Fight or Flight

Three weeks in a row softball has been rained out. Oh well, at least I can keep up with Heroes. Highlight below to see more.

So, Matt wanted Molly to find his dad and then he didn't want to go see him. Does that make sense to anyone except Matt? Then he finally meets his dad (with the encouragement of Nathan) and seems surprised to discover that the guy has powers of the mind, too. And how stupid do you have to be let yourself get locked in a dark room with a psychic? And not just a psychic at that, the man that put Molly basically in a coma from another state. The guys says, "I'm sorry. I really love you," and all of Matt's police training goes out the window. Interestingly, though, while in the dream that Matt's dad put them in, Matt saw Janice and the baby and she claimed that the baby is his. At the same time, Nathan himself again as Mr. Scars, and I still don't know what that's all about. I did think that it was interesting to find that Matt and Nathan were fighting each other, but they did't realize it until Matt apparently realized at some point that he could control the dream.

Hiro and Kensei are still wandering around medieval Japan tyring to fix history and doing unknown amounts of damage to the present. For example, Ando has taken Hiro's writings (which still don't make sense given that Hiro can travel through space and time) and given them to some kind of expert in ancient scrolls. Tell me that's not going to change the history of Kensei. Is Ando crazy? He's just revealed a potentially huge historic find for Japan.

Peter is really starting to get into the Irish chick (no pun intended) and Mrs. Lightning shows up to rain on the party (no pun meant there either). Anyway, Peter finally opened the box with his identity, and there was nothing of importance in it. Why in the world did they spend three episodes building up the box and then have it be a worthless prop? Thankfully, though, Peter's new girlfriend is a painter, so he had a chance to use his painting the future power on a blank canvas that she had sitting on an easel. Now we just need to figure out who is in the painting and where are they? Peter supposed Montreal because he had a ticket to go there, but I'm thinking New Orleans since the street names are in French.

Mrs. Lightning, on the other hand, failed to apprehend her prey and killed someone in the process. That seems to have made her father angry and so now she appears to be headed back to wherever she came from. I wonder if it was her father that set Peter up to be found in that container in the first place. But, then again, if that's true, why not send his daughter in before now?

Mr. Bennett and the Haitian are supposed to be in the Ukraine, but in an uncharacteristic moment for the show, it looked more like they were in a poorly painted alley in the back lot of an old movie studio. Honestly, I don't even know why that scene was included in the episode, but if it was because it turned out better than what they had planned to show of Maya and Alejandro wandering around Mexico trying to find America, then it was worth it.

Micah, down in New Orleans, revealed his secret to his cousin, Monica after he realized that she has a power, too. I was ready for something cool when they decided to go test it out, but who in the world would choose to jump rope with that power? And to make matters worse, the next time we see her, she's learning Kung Fu from a Bruce Lee movie! Have they fired all the good writers and filled in with random people off the street? The only interesting thing that happened here was Mohinder showing up on her doorstep. I wonder if he'll recognize Micah.

Before Mohinder went to New Orleans, though, he took Molly to the company. Isn't this the same guy that rescued Molly from the company last season? Isn't this the same company that wanted to exploit her power to find all of the "specials"? So why do Mohinder and Bob act like none of that ever happened? I'm still missing something in the storyline there. But since Mohinder was there, we got a brief cameo of Niki/Jessica who is apparently still alive and well. Jessica seems to realize that things are really going well there and she wants out. Niki seems to be drugged and doesn't care. I have changed my mind since last season, though, and realize that she's definitely not the weakest character they could come up. "Hey, watch me double-dutch with my super power," has completely trumped the Niki/Jessica bomb.