Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 6: Better Halves

A quieter episode this week, with Nathan and Matt being ignored altogether, but I still found it interesting. Hiro continues to be my favourite character, the smile on his face when he realises he had a sword in the future is great, as is his struggling to cope with the fact he couldn’t save the guys at the poker game, yet Ando is there to support (and translate) for him.

This episode is all about Niki and how she is coping with her evil side. It’s great that they finally get to meet and the majority of the questions that this episode raised are answered within the show which makes a nice change. It turns out that Niki’s evil half set up her husband, D. L. Hawkins, and slips out in the night to kill the guys that DL was going to see in the morning. The same guys who were playing poker with Hiro and Ando. The way these heroes (or evil vililans maybe?) lives intersect is really interesting.

I felt a bit sorry for Niki as she tried to explain to DL what was happening but her evil side asserts control over her. But we do get to see DL’s powers in action and it makes you wonder what powers Micah might have.

My suspicial that glasses guy/Claire’s dad isn’t necessarily the bad guy gains momentum when although he brings fake biological parents to meet Claire, his reaction to hearing the words “save the cheerleader” shows that maybe he’s not in control of everything. He may just be testing and cataloguing the people with powers as he let Matt go. I’m not sure what the significance of him having another pair of glasses is either, but who he was talking to on the phone is important.

In one of the only predictable things about the programme, Mohinder’s friend in New York, Eden, turns out to be working with glasses guy. Despite Mohinder going back to India, she seems to be using him to find people with powers and they both seem used to dealing with these people, using the term pre-cog to describe Issac. I’m intrigued to see if Eden has powers as she’s tasked to go and collect Issac so I’m not sure how she’s going to do that.

Roll on next week.

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