Testimonials

Future Peter posits that Nathan disclosing the existence of heroes with crazy powers starts all the madness, the war, the greed, the corruption, that it's Nathan's fault. Mama P spits back that he is not to play God. He spits that the formula she and her friends tried to bury gets out and destroys everything. Mama P gets riled up and gets up in Future Peter's face, saying that the only future she's ever seen is caused by Peter. He replies that Nathan didn't die, and that he doesn't have to. However, Mama P says that the shooting screwed up everything, and everything's different now. She tells him to go back to where he came from, and asks him what she did with her son in that awesome steely voice of hers. Future Peter replies that she shouldn't worry, because he put Present Peter somewhere safe.

Cut to The Company's headquarters, where one of the prisoners is pounding on the glass yelling, "I'm not who you think I am! This is a mistake! I'm Peter Petrelli!" Present Peter is trapped in the body of someone needed work after Prison Break got cancelled. Kinda looks like a bald Mario from Super Mario Bros. Here we go! Boom. Next to him are all of the other villains from the red Bennet files that Sylar swiped at Claire's house. It's the most diverse cast of Mortal Kombat character rejects ever. There's even one named The German, and I really hope they don't make him 1. a nihilist or 2. an anti-Semite. Because, yeah, that's pretty obvious. Maybe The German can be an Olympic swimmer who doped up one too many times, and got powers and a bald head. None of them have hair, but that's probably because of the being held captive by The Co. thing.

Finally, we see that Bennet is in the last cell, bouncing a ball against the wall. He's still my favorite character on this show, so hooray! Mohinder, in his best literary snob attempt, reads to us from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming." Oh man, my BA in English is useful after all, for identifying that this poem was written in 1919 after the First World War, and that Yeats believed that Western Civilization (and the rest of the world) was on the decline. In short, Yeats was an aristocrat who felt his class was being threatened. And Marcie in "A Peanut Christmas" (you know, Charlie Brown) alludes to the poem when Peppermint Pattie, dressed up as a sheep for the pageant, trips on a curb. Marcie says, "Slouching toward Bethlehem, huh, sir." Hee. Basically, things fall apart and the Joker is going to watch the world burn.

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; surely the Second Coming is at hand." -- William Butler Yeats

You know you need to go outside when even serious poetry sounds like a giant "That's what she said" setup.

As Prof. Suresh guides us towards a better appreciation of 20th century Irish/English poetry, we see Parkman in the desert, staring a a rock painted with the world and the Heroes symbol on it, Sylar strolling jauntily down the tree-lined street in California suburbia, Nathan sleeping while Linderman watches over him, and Tracy (formerly known as Niki/Jessica) watching the TV broadcast on Nathan's miracle, and Mohinder's pockets being rifled through by two thugs who threaten to "waste him." Mohinder startles awake, grabs the gun and twists it, and flings the hooligans away. They flee, peeing themselves. Mohinder stares at his hands as we see the Earth painted on one of the warehouses, with the Heroes symbol seemingly ripping the globe apart at the seams. DUN DUN DUN. Episode 2's gotta be better than this; I'm still angry over how easy it was for Hiro to discover the safe and the wireless remote whose batteries surely would've run out by the time he found it!

It feels good to be back.

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