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Heroes: Seven Minutes to Midnight

For Chapter 8, we don’t see the Petrelli boys (thank you Geez-us), Niki, D.L. or Micah. I also happened to notice that creator Tim Kring wrote this chapter, so does that mean we get more reveals than usual? No… not that I could tell. Well, on to my lightbulb moments and queries.

Activating Evolution has the original picture of Chandra Suresh (Erick Avari) on it as he finally makes an appearance. It would seem the picture swap I noted in Collision was a continuity error. I did a quick Google search and hit upon a Heroes Wiki that tells the tale. Unfortunately, I can’t read the Wiki since that will lead me down the path to knowledge I shouldn’t have yet or things I didn’t think of on my own.

Mohinder’s first dream made me wonder if it was him, but then we see the boy twice and you figure it has to be him. He leads Mohinder to his file locked in his father’s desk with the key he recovered in New York. Could the boy be Patient Zero then? Mohinder also learns via the dream and a conversation with his mother that he had a sister who died at the age of five, which was when Mohinder was two. His mother says she was special, so maybe she had an ability that killed her and she was the start of everything for her father?

What is up with Mohinder mentioning “bad pillow talk” when talking of research with Mira? There’s not supposed to be premarital extra curriculars in India, so are they already married and had some kind of split due to differences in her work and his father’s research? Not likely, but there’s definitely a difference there when it comes to the research. She’s very attractive and very short… Mohinder would do well to hit that instead of Eden…

The last bit we get from the dreams was that Sylar definitely killed Chandra Suresh. You can easily match up the fact that he broke his wristwatch — which they show in the first shot of him in the Texas diner — while smashing Chandra Suresh’s head against the cab window before breaking his neck.

Ted Sprague and Matt compare marks/scabs/scars and stories. Come to find out the Mysterious Man is Haitian, which is now his name in IMDB, and was present for both of their blackouts. Turns out that the SUV we see on fire in one of Isaac’s — new to everyone? — paintings at the start was the one transporting Ted. I originally thought it was Mr. Bennet’s Nissan Armada, but it looked to be an Escalade — the bureau has some nice wheels, no? — and they matched up when I watched the second time thru. BTW – I care so very little about Matt so far. Poor Greg Grunberg, he could get cut-out right now and I don’t think anyone would miss him.

The other new painting was of Charlie, a waitress in the Texas diner at which Hiro and Ando have stopped for waffles and fries. Charlie has the ability that I tried to peg Micah with, so minor victory there with someone having it I guess. Charlie tells them that she received a book of Japanese six months ago for birthday and started reading it a week ago. Makes you wonder who gave her that book, no? But, Hiro hadn’t gone back yet and she didn’t know him, so time paradox??? Later, as they wheel her dead body out, we see a picture of her on the bulletin board from her birthday and she is alone. After Hiro teleports out of there, we see the board again as Ando awaits Hiro’s return and the picture now includes Hiro. I guess we have to wait for the past to catch up to Ando??? More to come on that, eh? Oh, and the Hiro speaking English-thing has definitely gotten way out of hand now…

With respect to Charlie getting her brain scooped by Sylar, funny how she was cranking a can opener to pop the top, which was basically what was going to happen to her in mere seconds. However, there was a distinct slice, so it was damn quick, but she looked a bit shocked nonetheless. With the quick, clean cuts, you’d think it would have to be a sword, but where was he carrying it? Hmm… can he form a sword with his hand (a metal morpher/shaper) or is it just a sword? Did he teleport in there with a sword? Hey, Hiro has a sword in the future… wonder if there is a connection there.

As far as Sylar himself, this is only the second time we have seen him. I was trying to figure out what he looked like in the two different shots we got of his head in the diner. I capped this one, increased the brightness a bit — not the version here — and still couldn’t make out who it was. No one we have seen out in the open so far in the show. However, and I won’t spoil it for anyone, but I found out who is going to play him while going thru IMDB tonight looking for Erick Avari’s name. I have to say, I am impressed with who has been cast, but I don’t think it was him in these shots, looks more like a stand-in, but I could be wrong. I wonder if we’ll get the reveal next week.

Lastly, with respect to Hiro and Ando, the painting of them we have seen a few times now makes sense as we can now, or at least now I can tell, read it as a banner reading “Homecoming” on it. Turns out it is the banner that Claire bear is making as Daddy watches at the end, just knowing that she might be killed by Sylar the next day. It would appear, however, that Hiro doesn’t succeed in his mission as Sylar still shows in Texas to come after Claire, or… is it possible that Hiro’s actions will cause him to go after Claire after failing to get Charlie? Hmm… he probably has them both on his Texas checklist anyway.

Eden — we now know her last name is McCain — has been watching over Isaac and getting him off the smack. She tells Isaac she’s been thru it, which to me, means gaining control over their abilities and not a shared drug problem, but based on the following dialogue between her and HRG (yes, I have given in to it, plus it is less creepy than typing Daddy Bennet all the time), it could go either way:

HRG: I’m not going to ask him; you are.
Eden: No, no you can’t make me do that.
HRG: You knew this was a possibility.
Eden: You said when we started that I would never have to do it again. You promised me.
HRG: I know what you think… who do you think taught you? Do you even remember what you were when I found you? You’re the easy way. I think we both know the hard way.

I’m betting on the inability to control her ability, which based on her whispering in Isaac’s ear, may or may not be some kind of mind control??? Seem to be an awful lot of them running around, but methinks she may not, since, why didn’t she do the voodoo on Mohinder to make him stay? So far, the only ability I have seen out of her is the ability to make big puppy dog eyes at every guy with some scruff that crosses her path… I guess Sylar better watch out.

Anyway, the scenes at the Paper Company with HRG make you believe more that he is working on the side of the Angels. Still no idea if it is government sponsored or not, but you’d think if it was, the FBI or his group would have had a flag raise when Ted was brought in to custody since HRG obviously had him before.

Anyone know the reference that “Seven Minutes to Midnight” is supposed to be? My assumption is it is a ref I don’t know because it was overtly related to anything within the episode. I am amped up for next week’s “Homecoming,” aren’t you? It will probably be better than this week’s Friday Night Lights‘ “Homecoming”…

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