By Faith McQuinn

Molly (Adair Tishler) is still in a coma, and Mohinder (Sendhill Ramamurthy) demands that Matt (Greg Grungberg) go face his father and find out what’s going on. Matt, with tag-along Nathan (Adrian Pasdar), go to Mr. Parkman’s humble abode in Philadelphia to discover a haggard man who looks more scared than sinister. Well, looks are definitely not everything because, in less than 20 minutes, Mr. Parkman has his son and Nathan stuck in a nightmare state much like Molly’s. Turns out Matt inherited the mind reading from his father. It just seems that daddy dearest has more control over it.

In the best scene I believe I’ve seen all season, Matt and Nathan actually fight each other thinking they’re fighting other people. Well, in Nathan’s case, he thinks he’s fighting his disfigured alter ego. About that disfigured Other Nathan. Did Nathan get severely burned when he saved Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) last season? If so, how did he heal so quickly?

Speaking of Peter, it seems that he’s enjoying his time in Cork with the lovely Caitlin (Katie Carr). His joyous time is rudely interrupted by the appearance of Elle (Kristen Bell), an electrically charged girl who likes her power a little too much. Ricky, trying to be the big man, decides to protect Peter and sends him to Caitlin’s flat to hide out. At the flat, Peter discovers another one of his powers when he paints a future scene of himself and Caitlin in Montreal. While the paintbrushes are flying, Elle has made her way to the pub. When she can’t get the information she wants, she fries Ricky. Literally.


Back in New York, Mohinder decides to take Molly to Bob (Stephen Tobolowsky) and The Company in the hopes they can help. Bob, in his very creepy way, assures Mohinder that Molly is their top priority. In the meantime, he is to go on a mission to find another gifted person. Before Mohinder can protest properly, Nikki (Ali Larter) comes tearing down the hallway, throwing Bob against a wall. Mohinder takes her down with a taser and is baffled to see Nikki held prisoner.

When they get her back to bed, Mohinder tries to free Nikki, but she won’t leave. She’s convinced Bob and The Company will help her. But will they? Well, I think the answer is yes, but it may not be in a way Nikki quite likes. Mohinder can’t convince her to flee, so he goes on his mission to find a newly gifted person. Who? Monica Dawson (Dana Davis) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mohinder doesn’t arrive until after Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey) reveals his special power to his cousin. Turns out showing someone that you can control electronics makes her a little less scared of her own power. Not quite THE MATRIX moment I was hoping for, but the twosome do go out and try out Monica’s very useful mimicking abilities. She doesn’t do anything spectacular. I guess they’re saving that for sweeps, but we do get to see her doing a few Bruce Lee moves in front of the television.


We get a few quick glimpses of Hiro (Masi Oka) and Kensei (David Anders) fighting the good fight in feudal Japan. They’ve almost got all the pieces to the map to save Yaeko’s (Eriko Tamura) father, but they must first face White Beard and his entire army. What happens to them? We don’t know. The scroll Hiro sent to Ando (James Kyson Lee) is too badly damaged. I don’t think Tim Kring would go as far as to kill Hiro, so I’m not too worried about their fates.

This week’s episode was definitely better than last week’s, and hopefully they will just keep getting better.