Chapter Nine: "Cautionary Tales"

They're trying to make our heads explode, I think, the Heroes writers. Which is good: finally, the show is worth thinking about again. This is what I'm left pondering after last night's episode:

Noah: good guy or bad guy? Mohinder: bad guy or good guy? Mr. Nakamura, Mrs. Petrelli, and all the old-school Heroes: maybe not villains at all? Is Matt going to the dark side with his mind-control? Is Adam -- and not Nathan -- really Claire's father? And how did the producers find a guy, like West, who's even prettier than Claire is?

The mind boggles.

The Bennets are packing up to leave, but Claire doesn't want to go. She knows -- or thinks she knows -- all about what a meanie her father is, thanks to West and his horrific kidnapping experience at Noah's hands. So she tells her dad she hates him and storms out. She apologizes to West for not telling him about her father, and she convinces him she was not spying on him. These two are seriously cute together.

At Mr. Nakamura's funeral, Hiro walks about from his eulogy to hop back in time and try to save his father. They talk about Hiro's trip to Takezo Kinsei's time, which will be ironic, because -- as we'll later learn -- it was Adam who jumped off the roof with Nakamura. Oops! Didn't mean to spoil it for ya... but we all knew it was him, didn't we? Hiro and his dad go back to Hiro's mother's funeral, and if you thought Hiro was adorable now, you should see him as a little boy. Somehow, meeting himself as a child convinces Hiro that he cannot save his father, so he goes back to the eulogy and tells everything that his father taught him. So either Nakamura is not a bad guy, or Hiro has drunk the Kool-Aid.

Like Mohinder, who has been so brainwashed by Bob and The Company that he goes dark side on Noah. Or else The Company is good, after all, and Noah is bad. My head is spinning. Mohinder and Bob go to California to kidnap Claire for her blood -- can good guys ever kidnap? -- where they find that West, who's too cute to ever hold a grudge, has teamed up with Noah to save Claire. Things get confusing: Claire ends up held by Bob, and Elle ends up held by Noah. At the hostage exchange, at which these two twisted dads show that perhaps the only things they truly care about that we can trust for sure is that they love their daughters, things go south. Noah beats up Mohinder, and then later Mohinder does indeed shoot Noah in the eye, just like Isaac's painting predicted. But don't worry: Noah's only mostly dead, and Claire's healing blood (just like Adam's!) will resurrect him, though he's now a prisoner of The Company. D'oh!

Hey! It turns out if you put an electric girl in water, she can't use her powers except to electrocute herself!

Matt is starting to go dark side, too: he discovers that his brain powers can be used to control people, to plant irresistible suggestions in their minds. He uses it to interrogate Mrs. Petrelli, during which he learns that Adam killed Nakamura and that "our generation," meaning hers, "mortgaged our souls to protect yours," meaning Matt's generation.

Next week: They keep teasing us with this virus that kills 93 percent of the population. Never in the history of television has one show gotten so much mileage out of one brief clip.

MaryAnn Johanson (email me)
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