My favorite line of the episode comes from the scene where Ando and Hiro are at the poker game and Ando has just seen the gun under the table. He’s saying he has to go to the restroom and is pulling Hiro along with him.
The high roller with the gun says, “You guys go to the bathroom together?”
I was just watching it again and caught a very teeny mistake. When Claire first meets her bio-parents, and Claire’s mom suggests they have lemonade the camera is behind Claire and AED sitting on the couch and he puts his hand on her back. The camera shifts to a frontal view and AED repeats the motion of putting his hand on her back.
Like I said. Teensy mistake but if you watch it again, it’s obvious. Maybe future Hiro was up to something.
See, that’s the thing. In last week’s episode he was in Las Vegas in the morning, (while trying to get Captain Congress,) and was then right there at the hospital talking to Claire, with the mind blank guy. Of course, at the “same time,” the psi-cop and his wife were eating some steaks, and they are in LA, and last I checked, steaks aren’t the usual breakfast food, so I am left wondering how fast and loose the writers are with the timeline.
If captain Congress escaped early in the morning and the visit with Claire was in the afternoon, there’s plenty of time for him to take a private jet from Las Vegas to Texas. It really doesn’t take that long to fly cross-country these days, what with the new-fangled jet airplanes the kids are all talking about.
No, really, it’s not. Evil Dad has not shown any indication of having powers whatsoever. He could fly from Las Vegas to Texas by jet in a couple of hours. No superhuman abilities required.
But there’s been no indication that hours have passed between cross-country scenes that he’s in. Also, there’s the broken, identical, glasses- so much time was spent on that scene that it’s obviously supposed to be important to the viewer. Besides, having him just be a normal guy with a ton of frequent flier miles is kinda… boring. Has there been a single scene around the Cheerbleeder/EvilDad household which indicates that he spends a lot of time travelling?
True, and I tend to agree. But it wouldn’t be the first time that the really powerful guy chose not to reveal his true powers until it would be totally cool for the story. I mentioned it before but he seems very calm around super-powered beings. That could be because he has super-powered assistants around him. Could also be because he’s fairly certain he could kick all their asses.
Maybe the shot of his cracked glasses was him recollecting the only time someone’s managed to get a good punch in; his confrontation with Sylar in NY.
DeadDad (i.e., Chandra Suresh) was in contact with both Sylar and EvilDad about the possibility of emerging superbeings. DeadDad may have used Sylar and EvilDad to help track down the folks that were pictured on his world map. This is strictly a business and scientific relationship between the three men at this point, and it’s entirely possible that neither Sylar nor EvilDad know of the other’s participation in DeadDad’s research.
Then Sylar went weird and decided that he could learn more by studying the brains of supers. Thus began his killing spree. He may have started with DeadDad, even though DeadDad wasn’t (as far as we know) super himself, if DeadDad found out about his plan and objected.
So EvilDad is continuing the research he began with DeadDad (which explains why he just wants to examine the supers he finds, and doesn’t kill them, and appears to know more about them than they do). Sylar is starting his own type of research.
Very much a WAG, but what the heck, posting anyway.
I’m also starting to think that Claire’s dad is possibly merely trying to learn about the supers, and is not really evil. One thing from the ep that contradicts me: the ‘previously on Heroes’ segment. When they showed the clip of Nathan flying away from AED and Mindwipe Dude, the narrator said, “Nathan Petrelli escaped from the face of evil.” Not necessarily verbatim, but it was close to that. So the producers at least want us to think AED is evil.
I’m starting to worry that the heroes, who are all starting to meet one another, have no clues whatsoever about who ‘the cheerleader’ may be. Matt is, at this point, also unconnected to everyone, but the Syler investigation gives him an easy way to meet them later.
I see three possibilities for how Mohinder, Peter, Hiro, and their superfriends can find out about Claire.
1)When Claire’s brother finds out about her ability, she freaks out and runs away from home. She ends up in New York and there is a chance meeting.
2)In dealing with Eden, the heroes encounter more of AED’s associates. They meet the only others who know about Claire: the one’s who played the birth parents. For some reason, they tell the heroes about her.
3)Claire gets in serious danger. AED himself calls up Peter Petrelli and tells him to save the girl. This would require a major arrogance-breaking event for AED to think he couldn’t handle things on his own.
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When they showed the clip of Nathan flying away from AED and Mindwipe Dude, the narrator said, “Nathan Petrelli escaped from the face of evil.” Not necessarily verbatim, but it was close to that. So the producers at least want us to think AED is evil.QUOTE]
Maybe his power is Face-Of-Evil?
The heros will probably meet Claire at the stadium in Texas where she asked the jock to take a ride with her. That’s where she’s threatened in the pictures. There is also a picture of Peter dodging flying locker doors which suppports a meeting at the stadium.
My list wasn’t about where they’d meet, but more about how they’d know where to find her. I agree they’ll probably all be in Odessa at some point, which weakens the chance of my first option. However, assuming she’s part of the ‘NY Nuke’ story, meeting in New York is still possible.
Future-Hiro spoke of saving the world, not the city, so it’s just barely possible (not at all likely, IMO) the others will save New York before they even meet Claire. She could be part of another story arc altogether!
By the way, please pretend I didn’t put a unneeded apostrophe in my first post.
Oh, that’s right. I forgot she’s being menaced at the stadium where she met QB. Was E-Sock (Isaac) simply painting a prophesy about the bad thing which was going to happen to her that night, or was he painting something which happens later? How literal are his paintings? Do they all go to Texas, save Claire, then all go back and save NY?
Yeah, it looks like they’re going to Odessa Texas in the Nov. 20th episode. There are a number of pictures on the nbc.comforums . (possible spoiler alert!)