November 19, 2007, 8:31 pm : Episode 9: Cautionary Tales
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We catch back up with Noah, Claire and family in California, packing up and getting ready to move again. Claire leaves for school, refusing to leave with the family because she thinks her dad is a liar, which of course she is right about. Noah follows her to school later on, only to be kidnapped by West, flying down out of the sky, picking him up and taking him for a ride. Noah and West end up teaming up because West realizes that Claire actually cared for him after Noah told him that Claire lied to him about her relationship with West.
Hiro, during his father’s funeral, decides that he wants to go back and save his dad from being killed. So he travels back, speaks to his dad (who doesn’t want to be saved, but wants to face his destiny) and travels back further in time, with his Dad, to his mothers funeral several years earlier. Hiro, after talking to a younger version of himself, realizes that his father is right and takes him back to the place of his death to day goodbye. Hiro freezes time to see who it is that pushes his dad off the roof and finds that it is Adam, Takei Kensei, from historic Japan.
Parkman discovers that he can not only reads minds, but also that he can put thoughts into people’s minds and make them do what he wants them to. He talks Angela Petrelli about who the last woman in the photo is and comes up with the name Victoria Patrick. I am not sure who that is, but I did notice that while he was holding the photo of the older generation of Heroes (I paused the show and looked at the pic for a few minutes) that Adam wasn’t in the photo. I thought that was kinda strange.
Bob shows up at Claire’s school, calls her “Miss Bennett” and she runs off to home. Mohinder kidnaps Noah at gunpoint and takes him to a meeting with Elle in an effort to trap Claire, but West shows up to help Noah and knocks Elle out. Noah and West take Elle back to Noah’s house and Bob grabs Claire at her house. So Noah and Bob setup a trade of the 2 girls. During this trade, Noah tries to shoot Bob, only to end up getting shot by Mohinder, right in the eye, thus fullfilling the Isaac Mendez photo. So Noah is dead. I didn’t see this coming, I thought they would avoid it.
However, I did say to myself quietly that “I bet they use Claire’s blood to save him”. Guess what. He ain’t dead.
Next Week:
Ok, this writer’s strike is getting to close to home. Tonight on the preview for next week they say “with only 2 episodes left”. Now I am upset. It looks like they face the virus issue again next week and somehow Peter and Hiro get into a fight. Looks interesting, but I am not thrilled overall.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Will Noah have claire’s powers now that he has been injected with her blood?
November 20th, 2007 at 9:10 am
I wondered that about Nathan also, after he was given Adam’s blood. Good question.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I wondered about Adam being in the photo too. Frmo the looks of it the picture is no more than 10 - 15 years old, if that. Adam told Peter he had been locked up for three decades.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I tend to think that Noah will not have Claire’s powers. The powers they have seem to be connected to their DNA which I don’t think would be altered by a simple blood transfusion.
I don’t remember seeing Adam in the photo, I paused the show to look for him specifically and he isn’t there.
I think that it will be interesting to follow Parkman’s storyline because he seems to be the only character who is actually trying to get to the bottom of all this and figure out what is going on.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I wonder if the virus (the strain Mohinder’s blood can’t cure) is connected with a transfusion from someone who can regenerate? Mrs. Petrelli did say that Nathan died in the first wave of deaths, didn’t she?
November 20th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
K8,
True, but alot happened in the future episode last season that they ended up changing in later events. I don’t think that Nathan will actually die from that if they stop the virus, which I am sure they will do.