Monday, November 12, 2007

'Heroes' - "Four Months Ago"

Heroes - NBC

Tonight they promised us answers about what happened between the seasons. And,
they actually did. Of course, as with Lost, now I have some new questions. But I knew that Bob was a bad, bad man. I knew it!

Here's the lowdown skinny ...

Everything hinged on the ability to remember the past, a quality only found in humans. Well, that's what Mohinder Suresh's narrative told us, anyway.

Here's what happened to DL, Micah, and Niki/Jessica:
The bullet we saw last season didn't kill DL. He actually got a job as a fireman and became a true-life normal kind of hero. He did until Niki went all Jessica, locking Niki in the mirror to run off to Los Angeles, that is.


But before that happened, Niki met Bob Bad Man in the hospital as DL recovered
from his wound. Bob knew about her powers and offered to cure her so she would never hurt anyone again. He mentioned that the papers had nothing about what had happened at Kirby Plaza, nor the Linderman death. He wanted to help her because Jessica's not gone, blah-blah-blah.

She agreed to take medication at home as she didn't want to go in for treatmen
t. On her first day of a new job as a car saleswoman, Jessica took over and ran off to Los Angeles. DL went to find her and got shot as he offended her new lustmate on the dance floor. Now, that killed him.

She left Micah with his grandmother and cousins, Monica and Damon, to go for treatment with dear Bad Bob. At the end of tonight's episode, in present day, she left the Company supposedly cured.


What happened with the Wonder Twins:

Maya and Alejandro were "normal" at his wedding. Maya, not really so normal as she was vehemently against the marriage. She caught the bride having sex with another man at the wedding (no less). Her black bleeding eyes bit began and she not only killed the bride and her sex mate, but the entire wedding party!


She tried to hide out in a church, even away from her brother -- the only one who didn't die in the party of hundreds. He found her in the church and turned her in "for her own good." She did the eye thing again, he calmed her holding her hands and they were last seen with a watch repairman named Gabriel (Sylar) near the US border.

I still don't like them. She killed so many, make her go away.

What happened after Kirby Plaza:

As Nathan and Peter flew away from the Plaza, Peter insisted that Nathan let
him go. Peter was nuking out and Nathan was starting to burn. Nathan can fly, but he doesn't burn well, not at all.

Nathan ended up in the hospital in very bad shape. He told his wife about flying and all. Then Mrs. Petrelli told her that he was suffering delusions and they had a deep dark secret in the family's past with delusions and suicide. She better run, Mrs. P said. Maybe she didn't put it quite that way, but ...!

They all assumed Peter exploded and died. But Peter had brought Nathan into the hospital in the first place and was himself healing when ...

Peter, Adam, Elle, Bob, the Haitian, and the Company:
... Elle, with Bad Man Bob (Dad?) at her side, zapped Peter and they took him captive at the Company, telling him they want to cure him. They claimed that he needed to be cured before he hurt anyone else.

In the cell er, ... room, next to him was a man named Adam. Adam had been there for thirty years awaiting his cure. And, yes, it's that Adam, Kensei Adam. Bob or Elle gave Peter doses of what they called the Haitian pills to make him forget his powers or render him useless. The Haitian was there, working for Bob.

Elle likes to be all over Peter. It turns out she doesn't get out much. She has that fingertip zap thing going on -- burnt down her grandmother's house when she was six, caused a major blackout when she was eight. The doctors called her a sociopath. So, it appears the Company has had her for years.

Adam kept working on Peter to remember, to not take the meds. He told him it
was a prison and they were just going to keep him, not cure him. Adam also told him that his (Adam's) blood could cure Nathan's burns because he has the healing factor.

Finally, he broke through to Peter and they both escaped. They went to the
hospital where Adam's blood did indeed do the trick and Nathan started healing right before their eyes. But they had to get out of there quick as they were surely followed.

And, they were. They split up with Adam telling Peter to meet him at the warehouse in Montreal and they would save the world.

Elle set Peter afire, but then chased after Adam. She had the Haitian chase Peter. He caught him, but instead of bringing him back, he decided it was better for Peter to escape the Company and start a new life. He handcuffed him inside an outgoing cargo car and did the Vulcan Mind Meld ... er, no ... that's the Haitian Memory Melt, I think.

And, back to present -- Adam and Peter met in the warehouse. Adam jolted his memory back.

So, are you ready to save the world?

8 comments:

Joanie said...

Jackie,

Have you seen the new TV guide Heroes covers?

Very COOL.

jk in Los Angeles

Anonymous said...

Jackie, you didn't write what your questions are. I'm curious to see what your questions are. I want to know what happened to Parkman and that group.

Anonymous said...

Okay Now I do have more questions, what happened to Matt and how did he get where he's at now with the little girl, what about Nathan and Clair? This episode was good but it didn't show what happened to the rest of the heroes and how they got there. And the Haitian??? I thought he was in hiding, how did he start working with the company again??

RBennie said...

It seems like that should be a two-part episode, because there are still a lot of things to explain. How did Parkman and Mohinder wind up playing house with Molly? How did Claire's family end up in CA? How did DL go from being a wanted man to being a fireman?

starcrunch said...

Next week's story seems to be about getting the cheerleader's blood to help stop the virus. Isn't Adam's blood similar? The company had him in custody for decades - they NEVER took a blood sample?

How did Bob/The Company know where Peter would take Nathan? It's like they were waiting for him.


The Haitain erases Peters mind to help him, yet leaves him with his passport, photo of his brother and plane ticket. Not very thorough.

Caroline said...

If Peter had showed up at Kirby Plaza, almost blew up Nathan, took him to the hospital and then got captured by and eventually escaped from The Company...why would he have even had his passport on him for the Haitian to forget to take away from him?

And what the hell did Mrs. Petrelli do to Nathan's wife (Heidi?)? That lady creeps me out. She, too, has some sort of Haitian mind melding power over people, she can certainly make them believe what she tells them, at the very least.

As for Niki, it wasn't Jessica that took over and went back to L.A., it was another personality. A third one. Not exactly sure on her name, something like Ginny or Jennie. But Niki defeated Jessica back in the season finale. And Niki can't just leave the company, she's infected with the virus and will eventually be the cause of the first wave of outbreak in NY that Peter and Caitlin experienced. She has to stay under quarrantine.

Deanna said...

One of the most important questions that was not answered... Why was Sylar in a shack with the transforming gal and why are his powers gone? Thats the question I was wanting to know.

Also, with the Niki/Jessica storyline, it wasn't Jessica who went to LA, but a third personality named "Gina" from Niki's past. I think she said she was from when Niki went to LA at 11yrs old.

Anonymous said...

I hope we don't have get the alternate finale.

They could have replaced the twins story with sylar. We already knew they were wanted for murder...I didn't need to see how. I don't think that story answered any questions I had about them.

I'm guessing since Peter was being held by Bob for over 3 months they had brought a lot of personal stuff to where they were keeping him...and Hatian took it.

The question I have is with Adam..he told Peter he is over 400 years old...Hiro meet him in 1800's...ok fine he was 200 years old at that time. But, he seemed pretty shocked when he found out he couldn't die after being shot with 5 or 6 arrows. I guess it was an act?

Miko