Cautionary Tale

Getting pretty good at some of this prediction stuff huh? I correctly called that Hiro would actually allow his father to die. We of course find out who the killer was, and it was, as many of us suspected, Adam Monroe. Hiro allows his father to die, because it must happen. It is not the place of Heroes to play god, and preventing Kaito's death would be akin to playing God. Ironically, I got the picture wrong, as the person in the photo was in fact Ando, and not Hiro, but I still reached the correct conclusion.

This is direct contrast to what is going on with Parkman, who is slowly gaining control of his powers. I like this storyline a lot. I've stated it before, it frustrates me to no end when shows drag on the development of it's characters. Parkman has potentially one of the best powers in the show. Telepathy is not a trivial power. Professor X has shown just how powerful telepathy can really be. The show is portraying the path that Parkman is going down as the same as his father, and said as much as he forced Angela Petrelli to reveal the name of the missing twelve, Victoria Pratt.

Noah attempts to save his family, and joins forces with Wes to rescue Claire. While being held captive, they take Claire's blood, informing her that it has the ability to so many people. Noah captures Elle, and exchanges her for Claire. He is subsequently shot by Mohinder, right in the eye, right as the painting showed it.

By the way, Mohinder has not "flipped" to being a bad guy for killing Bennet. He did this very deliberately, with full knowledge that he would be able to bring back Noah. This must be true for the following reasons

• Mohinder is one of the good guys.
  
• Mohinder is just not a killer, and the way he killed Bennet was pretty cold blooded
• Noah spared Mohinder's life. Very doubtful he would return the favor by shooting him in the eye.

I think it's very fishy by the way he let Mohinder go in the first place. Either Bennet is being very sloppy, or those two are up to something. By the way, did anyone really think Bennet was dead when he was shot? I knew events would play out as they happened, because I knew A) Isaac's painting would come true. B) It would not end exactly as the painting would make it seem C) they wouldn't kill Bennet.

Only two left! Bummer about the strike, Heroes was finally taking shape.

Can Hiro Save his Dad?

Can Hiro make it back to save his Dad? Somehow I doubt it. One of the things we learned in Season 1 is that somethings are just meant to happen, and there is no way to prevent it. Heroes is a little inconsistent with this idea. They allowed Future Hiro to change his present, by ensuring that the bomb went off. Why "changing" this outcome is possible but not something like the death of Charlie is not.

Hiro states, when he comes back from trying to save Charlie, that there was nothing he could do.
No matter what he tried, she died. I think the same is going to be true for Hiro's father. In fact, I'm not even 100% sure he is going to try. I believe Hiro is going to discover that Adam Monroe is indeed his father's killer but he is going to stop short of actually preventing it. Hiro is seen in the above picture on top of the Deveaux Building. This appears to be on the outside patio. But below we see a figure in the corner, watching what is happening, but yet doing nothing about it.


Why would Hiro allow the death to happen? Not certain. I can't think of any scenario where he would actually allow that to happen. The nearest thing I can come up with is that his father actually asked Hiro to let him die, so Hiro stands by silently when it does happen. If that is the case, his death must serve a purpose.

The Eight Pictures

The season seems to be revolving around the eight pictures that Isaac completed before his death. Up until this past episode, we have only been able to see the first one, depicting Kaito's death, the last one, showing a dead Mr. Bennet along with Claire and an unknown man.

Mr Bennet, along with the Haitian, has traveled to the Ukraine, to uncover the other six paintings. After disposing of his former partner, Mr. Bennet goes to a warehouse and unboxes the remaining paintings. A collage of them are below.

1. Kaito's Death
2. Claire and Wes' trick on Debbie
3. A vial, possibly the deadly virus
4. A blond woman, possibly Niki, trapped.
5. A man, perhaps peter, with eyes glazed over, and a biohazard sign in the corner.
6. Hiro and Takezo engaged in a sword fight
7. Mohinder, with a broken nose and a fired gun
8. Mr. Bennet, shot through the eye, with Claire and a mysterious man in the background.

Not sure how this is all going to play out. The first two scenes have already happened. One of the things I'm interested in is how all these disparate scenes are going to come together in the end. Why is Claire's trick so important? What is Hiro and Takezo going to do with all these present day happenings? Is Mr Bennet actually dead, and if so, who killed him? Did Mohinder fire the gun that shot Mr. Bennet

The main plot this season is definitely around some sort of bio-hazard being unleashed on the general human population. At this point, I'm not sure if it is because of the Shanti serum that Mohinder is developing, the powers that Maya has shown, or maybe a combination of both. Somehow, these eight paintings are going to lead up to the events that Peter has now teleported to.

Don't have any deep insights yet. If I do, I'll post some more.

Picture of Kaito's Killer

I've had some discussions with people about who is Katio's killer. After last week's episode, and the revelation of who the nightmare man is, many would jump to the conclusion that Maury Parkman is indeed the killer seeking out the twelve. I have not yet jumped to this conclusion yet. Here is a picture of the bad guy right before and during his attack of Kaito.


Just looking at the profile of the attacker, I can tell you right now, that's not Matt's father. The attacker clearly has a more athletic build than Maury Parkman. I have heard it suggested that it is just an "illusion" casted by Maury, but I don't believe that either. Clearly Kaito recognizes the attacker, so unless Maury has an illusion of himself that he consistently uses, I doubt that could be it.

You have to also pay attention to what Kaito says. When the attacker reveals himself/herself (this could definitely be a woman), Kaito states, "Of all of them, I never expected it would be you". That gives us to important clues. First, it's one of the twelve. Second, it wasn't someone he would have expected. This leads me to believe even further it isn't Matt's dad. Why not? You would expect it to be him. We know Matt's dad has a criminal past, and others in the twelve would know that too. If that is the case, then Kaito WOULD have expected it to be him.

And the last thing, nothing in Maury's power would allow him to survive a 30 story drop, unless he has some yet to be revealed power.