Heroes: Episode 2.07

Out of Time

Finally, my show is back, and I can't get my act together enough to get a recap out in a timely manner!

I think what made this episode click was the fact that they finally stopped farting around and started pulling together all the disparate story threads of the season and put the threat to the world into motion.

The recap:

Matt and Nathan go to The Company's headquarters (labs? hospital? What is that place? and how do they know how to find Bob?) to warn Bob about Maury coming to kill him. Maury shows up practically at the same time and starts messing with Nikki's head, making her think she's seeing DL. Matt spends FOREVER apologizing to Molly for forcing her to reveal the Nightmare Man's whereabouts, but eventually comes dream face to dream face with his father. Matt and Maury pit brain power against brain power, with Matt winning. He not only locks his father in his own nightmare, he also sheds his daddy issues with the best acting Grunberg has done yet. When it's all said and done, Molly wakes up.

While this is all going on, Mohinder and Nikki are stalking Maury with a virus-filled hypo, per Bob's orders. Things go awry, with fake DL almost forcing Nikki to kill Bob (or was it someone else?); at the last minute, she injects herself to stop her from killing anyone. Not a big deal, right? Mohinder can inject his own blood (the cure) into her and she'll be fine...except he tries that and it doesn't work. It seems the virus has mutated.

And while all of this is going on in The Company halls, Nathan and Bob talk about the old days. Nathan asks who Adam Monroe is, and is told that he was the one who organized all of the old Heroes into forming The Company. But then he got out of control and they had to lock him up. Bob tells Nathan that Adam escaped and wants vengeance, and that Adam's the one who is going after all of the old Heroes and he is using Maury as a weapon. Bob also told Nathan that Peter is still alive. Bob is awfully forthcoming with the information, don't you think?

OK, so, Peter...he and Caitlin (every time I type her name, I type "Claire") get picked up off the streets of Future NY by hazmat-suit-wearing guys, brought to a decontamination area, hosed down and segregated from each other. One of the agents tells Peter that 93% of the world's population has died from the Shanti virus and shows him a warehouse stacked almost floor to ceiling with the dead in body bags.

Some stuff happens with the Bennetts and West, but I really don't like West, so in a nutshell: Mr. B. is back in town and when puchy West shows up one morning uninvited to make pancakes or something for Claire, he finds out that the man with the horn-rimmed glasses is Claire's father. When Mr. B finds out about West, he and Claire fight some more and I'm not happy about it at all!

In Japan, Hiro, Yaeko, and Yaeko's dad escape from Kensei and White Beard and decide that they will have to destroy White Beard's armory in order to preserve Japan's future. Before Hiro can blow everything up, Kensei arrives and they have a swordfight in the armory. Things catch fire. Hiro tells Kensei that they need to teleport out of there, but Kensei won't go with him. Hiro gets out just in time and the whole place goes boom, turning Kensei into a crispy critter (who can heal, remember). Yaeko tells Hiro that she will keep his legend alive. Hiro returns to the present in a moving reunion with Ando that made me smile from ear to ear. Just for a few seconds, though, because then he found out that his father is dead.

Peter's mother comes to see him while he is detention, and he doesn't remember her. She tells him that Nathan died during the first outbreak and helps Peter somehow to remember that she is his mother. I'm not sure if this was a manifestation of Mrs. P's power - maybe to project thoughts/memories into someone else's mind like she did when Parkman was interrogating her - or if it was Peter reading his mother's mind, but either way, she's awesome. They had better not EVER kill her off. Peter remembers and they embrace.

Later, Peter sees Caitlin being shipped out for deportation and the emotional stress makes him unintentionally jump back to the present, to the shop in Montreal. Caitlin is stuck in the future and Peter tries but can't jump back. And then who should emerge from the shadows of the shop but Kensei, who introduces himself to Peter as Adam Monroe (!) and tells Peter that together they are going to change history.

This episode had three more of the eight paintings:

1. Nikki beating down the door;
2. Peter looking through window with the BioHazard sticker;
3. The Hiro/Kensei swordfight.

There are only two more painting scenes we haven't seen: the one with Mohinder firing the gun and HRG shot in the head. Considering that this episode ended with Mohinder and HRG on the outs and Bob giving Mohinder a gun and telling him to bring Claire in because she's the only one who can save the world (again!), I have a feeling we're going to be seeing those scenes quite soon. When he takes the gun, dippy Mohinder tells Bob about his secret allegiance with Bennett and their plan to take down The Company together. You're pretty, Mohinder, but not too good with the cloak and dagger stuff, are you?

Tonight: We find out what happened during the 4 months between last season and this one.