Previously on Heroes: Remember me? I used to do long voiceovers about destiny at the beginning of every episode. Now I just do the "Previously on Heroes" bit. Ever since I made the mistake of shaving my stubble off that one time, I've been trying to work my way out of Kring's doghouse. He told me I could at least be in a flashback this week, so yeah, I guess it's going ok. My name is Mohinder Suresh.
Miss me?
The carnies are picking up cans off the street, ostensibly because Samuel feels like being green, but probably just to make a little scratch on the side. T-Sam explains to Hiro, still rocking his Knight Rider shirt, that he needs Hiro to go back 8 weeks and find Mohinder. Not to save his life, because that would piss off half the audience. Just to grab an old film before Mohinder can destroy it.
So just what has our favorite stubbly Indian scientist been up to all season? To find out, we flash back to nine weeks ago. Mohinder's in India tutoring on plate tectonics. I thought he was a biologist? Are us dumb Yanks not supposed to know the difference? Mo has got himself a woman, one with a proper Indian accent, not his stuffy British one. She frowns disapprovingly at the cardboard box of Suresh Senior's stuff that he dug up in the New Mexico desert. She wants him to throw it away, and so far no amount of tail she's offered up has done the trick. He puts up a pitiful fight ("it's just hard to let go") and then drops the box in a convenient trash-can sized to fit just right.
Now where's that tail you promised?
Back in the present, Tracy has spent the last two hours sitting in a diner (NOT Burnt Toast for a change) staring at a Sullivan Brothers Carnival poster and watching her compass spin. The waitress notes that carnivals are full of fire-breathing freaks. Anyone else think the freak angle is wearing kinda thin? If the average American really thinks superheroes are freaks, remind me why we're all dropping big bucks at the movies on Wolverine and Batman and that naked blue guy from Watchmen? Superheroes are awesome. Comic book nerds are freaks. I think you can connect the dots from there. Tracy points out that living in a carnival can't be much worse than working in a crappy diner. Touché. She's so worked up that she freezes her coffee cup.
Check, please!
Good Sylar, who shall once again be known as Fathan for this recap, has lost his car keys and catches a ride back to the office with Peter. Pretty sure that 1) U.S. Senators have drivers and 2) his office is in DC, not New York City. Right? Fathan doesn't remember anything other than waking up in the carnival and losing a few days of his life. Senators don't just go off the grid without people noticing, so someone must know something. I think we covered that a week or two ago. Argentina, remember? Thanks for filling those plot holes, though. Better late than never.
Fathan's secretary says Ma Petrelli told them to clear his calendar. Cue the Haitian magically appearing in a doorway, We all know that magically appearing right where he's needed is his real power. "René!" says Peter. So now everyone knows his real name already? No fair. René warns Fathan not to come any closer, because René's power would cancel out Sylar's shape-shifting power. I don't like this yappy new Haitian. He was cooler when he just leaned up against a wall looking all secret-agenty in the blazer and jeans. Now that he can talk, he has to tell Peter the truth.
Across town at Apartment de Bennet, it's laundry day again.
Please remember not to leave your shorts in the dryer quite so long, k?
Daddy's not home and the doorknob is frozen. There's ice all over the place. Tracy steps out from behind a corner and Claire yells "Freeze!" while brandishing a kitchen knife at her. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that was meant to be funny. Tracy's looking for HRG because her power is out of control and everything she touches turns to ice. Did T-Sam sabotage her somehow? It was more fun when she was always melting instead of freezing.
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Comments (4)
I will have to watch it again to be sure but I thought they had a funeral pyre where they had burned Nathan's real body and told everyone it was Sylar who had died at the end of last season.
Great recap again.
1 of 4 | Posted by rj472 | Posted on November 22, 2009 8:15 AM
Sorry, went on Netflix and watched the end of the final episode last season. HRG says they have a body identical to Sylar's in deep freeze and will use that one to convince everyone it is the real one while they turn Sylar into Nathan.
2 of 4 | Posted by rj472 | Posted on November 22, 2009 8:20 AM
Just realized that being born in 1961 would make Samuel 48 instead of 58. Math FAIL. Oops.
What I said about the muscle shirts and guyliner still stands though.
3 of 4 | Posted by copyhacker | Posted on November 23, 2009 6:50 AM
That's funny, I had the same thought about the padded cell being the shipping container that Peter was locked in.
4 of 4 | Posted by Sanen85 | Posted on November 23, 2009 3:12 PM