Hiro's quest in this episode is pretty simple; save the woman you love by going back three years in time and prevent destroying the time-space continuum in the process. Okay, maybe not so simple. But that is what Hiro aims to do when he accidentally teleports himself to Odessa, Texas three years in the past.
The show decided to use actual music besides the orignal score designated for each character. It started with Fleetwood Mac last season for Sylar's childhood flashback, and this time included some southern country song as Hiro entered the small town. Very fitting. Very funny. Hiro quickly realizes he is still in his hospital gown and finds some clothes hanging on a line. There he meets a young boy dressed as a cowboy with toy guns who tries to stop him. Hiro is obliged to fill the boy in on his noble quest, and the boy lets him take some of his father's clothes. The cowboy follows Hiro to the coffee shop, asking him questions about his quest. When they reach their destination, Hiro crouches down and says 'Don't worry, I'm the good guy!" The child smiles and places his white cowboy hat on top of Hiro's head.
"Good guys wear white hats; bad guys wear black hats."
It is then that a stranger says "Do you mind?" as the two of them are blocking the door. That person is Sylar, who in fact, throughout the entire first season, wore a Black Baseball Hat. Nice imagery, Heroes. Hiro backs away from the door and quickly remembered that three years ago, Sylar had no idea who Hiro was, and no one knew what Sylar even looked like. he had to let him pass.
In comes Charlie, our beloved waitress with an "Internet Brain" as Tony likes to call it. She has enhanced memory and doesn't forget a single thing she reads or sees. God, if only I had that in my classes! Anyways, like most blessings, she has a curse as well. There is an aneurysm in her brain that could kill her at any second due to her vast knowledge of the world. As we learned long ago, she has accepted death and is living her life in peace and happiness until it takes her away. This girl is my hero.
Back in Season 1, Hiro and Ando travel to this time in place to help Peter "Save the cheerleader, save the world". They stop at this diner and Hiro falls in love with Charlie, and goes back 6 months to try to save her from her brain aneurysm. He cannot save her, but ends up spending those 6 months with her in love and happiness and all of that. Upon his return, Sylar had split her head open in the back room and went off to collect Claire's ability at Homecoming.
Alright let me try not to screw this up. So now, 'Future Hiro" goes into the bathroom before Charlie is killed, and tells 'Past Hiro" that the Brain Man (Sylar) has already killed her. He tells Past Hiro to go back and save her, but it is really so that their relationship can happen. Past Hiro disappears, and everything is right as rain. So far.
Hiro returns to the rest of the diner and watches Sylar interact with Charlie. Talk about creepy. I miss the old Sylar. I mean he looked like a serial killer. He kept to himself, wore baggy clothes and a hat, was just plain firghtening. Now he wears DKNY shirts, slicks back his hair and has sex whenever her loses his powers or something crazy happens. I'm not really afraid of him anymore. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Charlie asks if she can take Sylar's order and he asks her what's the best thing on the menu. She tells him after rattling off everything she knows about his World War II Sylar watch. He figures out she has an excellerated memory and then asks her how her brain clot is doing. He gets rude and makes a sound of her head exploding before ordering the Tahitian Pancakes she mentioned before. A little frightened, Charlie takes his menu and walks away. Awkward.
We cut to other people in the diner, and look who it is. Noah Bennet! He is there with the lovely Elizabeth Rohm from Angel (Hell yeah, Angel) having breakfast and lying to Sandra on his phone for the eightieth time. Rohm's character is clearly into Noah and presents him with a motel key to 'stop this dance" or whatever people say. He doesn't deny her, but he doesn't agree either. He gets a phonecall from Eden at Primatech and rushes there to talk with Isaac about Claire. Old footage with new Noah close ups? Who knows. I guess it's not that important. Sometimes I forget all about Isaac.
Samuel made his grandpa-like friend send him back in time to antagonize Hiro in his quest. While Hiro tries not to be seen by the others, Samuel talks to him and asks him if he is making the right choice, if Charlie is worth all of this trouble. Hiro responds with a resounding yes. He leaves Samuel's side and freezes time right before Sylar kills Charlie. He moves Sylar into a storage compartment in a bus, and then returns to his love's side. She looks terrible and tells him that her aneurysm burst and she could die at any moment. Fuck. Maybe Sylar killed her at just the right time, originally. Maybe he shouldn't have gone back at all.
Hiro freezes time once again and tries to find Sylar. Sylar finds him and threatens to kill him for what he did to him, but Hiro is too fast for him. He toys with our villain for a while and they end up in a back alley "fighting" each other. Hiro is all in white, Sylar is all in black. Very Western, very symbolic. Hiro says he knows Sylar can fix things once he knows how they work. He makes a deal with him, saying that he will tell him everything he knows about the future if he can save Charlie's life. Sylar greedily agrees, and they go back into the diner together, claiming that Sylar is a doctor.
Although Sylar is still greedy and evil, he finds Charlie's aneurysm, and squishes it. The blood clot seeps out her eye and she is healed. Healed! Who knew Sylar could do that? I didn't! he smiles and then quickly asks for his part of the bargain. He wants to know his future. Hiro reluctantly tells him that he will kill many people with abilities, and become the most powerful of them all, him alone. He tells him that all of his kind will rise up against him, and that no one mourns his death.
Sylar's face drops. He is clearly sad about this news.
"No one will shed a tear when you die. No one." Hiro finishes.
This part gave me hope. Sylar's face had a shit ton of regret on it. Very foreboding. Was saving Charlie going to be a milestone in a completely different turn of events? Was he going to change his mind? No. He ends up leaving with his black hat on his head and that evil Sylar Smirk on his lips. I guess I was just too hopeful. He needs to go to homecoming and try to kill Claire for everything else to happen the way it does. Peter needs to find a purpose and get Claire's power, and Isaac's paintings have to come true, right? Damn the time-space-continuum.
We cut again to Noah and his life. He has a chat with Claire earlier about always wanting to be a Shakespeare teacher before she runs off with her cheerleading friends. He then goes to said motel and meets up with Rohm. The both of them look at each other and talk at the same time. She says "I'm glad you came", and he says "I can't do this". Thank God, Noah. I was getting worried for a second. They talk about thier "relationship" and why it shouldnt exist even though it never really did, and she ends up getting the Haitian to erase her memory anyways. Kind of a lame subplot, but nice to see that Noah is still of upstanding moral character.
At the end of the episode, Charlie agrees to go on a time-travel vacation with Hiro and they leave the diner together. Only Charlie is one step ahead of Hiro and he looks away for one second and she disappears. Samuel walks up to Hiro with a long face. Dammnit, Samuel.
Samuel somehow brings Hiro to the carnival like he does to everyone, and tells him that his grandpa took Charlie and put her in a place in time and space that only Samuel knows. He told him he did it because he needs Hiro's powers to help him, and he had to manipulate him somehow. He said that the trip with Charlie killed his grandpa. Hiro calls him a murderer and he just kind of shrugs like he could care less. He tells Hiro that he needs a few butterflies of his own stepped on, and that he did something terrible 8 weeks ago.
Having no choice really, Hiro agrees to help Samuel. He asks him what he did and a flashback of Samuel shows him standing over a bullet-ridden body of the one and only Mohinder Suresh! So that's where Mohinder's been; dead. I just don't see how you accidentally kill Mohinder. But whatever. I'm sure they'll explain it later, they always do.
The show decided to use actual music besides the orignal score designated for each character. It started with Fleetwood Mac last season for Sylar's childhood flashback, and this time included some southern country song as Hiro entered the small town. Very fitting. Very funny. Hiro quickly realizes he is still in his hospital gown and finds some clothes hanging on a line. There he meets a young boy dressed as a cowboy with toy guns who tries to stop him. Hiro is obliged to fill the boy in on his noble quest, and the boy lets him take some of his father's clothes. The cowboy follows Hiro to the coffee shop, asking him questions about his quest. When they reach their destination, Hiro crouches down and says 'Don't worry, I'm the good guy!" The child smiles and places his white cowboy hat on top of Hiro's head.
"Good guys wear white hats; bad guys wear black hats."
It is then that a stranger says "Do you mind?" as the two of them are blocking the door. That person is Sylar, who in fact, throughout the entire first season, wore a Black Baseball Hat. Nice imagery, Heroes. Hiro backs away from the door and quickly remembered that three years ago, Sylar had no idea who Hiro was, and no one knew what Sylar even looked like. he had to let him pass.
In comes Charlie, our beloved waitress with an "Internet Brain" as Tony likes to call it. She has enhanced memory and doesn't forget a single thing she reads or sees. God, if only I had that in my classes! Anyways, like most blessings, she has a curse as well. There is an aneurysm in her brain that could kill her at any second due to her vast knowledge of the world. As we learned long ago, she has accepted death and is living her life in peace and happiness until it takes her away. This girl is my hero.
Back in Season 1, Hiro and Ando travel to this time in place to help Peter "Save the cheerleader, save the world". They stop at this diner and Hiro falls in love with Charlie, and goes back 6 months to try to save her from her brain aneurysm. He cannot save her, but ends up spending those 6 months with her in love and happiness and all of that. Upon his return, Sylar had split her head open in the back room and went off to collect Claire's ability at Homecoming.
Alright let me try not to screw this up. So now, 'Future Hiro" goes into the bathroom before Charlie is killed, and tells 'Past Hiro" that the Brain Man (Sylar) has already killed her. He tells Past Hiro to go back and save her, but it is really so that their relationship can happen. Past Hiro disappears, and everything is right as rain. So far.
Hiro returns to the rest of the diner and watches Sylar interact with Charlie. Talk about creepy. I miss the old Sylar. I mean he looked like a serial killer. He kept to himself, wore baggy clothes and a hat, was just plain firghtening. Now he wears DKNY shirts, slicks back his hair and has sex whenever her loses his powers or something crazy happens. I'm not really afraid of him anymore. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Charlie asks if she can take Sylar's order and he asks her what's the best thing on the menu. She tells him after rattling off everything she knows about his World War II Sylar watch. He figures out she has an excellerated memory and then asks her how her brain clot is doing. He gets rude and makes a sound of her head exploding before ordering the Tahitian Pancakes she mentioned before. A little frightened, Charlie takes his menu and walks away. Awkward.
We cut to other people in the diner, and look who it is. Noah Bennet! He is there with the lovely Elizabeth Rohm from Angel (Hell yeah, Angel) having breakfast and lying to Sandra on his phone for the eightieth time. Rohm's character is clearly into Noah and presents him with a motel key to 'stop this dance" or whatever people say. He doesn't deny her, but he doesn't agree either. He gets a phonecall from Eden at Primatech and rushes there to talk with Isaac about Claire. Old footage with new Noah close ups? Who knows. I guess it's not that important. Sometimes I forget all about Isaac.
Samuel made his grandpa-like friend send him back in time to antagonize Hiro in his quest. While Hiro tries not to be seen by the others, Samuel talks to him and asks him if he is making the right choice, if Charlie is worth all of this trouble. Hiro responds with a resounding yes. He leaves Samuel's side and freezes time right before Sylar kills Charlie. He moves Sylar into a storage compartment in a bus, and then returns to his love's side. She looks terrible and tells him that her aneurysm burst and she could die at any moment. Fuck. Maybe Sylar killed her at just the right time, originally. Maybe he shouldn't have gone back at all.
Hiro freezes time once again and tries to find Sylar. Sylar finds him and threatens to kill him for what he did to him, but Hiro is too fast for him. He toys with our villain for a while and they end up in a back alley "fighting" each other. Hiro is all in white, Sylar is all in black. Very Western, very symbolic. Hiro says he knows Sylar can fix things once he knows how they work. He makes a deal with him, saying that he will tell him everything he knows about the future if he can save Charlie's life. Sylar greedily agrees, and they go back into the diner together, claiming that Sylar is a doctor.
Although Sylar is still greedy and evil, he finds Charlie's aneurysm, and squishes it. The blood clot seeps out her eye and she is healed. Healed! Who knew Sylar could do that? I didn't! he smiles and then quickly asks for his part of the bargain. He wants to know his future. Hiro reluctantly tells him that he will kill many people with abilities, and become the most powerful of them all, him alone. He tells him that all of his kind will rise up against him, and that no one mourns his death.
Sylar's face drops. He is clearly sad about this news.
"No one will shed a tear when you die. No one." Hiro finishes.
This part gave me hope. Sylar's face had a shit ton of regret on it. Very foreboding. Was saving Charlie going to be a milestone in a completely different turn of events? Was he going to change his mind? No. He ends up leaving with his black hat on his head and that evil Sylar Smirk on his lips. I guess I was just too hopeful. He needs to go to homecoming and try to kill Claire for everything else to happen the way it does. Peter needs to find a purpose and get Claire's power, and Isaac's paintings have to come true, right? Damn the time-space-continuum.
We cut again to Noah and his life. He has a chat with Claire earlier about always wanting to be a Shakespeare teacher before she runs off with her cheerleading friends. He then goes to said motel and meets up with Rohm. The both of them look at each other and talk at the same time. She says "I'm glad you came", and he says "I can't do this". Thank God, Noah. I was getting worried for a second. They talk about thier "relationship" and why it shouldnt exist even though it never really did, and she ends up getting the Haitian to erase her memory anyways. Kind of a lame subplot, but nice to see that Noah is still of upstanding moral character.
At the end of the episode, Charlie agrees to go on a time-travel vacation with Hiro and they leave the diner together. Only Charlie is one step ahead of Hiro and he looks away for one second and she disappears. Samuel walks up to Hiro with a long face. Dammnit, Samuel.
Samuel somehow brings Hiro to the carnival like he does to everyone, and tells him that his grandpa took Charlie and put her in a place in time and space that only Samuel knows. He told him he did it because he needs Hiro's powers to help him, and he had to manipulate him somehow. He said that the trip with Charlie killed his grandpa. Hiro calls him a murderer and he just kind of shrugs like he could care less. He tells Hiro that he needs a few butterflies of his own stepped on, and that he did something terrible 8 weeks ago.
Having no choice really, Hiro agrees to help Samuel. He asks him what he did and a flashback of Samuel shows him standing over a bullet-ridden body of the one and only Mohinder Suresh! So that's where Mohinder's been; dead. I just don't see how you accidentally kill Mohinder. But whatever. I'm sure they'll explain it later, they always do.
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