Heroes: Generations Chapter 9: Cautionary Tales

FINALLY! They've upped the anté! This episode is by far, the best and most interesting one of the season! Even my mom leaned in (cos we were watching in on the ol' big laptop) to watch, and she rarely does that with the other previous episodes. Anywho, my round-up:

(As usual, spoiler warning)

Hiro: Hiro's really upset that his dad died so he goes back in time to prevent it. He manages to get back to the night Kaito died, during Kaito's conversation with Angela. Kaito then tells him that it's fate that he has to die, and that Hiro shouldn't try to save him and change history. Hiro (naturally!) tries to convince Kaito otherwise, and takes him back further to the time when Hiro's mom died. Then there's this really heartwarming sequence where Hiro meets and talks to Past Hiro (about 10 years old or something). You'd think that part'd be draggy but it isn't. After talking to Little Hiro, Big Hiro's finally convinced that Kaito has to die, since it's already destined so. He teleports Kaito back to the rooftop, says his final goodbyes, then leaves. Then it happens. Halfway through, everything freezes, and Hiro steps out, saying he can't change the past, but he can find out who the murderer is (at that point, Kaito and Hoodie are just a little over the edge). Hiro goes closer, and guess WHO?! TAKEZO KENSEI!!! Well, at least now Hiro knows who he's up against.

Matt: Matt's section is usually really tedious and boring, I find. Lately though, his powers are evolving, so he's getting much more interesting. He now finds out that he can do... (drum-roll, please)... mind-control. He tells Molly to finish her cereal. Haha. Jedi mind-tricking everyone, he manages to get the chance to interrogate Angela about the last of the final 12, since no one knows where she is. Angela's really fighting it, and she tells him that the final member just wants to be left alone, and that if he were to pry that information out of her, he'd be no different than his own father. So Matt stops and thinks a bit. If I'm not wrong, he didn't press for the last member's location, but when the camera pans onto the picture of the 12, we see that the final unknown member now has a name: Victoria Pratt. (By the way, wasn't there a Victoria Pratt in Cleopatra 2525?)

Claire's people and the Company: Claire doesn't want to leave Costa Verde, and Bob, Elle and Mohinder are coming for her. And we finally get confirmation that Bob is Elle's dad. West still feels betrayed that Noah is his HRG and thinks that Claire was spying on him, so he swoops down on Noah and asks him for the truth, SKY HIGH!! So anyway, Noah tells him it, and West lands. Earlier on, Noah had asked Mohinder to look up where West is. Since Mohi is working with BobElle, he gives him the wrong street name. Luckily for us ('cuz Noah's so bad-ass you can't help but love the guy), Noah already has West, and knows it's a trap. So there.

Noah drives down to the road and meets up with Mohi. Mohi says they just want to take a sample of Claire's blood. Noah refuses, so Elle comes along to do damage control. Then out of nowhere, West swoops down and knocks her out cold. Mohi pulls his gun out, and there's this quick cut-scene to the painting of Mohi pointing a gun directly towards the viewer. Noah knocks the gun out of Mohi's hand, and hits him in his already-broken nose. Yay.

On the other side, Bob approaches Claire while she's in cheerleading practice. She runs home to find her dad and to warn everyone else. By then, Noah had already shown Sandra the pictures of the 8 paintings, the 8th being his death. Finally(!!), Claire sees the 8th. Honestly, I know that Noah's trying to protect Claire, but he really should've shown her the picture earlier. Then Bob comes in with a gun, and takes Claire away. He then extracts her blood, quite a lot of it, actually.

Noah comes back with West and Elle, and frees Sandra (who was duct-taped by Bob). He then drenches Elle with water so she can't conduct electricity. Ha! When she tries to, the whole electricity thing spreads (it's really painful), then Noah says, "Stings like a bitch, doesn't it?"

He's way cool.

We then find out that Elle was experimented heavily on when she was a kid (because of her abilities), and that her father was the one who was heading the research team. That's why Noah doesn't want to let Claire up to the Company. So now Elle's a bit deflated (since she's perky and rather unperturbed most of the time). Noah calls Bob to make a trade-off. At the trade-off, the, erm, trade-off happens. West flies off with Claire. But as Elle's walking over to Bob and Mohi, she uses her electricity powers to break the duct tape (she was duct-taped), and she hurls a bolt at West and Claire. West gets hit, they both fall, Claire lands first (since she can't die) so that West would be alright (well, wouldn't be any worse off than he already is). Noah shoots Elle, hitting her in the arm, and Bob runs to her. Noah wants to kill Bob, but Mohi pulls his gun out, threatens him a bit with it, then shoots him in the eye. We see Claire running to her father, and West restraining her (at least now we know that she wasn't KISSING WEST when her father dies!), like in the 8th painting. West flies off with Claire.

In the end, we see a blood bag with an IV linking into a man's arm. Camera pans upward, and it's Noah, broken glasses and all. Ruined, shot-out eye slowly becomes not ruined, and then Noah wakes up. How cool is that?! HRG DIDN'T DIE!! YAYNESS!!