The Heroes Go Looking for Answers…Everybody Takes a Beating
Again, season 3 of “Heroes” continues to be nothing short of awesome. As I theorized after the last episode, Hiro did not kill Ando. Yup, Hiro is still one of the good guys, and instead, he used his powers to travel to a magic shop for a cartridge of fake blood, and back in time to warn Ando and tell him to wear the blood cartridge. I totally dug how they handled this, leaving us hanging for a week on what Hiro actually did to trick Daphne and Knox into thinking he was a true badass. As usual, their storyline was pretty amusing, as they were sent by Daphne to track down a guy in Africa who sees the future (coincidentally, the same guy Parkman has spent the last few episodes with). After a few botched attempts at sneaking up on him (Hiro used his abilities to sneak up on him, but the guy kept knocking Hiro unconscious just after Hiro would see a painting of himself getting knocked out), Hiro finally snuck up on him sans-powers.
Elsewhere, Claire and Mrs. Bennett went to find Meredith, Claire’s biological mother, who we last saw held captive by a creepy pedophile-looking guy (one of the villains who escaped) in some sort of abandoned puppet theater. As it turns out, this particular villain’s ability is to control people, not their minds, but their bodies (hence him holing up in a puppet theater I guess). Unfortunately, Claire and Mrs. Bennett get caught and find themselves at a table with Meredith, unable to control their bodies. The puppeteer throws a gun in the mix and forces them to hold each other at gun point, which in the end allows Claire to pull a truly badass stunt by telling her mother to shoot her, making the puppeteer think Claire is dead. This gave Claire a chance to knock the puppeteer out and save the day. I think I love this girl.
Nathan and Nikki…I mean Tracy (this really is such a lame attempt to keep Ali Larter in the show) pay Mohinder a visit…everybody’s favorite psycho these days. He tricks them into thinking he’s found a cure for people with abilities, but really injects them with a serum to knock them out. I guess knocking other people out is the theme that really tied all of the individual storylines together this week. Anyway, Mohinder then chains them down to respective tables, which is where I honestly expected them to remain for a long stretch of episodes (anyone else feel like Nathan tends to be underwritten?), but they manage to escape when Nikki…I mean Tracy (that’s the last time I’ll do that) gets Mohinder to grab her hand and she freezes his arm, giving herself and Nathan an opportunity to get free.
Last up, Peter and Sylar bonded over their “hunger” and Sylar turned down Daphne’s invite to team up with the villains (has this guy really gone soft on us?). As for Peter, he went and tracked down Daddy Petrelli, storming in and shooting seven different kinds of smoke (with all the abilities Peter’s collected, this is entirely possible). Unfortunately, Daddy Petrelli won by tricking Peter into coming in for the real thing, a father-son hug. Now we learned earlier in the episode that by touching someone, Daddy Petrelli can take their powers. Something that was very upsetting for me, was that we learned this when he stole Adam’s power, which killed Adam, who’s a character I actually liked a lot. Well, Daddy Petrelli took every single one of Peter’s powers, which kind of sucks because Peter was getting really good at juggling all those powers at once, but it’s also kind of awesome because now, hopefully for the rest of the season, we get to see Robert Forster storming around with a pretty impressive arsenal of powers. And that’ll pretty much be it for that episode.
(Didn’t mention Parkman because he spent the entire episode waiting around in an airport for Daphne, and as usual, he’s been entirely useless this season. Come on, in the future episode he was a stay-at-home-dad. Really?)
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Oct28