Heroes 02/16/09 (3-16) "Building 26" (spoilers)

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Since Lightray’s being a big wanker and falling negligent in his threadstarting duties: :smiley:

So last week our gang fell out of sky, went boom, stole some clothes and crayons and the only one to get injured/killed was the chick who wasn’t on the plane in the first place. Noah’s trying to play all sides, the Japanese guys get ready to go to India instead of the Indian guy, ‘cause that’s what the picture says they have to do; and if Claire keeps being a smug bratling she’ll have both fathers colluding to bury her in the backyard so deep she won’t be able to get text reception.

Building 26, we presume, is where Nathan is keeping Tracey under the hamburger lights. But maybe she’s doing all right on her own.From the show site:

Nathan’s (Adrian Pasdar) plans face exposure as Homeland Security begins an investigation under direct orders from the President of the United States. Sylar (Zachary Quinto) and Luke (guest Dan Byrd) embark on a road trip to find Sylar’s father, but are secretly being hunted by Nathan’s agents. Life gets complicated for the Bennet family as Claire (Hayden Panettiere) goes into action to protect a young man with abilities (guest star Justin Baldoni) from being captured by HRG (Jack Coleman). Elsewhere, Matt’s (Greg Grunberg) prophetic images lead Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) to India and a mysterious ally comes to the aid of our Heroes.

Simone, Charlie, Elle, and now maybe Daphne- not only is this a bad show to be on if your’re black, it’s not looking too good for girlfriends either:eek:

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Yeah, I’m starting to think anyone interested in dating a hero needs to take a lesson from this sweet lady. If they kill one more girlfriend, it won’t be shocking, or sad, or anything like that. It’ll be part of a drinking game.

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Since Tracey is a former girlfriend of Nathan’s, I’m willing to accept one more refrigerator…

sigh of course, that’d only stick us with the third triplet, who’ll no doubt be another Ali Larter snoozefest character.

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I’m hoping ‘they’ saved Niki. Threw the third one in the coffin as a decoy, and she’s off getting therapy and ninja training from some mysterious covert org. That character had potential. Blonde ass kicker- whaddya mean you can’t work with that?

**Caerie- ** that is so bookmarked!

Between the dead girlfriends (Caitlin’s status unknown); and the blacks…the browns(hi Maya y Alejandro!)…Mohinder better watch his ass.

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That “escape” was so obviously a setup.

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Gah that scene with Tracy trying to escape bugs me. The woman who was trying to shut them down is going to use that as justification to allow the human rights abuses to continue. Tracy was entirely justified in her breakout and even killing that guy.

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I hope Nathan gets what’s coming to him at the end of all this. Noah just did and it felt good.

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Good Lord, Tracy is dumb. You have freeze-power, you’re surrounded by armed men but you’re holding a guy hostage. Do you:

  1. Freeze-dry your hostage, removing the only disincentive for the men with guns not to shoot you.
  2. Negotiate, while the men with guns might not shoot you.

But, at least Hiro learned the same damn lesson he’s learned at least a half-dozen times before, in each season before this. Maybe someday it’ll stick.

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I think Tracy inherited the stupid gene. “Hmm… an old friend was here just yelling out about how she’s gonna shut it down because of how I was being treated. I better break out and freeze this guy in front of her, even though I still have no chance to escape.”

When exactly does Bryan Fuller come back?

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Aside from the clunky GWoT exposition, this show is getting pleasantly dark. Me likey.

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And recap tomorrow, I have a headcold. Too stoned to snark

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Bah, you tease!

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Yeah, that was awfully convenient, wasn’t it? Not to mention for Tracy to collaborate so willingly.

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I think the music choices were comedy gold this time. When Sylar turned on the radio and Psycho Killer started playing, I cracked up.

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“I’m not a serial killer.”
“Well, you follow the same pattern, and kill people the same way…”
“Okay, technically, yeah, I’m a serial killer.”

bwah!

and, Tracy’s just playing the angles, just like she always has. She was chained to the floor under a heat lamp with absolutely nobody in a position of power or authority on her side (new boss didn’t count, because as soon as any of the myriad other supers turned somebody into toaster strudel, new boss would completely flip-flop on the whole human rights issue), so she snuffed one guy so that at least Nathan (and, strangely enough, maybe the hunter) would be at least partially grateful.

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Bwah! #2: “Did you apologize to his bloodstain? It’s still warm.” Nathan, you bitch. The ensuing mopup-nice touch, mister director.

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That bugged me. The first thing I thought when he said that was, “It’s not warm. He froze, remember?”

That was a really clunky setup, by the way. The bolt that she’s been fastened to just *happens *to pull out while the DHS woman is there? Come on.

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I’m wondering how long they will stretch out Sylar’s zany whirlwind adventure with Luke: “Good night Weasely. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”

Someone should tell the kid what happened to Sylar’s last girlfriend with superpowers…

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Waffle time at the Bennet house:
Lyle: So, dad, where you been lately?
Noah: New job- meetings…… TPS reports…….consulting…….stock manipul….Oops!
Lyle: My bullshit meter just redlined.
Sandra: Lyle, *really, * do you think your dad still works for those horrible Primatech people?
Lyle: Actually, to afford this place, I thought he’d moved up to human trafficking
Claire: Well, in a way……….
Noah: I’m doing this to Keep you Safe!
Sandra: I’m done with your lies. Get out.
Noah: Bubububu….I have to Protect My Family!
Sandra: Last year your son got electrocuted by that Elle girl, and your daughter had her scalp cut off. Try staying home for a change.

*Playing the crappiest version of Born to be Wild ever. And I should know, I started drinking in the 70’s. *
Sylar: Why did I bring you along anyhow?
Kid: Narrative framing tool. What, are you going to drive across the country just talking to yourself about birds and wagons? That’d just be weird.
Sylar: I usually cut people open and take their abilities. Why I chopped up that hot lie detecting chick and kept you alive, I have no idea
Kid: You’re a serial killer? Cool
Sylar: Serial killer? How gauche.
Kid: Well, yeah. You kill them, cut’em up,take their abilities as trophies……
Sylar: OK, * technically, * I’m a serial killer. Ewwww, how gauche!
Kid: Your dad used to take me out in the middle of the night to look at birds in the woods. Mom thought he was a freak, but she still let me go
Sylar: Your mom really wanted you to get kidnapped and murdered, you do realize that?
Kid: Your dad sold you for smokes and formaldehyde
Sylar: No, really, why haven’t I killed you yet?
*Audience: Yeah! Get with it, Gray! *
Sylar: I remember that wagon- my dad used to take me out to the woods in it all bundled up and I’d watch him look at birds.
Kid: that’s amazing
Sylar:That I remember that?
Kid: no, that a guy that geeky got enough laid to have a kid to drag around the forest. Are you sure he didn’t steal you from someone else before he sold you like a puppy?
Sylar: You remind me of my old girlfriend zaaaaaaap/ finger twitches

Claire: Hey, Comic store geek with awesome bone structure- is that your ability? I’m here to save you from the government
Alex: I thought you were here to give me a lap dance
Claire: Dad! He’s over here!

*Claire changes her mind, runs off with awesome bone structure. Noah is thwarted in his apprehension by a magazine rack. A magazine rack. Ex-cuse me? Anyhow, Nissan obviously didn’t keep up the payments, or didn’t want to be associated with comic store nerds, ‘cause they bust off in a Rabbit older than Claire. *

DHS dame: No lawyer, no Miranda? Nuh uh we do not allow torture in this country! (anymore). Especially to my martini buddies, no way bub. I’m going to the AG, who is clearly not Gonzalez anymore.
Tracy: Bitch, take me with you!!!
DHS: Naw, cool your heels. Hey, was that an insensitive thing to say?
Tracy: Let me go or he gets Frostie-d to death. Oh, what the hell, my negotiating position is pretty weak right now -cruuunch
DHS: Fuck the constitution, here’s your budget allocation Senator.

Claire: You breathe underwater? Far out.
Alex: Sure, in fresh water- then I tried it in the ocean, sucked in half a pound of salt, got saline poisoning. Tried it at the pool and farted chlorine for a week.
Claire: So, you can only be a superhero at the lake?
Nerd: I can catch trout with my hands
Claire: I miss West.

*Meanwhile, in India, Ando and Hiro find a -Oh god, she’s a girl, a possible girlfriend, and brown. Ana’s deadmeat. Pour those shots right now, people, someone’s gonna die and it’s not R2 and Threepio, here. *
Hiro: I don’t need abilities to be a hero! Just my trusty dagger and my patented Pikachu punch, and I’m saving the world! Well, saving the pretty candy chefs. Unlike some people who jus throw pink sparks and get hauled off by thugs. And I get the girl!
Ando: I heard that! No, I get the girl!
Hiro: No, I do!
Ana: Actually, my partner? She’s my partner.
Partner: I get the girl!

*Sylar grabs the drugged boy, a SWAT uniform and a blood soaked laptop. Hoyay fanfic postings cause ISP crashes across the nation. The Dell people double check their product placement contract for rights for product use by homicidal maniac characters. Meanwhile: *

Season 1 flashbacks! Claire’s crying and hugging her dad again. Oops, big faker. She’s just hiding a boy in the closet who isn’t Odessa Zack. (We’re just swimming in the subtext tonight, aren’t we?)

Noah’s in the bar, feeling up his wedding ring, drinking ‘em neat. (Look, dude, can you make it 24 hours out of the house before you go trolling for booty? )
Noah: Hey, you know where a guy can get a place to stay around here?
Bartender: I do not get paid enough to listen to middle age guys whine about their wives throwing them out. Time to perfunctory pickup attempt: 8 minutes.
Noah: Waitaminute-did I just get roofied?
Barkeep: Don’t look at me, glasses.
Noah: Why does this feel so familiar? Hey, It’s the fantastic three-where’d you guys come fr….Thud
Parkman: You’re gonna wake up 12 hours from now strapped to a table in a lab somewhere…
Mohinder: Hi there!
Parkman……and I saved those white Primatech jammies you shoved me in, too. By the way-sorry lady, I gotta do this….* <brain mojo thingy>*You never saw any of us here tonight </bmt>
Barkeep: Huh? Someone say something?
Peter: Don’t touch me Parkman! I’m trying to keep my flight on.
Mohinder: I’m the Indian guy, and I don’t go to India to save the girl. I’m the strong guy, but you two are carrying Bennet out of the bar. I’m not allowed to do *any-thing. *
Peter: Shut up Mohinder- remember what happened last time you were ‘allowed’ to do anything? Do you want me to show you the bugface pictures again?
Mo: hands in pockets, kicks the ground No…
Matt: It’s okay buddy; we’re going to let you strap Noah to your lab table
Mo: Really? Oh goody goody goody!
Matt: He knows everything we need to know
Peter: You sure? Maybe we should we go snag one of those laptops too ….

*Next time: Coleman takes a solo. *

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Iocane powder! That’s how Sylar kept coming back from the dead! He was only mostly dead!

Well, the bits have to thaw out sometime. And the heat was cranked waaaay up in the cell next door. The floor’s probably yoga studio hot.

Nathan mentioned that to Danko, or Tracy mentioned it to Nathan. Still didn’t make popsicling that dude the smartest negotiating option for Tracey. But being overheated makes me homicidal too.