Heroes 207, Out of Time

Well, this week we received an episode entitled "Out of Time".  I learned several things from this episode, one of which is that if you have even the slightest clue of how to hold a samurai sword, you can probably dual an actual samurai who has slain thousands and perhaps disarm him within 20 seconds or so.  But don't let me get started on the bad, just let me give you a quick rundown of what happened this week.

Japan, Kensei and Hiro.  In this storyline we had a few developments since last week.  We know that last week Hiro kissed Kensei's girl/princess/whatever and upon witnessing this Kensei was quite upset; and rightfully so.  White Beard offers Kensei a deal.  Give him Hiro and the girl (and her father I guess) and he can rule over Japan alongside him when they defeat the Emperor.  The girl had a trick up her sleeve (literally) and helped Hiro escape at which point he teleported her and himself away from there, apparently leaving the father behind :) I love it.  Hiro then tells the girl that he must destroy the gun stockpile and save Japan and the Samurai way.  He gets into a sword fight with Kensei while trying to destroy the guns and refuses to use his 'time stopping' skills.  He then actually sword duals Kensei and disarms him after Kensei makes a remark about his girl.  The fight leads to a lantern tipping over mixed with barrel upon barrel of gunpowder blowing the entire place up.  Hiro inspects the site the next day to find a charred body in samurai gear along with Kensei's famed mask.  Hiro then teleports back to modern time to be with his good buddy Ando.

On our Peter storyline we find him in the year 2008 in New York City where he is confronted by masked men in biological suits who take him in.  He learns about the outbreak and how 93% of the worlds population has been killed by the Shanti Virus.  While onsite he meets his mother who helps him recover from his amnesia (this has got to the quickest recovery ever).  His mother then tells him of how he is the most powerful and that it is up to him to stop all of this by traveling back in time.  He then sees his girlfriend being carted off and departed...See YA.  He lands back in 2007 where he started and is confronted by Adam who claims to be a friend of his and is working with him.  Well, Adam is Kensei....back from the dead.  It looks as though he may have picked up a few powers along the way as well.

For Suresh, Matt and Molly this is a big episode.  Matt's father Maury(the nightmare man) comes to kill Bob at 'The Company'.  How come both Prison Break and Heroes have 'The Company'??? Are they one and the same??? Geez...a little creativity people.  Anyway, Maury shows up and creates an Illusion around Jessica, making her believe DL is present and then witness him being shot by Bob.  Well after he goes on and on about how she is this and that and they will take Micah away..blah blah...yes they shot him..thank you.  Needless to say,  Jessica is upset and tries to kill Bob herself.  Nathan talks her down and she injects herself with the virus to essentially stop herself.  Nathan is always saving the day. They should make that guy president! While the whole Jessica and DL thing was going on, Matt was with Molly and entered into her dream (I guess) and saw where his father was keeping her.  He then managed to use his mind controlling abilities to pull the father into the  nightmare as well.  Matt confronts his father about leaving him when he was a child to be raised with just his mother.  In short he gets real mad and locks the father inside his own nightmare leaving him in a coma in the real world.

While Nathan and Bob are waiting for Maury to show up (they were baiting him basically), Bob told Nathan about Adam (sound familiar), the strongest of all Heros.  Believed himself to be a God.  He brought them altogether speaking of saving the world and then became deranged and spoke of Holocaust and Plague to save the poeple of the world from themselves.  The other Heros, the older ones who have been marked for death, locked Adam up a while back to stop him.  He escaped two weeks ago and this is when the killings began.  So now you gotta wonder...Is Peter's new friend Adam(Kensei) a good guy?  Did he create the illusion of 2008 New York to get Peter to work alongside him? Was any of that real?  When Peter teleported back to 2007 it did not appear as one of Hiro's teleports but rather as one of the Nightmare Man's veils of illusion being lifted.  This is what it seemed like to me anyway.

OK, now for Claire.  Mr. Bennett finds and uncovers all the paintings.  One is of Suresh holding a gun which we see is given to him at the end of the episode.  Mr. Bennett flies home to find that Claire has brought(well actually he just invited himself) her boyfriend home.  West sees Mr. Bennett and Claire has to explain that it is her father but West believe it is a trap since he has been previously abducted by this very same man.  Nothing real interesting here.

The episode ends with Bob giving Suresh a gun.  I guess Suresh feels like a man now with a gun because he decides (without even taking 10 seconds to think about it) to tell Bob that he is working with Noah (Bennett) to take down the company.  Ok Suresh.  Maybe you have within the last 13 seconds decided that Bennett now has his own agenda but telling Bob this will give you no advantage.  Work both angles...figure it out before you say anything...As Napoleon Dynamite would say, "Gosh...Idiot".

Well, all in all I thought that the Peter storyline was, again, the most interesting.  Thankfully there was no Micah and his Cousin this episode.  We have solved the mystery of Adam and learned that it is actually Kensei.  Next weeks episode looks like a flashback that explains what happened to Peter and maybe Nathan.  Kristen Bell appears in the previews for next week....Nice!

By the way, if you have been reading so far and gotten to this point and agree with most of my assumptions, you may be coming to the conclusion that this is all Hiro's fault.  If Hiro had not kissed that girl and pissed off Kensei, maybe he would be a good guy and not live through history wanting to kill and destroy up until this present day when he seeks to reek "Holocaust and Plauge" upon mankind.  Thanks Hiro.

Oh, time for PIC of the week.  My favorite part of this episode is when Jessica busts Suresh in the nose sending him flying.  Kudos to Jessica. This has got to be the most gratifying moment in Heroes history.

Now if they could just kill off Peter's girlfriend, show more of Kristen Bell, and maybe delete the Micah/New Orleans storyline.

Well, until next week............