Heroes Chapter Seven: Cold Snap

I have no idea what the title of this episode refers to… could be some hero with some kind of cold power? Or the power to give colds? Seriously though, would it be that hard to have a creative title instead of one that blatantly refers to a specific character… I’m just saying… someone gets paid to do these.

As far I can tell they don’t plan to show who Rebel is anytime soon. They might do it in the season finale in the middle of whatever big brawl they plan to do to end the chapter. I know Heroes doesn’t like to bring back old characters or continue story arcs , but it would make a ton of sense if it was Hana Gitelman (aka Wireless, the lady who contacted Ted Sprague, radioactive man, in Chapter 1) but somehow I think it’s unlikely.

Also, the opening scene is of Danko shaving. It’s really weird and kind of creepy…

Is it just me or did Danko look pretty much clean-shaven before he even started, and he stops with a big patch on he cheek left over. I know I can’t get away with that.

Well anyway, he here’s his front door telling him that it’s open (seriously) and so he goes and checks it out. In his living room (or the living area of a bachelor pad that looks more like a very large, furnished prison cell) he finds the Eric Doyle, the puppet man, all wrapped up in a bow (literally). He is also wrapped up in other ropes and is somewhat unconscious. There is also a note: “My Gift to You”

Streets of New York

Bennet gets into a town car (he also shaved this morning, you can tell because he has tissue stuck to he face where he was bleeding… seriously…). And Angela Petrelli just happens to already be in the cab. She doesn’t want to meet with Noah anymore because it will be too dangerous. But she does tell him to get on Danko’s better side and to do this he should give Danko Rebel! Noah then tells Angela not to go home. Looks like she’s on the run now too.

A little while later Angela has a vision of her capture while stuck in traffic, but she narrowly escapes. She then meets her friend Millie (played by Swoosie Kurtz (Lily Charles on Pushing Daisies)) at a restaurant. She asks Millie to help her disappear, but all she does is give her a couple hundred dollars.

Next, the bad guys manage to corner Angela in the lobby of a building, but she gets in an elevator. The bad guys get the elevator to go back down to the lobby, but by that point Peter is with her and flies her up the elevator shaft (this scene gets the award for least sense and lamest scene of the episode, possibly volume…)

At the end of the show Angela and Peter are at the top of Statue of Liberty and he asks her, “So what do you want to do now?” (this is by far the least exciting storyline of the episode, but kind of necessary to show that Peter is on her side now)

Building 26

Danko brings Mohinder to see all the sedated/unconscious people with abilities. Daphne is there, but Mohinder says she is dying. Danko doesn’t care and then somebody sedates Mohinder.

Noah then comes along and tells Danko that he has a plan to catch Rebel. Rebel has contacted Tracy Strauss twice and is probably going to try and save her. So if they let Tracy go she can lead them to “him.”

Later on the power going out at Building 26 and the doors unlock. Tracy doesn’t wait to escape and she makes her way to the sedation room. She only wakes up Mohinder and Parkman (… really…) and with Parkman’s mind tricks, they make their escape. Oh and Matt is carry Daphne, of course.

Hiro, Ando and Baby Matt

Hiro and Ando are still babysitting baby Matt Parkman who think that Matt Parkman has changed back to a baby… then Ando figures out that it’s actually Matt Parkman’s baby who is also named Matt Parkman (remember he had a pregnant wife, who he found out cheated on him with his old partner and the baby is his partner’s, although a vision from Volume 2 kind of contradicts that). Since Rebel told them to save Matt Parkman at this address, they’re going to protect the baby. And it looks like the baby has the power to turn electronics on even when they aren’t plugged in (or maybe it’ll be something better when he grows up).

The baby keeps turning things on and then Hiro tells Ando that his Mom died in his arms when he travelled back in time (near the end of volume 3). And that’s when Matt’s Mom shows up. Hiro and Ando try to explain that they’re trying to help and the Parkman isn’t a terrorist and Matt Jr. is in trouble. That’s when some agents show up with a warrant for Janice Parkman and her son. She tries to distract them, but they search the house anyway. Ando uses his powers to shoot some blast at a bad guy, but it’s not enough and they almost get caught when… Hiro stops time! Hiro thinks it’s because the baby knows how to turn things on, so he turned Hiro’s powers back on. Unfortunately Hiro can’t teleport out of there and has to carry a frozen Ando out in a wheelbarrow.

Time stays frozen as Hiro runs around town with baby Matt Parkman. He then manages to unfreeze time and explain the situation to Ando. He plans to save big Matt Parkman now (although Matt is doing pretty okay on his own now…)

Matt, Mohinder and Daphne

After the escape, Matt and Mohinder go to a hospital. Matt messes with the doctors heads to make sure that they help Daphne and not report the gun shot wound to the police. Originally he gave he the fake name Janice (like his ex-wife), but later convinces everyone that Daphne is Gwen Stefani… Him and Daphne later talk about the ex-wife part. Daphne then decides to leave and she runs off. Will Parkman see her again? Or more importantly will we?

Daphne then has a scene in Paris and Parkman shows up. Turns out he can also fly and he starts carrying her around Paris. It doesn’t take long for Daphne to figure out he’s in her head and it’s all a dream. She then asks him to let her go, but first to fly her to the moon.

Back in reality we see that they weren’t pretending she was Gwen Stefani and that her heart isn’t beating anymore…

It was a nicer ending than the last time she died… but I don’t understand why they would bring her back just to kill again… it kind of makes it worse than the random killing…

Tracy and Rebel

After the escape, Noah finds Tracy and he convinces her to help him find Rebel. Then as she’s walking the streets alone, a bank machine talks to her and gives her some money… and a receipt with a note to go to a locker at union station.

Right after she calls a cab and heads off. Another person calls a cab:

Micah Sanders!

He’s Rebel! I thought it’d be someone a bit older, but at least it makes sense (or well mostly makes sense). And his voice dropped a octave since the last time we saw him and he’s grown a foot (although not nearly as bad as when Walt hit puberty on Lost, they still haven’t explained how it happened in like 3 days…)

At the Train Station, Tracy finds the right locker and a ticket. Micah then comes along and tells Tracy he’s Rebel. Tracy then tells Micah that she sold him out. Micah’s disappointed, but he had a plan to escape anyway.

Micah and Tracy get cornered in a parking garage, but Tracy has a plan.

Line of the show
Tracy: Can you tell the sprinklers what to do?
Micah: I can tell the fire alarm to tell the sprinklers what to do.

So Micah turns the sprinklers on and Tracy tells him to run away. She then gets everyone’s attention else’s attention in one blast of her power she freezes the room and herself. Danko then comes along and shatters her with a bullet to the chest.

(Aftewards you can see part of her frozen head wink, I’m not sure if this was donw to say that she can now live through water/ice or if it was just to be creepy, but it was pretty damn creepy)

This was definitely one of the best episodes of Heroes that I’ve seen in a long time. Heroes might just make a comeback from the disasters of Volume 2 and 3. I’m always a little sad when they kill off more blondes, but I had already accepted Daphne as being gone and we still have Barbara left over from the Niki triplets. With Micah being Rebel we might also see some other long lost heroes like his cousin, Monica Dawson, the copycat/St. Joan. Well, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.