Heroes 1.7: Nothing to Hide

[drewbear]

So... Peter's back to sitting with Simone's father? Didn't he give that up to become a hero? And this whole scene is playing out weirdly to me. Neither of their reactions seems right.

Oooooh. Dream sequence. Gotcha. That explains the whole "I love you, Peter" thing.

Man, Simone looks haggard there. I mean, it's understandable considering her dad just died, but I'm surprised that the makeup crew let her go on camera looking like that.

"Good morning, Mrs. Bennett. Good morning... dog." HAH! I like Zach. :-D

Crap. You JUST found your missing tape and then leave it out in the open? Smart, Claire. REAL smart.

Okay, this is totally Niki who woke up. I don't see Ikin react quite like that. And begging for help from the mirror? Yeah, definitely Niki.

Crap. Thought Police's wife is cheating on him? How cliched.

You know, I'm really digging Texas Tina (Niki's friend). She's just so very much who she is, you know?

Wow. Isaac's studio has a lot more windows than I realized.

Hmm... so Peter's been dream-walking with Simone's dad? How iiiiinteresting. And Simone's right, that is so very much something that Peter would say.

Linderman has the missing painting? Yeah... Linderman is a cover identity for Mr. Bennett, methinks.

And we finally meet the mysterious Mrs. Nathan Petrelli. And why am I not surprised that Mama Petrelli has Nathan's political manouvering all planned out?

Umm... why is FBI chick just walking straight into the men's locker room? Couldn't she just wait until Thought Police just walks out?

Oooh. We get to see another of Claire's attempts and Brother Bennett tests her with a staplegun, which he oh so conviniently has beside his computer. Cool effect with Claire's blood being sucked back into her body, though. It also lends credence to the theory that all the supers powers are gaining strength over time.

So Zach immediately backed up Claire without knowing why. Definitely a good friend. :-)

Radioactive crispy Sylar victim? It seems like each of Sylar's victims are killed in a different way, not counting the brain removal. I'm thinking that it's a manifestation of the individual's original power.

So FBI Chick knows enough about the telepathy that she's depending on Matt's using it? Interesting.

So glad that Micah called DL on his bad guy moves.

Jessica? Ikin's "real name" os Jessica? How... boring.

It's a neat coincidence that Hiro and Ando appeared right behind DL & Micah. Yet mroe superpower combinations!!

You can't have superstrength too because you're not "Jessica", Hiro. :-P But I like how you bowed after Ando recognized your good rescue. :-)

Mrs. Petrelli (I really need to learn her first name) seems quite comfortable with being back in the political spotlight. I'm surprised that Nathan wasn't alerted about Peter's arrival, though. How much is it going to take before Peter gets that Nathan doesn't like him.

Peter's willingness to blackmail Nathan is an interesting connection to Nathan's political machinations.

So Hiro's showing off his comic to Micah? I mean, it's cool and all, especially since Micah has some 9th Wonder issues as well, but I wonder what prompted it.

Lyle's being quite a little dick, isn't he? Rather true to life. Claire's appeal to family togetherness worked though, which shows how strong those family ties already are.

Geez, Matt, could you look more conspicuous, please? And I'm thinking that wasisname the Crispy Critter was this guy they think is Sylar. I guess his radioactive powers (maybe fire-based too) got so strong that he literally melted everything around him. Lord, that sucks.

So Peter is covering for Nathan's indiscretion. Yet another example of how Peter cares more for Nathan than the other way around.

IODINE PILLS!! Such a total contradiction to Jericho that it's hilarious.

Ah, so Crispy Critter was the oncologist in charge of Radioactive Man's wife. And "I might explode"? Oh, we've just found our New York nuke, haven't we?

And Matt appears to be gaining a little control as well, what with speaking for Radioactive Man's wife.

How did Niki have Nathan's phone number?

Mrs. Petrelli wasn't fooled for a bit by Peter's little lie, but she desperately wants to. It's kinda sad. And there's Nathan's politician's smile, which Mrs. Petrelli certainly knows well by now.

Shoulder tattoo! Jessica's in the hizzouse! I wonder if shattering the mirror was Jessica's attempt to "lock away" Niki?

So the FBI has a special facility set up to handle supers? Or did I misunderstand what FBI Chick was saying? And Radioactive Man is definitely a high-profile super. I'm thinking that the existence of the supers is about to get broken to the public.

Poor Matt... I was expecting his wife to be in bed with her lover, though.

I get the feeling that Nathan arranged to get the painting as a tit-for-tat situation with Nathan. He seems to be much more of a "payment for services rendered" kinda guy. Of course, warning Peter about Bennett and Deep Cleanser is an interesting altruistic thing for him.

Did I just see a tattoo on Radioactive Man's shoulder? And it looks like Matt has the beginning of one as well.

So Matt's partner is the one nailing Matt's wife. Again, cliched. And again: poor Matt.

Micah is either a technopath! SO! COOL! And he totally knows the difference between Niki and Jessica. I'm thinking that he's been talking with Jessica for a while now.

Next week: Isaac looks... wrong without his stubble.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It was Claire who left it out, not Zach. Zach passed it to Claire and she tucked it under that bookbag or whatever it was.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Danke for the clarification. I just fixed it.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

And if Peter has been dream-walking, it makes me wonder where he picked up that ability from. He met Isaac and drew that sketch in the hospital and he hangs around Nathan and defies gravity. And the last person he's spent enough time with to warrant that? Was Mohinder.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Quite interesting, isn't it? Of course, I've heard some possible spoilers regarding Peter's power that could explain the dream-walking without his picking them up from anyone. Would you like to hear it as well or remain unspoiled? (Usually a silly question, I know, but I thought I'd check before spoilering willy-nilly.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sure, shoot. :)

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Apparently Milo V. has said some stuff about how Peter's powers are tied into connecting with the Jungian Unconciousness. So he dreamwalks by interacting with other people's subconcious minds and channels powers by literally CHANNELING them. He's not copying but rather borrowing them, whether in part or in whole. It would also explain why there don't seem to be any proximity or time requirements for using powers, since he sketched the future quite a while after meeting Isaac. I'm thinking that his limitation is that he has to actually meet the person before interacting with their unconcious minds, though.