Heroes: Better Halves

Peter Petrelli from Heroes

Peter tells Hiro and Ando to come to NYC and they’ll figure out where to find the cheerleader. Peter and Isaac also realize they are missing a panel/painting to complete the “comic” story. Isaac tells Peter the first panel is one that Simone took to sell.

Mr. Bennet — sorry, I won’t ever refer to him as HRG and if you don’t know what that means, good — tells Claire Bear he has found her bio-rents and they want to meet her tomorrow.

D.L. announces his presence to Niki when she wakes up in the middle of the night. I think the cop outside has super hearing because I didn’t hear nothing loud, but they came a knockin. Maybe he was lookin to get some, and I don’t blame him. Anyway, D.L. reveals he’s been set up by a woman and he knows someone who can help him find out who. You immediately get the sense that it was Other Niki because the bodies of D.L.’s dead crew were buried in the shallow graves we saw back in Chapter 2.

Ando and Hiro end up in a backroom poker match where we get some more cool time stopping effects, including Hiro being able to float objects — more cards — in the stopped time air. Ando sees a gun under the table and takes Hiro to the bathroom because “that’s how [they] roll.” While in there, a woman — “hey, who invited her?” — busts in and kills the other three gentlemen in less than 10 seconds and leaves.

Back to the Sanders’ house, we find out that Niki got up at some point during the night. Hmm… do you think Other Niki visited a backroom poker game where D.L.’s informant might have been hanging? Morning comes round and Micah is showing D.L. his comics, including issue #9 of 9th Wonders.

Cover of 9th Wonders issue #9

Could this be the *villain* after Claire Bear in Issac’s paintings? Got that arms raised thing going on. With the hair going, I thought it might be Niki, but it looks like a man’s bare chest.

D.L. convinces Niki to take him to his meeting where they find the three guys from the poker match eviscerated — I can hear Ed now saying how graphic this show is — and they take off. Looks like the cowboy dude was in several pieces.

Daddy Bennet gets a call from work while eavesdropping on Claire talking with the bio-rents. Look who it is… Eden. Who called another one? Yup, me dog. Anyway, she reports that Mohinder has left for India. He asks about Peter Petrelli and she tells him she couldn’t confirm his claim that he can fly. She does tell him Peter had a run-in with someone from the future who can stop time. Daddy thinks this “cool,” and really, who wouldn’t. Eden tells him the message from the future was to “save the cheerleader.” This stops him in his tracks as he was fondling a cracked pair of his glasses (wonder how that happened). He then tells Eden to bring in the precog (Isaac) after she asks what to do with him.

Niki later tells D.L. about the garage incident since it matches up with what they just found. She tells him he thinks it was her, but D.L. thinks she’s being set up. Niki and Other Niki then have a conversation where Other Niki reveals that it was her that set up D.L. and that Niki should grab the money and run with Micah or Other Niki is going to take care of D.L. If you check out this Chapter’s mini-comic, it details the robbery and confirms that Other Niki has super strength as she tears a locked safe door off its hinges. This week’s lead photo with Peter and the flying locker doors — we saw it last week as the first, really the second, painting comic panel — is this issue’s easter egg.

Daddy Bennet walks out the bio-rents and we find that they were imposters brought in by him. Meanwhile, inside, Claire gets a scoop from Mom that they could never find her parents before and that she had some chromosomal issue as a baby. They never found them so that they could screen them. Is this how Daddy Bennet started down this path or was he already down it before getting a hold of Claire? Do Mysterious Man, Eden and the bio-rents know who they are really working for or is this an SD-6 kind of deal with Daddy playing Sloane? Maybe Daddy and the others really are government, although every government has letters and Daddy told Matt his did not.

D.L. catches Niki with the cash and Other Niki chucks him, like we saw in the preview. He recovers and then both Niki and Micah find out D.L.’s secret when he reaches into her chest to disrupt her heart. A total Shadowcat move and Niki passes out while D.L. bolts with the cash and Micah.

Anyway, we see Other Niki’s tat again, so it was no mistake. We end with Isaac rubbing a painting of Niki to reveal the tat under the paint. Then, Eden comes a knockin.

Looks like Hiro and Ando hook up with D.L. and Micah next week. We never see Nathan or Matt this Chapter and Peter, Isaac and Mohinder — yay says Ed — were all pretty small potatoes. Also, Hiro wasn’t very up on the English, but he had a few words. I didn’t feel like the treatment was much different from the previous episode, but I’m sure Joe will let us know for sure…

One last thing… do you like me to write about the events in such detail or should I just drop my thoughts and bragging about what is going on?