [[Micah]] leaving a message for her on the answering machine.  The garage she uses as her webcam studio is covered in blood and the mutilated body parts of [[Linderman's thugs]], one of whom has been torn in half while the other is impaled on a shard of mirror.  Panicked, she grabs her video camera and turns to run, but catches sight of her reflection in the broken mirror.  Her reflection, covered in blood stains even though Niki isn't, shushes her.  Niki locks her garage and leaves, calling Micah from her cellphone and telling him she'll pick him up in five minutes.  However, she can't avoid the temptation to watch the tape to see what happened to Linderman's thugs, so she pulls over to do so.  The picture goes to static right at the point Niki began to stand up to the thugs, but the audio continues to play the sounds of the thugs screaming and being mutilated.  Suddenlt, Niki wakes up again to the sound of a phone ringing.  The camera is back on the seat and her cellphone is in her hand, and she's wearing a different set of clothes.  She gets out of the car and she's in a completely different location.  When she answers the phone, Micah tells her four hours have passed.
 
Niki arrives at her friend [[Tina]]'s to pick up Micah, and confesses to Tina that she found Linderman's thugs dead on the floor of her garage.  She also tells Tina about the strange way her reflection has been acting, though she can't really explain it in any way that Tina can understand.  Tina asks if it might have been [[D.L.]] who killed the thugs to protect Niki and Micah, but Niki says he wouldn't risk it with the police after him.  Niki decides she has to run.
 
Back at [[Chandra]]'s apartment, Mohinder and [[Eden]], Chandra's neighbor who earlier rescued Mohinder from the phony exterminator, discuss Chandra's murder.  Eden tells [[Mohinder]] that his father used to discuss his theories and [[the map]] with her.  Mohinder tells her that he believes his father was murdered because of his research and asks her to help him recreate as much of it as she can remember.
 
In Odessa, [[Sheriff Davidson]] has lined up the Union Wells High cheerleading squad, hoping that [[Officer Ramsford]], the firefighter who checked [[Claire]] for burns will be able to pick her out.  He does so, but before Claire can give an answer about what happened, Jackie steps forward and takes the credit for the rescue.  During the ensuing celebration, Claire asks the sheriff about the injured firefighter and learns he's recovering.
 
Out on the football field during practice, Zach finally tracks down Claire and tells her [[the tape]] is missing.  Just then, she's knocked to the ground by Brody as she crosses the field.  Only Zach sees that her neck is broken in the collision, but it heals before Brody comes to her aid.


Rushing through the streets of New York, [[Hiro Nakamura]] happily greets people because he teleported himself to New York within a blink of an eye.  He runs through the streets until he notices a comic book depicting the previous events he had in Japan.  After "buying" it (he hands the vendor a Japanese banknote and runs away before the vendor can do anything), he reads it and looks to the back to see that the writer and artist is [[Isaac Mendez]].
Niki and Micah arrive home.  She sends Micah into the house to pack as she enters the garage to clean up the mess, but finds everything cleared away (even her studio set-up).  She finds a keychain with her name on it hanging from the ceiling.  She catches her reflection in the mirror, who gestures across the street to a classic Cadillac convertible.  Niki tries the keys in the ignition and finds they fit.  Checking the glovebox, she finds the car was registered in her name several months ago.  A heart-shaped note on the back of the registration tells her to check the trunk and follow the map.  The bodies of [[Linderman's thugs]] are in there, wrapped in garbage bags, along with a map on which a route is marked.


Upon wakening to a voice message from her son [[Micah Sanders|Micah]], [[Niki Sanders|Niki]] observes the destruction in her garage and flees the scene and taking the video camera.  On her way to pick up her son, she stops at a traffic light and reviews the video footage.  The video cuts out before the carnage begins, but she does hear screams of terror.  Suddenly she notices that her car is sitting in a parking lot and her clothing has changed.  She also realizes that she has blacked out for four hours. Picking up her son, she returns home to clean up the mess and discovers that the garage is spotless and discovers a set of keys.  Seeing her reflection, her reflection motions behind her, pointing to a red convertible across the street.  Entering the vehicle and testing the keys (they work), she checks the vehicle's registration, which is under her name.  A note tells her to follow a map in the trunk.  Upon opening the trunk, she discovers the mangled bodies of the two thugs.
Peter is sketching idly in his hospital bed.  He draws two stick figures, one hovering above the ground while the other, wearing a tie, stands nearby.  In the upper right corner of the sketch he's doodled [[the symbol]].  [[Mrs. Petrelli|His mother]] comes into the room and asks him about what happened.  She then reveals that [[Mr. Petrelli|his father]] was clinically depressed and committed suicide.  She fears Peter's delusions of grandeur are signs that he's developing the same problem.


In New York, Mohinder finds a man in his father's apartment.  The man claims he is an exterminator, but Mohinder quickly realizes that the man was planting an eavesdropping device.  The man pulls a gun.  After a struggle that leads out into the apartment hallway, a girl picks up the gun, and the man flees.  The girl introduces herself as a friend of Mohinder's father and enthusiastic about his theories on genetics, her name is Eden.  
Hiro arrives at Isaac's studio and finds the door unlocked.  He enters, and finds several paintings of the symbol and an unfinished page from ''9th Wonders''.  He notices a trail of blood on the floor and follows it to a gun, which he picks up, and finally to Isaac's body.  The top of Isaac's head has been sawed off and his brain removed.  Just then, police storm into the studio with guns drawn, and Hiro faints.


Hiro goes to the address listed on the comic book for [[Isaac Mendez]].  He knocks on the door, only to discover it is open.  He steps in and looks around calling out Isaac's name.  Glancing at a table in the room, he notices a comic book page on Isaac's drawing table, depicting future events.  Looking up, he sees a trail of blood and becomes nervous.  The blood leads to a gun, which he picks up to defend himself if someone was still in the house.  A few steps later, he sees the corpse of Isaac on the floor with the top of his head sawed off and the brain nowhere in sight.  Police squads then break in and arrest Hiro.
In [[Los Angeles, CA]], [[Matt Parkman]] is helping secure the crime scene of a double serial killing/abduction.  He complains to his coworker that he'd rather be helping the investigation than running interference.  A [[FBI Agent|female agent]] enters the crime scene.  Matt's coworker mentions that the detective exam test scores have been posted and consoles him about the results.  Matt begins to hear a little girl's frightened voice.  He follows it into the house, where a woman's body is pinned to the side of the staircase with a variety of sharp objects.   


It is night now, and Niki follows the map to deserted stretch of land with the intention of burying the mob thugs while her son sleeps in the back of the car.  Upon digging in with the shovel, she discovers that bodies are already under the ground.
The agent he saw earlier is talking to another female agent, [[Audrey Hanson]], who posits that the case is " Barstow al over again" and that [[Sylar]] is responsible, but the other agent brushes [[Sylar]] off as a myth.  Audrey argues that the body of the missing girl's father, who is sitting at a table frozen solid with the top of his head sawed off and his brain missing just like Isaac, fits Sylar's ''modus operandi''.  Meanwhile, Matt follows the voice to a small hidden room under the stairs where the missing girl is hiding.


Mohinder and the girl discover a portable hard drive in his father's pet's cage.  Mohinder discovers that the hard drive appears to have all the genetic research that his father had done on tracking those with special abilities.
In Chandra's apartment, Mohinder and Eden are still discussing Chandra's research when the phone rings.  Eden notices that Chandra has messages, and then that his pet lizard (named Mohinder like his son) is missing from his terrarium.  They search for the lizard as Chandra's messages play: first, a campaign message from Nathan Petrelli, then a partially screened conversation between Chandra and Sylar.  Sylar complains that he can't control "the hunger" and claims that Chandra "made (him) this way".  Chandra says he did nothing to make Sylar a murderer, but Sylar insists that Chandra helped him discover his potential.  Eden finds the lizard on the bookshelf.  As she's returning him to his terrarium, she discovers a USB flashdrive half-buried in the gravel.  Mohinder plugs it into Chandra's laptop and a DNA data sequence readout begins to scroll by, with the symbol tucked into the blank spaces between the identified base pairs.  Mohinder believes the sequence shows that Chandra had found a way to locate [[:Category:evolved humans]].


Back in Texas, all the cheerleaders in [[Claire Bennet|Claire]]'s high school are called together to be questioned on the daring rescue from the fire of the previous day.  Although a police officer fingers Claire, one of Claire's fellow cheerleaders and rival falsely admits to the rescue to divert attention from Claire.  Later, while at football practice, Claire learns from Zack, the classmate who videotaped her, that that the videotape of her exploits is missing.  Suddenly a football player accidentally tackles her, breaking her neck in the process.  She quickly fixes her neck before anyone (except for her classmate) can notice, hops up, and appears unscratched.
Back in LA, Matt is staring absentmindedly into the swimming pool, where a filtration system hose has also arranged itself to form the symbol.  Audrey and the other agent confront him about his discovery of the missing girl.  Matt hears the other agent's thoughts as she decides he just lucked out.  However, Audrey isn't as convinced.  She asks if his anger at failing the detective exam would drive him to set himself up as a hero, and he tells her that Sylar is responsible, not him.  Audrey tells him only six people even know Sylar's name and arrests him.


In Los Angeles, California, police officer [[Matt Parkman]] is at the crime scene of an investigation.  Frozen solid, the parents then had their brains removed by cutting a horizontal line through their skullcaps.  One of the daughters was still missing.  Matt "hears" a faint whisper coming from within the house.  He slowly searches around, listening only to the whispers.  He opens a hidden panel under a staircase, where the daughter hides.  A detective questions him on how he knew that the girl was there and that the suspect's name is "[[Sylar]]," given the limited number of people privy to the case.  The detective also brings up the fact that Parkman failed the detective exam numerous times and suggests that he may have had something to do with the kidnappings to make him look like more of a hero.  When asked as to how Parkman knew the name "Sylar", he admits that he heard it...from the detective, although doesn't admit that he read her thoughts.  Parkman is arrested for suspicion of the murders.
Niki drives the Cadillac out into the desert, following the map.  She comes to a shovel stuck upright at the side of the road and gets out.  Checking that Micah is sleeping soundly, she starts to dig, but uncovers the skull of a body already buried there.


In Texas, Claire's father reveals to her that he has started the process of contacting Claire's biological parents via the orphanage.  After a tender moment, Claire leaves happy at the knowledge her father considers her an adult. The camera pans back to her father revealing that he has the tape of her exploits.
Claire returns home to find her father working.  He tells her he contacted the adoption agency and set things in motion for Claire to meet her birth parents.  After she leaves, he return to his laptop ... where he's watching the video Zach made of Claire testing her [[powers].


Peter meets with Nathan on top of a building, where Peter threatens to jump off to prove that Nathan could fly.  Nathan finally admits that he had flown, caught Peter, lost control and Peter fell but that Peter flew near the end of the fall.  Peter accuses Nathan of telling him what he wanted to hear, until Nathan points to Peter's shoes; Peter is hovering 3 feet off the top of the building.  Peter and Nathan embrace.  The camera fades to the stick figure doodle that Peter drew while in the hospital, which depicts the same event.
Nathan meets Peter on the roof of a building.  Peter asks Nathan to tell him the truth about what happened in the alley.  Nathan tells him they both flew, that Peter flew to safety after he slipped out of Nathan's grip.  Peter gets upset, believing that is lying, and walks towards him, only to find himself hovering a few feet off the rooftop, recreating the scene he sketched earlier.


Back at Isaac's apartment, the police question Hiro with the help of a translator.  He had no passport, no baggage, no American money, and the only identification being a card identifying him as an honorary member of a Marvel Comics fan club, the Merry Marvel Marching Society.  When asked how he got to America, he replied he "teleported" here, and he can control the space/time continuum.  The officer doesn't believe him and says he hasn't seen him on Star Trek before, to which Hiro responds with a Vulcan salute.  Hiro requests to make a phone call to his friend Ando Masahashi in Japan.  The translator asks when the last time he saw his friend Hiro was.  Ando replies he hasn't seen him in five weeks.  Confused, Hiro looks at his watch, which shows the date as October 2.  However, the officer takes out today's paper, dated November 8. The paper's headline shows that Nathan wins his congressional race "by a landslide".  Outside there is a bright flash, followed by a powerful nuclear explosion.  Concentrating very hard, he teleports and reverses time until he is on the subway, back in Japan, October 2.
In Isaac's studio, detectives question Hiro about Isaac's murder.  Hiro tells the Japanese-speaking detective that he teleported himself from Toyo, "like [[Star Trek]]", and tells them that if he can call [[Ando]], he'll be able to straighten everything out.  Ando tells the detective that Hiro has been missing for five weeks.  Hiro insists it's only October 2nd, but the detecive shows him a newspaper dated November 8th, with the headline "Petrelli Wins in Landslide".  Just then, Hiro hears an explosion and turns to see an atomic blast over Manhattan.  He focuses hard and finds himself back on the subway in Tokyo.


==Memorable Quotes==
==Memorable Quotes==
"''Here's my advice, if you'll indulge me: just keep things light and fun as long as you can, like cheerleading.''"
"''Being a cheerleader is hard work—hard, treacherous work.''"
: - [[Mr. Bennet]], [[Claire]]
"''It appears the cockroaches are the least of my problems.''"
"''Yeah, no argument there.''"
: - [[Mohinder]], [[The exterminator]]
"''He told me he was being watched.  I thought he was just eccentric...''"
"''I like that you didn't use the word 'paranoid'.''"
: - [[Eden]], [[Mohinder]]
"''Clairebear!  How was school?''"
"''Very school-like.  How was work?''"
"''Very work-like.''"
: - [[Mr. Bennet]], [[Claire]]
"''Good luck on your campaign when I'm splattered all over the ground below.''"
: - [[Peter]], to [[Nathan]]


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The thousand yen note Hiro gives the newsie is worth about $8.50, more than enough to pay for the comic.  In fact, as he runs off, Hiro yells to the man in Japanese to keep the change.
* The address on the Cadillac's registration (37 Parker St) doesn't match the street number on Niki's curb (9734).  Whether this is a continuity error or a clue is not yet apparent.
* According to the registration, Niki's car is a '66 Caddy convertible with a V-8.  The tail fins do not match the stock versions of either the DeVille or the Eldorado, the only two series offered in a convertible that year.  It would appear that someone has pimped her ride.
* The detective in Isaac's apartment notes that Hiro is a member of the "Merry Marvel Marching Society", a [[Marvel Comics]] fan club that was disbanded in 1971.  Given that Hiro's age is given as 24, he would have had to have joined eleven years before he was born.  Of course, Hiro's a big enough comic fan that it's possible he made his own membership card...


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Revision as of 19:20, 23 October 2006

Don't Look Back
Season: One
Episode number: 102
First aired: October 2, 2006
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Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Allan Arkush
Previous episode: Genesis
Next episode: One Giant Leap


We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate. But have we truly any choice in when we rise or when we fall? Or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction? Is it evolution that takes us by the hand? Does science point our way? Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe?


Summary

  • Peter confronts Nathan about what happened in the alley.
  • Hiro explores New York and finds a comic book detailing his experiences.
  • Niki and Micah are preparing to run when she discovers she's had unexpected assistance.
  • Mohinder meets a friend of his late father and begins uncovering clues.
  • Claire seeks to avoid attention for her heroics, and her lost video tape turns up in a most unexpected place.
  • Matt Parkman begins to hear thoughts, which quickly makes him both a hero and a suspect.
  • Hiro makes a terrible discovery and witnesses a cataclysm.

Synopsis

In New York City Peter Petrelli leaps off the top of a building, but instead of Peter flying as he's dreamed, it's his brother Nathan who flies up to his rescue. However, Peter's hand slips out of Nathan's, and he begins to fall. Suddenly, Peter wakes with a start in a hospital bed, with Nathan at his side. When Peter asks what happens, Nathan tells him that Peter had tried to commit suicide by jumping off the building and fell to a fire escape, where Nathan climbed up and rescued him.

In Odessa, TX, Claire Bennet asks [Mr. Bennet|her father]] about her birth parents. He tells her that's an adult decision and suggests she doesn't try to grow up too fast.

Mohinder Suresh comes into his father's apartment to find a strange man, dressed as an exterminator, messing with the phone lines. When Mohinder refuses to accept the man's story, a struggle ensues and the man pulls a gun. As he tries to leave, he collides with a woman in the hallway, dropping his gun in the process. The woman turns the gun on him and he runs off.

Hiro Nakamura is standing on the subway in Tokyo, Japan when he suddenly finds himself standing in the middle of Times Square. He walks down the street, greeting everyone in broken English, when he finds a comic book (issue 14 of 9th Wonders) at a newsstand. The cover illustration shows Hiro in the middle of Times Square, arms stretched wide, as he just was moments before. Eagerly flipping through the comic, Hiro begins to read but is interrupted by the newsagent who wants him to pay. He tosses the man a thousand-yen note and sprints off.

Stopping at a closed movie theatre entrance, Hiro reads excitedly a retelling of his first attempts at using his power back in Tokyo, including a word-for-word scene of his exchange with his friend Ando about wanting to be special. Flipping to the back of the issue, he sees that it is written and illustrated by Isaac Mendez, and an address is listed.

Meanwhile, Isaac wakes up from his overdose, covered in sweat, with Simone tending to him. He tries to tell her about his latest vision of the future, the nuclear holocaust he's painted on the floor of his studio, but Simone is convinced it's all just a delusion brought on by the heroin.

At Union Wells High School, Zach runs up to Claire, who is busy talking to Brody Mitchum, the quarterback, and Jackie, a fellow cheerleader. He tries to get her attention, but she brushes him off. Principal Marks tells Claire and Jackie that the police want to talk to them about the rescue of the firefighter from the trainwreck the day before.

At her home in Las Vegas, NV, Niki Sanders wakes up to the sound of her son Micah leaving a message for her on the answering machine. The garage she uses as her webcam studio is covered in blood and the mutilated body parts of Linderman's thugs, one of whom has been torn in half while the other is impaled on a shard of mirror. Panicked, she grabs her video camera and turns to run, but catches sight of her reflection in the broken mirror. Her reflection, covered in blood stains even though Niki isn't, shushes her. Niki locks her garage and leaves, calling Micah from her cellphone and telling him she'll pick him up in five minutes. However, she can't avoid the temptation to watch the tape to see what happened to Linderman's thugs, so she pulls over to do so. The picture goes to static right at the point Niki began to stand up to the thugs, but the audio continues to play the sounds of the thugs screaming and being mutilated. Suddenlt, Niki wakes up again to the sound of a phone ringing. The camera is back on the seat and her cellphone is in her hand, and she's wearing a different set of clothes. She gets out of the car and she's in a completely different location. When she answers the phone, Micah tells her four hours have passed.

Niki arrives at her friend Tina's to pick up Micah, and confesses to Tina that she found Linderman's thugs dead on the floor of her garage. She also tells Tina about the strange way her reflection has been acting, though she can't really explain it in any way that Tina can understand. Tina asks if it might have been D.L. who killed the thugs to protect Niki and Micah, but Niki says he wouldn't risk it with the police after him. Niki decides she has to run.

Back at Chandra's apartment, Mohinder and Eden, Chandra's neighbor who earlier rescued Mohinder from the phony exterminator, discuss Chandra's murder. Eden tells Mohinder that his father used to discuss his theories and the map with her. Mohinder tells her that he believes his father was murdered because of his research and asks her to help him recreate as much of it as she can remember.

In Odessa, Sheriff Davidson has lined up the Union Wells High cheerleading squad, hoping that Officer Ramsford, the firefighter who checked Claire for burns will be able to pick her out. He does so, but before Claire can give an answer about what happened, Jackie steps forward and takes the credit for the rescue. During the ensuing celebration, Claire asks the sheriff about the injured firefighter and learns he's recovering.

Out on the football field during practice, Zach finally tracks down Claire and tells her the tape is missing. Just then, she's knocked to the ground by Brody as she crosses the field. Only Zach sees that her neck is broken in the collision, but it heals before Brody comes to her aid.

Niki and Micah arrive home. She sends Micah into the house to pack as she enters the garage to clean up the mess, but finds everything cleared away (even her studio set-up). She finds a keychain with her name on it hanging from the ceiling. She catches her reflection in the mirror, who gestures across the street to a classic Cadillac convertible. Niki tries the keys in the ignition and finds they fit. Checking the glovebox, she finds the car was registered in her name several months ago. A heart-shaped note on the back of the registration tells her to check the trunk and follow the map. The bodies of Linderman's thugs are in there, wrapped in garbage bags, along with a map on which a route is marked.

Peter is sketching idly in his hospital bed. He draws two stick figures, one hovering above the ground while the other, wearing a tie, stands nearby. In the upper right corner of the sketch he's doodled the symbol. His mother comes into the room and asks him about what happened. She then reveals that his father was clinically depressed and committed suicide. She fears Peter's delusions of grandeur are signs that he's developing the same problem.

Hiro arrives at Isaac's studio and finds the door unlocked. He enters, and finds several paintings of the symbol and an unfinished page from 9th Wonders. He notices a trail of blood on the floor and follows it to a gun, which he picks up, and finally to Isaac's body. The top of Isaac's head has been sawed off and his brain removed. Just then, police storm into the studio with guns drawn, and Hiro faints.

In Los Angeles, CA, Matt Parkman is helping secure the crime scene of a double serial killing/abduction. He complains to his coworker that he'd rather be helping the investigation than running interference. A female agent enters the crime scene. Matt's coworker mentions that the detective exam test scores have been posted and consoles him about the results. Matt begins to hear a little girl's frightened voice. He follows it into the house, where a woman's body is pinned to the side of the staircase with a variety of sharp objects.

The agent he saw earlier is talking to another female agent, Audrey Hanson, who posits that the case is " Barstow al over again" and that Sylar is responsible, but the other agent brushes Sylar off as a myth. Audrey argues that the body of the missing girl's father, who is sitting at a table frozen solid with the top of his head sawed off and his brain missing just like Isaac, fits Sylar's modus operandi. Meanwhile, Matt follows the voice to a small hidden room under the stairs where the missing girl is hiding.

In Chandra's apartment, Mohinder and Eden are still discussing Chandra's research when the phone rings. Eden notices that Chandra has messages, and then that his pet lizard (named Mohinder like his son) is missing from his terrarium. They search for the lizard as Chandra's messages play: first, a campaign message from Nathan Petrelli, then a partially screened conversation between Chandra and Sylar. Sylar complains that he can't control "the hunger" and claims that Chandra "made (him) this way". Chandra says he did nothing to make Sylar a murderer, but Sylar insists that Chandra helped him discover his potential. Eden finds the lizard on the bookshelf. As she's returning him to his terrarium, she discovers a USB flashdrive half-buried in the gravel. Mohinder plugs it into Chandra's laptop and a DNA data sequence readout begins to scroll by, with the symbol tucked into the blank spaces between the identified base pairs. Mohinder believes the sequence shows that Chandra had found a way to locate Category:evolved humans.

Back in LA, Matt is staring absentmindedly into the swimming pool, where a filtration system hose has also arranged itself to form the symbol. Audrey and the other agent confront him about his discovery of the missing girl. Matt hears the other agent's thoughts as she decides he just lucked out. However, Audrey isn't as convinced. She asks if his anger at failing the detective exam would drive him to set himself up as a hero, and he tells her that Sylar is responsible, not him. Audrey tells him only six people even know Sylar's name and arrests him.

Niki drives the Cadillac out into the desert, following the map. She comes to a shovel stuck upright at the side of the road and gets out. Checking that Micah is sleeping soundly, she starts to dig, but uncovers the skull of a body already buried there.

Claire returns home to find her father working. He tells her he contacted the adoption agency and set things in motion for Claire to meet her birth parents. After she leaves, he return to his laptop ... where he's watching the video Zach made of Claire testing her [[powers].

Nathan meets Peter on the roof of a building. Peter asks Nathan to tell him the truth about what happened in the alley. Nathan tells him they both flew, that Peter flew to safety after he slipped out of Nathan's grip. Peter gets upset, believing that is lying, and walks towards him, only to find himself hovering a few feet off the rooftop, recreating the scene he sketched earlier.

In Isaac's studio, detectives question Hiro about Isaac's murder. Hiro tells the Japanese-speaking detective that he teleported himself from Toyo, "like Star Trek", and tells them that if he can call Ando, he'll be able to straighten everything out. Ando tells the detective that Hiro has been missing for five weeks. Hiro insists it's only October 2nd, but the detecive shows him a newspaper dated November 8th, with the headline "Petrelli Wins in Landslide". Just then, Hiro hears an explosion and turns to see an atomic blast over Manhattan. He focuses hard and finds himself back on the subway in Tokyo.

Memorable Quotes

"Here's my advice, if you'll indulge me: just keep things light and fun as long as you can, like cheerleading."

"Being a cheerleader is hard work—hard, treacherous work."

- Mr. Bennet, Claire

"It appears the cockroaches are the least of my problems."

"Yeah, no argument there."

- Mohinder, The exterminator

"He told me he was being watched. I thought he was just eccentric..."

"I like that you didn't use the word 'paranoid'."

- Eden, Mohinder

"Clairebear! How was school?"

"Very school-like. How was work?"

"Very work-like."

- Mr. Bennet, Claire

"Good luck on your campaign when I'm splattered all over the ground below."

- Peter, to Nathan

Trivia

  • The thousand yen note Hiro gives the newsie is worth about $8.50, more than enough to pay for the comic. In fact, as he runs off, Hiro yells to the man in Japanese to keep the change.
  • The address on the Cadillac's registration (37 Parker St) doesn't match the street number on Niki's curb (9734). Whether this is a continuity error or a clue is not yet apparent.
  • According to the registration, Niki's car is a '66 Caddy convertible with a V-8. The tail fins do not match the stock versions of either the DeVille or the Eldorado, the only two series offered in a convertible that year. It would appear that someone has pimped her ride.
  • The detective in Isaac's apartment notes that Hiro is a member of the "Merry Marvel Marching Society", a Marvel Comics fan club that was disbanded in 1971. Given that Hiro's age is given as 24, he would have had to have joined eleven years before he was born. Of course, Hiro's a big enough comic fan that it's possible he made his own membership card...



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Season One
Volume One: Genesis

Genesis • Don't Look Back • One Giant Leap • Collision • Hiros • Better Halves • Nothing to Hide • Seven Minutes to Midnight • Homecoming • Six Months Ago • Fallout • Godsend • The Fix • Distractions • Run! • Unexpected • Company Man • Parasite • .07% • Five Years Gone • The Hard Part • Landslide • How to Stop an Exploding Man

See Also: Volume One Episodes • Volume Two Episodes • Volume Three Episodes • Volume Four Episodes • Volume Five Episodes • Heroes Reborn Episodes • All Episodes
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