11.20.07
Heroes-Cautionary Tales
This week’s episode was my favorite so far, and the season just keeps getting better! This episode shot off like a bullet. Pun intended.
Matt brought Angela back into questioning about the people in the picture, especially wanting to know who one particular woman was. Matt now has the ability to use the Jedi Mind Trick of sorts and send thought commands into people’s heads. So, he forces Angela to tell him the truth about the group. She yells at Parkman, telling him that the people that started the group only wanted to keep their children (some of the new Heroes) safe, and she demanded respect. She told him they locked up Adam Monroe 30 years ago and now he wants revenge. She told Matt that if he forced the thouht out of her that he was just like his father.
Hiro was determined to save his father. At his funeral, he teleports back to when Angela and Kaito were talking about their possible deaths. Hiro warns his father, and takes them back to Hiro’s mother’s funeral. There Hiro met with his younger self, a self that still believed in Kensei. There Hiro’s father told Hiro, “We may have powers of Gods, but we do not get to play God!!!” Kaito refused to be saved, and instead let fate take its course. But as Kensei was pushing Kaito off the ledge, Hiro discovered his father’s killer. It’s on.
Mr. Bennet was determined to keep Claire safe from the hands of Bob, the now revealed Regional Manager of Primatech Paper. As soon as Bennet walks out, West wisks him off. Bennet tells West that he must be pretty important to Claire if he’ll risk his life for her. Meanwhile, Mohinder convinces Elle and Bob to let him try to convince Bennet to let them borrow Claire instead of killing Bennet straightaway. Mohinder meets with Bennet in his car, and Bennet refuses. Mohinder pulls a gun and Elle showed up. However, West knocked her out by mid-air tackling her. Mohinder fired, missing, however fulfilling the painting. Bennet then points the gun at Mohinder, but not shooting him, just kicking him against the door panel. Later, they take Elle hostage in exchange for Claire who Bob has taken hostage. Bennet reveals that Ellle was the reason he didn’t want Claire taken in, because she would end up like her. Bob did take some blood from Claire though. Later, there was a super cool standoff moment, where as Claire and Elle were being exchanged, Elle burned through her tape and attacked. Bennet shot her and pointed his gun at Bob. He said that if Bob was dead, so would the Company, but before he could fire, Mohinder, like a coward, shot Bennet in the eye, killing one of my favorite characters. West flew Claire off. Later, at the very end of the episode, we saw Claire’s blood being injected into Bennet, reviving him.