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House - Season 4, Episode 5: "Tabula Rasa". Original Air Date: 19 Oct 09.
This episode was called "Tabula Rasa" - because every show out there needs an episode called "Tabula Rasa". If you don't know, it means "Clean Slate", so it's symbolic.
So we left off with Hiro and Peter: Hiro appears in Peter's apartment and passes out. In the beginning of this installment, we see Hiro lying in a hospital bed with Peter at his side. Hiro thinks he's there to save Peter, but Peter thinks it's up to him to save Hiro. Oh you boys and your silly Jesus complexes... Peter takes Hiro's ability and uses it to go save Hiro's life, but not before telling Emma [the deaf woman] to talk to Hiro about her ability. She does, but all she wants is an 'off switch', even though Hiro's all for the embracing yourself as you are point of view.
Okay, now it's time for my interjection: HIRO IS SO CUTE!! ♥ :3 Yup.
Hiro's trying to prove to Emma that her powers are good, and he does a magic show for some hospital patients and staff, including making Emma 'disappear'. I think it worked :D
After the show, Hiro's back in bed and Emma tells him he needs to stay there. He tells her about his friend, Charlie, and how you have to stay strong and happy in the face of death. But then he realised he left Charlie off of his list [of wrongs to right and people to save]!!
By the end of the episode, Hiro spontaneously disappears again, which freaks Emma and Peter out, a lot.
So Peter ends up in Noah's bathroom because he hasn't teleported in a while. He explains his predicament to HRG, and Claire says that she should just give Hiro some of her blood; Noah negates this solution, saying that a brain tumour is living tissue, and Claire's regenerative power would only make the tumour grow. But he does remember a boy they 'bagged and tagged' a few years ago, named Jeremy, who had healing power [like Linderman!], so he and Peter go to pay him a visit.
They find the house that Jeremy lives in, but all the plants in the yard and the bird on the porch are dead, and the place reeks of death. When they go inside, they find the parents, dead, in their armchairs [it's pretty disturbing, lol]. Noah explains that the kid possesses not only the power to give life, but also to take it away. A very frightened Jeremy starts shooting at them with a shotgun: he wants to scare them away. When Noah finally gets close enough to talk to him, Jeremy makes a terribly conffesion: "Everything I touch... dies."
As Noah tries to convince Jeremy that this can't be true, Peter appears beside them and Jeremy shoots him from an extremely close range! NOOOO PETER WTF NOOOOO!!! Noah pleads with Jeremy to save Peter's life, and after much convincing, he finally does. Yay! :D
In the end, Peter absorbs Jeremy's power so he can bring it back to heal Hiro. Noah is very sweet with Jeremy because he feels he let him down way back when, so he fixes the house to make it look like the parents died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
But, when Peter gets back, Hiro's already vanished!
While all of this is happening, Nathlar is still in the hands of the carnies. Samuel Sullivan, the guy I've been calling King Carnie [at least to myself, lol], calls Nathlar 'Sylar', but he doesn't respond. He says that according to the police, his name is Gabriel. When Samuel asks him to take a deep breath and tell him the first name that comes to mind, Nathlar says, "Call me Nathan." Samuel is confused. But, for all his niceness, Samuel obviously has plans for Nathlar, and he's using Lydia to pull him in to the community.
But here's a question: if we really do get the 'real' Sylar back, won't the whole carnival be screwed?
Samuel Sullivan wants Sylar's memories to come back to him; memories are coming back to Nathlar, but they're not his. They're Nathan's. He remembers flying planes, shaking a lot of hands, and things like that. So a carnie named Damien takes Nathlar into the house of mirrors to 'show him who he really is' or something. Tripppyyyyy. I love mirror house scenes [in anything] because they're so... weird.. haha. Well, Damien's eyes do that Isaac Mendez painting thing and he passes it on to Nathlar... And now, all his horrible memories are being played out before him in the mirrors. He sort of flips out. I would too. I mean, can you imagine? Watching yourself kill your mother and then several other innocent people? So Nathlar's still flipping out, and we get to remember all the worst, and it's not fun. Charlie is the last one we see before he runs out of the house and vomits in a trash can - foreshadowing for the Hiro story arch?
So Samuel is a jerk: he invited the cop who was chasing Nathlar to the carnival with a pair of free tickets, and when he talks to the cop, he says no he's never seen that man before. But then he finds Nathlar and tells him that something must be done. So Nathlar goes back in to the house of mirrors to 'take care of' the cop; the cop pulls his gun on him, but Nathlar doesn't want to hurt him, he just can't control his Sith Lightning! He zaps him, but he wasn't going to kill him [didn't look like it, any way; he might have], so Edgar, the knives guy, comes in and ...saves the day? Well he kills the cop, anyway. That night, everyone welcomes Nathlar into the carnie family with hugs and dinner.
For the last bit, we see Hiro, in his hospital robe, peering into the diner window at Charlie! [I was a big fan of that character, and now I'm super excited!]
I liked how we understand the relationship between Edgar and Lydia. They are frequently in the same shot, and sometimes Edgar's face frames a shot of Lydia flirting with Sylar.
I did not like Samuel's line "Boys will be boys". UGH. Nathlar and Edgar spar, and Lydia asks Samuel if he's going to stop this, and that's his reply. And it's a stupid, sexist reply. Sorry. But it is.
Hiro The Magnificent!
House - Season 6, Episode 6: "Brave Heart". Original Air Date: 19 Oct 09.
This episode was intense. The intro was crazy, with a police chase, some parkour, and some guy jumping off a roof. Turns out, that guy is convinced that he's going to die, since he's just turned forty and all his ancestors died of heart complications shortly after they reached that milestone. House is convinced there's nothing to find, and they look at the heart in every light possible, yet still find nothing, even when examining his son for genetic problems. So, House lets him go with some placebos.
Hours later, there's a knocking on Wilson and House's door: it's Foreman. Apparently, their guy collapsed, dead, hours after his discharge.
So they bring the body to Princeton Plainsboro's morgue and prepare to do an autopsy. In a cute, ironic twist, House picks up a saw and prepares to cut into the man's chest, but Foreman says, "You can't perform an autopsy without a license," and takes the saw. He does it himself, and they notice the way blood is coming out of the gash in the chest - it looks like the man is bleeding. But that would mean..... AND THEN THE MAN OPENS HIS EYES AND STARTS SCREAMING IN PAIN!!!
Yeah, crazy.
So the pressure's on to find out what's wrong with him. They put him on steroids for a genetic auto-immune [and lots of painkiller, btw], but nothing works. His new pain in his jaw is only getting worse, so bad that he pulls his own tooth out.
Meanwhile, Chase is struggling so hard with his decision regarding James Earl Jones. It's really hard to watch him, because he's a mess [naturally] and has no one to really turn to. At least when we see House like that, we know, oh, he's just a crazy dummie, he's always like that. It's different for Chase. You can also see how this plays itself out in his marriage. Which is crappy. And the priest at confession doesn't help.
House thinks he's going crazy again. He thinks he's hearing voices when he sleeps in Wilson's study [which used to be the bedroom]. He's not; it's really Wilson whispering to Amber at night. It's pretty sad, really. Like, boo hoo sad, not pathetic.
Finally, House figures it all out. The man has something of an aneurysm in his brain somewhere that's been growing and it causes pain and his heart to stop. They remove it and the one in the kid's head, and that story line is resolved, too.
All in all, a fun episode. It was shocking, which made it really fun to watch.
Sorry, my House stories are always smaller because I watch them live in the common room with a group of people; I watch the other shows either live on my own tv or on my computer the day after, so I take better notes.
Fringe - Season 2, Episode 5: "Dream Logic". Original Air Date: 15 Oct 09.
This is a long summary lol.
The episode starts with Olivia visiting Sam Weiss in the bowling alley and saying "Thank you". It's obvious that she's still very sad about Charlie. I remember a line that Peter said in the first season, and it's true: Olivia doesn't let anyone help her :(
But Sam says he wants to help her: "Hope you like red."
In Seattle, a man is heading to work, but he's freaking out because he sees everybody as zombies! Or something equally as scary. He gets to a meeting room [which reminds me of a meeting room in the first season, with the killer butterflies] to talk to his boss, who is apparently really angry. His eyes are moving super fast after he beats his boss's head in with his briefcase: REM.
Peter and Walter finally move into their own place, and Walter starts setting up his bed in the middle of the living room, which Peter thinks is weird. "Don't worry son, I know what you're thinking. I promise to wear my shorts to bed so that if you bring any young ladies home there won't be any embarrassing moments." LOL! Astrid comes over with some food for Walter, and also a case file for Peter. "Pack a bag, Walter, we're going to Seattle."
The team gets to the hospital where they're keeping the guy, Greg Leder, and the man who met them there informs them that they've "only just managed to wake him up," and that he's been sleeping heavily for several hours, "as if he was drugged." Walter informs Peter that he doesn't want to go in there. Olivia starts to question Greg: apparently he doesn't remember anything between parking his car after lunch and being restrained by coworkers on the meeting room floor. But he did think the office was infiltrated with demons. Suddenly, he starts seizing, or, what looks like seizing, and his heart rate is going through the roof; his hair starts turning silver, but he doesn't look old, and then he dies. What?
Walter starts to examine the body, but he notices that it's still warm - it should be considerably cooler by now. Walter tells a doctor that it appears the man died of acute exhaustion, which pretty much makes no sense, because, as far as we're aware, human beings can't die of that ["But it has been documented in rats," says Walter]. He fears that they've left the oven on at home, which Peter says is nonsense because they never even turned it on in the first place. Apparently this weird behaviour's been happening all day. The hospital and the city remind Walter of St. Clair's, so he wants to go home ASAP. Peter arranges it for him.
"No, at any given time there's a good chance that there's about a half a dozen psychotrophic drugs in his system, so drinking? It's not a good idea."
As they're sending Walter off, Olivia asks the doctor for a business card, which isn't weird, but she also asked a cab driver for one, too.
"The turbulence over Ohio was like being in the belly of a seizing whale. I screamed like a little girl!"
Back in the lab in Boston, it's nearly midnight, but Walter wants to get to work right away. Apparently they had no trouble bringing the body bag home, but their luggage was detained. Walter discovers nine surgical stitches on the back of the neck, right by the brain stem, which there should really be no reason for. "That's okay. In fact, you can assist us in removing his scalp!"
Olivia questions the wife of the dead man, and aside from being a little more tired than usual, nothing unusual was going on. But Peter thinks differently: he found a bunch of books about sleep in their living room, and the wife admits that Greg used to sleep walk, sometimes he even cooked entire meals in his sleep, but he was never violent, and he had been cured, having not had an episode in at least six months. Peter asks to see his sleep journal.
Peter brings the sleep journal over to Olivia's hotel room. Apparently the dead man had been averaging eight to ten hours of sleep [so how did he die of exhaustion?]. At least once a week, he dreamed of demons, but a couple of months ago, they stopped. At this point, we learn a little more of Peter's backstory, that he used to suffer from terrible nightmares as a child and that it was one of the only times Walter's presence was ever positive, but then Olivia gets a text, and apparently there's been another incident.
A woman died driving home, on the phone with her husband to let him know she'd be home soon, but she had said that she saw a monster! Walter's looking through Greg's brain and he finds what looks like a computer chip in the thalamus, and calls Peter, who finds the same sort of stitches on the woman's neck!
Nina Sharpe at Massive Dynamic sheds some light on the subject: it's a bio-chip, a BCI, a brain-computer interface, which works a lot like a pace-maker, regulating sleep cycles. Apparently a researcher back in Seattle has been working on similar projects, and he's a 'genius' named Laxmeesh Nayak.
Peter's hypothesis is that someone would want to target Nayak's work for purposes of mind control. Of course, we knew that from the beginning of the episode, and have been waiting patiently for the team to figure it out on their own. Walter says that it's possible, but modifying the chips would take a lot of trial and error - if only he had a live specimen, but he promised Peter no students... oh if only you could have seen the way he eyed that federal agent... As the federal agent is heading out, and Walter gets him to sniff something, and then he passes out. Heh.
Walter doesn't implant the chip into the agent's head, but he's figured out a different way to try the mind control process. He hooks himself up to the agent and starts making silly noises [*ahem*], and says "Either green unicorns just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD." But then he concludes it's not drugs, it's something else entirely.
Olivia finds Dr. Nayak and tells him about the two dead people. He confirms that they were patients of his and that they were implanted with these chips as part of a clinical trial, along with eighty other people. They head to his office for the names, only to find it ransacked. The main computer server is gone, and that's got all the data on it. Olivia takes his business card, too, by the way.
Nayak could only remember twenty-six patients, and he's going to remove all of their chips, but that still leaves fifty plus people still at risk.
Olivia's still upset about Charlie's death. Peter tells her that it's okay, not her fault, but she gets really upset and starts crying [and then runs away before she can be vulnerable in front of Peter].
We see a guy at a computer, and he looks a lot like Nayak's research assistant. He's working with another person - we don't see this one, but he's sitting in a chair, apparently drugged, and connected to machines. A woman in a restaurant starts hallucinating that a fellow cook is roasting severed limbs. She wields a knife and approaches him, but that is all we see.
Back at the clinic, Nayak is removing chips from many patients' brains, and Olivia gets a call from Sam Weiss. He's the one who asked her to collect business cards of everyone she saw wearing red. He has her circle one letter in every name [first and last], and then write down all those letters on a piece of paper, and unscramble them.
Broyles calls and he says the back-up server's been wiped, but it doesn't look like a hack. It would appear to be someone in the clinic.... hmm... But Nayak is sure that none of his employees would do something like that.
Apparently, there's been another attack: it's the woman in the restaurant. Peter and Olivia decide it's time to put in a public service announcement. That's when Nayak mentions that Zack Miller, the lab assistant, skipped work today and hasn't been answering his phone. The duo goes to his home and finds Zack, dead and seated inside a television cabinet. Dr. Nayak finds a letter at his work that says stop talking to the feds, or the same thing's going to happen to him as to Zack.
Nayak gives the note to Peter and Olivia, and they say they'll set him up with a protective detail. But after they leave, he dials a mysterious phone number and says "I told them" and asks to just be left alone.
Walter thinks the chips aren't mind control, they're transmitting data. They're "stealing dreams" - they're being sent before they can processed by the brain, which explains why the first victim stopped having dreams altogether, and then the brain never gets an opportunity to recharge. And these chips can also turn on a dream-like state in the wearer. But why? Well apparently it's quite the rush, so they must be dealing with an addict, or slave, or just general dream junkie.
Olivia's step-father was a drunk and she remembered there were two different personalities within him, like Jekyl & Hyde. She thinks that Nayak is both characters in this case. And it sort of looks like she'd be right. His druggie personality is what's causing all this trouble, and his sober personality seems to be innocent. We seem him lock into a pilot's consciousness at take-off, and the pilot starts freaking out, and prepares to fly them into a boat. The feds show up at Nayak's home, and Peter tries to shut down the programme, but to no avail. Finally, Olivia shoots the computer, and the pilot wakes up, saving the small plane and all its passengers. But when they look at Nayak, he's dead.
Peter thinks Nayak's final move here was his own way of putting a stop to things, because perhaps he wasn't aware of what his 'evil' self was doing, until now.
Olivia visits Charlie's grave and leaves flowers, and then gets back to her little word puzzle. It spells out "You're gonna be fine," the first thing Charlie ever told her. Spooky~
Peter has a dream: he's little, he sees his father and says, "Dad, what's wrong?" and then screams, but wakes up. There was a poster in his room that said "Challenger Mission 11 / June 28, 1984". Enjoy figuring that one out ;D [Hint: alternate universe Peter.]
Why do ALL Indian characters have to have Indian accents? >>;;
This episode had very little to do with the plot of the rest of the show, concering the ZFT and the soldiers and stuff. It was sort of refreshing, and very fun.
And the glyphs spell out: BETRAY
Heroes - Season 4, Episode 4: "Hysterical Blindness". Original air date: 12 Oct 09.
The focus of this episode is mostly on Claire, Peter, the carnies, and Sylar.
Sylar can't remember anything at all, and he was picked up by the police. Eventually, he was ID'd as a murderer and he has to escape, which is when he discovers his powers. Claire has to deal with a stalkerish roommate, but Invisibitch, as Vigg calls sorority girl Rebecca, is making it seem a lot worse than it really is. Gretchen, on the other hand, isn't trying to kill any one who gets close to Claire, she's just crushing real hard. Turns out Rebecca is with the carnies, and she's trying to 'push' Claire to join them, but Sylar gets there first.
And then there's Peter and his deaf friend who sees music. Poor Peter: he's been feeling so estranged from everybody lately, and he's finally acting on some advice to reconnect with his family, but all his mother can think about is Nathlar [makes sense, since he's been missing and all, but still, poor Peter :( ]. He saves the deaf woman from being hit by a bus and absorbs her power, and that's when he can start to forge a connexion with her. I liked that story-line. It's cute, and I feel bad for the deaf woman, and I can't wait to see where that goes. The episode ends with Hiro showing up and then passing out in Peter's apartment! ><;; Claire said, "I have been chasing normal life forever" lol something tells me it won't be so normal for long [and by the end of the episode, I'm pretty much proven right].
I'm really excited for the Sylar story arch, and, well, all of them. I can't wait to see what happens to everybody, to meet new characters, and to see Invisibitch get hers [something tells me that will take a while]. This is the season we've been waiting for. No joke. Start watching.
**I'm naming the episode numbers by the "Chapter __" in the beginning of each episode. That two-hour season premiere screws it all up.
