Claire gets all excited in science class when her teacher talks about certain animals having the ability to regrow lost appendages and starts talking and asking question and drawing attention to herself in the way her father doesn't want her to. Some of this attention comes from new "friend" West, a.k.a. The Flying Stalker. Flying Stalker gets totally turned on by Claire's interest in genetics and starts telling her about some book written by this Indian doctor, blah, blah, blah, you've heard this before. Claire pretends like she doesn't care at all (even though she does) and leaves abruptly only to find her car stolen. She tells her father (H.R.G. as most online writers refer to him) and then starts whining about how she can't hide who she is, blah, blah, we've heard this too. Then at the end of the episode she cuts off her pinkie toe to see if it'll regrow (which it does and its REALLY FREAKING COOL). Flying Stalker watches her through the window and sees what happens and flies away when she realizes that he's there. She runs outside to confront him but only find Papa Suresh's book in the driveway. She looks from side-to-side to try to fins him, but she should be paying attention to the dog, who's barking up at the sky b/c Flying Stalker, well, flew away.
Mohinder gets his first assignment, which is to go to Haiti to find some guy who contracted the virus. Hmm, I wonder who it could be? (I was actually very disappointed in myself for not realizing earlier that it must be the Haitian last season). Mohinder gives him some of his magic blood and the guy recovers, then promptly wipes Mohinder's memory and flees before Mo can bring him back to the big bad Company. Instead, he goes to visit H.R.G., which was what Mohinder and H.R.G. wanted anyway. Why, you ask? Because H.R.G. needs to track down some of Issac Mendez's (the guy who could paint the future and who died at the end of last season) paintings which show a bunch of people dead, supposedly all of the old people who started the company (Papa Nakamura, who is dead already, and Mama Petrelli, who seems to be next).
Speaking of Mama Petrelli, she's a suspect in Nakamura's death and gets brought down to the police station to answer some questions from newly-minted Detective Parkman, who uses his telepathic powers to listen on Mrs. Petrelli's thoughts. He gets promptly thought-scolded and Mrs. Petrelli decides that now would be a good time for a lawyer. Left alone in the questioning room, she gets attacked by something (I don't know what but I hope its the BIG BAD as I want to see who or what it is ) but survives.
Hiro is still stuck in 1671 trying to make Takezo Kensei a Hiro, I mean hero, and is facing some resistance because the guy's basically a giant douche. Hiro decides to take matters into his own hands and dress up as Kensei himself and confront the baddies who are attacking the pretty swordmaker's daughter. He rocks and the girl begins to fall for him, although Hiro knows its Kensei who's supposed to get her. He goes back to Kensei, who seems to like the idea of the girl falling for him and decides to help. The problem is that as soon as Kensei walks out of his hiding place he gets hit with a couple arrows from the baddies and dies. Wait, did I say dies? I mean briefly passes out but then goes all indestructible cheerleader and heals himself. Not much of a problem after all.
Peter is still in Ireland not knowing who he is. He fights some guys in bar, shows of his electric powers again (where did they come from?), then gets blackmailed into helping his captor steal something else to make up for the missing iPods from last week. How do they blackmail him? with a box that is supposedly full of information about who he is. Yeah.
Last but not least, wonder twins Maya and Alejandro are still trying to get to the U.S. so they can get help for Maya, who apparently kills people by secreting black goo from her eyes, the only remedy for which is her brother, who can make it go away. Yeah, I don't really get and she looks really creepy with the goo.
(Exhale) Ok, I think that's everything. There's so much going on with this show that it takes quite a bit of mental gymnastics to keep it all straight. Things I liked:
- Claire telling her dad she'll promise to always keep her new car locked. Seriously, she didn't lock it? Guess her common sense isn't indestructible (I know that doesn't really work as a joke, but at least I'm trying, right?)
- Apparently Mama Petrelli and Papa Nakamura did little bow-chicka-wow-wow back in the day.
- The dog Mr. Muggles watching the dog show intently and then barking when the channel was changed. I appreciate this b/c I used to put Teletubbies on for my dog and I swear that show was like Valium b/c it was the only thing that could shut him up.
One thing I didn't like: the new "slogan" for the next few episodes, "What's in the box?" or whatever it was. "Are you on the list?" was ok, and obviously "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World" became a pop-culture phenomenon in its own right, but I think the show is good enough to not need such gimmicky advertising. No Micah or Niki this week, but the promos make it seem like they'll be back next week. And let's not forget, Kristen Bell makes her Heroes debut in t-minus 19 days. That's it for this week.
