Monday, February 26, 2007

'Heroes' - "Company Man" - A BulletPoint Report

Heroes - NBC





I don't think we've had a bad episode of this show yet and tonight's "Company Man" surely threw fuel on that fire. Lassie who? Now, Mr. Muggles, there's a professional doggy-actor!
HRG - Mr. Bennet

Here's what happened tonight, hopefully I caught all the action:
  • Ted Sprague and Matt Parkman searched for clues in the Bennet's house when said Bennets returned home.
  • Sprague (Radioactive Hands) is sure that Bennet actually made them (the ones with powers) the way they are and convinced Matt (Mindreading Ex-Cop) the same.
  • "I'm just a paper salesman," said Bennet. Oh, but no one believes him except his wife and son. I think even Mr. Muggles knows that's not the truth.
  • The show utilized black and white flashbacks to tell HRG's backstory. 15 years ago he was hired as the regional manager of Primatech Paper as a front. The "real" job was "morally grey." Supposedly they wanted to keep the people with powers safe until it became necessary to kill them.
  • HRG's (Bennet's) first partner was Claude, the Invisible Man.
  • Since Matt can read minds, he could read Sprague's mind as he became more irritated at HRG. He also knows that Claire regenerates. When Sprague becomes determined to shoot Mrs. Bennet, Matt shoots Claire knowing she will live.
  • Claire played dead after coming to and Bennet and Matt went off to Primatech to get the files Sprague wanted. Sprague insisted he be the one to stay with Lyle (Claire's brother) and Mrs. Bennet.
  • The Haitian certainly was mute in the flashback sequences, but can definitely talk now. How? Why? Did I miss something? When he was discovered by Them as a teen, he couldn't talk but drew a picture of his power akin to "pulling memories like grubworms." In the teen shots, he had the same symbol on his clothes that we've seen on tattoos and Hiro's sword.
  • In flashback, Bennet and his boss were at the fire scene where Baby Claire supposedly died. Later, he met up with Hiro's father (and a young child Hiro) on the DeVeaux Building roof where Hiro's father handed him young Claire to take care of until they want her back. "This is not a request. She belongs to us."
  • Bennet tried thinking in Japanese so Matt couldn't read his thoughts at the house.
  • Matt and Bennet know that Sprague is too volatile and could cause a nuclear explosion, so they sort of team up. Bennet wants to get a tranquilizer to shoot Sprague.
  • In flashback, it looked like Bennet betrayed Claude (Invisible) to his boss saying he was "hiding one" - a powers person. The boss ordered Bennet to kill him. He drove him to a bridge where he shot him twice. It looked like a clean kill at the end, but Claude went invisible, so...
  • Claire tried to rescue Lyle and her mother, but only Lyle escaped.
  • Sprague realized that Parkman probably knew that Claire regenerates.
  • Upon returning to the house, Bennet showed Sprague his file insisting although they abducted him three months ago, they didn't cause his affliction.HEROES: The Haitian
  • Mr. Bennet's boss arrives, tipped off by him, shoots Sprague. Sprague totally freaked and nuked out. Everyone gets out of the house except for Bennet who tried to shoot Sprague with the tranquilizer. Claire ended up doing it because he couldn't get close enough.
  • In flashbacks, it was three years ago Bennet needed glasses and told Claire she was adopted. She's the one who chose HRG - Hornrimmed Glasses.
  • Bennet's boss told him it was time to kill another partner as the Haitian "stole" Claire after the scene at the house calmed down.
  • Bennet followed them to the same bridge as the Claude scene and they all got out of their cars. It turns out that Bennet set it up to look like the Haitian shot him and escaped with Claire. The Haitian shot him in a non-vital abdomen area. Then HRG told him to go deep and erase any thoughts he might have.
  • So Claire is now on the road with the Haitian and Bennet's memory is wiped.
  • Both Sprague and Matt are recaptured and held at Primatech.HEROES: Baby Claire
Wow. I don't know how efficient Primatech is, though. At about 10:30 PM ET I received an email from them saying it was urgent I read it before 9 PM. I haven't gone all through it yet, but think it probably tells a bit about the woman at Primatech who might have powers. Or, maybe it's about Mr. Muggles' powers!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

rClaire's "timeline" is off for me. I thought she was about 14 months in the fire. Then in last night's episode she was a baby. Am I mistaken or what? Her biological mother referred to the fire as 14 years ago, now she is 16....which fits better with her being 14 months old at the fire.

tbc

Anonymous said...

Please someone out there tell me they saw the clip with Simone getting up after she got Shot and saying "U wana shoot me again"

Or did I halucinate that?

Jackie S. said...

TBC - You're right. She was supposed to be 14 months old. I believe you caught an "oops" on their part.

Lyss - Not sure if they really answered a few of your questions. Hiro's father knows now, I believe, but not sure about when he was a child.

Anon - I guess she'll have to be shot again until she goes away.

Anonymous said...

I got the email, too. It seems it was nothing more than a poll. Of course, by the time I got the email, it was like Tuesday morning at about 3:15 a.m. I was hoping it was something good. The first (and I hope last) time I've been let down by anything remotely connected with Heroes.