Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 3: One Giant Leap

Another cracking episode. Hiro finally convinces his friend Ando of his abilities with some nifty time-stopping, we learn Claire’s dad knows of her abilities, Mohinder and his suspiciously nice neighbour discover ‘Papa’ Suresh’s secret diary and Sylar’s house (seemingly) and Niki still doesn’t know what’s happening to her with her mirror image. We learn more about her son’s father who’s escaped from jail and for one moment I thought her mirror image was going to do something bad to her mother-in-law.

Peter ends up kissing Simone (who annoys me for some reason) after Nathan tells the press he tried to commit suicide off the building. Issac sees this as well as he’s painted the kiss but it’s unsure if he knows who it is or even knows what he’s doing as he only does his paintings when he’s taken drugs.

It’s Claire the cheerleader and Matt the cop who interest me most in this episode. We learn Claire’s dad (glasses guy as I call him for the lack of a name) knows of her ability and has stolen the tape with video of her abilities. Also the sweet quarterback she fancies turns nasty which leads up to a cracking cliffhanger for the next episode. I love the ending.

Actually seeing Sylar was good too. Although ’seeing’ isn’t perhaps the right word as we never see his (her?) face, but we learn he (for now I think he’s a he) can withstand bullets, make people do things against their will and jump very, very high. Matt is the saviour of the FBI lady but we see his marriage falling apart at the same time, not helped by his struggle with his ability to read minds.

The pacing of the show is excellent, with something revealed and stories progressing in every scene. Each character is different, with their own complex problems and it’ll be interesting to see how they come together. Roll on the next episode.

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