Watching Heroes

Episode 16 (Unexpected) really starts to bring the threads together, creating a tighter storyline for us to follow. This episode also really deals with Peter Petrelli coming into his own.

For you late comer, Spoiler Warning is in effect.

This episode finally brings Hana Gitelman from the graphic novel into the televised series. Hana arrives at Ted’s desert self imposed isolation with with information regarding the marking on thier necks and HRG’s involvement. Her intro unites her with Ted Sprague, the nuclear man, in a mission of vengeance against HRG.

Mohinders quest to find and identify other heroes turns ugly as his newly aquired sidekick Sylar, in the guise of Zane Taylor the melting man, uses the discovery of Dale Smither, a woman with super hearing, to aquire a new power. This backfires on sylar in that the power seems to be a bit beyond his control and is causes him great discomfort and makes Mohinder panic in the belief that Sylar is after them.

Matt Parkman is forced to deal with the fact of the diamonds, he stole, after Niki killed the man he was guarding. His wife discovers and expensive ring and he tells her it was for her as a cover. This backfires on him when she goes to get the ring resized and the real value of it is revealed. He comes clean with his with, but is interrupted by a mysterious phone call. The phone call turns out to be from Ted and along with Hana they convince Matt that they need him to get answers about the markings on thier necks from HRG.

Claude ‘The Invisible Man’ Raines pushes through some rough physical training in an attempt to get Peter to manifest his abilities. During the fight Peter draws on the Telekentic ability that Sylar used against him in Texas. HRG shows up later, having been tipped off by Isaac, and shock Claude, but Peter stops the taser before it hits him, manifesting what appears to be Hiro’s talent or possible telekenisis again. He then pushes Claude off the building and leaps after him. He catches Claude, then flies away leaving HRG and the Haitian on the roof. HRG gets a call from Claire telling him that the mother has collapsed again and he says he is coming home. When Claude recovers he flips out, because he knows who HRG is and explains that they are the reason that he has been in hiding. He tells Peter that he is on his own and then disappears.

HRG shows up at the hospital, after Claire has already tried to explain to the doctor about the Haitian and his ability to affect memories. As he tries to calm Claire down she blows up on him revealing what she knows and her disgust of him. He reveals to her that his reasoning was that Sylar had attacked her mother and that she didn’t need to remember that. After they get her home Claire and HRG get into it and Ted appears in the living room. As they try to back out of the house, Matt appears behind them and says that they are going to get some answers.

Simone andd Nathan have a brief meeting regarding Peter and she mentions going public about the powers and Nathan tells her not to.

Hiro and Ando get caught in the middle of a dispute between Hope, with whom Ando took off with at the end of last episode, and the man the stole the bag from. The dispute turns to gun fire with ando getting hit in the arm and Hiro, inadvertantly using his power to stop a gunshot. Police arrive to haul Hope and the corrupt cop away and Hiro decides that he need to go it alone. He tells ando to go home and as he boards the bus, Stan Lee has a cameo as the bus driver.

Peter confronts Isaac about his helping HRG to find him. They get into a heated confrontation, with Peter accusing him of jealousy and being paid off. Isaac denies this and says that Peter is dangerous and pulls a gun that HRG had given him on Peter. Peter goes invisible and uses his other abilities to assault Isaac. Isaac hears someone behind him and turns and shoots, only it is Simone and he puts two bullets into her chest. The episode ends with Peter holding a dying simone and Isaac comong to stand next to them.

all in all this has probably been one of the better episodes. Peter has really started coming into his own. Far from the young man with lots of doubts and not sure of what he is capable of. Hiro has also started a shift away from his perpetual optimism. He has lost a little of his zeal and belief that he is like a comic hero is starting to grasp the reality of what is going on. Hopefully Ando will still have a strong presence in the series, as in my opinion, he provides a nice non powered counterpoint to all the powered heroes.