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Scar-Peter's riding in the Nathambulance, watching his brother turn blue. He visibly panics that Claire's calling him, and tells her to stay put when she insists her blood could help Nathan. Don't you wish you had Emotard Airlines on retainer, Claire? At the hospital, Future Peter's shoved aside by doctors and he starts having that "I've made a huge mistake!" look on his face. One even slams the door on his face after he asks if Nathan's gonna make it. Burn. Defibrillator time!

Scar-Peter sits in the hallway for a long-ass time. Question: Why doesn't he just speed up time to see the outcome of Nathan's operation/electric paddle contest? Answer: The episode would be half an hour if it were that efficient with powers. Also, Nathan's dead, according to the doctor, but we all know that IMDB.com is the ultimate Diagnosis Doctor of whether a character lives or dies.

Don't worry. You're safe. Until at least Christmas.

Scar-Peter enters the empty room to see his lifeless brother on a gurney. The doctors
really didn't give a shit, since they left Nathan with gauze and blood everywhere. Maybe there's a separate clean-up crew in the world of medicine that I don't know about, and they only work the graveyard shift. He kisses Nathan on the forehead and strokes his hair a bit as fangirls and fanboys squirm excitedly in their seats. That's right, just like that. Scar-Peter lays a hand on Nathan's shoulder and then starts to back away.

WHOOSH! Zombie Nathan bolts straight up, scaring the bejeebus out of Peter and making me pee my pants a little. His eyes are all red-rimmed and he's still icy-pale blue from you know, the being dead part. Like Lazarus from the grave or some other biblical reference. Was there too much Claire-compassion in that last caress of Peter's? Apparently.

Present Day: Yamagato Industries, Japan

Hiro is wasting time in a big, super-modern, decked-out office. Looks like someone took over for Daddy, and it wasn't his business-minded super-qualified sister. I'm personally surprised he's not playing Text Twist or Spore. Instead, he's fast-forwarding and rewinding time using a super-duper fancy Japanese Brookstone-esque clock. Please note that in the world of product placement, Cisco is out and Apple is in. There's no reason for Hiro's computer screen to be facing the door other than to show off Steve Jobs' beautiful, beautiful screen. Why would you EVER work with your back to the door?

Bad Feng Shui. But it always works! And Jerry Seinfeld isn't barging in pretending to be "regular".

Ando enters the room, to Hiro's delight. Ando calls his BFF "sir," which creeps Hiro out except when he's visiting maid cafes or chilling in Texas. Ando's simultaneously impressed and intimidated by the fact that Hiro now owns 51% of the company, and awed by the heaps of moneybags everywhere. The scene is mostly subtitled, which means half of the viewers aren't reading. This sequence reminds me of the guy-on-guy romance mangas that are so popular with girls in Japan. The following reasons and lines that can be easily made suggestive and giggle-worthy:

Hiro's got post-apocalypse-partum depression, and hasn't gotten any Prozac yet. He's a man without a quest, and in a moment of obvious foreshadowing, sighs that destiny is not just going to come knocking at his door.

There is a knock at the door.

It's the family lawyer, serving Hiro with some papers and...a DVD containing a message from Kaito about Hiro's destiny. The Japanese are totally kicking our butts, even in the digital wills department.

Kaito is such a badass (I heart George Takai). Hiro's dad explains he is to be the sentinel of a dangerous secret, one that Kaito and Kaito's father had to keep. In the wrong hands, the secret could destroy the world. So, why did you bother leaving a paper trail regarding the secret and recording its whereabouts on a video? Man, it's a good thing Cisco pulled out this season, because none of the computer or technological aspects of Heroes are password-protected. Nothing is secure, especially not secrets placed in OBVIOUS, UNHIDDEN SAFES. Yes, Kaito tells Hiro explicitly to "never open the safe." *Facepalm*

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