Testimonials

Hiro, determined not to let his daddy die, takes Kaito 17 years back to Mama Nakamura's funeral. Understandably, Kaito does not want to revisit his entry to widower-hood and a single parent household, but Hiro wants him to understand the pain he's feeling. Unlike his son, Kaito has the wisdom of age and senility to accept the things we cannot change. There's a neat little segment where Hiro potentially disrupts the fabric of time-space because he meets his adorable mini-Hiro self, face to face. So how is preventing his dad's death a bigger deal than interacting with your past self? I half expected one of the Hiros to spontaneously combust, but not before yelling "Yatta!" Mini-Hiro brandishes a toy sword and pretends he's Kensei, wishing he could save his mom. Big Hiro realizes that he cannot play God, as his dad pointed out, and that he has to accept that loved ones do not live forever. Instead, the lessons he learns from his father live on through him. (Those would be strength, responsibility, and justice.)

We have a meta-moment as Kaito asks Hiro if they can take a moment to pay respects to Mama Nakamura. While Mini-Hiro and Past Kaito are doing the exact same thing. Feel free to tell me if it's not the ginormous time-space violation that I think it is.

Simon says pick your nose.

Later, they're back on the Deveaux rooftop and it's time to say sayonara forever. It's been awhile since I've been moved by this show's characters, but I really don't want to see Kaito die again and it's a rather tear-jerking moment. "I've never time-traveled before," says Kaito, smiling. He's truly got the samurai honor and stoicism down, but don't you think Hiro could have at least equipped him with a samurai sword so he could fight for a bit? Hiro chokes up as Kaito tells him he's proud of him. He tries to reconcile the fact that his father will be reunited with his mother. I wonder if she had powers as well, but it doesn't appear she's part of the group of 12. Hiro blinks and disappears.

We see Ando run up to the rooftop with the sword right as Kaito identifies his attacker with the trademark, "Of all of them, I never thought it would be you." From the group photo, wasn't it pretty obvious that only one other person could look so svelte in a blue hoodie? Who else would be that speedy and able to survive a rooftop spill?

Time freezes as Hiro re-appears. He's resigned himself to not saving his father, but he murmurs aloud that he can still learn who his father's killer is. Kaito and Blue Hooded Killer are suspended in mid-air, right about to tumble over the edge. It's ADAM, by the way. After four hundred years, he's discovered American Apparel. If Hiro wasn't feeling guilty earlier, he ought to now. He returns to the present to deliver the eulogy he ran away from, mentally vowing to rid the world of wannabe white samurai.

"Would it kill you to buy some effing Count Chocula?"

At the office, Parkman's on the hold with the FBI, trying to get info on the Kaito case. His sassy boss interrupts him, requesting that he concentrate on his real work and let it go since Mama Petrelli sang like a canary. Inching towards the Dark Side, Parkman implants the thought "Give me 24 hours to work on this" into the chief's head, and gee whiz, it works.

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