The following entry is a synopsis of the eighth episode of Heroes, taken from Wikipedia.org. Many spoilers contained within.

Season - 1
Episode - 8

Guest Stars -

Jamya Mays as Charlie

Writers - Tim Kring
Director - Paul Edwards

Original Airdate - November 13, 2006



NARRATION -

At the beginning
The Earth is large. Large enough that you think you can hide from anything: from fate, from God. If only you found a place far enough away. So you run ... to the edge of the Earth, where all is safe again, quiet and warm. The solace of salt air. The peace of danger left behind. The luxury of grief... And maybe for a moment you believe you have escaped.

At the end
You can run far, you can take your small precautions, but have you really gotten away? Can you ever escape? Or is the truth that you do not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny? But the world is not small, you are... and fate can find you anywhere




SYNOPSIS - Mohinder returns to India to scatter his father's ashes. He debates whether to return to his job as a college professor. His former girlfriend Mira invites him to interview for a job at a company doing genetics research where she has just been made a department head. However, she says he must not mention his father's research into the evolution of super powers or consider continuing it. Moving into his father's office, Mohinder sees a running program on the computer; after pressing delete, an "are you sure you want to quit" message appears on the screen and Mohinder hesitates to select yes. Mohinder talks with his mother about her decision to let his father go to the United States to look for Sylar. His mother tells him for the first time about his sister, Shanti, who died when she was five and Mohinder was two. Shanti was "special", according to her mother, and their father loved her so much that he was afraid Mohinder would find his love for his son wanting in comparison. Mohinder also has a series of dreams, depicting a young Indian boy who guides him to various scenes showing his parents arguing and showing his father's murder in his taxi cab by a man whose face was obscured, but was wearing a watch with a broken face, showing seven minutes to twelve (or midnight). After another dream where the boy was trying to get into a locked drawer in Mohinder's desk, Mohinder realizes the key in his father's journal was to that drawer, and opens it, finding a file titled "SANJOG, Iyer", containing a photo of the boy.

Continuing their journey to New York, Hiro and Ando stop at a diner and meet a waitress named Charlie, who recently developed a near perfect ability to quickly memorize any information. As Hiro talks to Charlie, who finds him to be "sweet", the man in the baseball cap who earlier had attempted to kidnap Molly from FBI custody is watching them talk. As he does so, he uses telekinesis to draw a cup of coffee to his hand from across the table. He also is shown wearing the same watch as the murderer of Mohinder's father, which also is set to seven minutes to midnight. Charlie is later found murdered in the diner's storeroom, with her brain removed in the same manner as Sylar's victims. Hiro tells Ando that he can prevent Charlie's death by going back in time to the day before and preventing her from going to work; however, Hiro fails to return five seconds after his departure, as he promised Ando he would. A worried Ando paces next to a wall of pictures, which he does not notice. One of the pictures, which before had shown Charlie with a birthday cake in the diner, now shows Hiro as well, implying that he went further back in time than just the day before.

At the FBI office in Los Angeles, Matt Parkman and Agent Hanson are interrogating Ted Sprague, who becomes so agitated that he boils the glass of water in his hands using his power to emit radiation. During the interrogation, Sprague reveals that, like Matt, he saw the Haitian just before blacking out for two days, and when he awoke, he had two mysterious marks on his neck. However, before Matt can learn more, Homeland Security takes custody of Sprague, who tells Matt to find the Haitian. Matt has been suspended without pay for a month after having punched a superior officer who had an affair with Matt's wife. Matt's wife admits to her affair and asks Matt if their marriage is over. Matt says he doesn't know, but their conversation is cut off by a phone call from Audrey, who notifies Matt that Sprague has escaped from custody, leaving behind a burning car.

At the Odessa, Texas paper factory where Mr. Bennet works, Bennet tells Isaac, whom Eden has kidnapped from his apartment in New York, that he and his associates have worked for a number of years to find people with special powers and to assist them in learning to use them. Sometimes, he says, there are unintended consequences. Fourteen years ago, a woman with special powers died in his custody, leaving behind a toddler daughter. Mr. Bennet and his wife, who were having trouble conceiving a child, adopted the little girl. Mr. Bennet said Claire's appearance in his life was like a miracle.

However, Bennet knows that Sylar will kill Claire the next night, and he needs Isaac to help him prevent the incident by completing a painting of Claire being murdered at her homecoming game. Bennet has collected three previous paintings Isaac created that depict a terrified Claire close-up, running up the bleachers in a football stadium, and lying dead on the ground with the top of her skull removed. When Isaac says he is unable to paint without the use of heroin, and resists taking the drug, Mr. Bennet orders Eden to administer the drug. Back at the Bennett household that evening, Claire paints a banner for the homecoming celebration the next night, unaware of her father's concerns for her safety.


EPISODE VIII TRIVIA -

* The name of the episode, "Seven Minutes to Midnight", parallels the current setting of the Doomsday Clock, on which midnight represents nuclear war.
* Hiro's Blog, which is maintained by NBC, is typically updated after every Heroes episode. Appropriately enough, following the original airing of this episode, all of the previous posts were deleted and all that is left is a "coming soon" message, almost as if Hiro never actually wrote the blog.
* The mysterious symbol ubiquitous in the series appears sideways in the scrolling green numbers in Mohinder's father's program. Also seen in the side-ways scrolling text is the phrase GATTACA. The sequence G-A-T-T-A-C-A, along with many other short sequences of base pairs, occurs many times throughout the recently published human genome. This word can be formed from the initials of the DNA nucleotide bases Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine.
* The name of the boy's file is "SANJOG, Iyer", which is a typo since it implies his last name is "Sanjog" and the following episode makes it clear that that is his first name.
* The two times in which there is a close-up shot of Sylar's watch, the watch is set at seven minutes to twelve o'clock.
* Kanyakumari is the southern-most point of the Indian peninsula, so as Mohinder says, it is the "edge of the world." Kanyakumari was also the answer Charlie (the waitress) gave the cop to solve the crossword puzzle question "Gandhi burial ground,11 letters".

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The following entry is a synopsis of the seventh episode of Heroes, taken from Wikipedia.org. Many spoilers contained within.


Season - 1
Episode - 7

Guest Stars -

Rena Sofer as Heidi Petrelli
Thomas Dekker as Zach
Mark Anthony Page as Highway Patrol
Eliza Coleman as Woman in Car Crash
Kate Connor as Nurse Jennifer
Jackson Wurth as Monty Petrelli
Justin Evans as Simon Petrelli
Richard Roundtree as Charles Devaux
Stephen Spinella as Mr. Dennison
Matthew John Armstrong as Ted Sprague
Rick Peters as Tom
Deirdre Quinn as Tina
Cristine Rose as Angela Petrelli
Lisa Lackey as Janice Parkman
James Kyson Lee as Ando Masahashi
Jack Coleman as Horned-Rimmed Glasses/Mr. Bennet

Writers - Jesse Alexander
Director - Donna Deitch

Original Airdate - November 6, 2006.



Peter is reading Charles Deveaux the morning's stock report. After some conversation about the report, Peter and Mr. Deveaux exchange "I love you" to each other in a father/son manner, implying a deep relationship. Mr. Deveaux then erupts into a coughing fit. After inspecting Charles, Peter says that he can fly, but Charles doesn't believe it. Peter then walks toward an open window and the camera pans out, as if giving a first person view of the city in flight. A doorbell wakes him up, revealing this to be a dream. He opens the door to find a teary Simone Deveaux outside. She informs him that her father passed away about an hour ago. Peter and Simone go to see Isaac at his apartment to find it deserted and Isaac gone. Simone comments that her father talked about flying all over the world with Peter and that he saw terrible things, though Peter made him feel better by assuring him that everything was going to be okay, telling him there were still people around that cared, and that they were going to save the world. Peter replies that he hasn't had this conversation with her father and Simone then informs Peter that the painting that he and Isaac were looking for was sold to "Linderman".

Nathan and his wife, Heidi, strategize how to win the congressional election. Nathan's mother has scheduled an interview with a big-name newspaper, for brunch, which the family usually never has. Nathan and Heidi discuss about her going public, as she has been out of the spotlight during his campaign and she states she is looking forward to it. Heidi, we discover, is wheelchair bound, as a result of an accident that is Nathan's fault. Oliver Dennisson comments that Heidi is adjusting well to the wheelchair. She says that she was angry for a long time at God, not Nathan, as Mr. Dennisson suggests. Peter arrives at brunch, commenting that they never have family brunch, in which Nathan responds stating Peter isn't family enough for brunch, as his presence could ruin the election for him. Peter asks Nathan to help him recover the painting that Linderman has bought from Simone, but he promptly refuses to. Peter then counters by threatening to reveal his flying ability to Mr. Dennisson, giving Nathan no choice. At the brunch, Mr. Dennisson informs Nathan that a former member of his security detail reported that there was a scare in Las Vegas about his disappearance, stating there was a blond involved. Peter quickly covers up for his brother by lying that Nathan spoke to a woman doctor about a private clinic outside of Las Vegas to help his mental health.

Later that evening, Niki calls Nathan, asking him for help, as she's trying to find her son. He quickly hangs-up when Heidi approaches. She asks him if he still loves her, in which he assures her he still does. She tells him that she will walk again, but she will need Nathan to give her hope to do so and asks him if the story that Peter told was true, which he hastily assures. Nathan is then seen talking on the phone to Mr. Linderman about the painting, which he successfully arranges to be delivered to a gallery. Nathan tells Peter to forget about the paintings, and that it's not going to help. He also informs Peter of the kidnapping attempt in Las Vegas. He tells him that he flew away from them. He describes one of the men as wearing horn-rimmed glasses and the other as a "spooky Euro dude" who didn't say a word. Nathan says that if people knew what they could do, that they would lock them up and throw away the key.

Niki wakes up on the floor with a large intake of breath. She searches the house and finds out that Micah and DL are gone. Niki tells her friend, Tina, about Jessica, the other person that Niki sees in the mirror. Her friend has trouble believing this. Later, Niki breaks the mirror in her room, and Tina asks what's wrong. Jessica responds that she has everything under control, and tells her to leave, scaring Tina in the process as she believes that Niki has changed, an assumption which is confirmed by the appearance of the RNA symbol tattoo on her shoulder.

After they left Las Vegas, Micah questions his dad why he left Niki at the home. They then pull up to a burning car, to find the driver outside with a passenger inside, unconscious. D.L. runs up to the car and tries to get the passenger out. D.L. then puts his hand inside the car window, and can see his hand through the glass. Hiro and Ando were also present. As soon as the car explodes, Hiro stops time and saves them. A few minutes later, D.L. and Micah leave because Ando called the police for help, instead of D.L.'s plan to drive them to a hospital.

While at a hotel, Micah goes to a pay-phone that says "out of service". He then places his hand on the phone. Whirring noises are heard, and the phone starts working again. Micah calls his mom, but finds out that Niki's alter-ego "Jessica" is on the phone. "Jessica" asks him where they are. Micah replies, "Please put my mom on the phone." Jessica says that his mom is gone and won't be back until they have Micah back. He then tells Jessica the location of the motel in which they are staying. Just then, D.L. interrupts, taking the phone from his son and hearing nothing but static. He asks if Micah was talking to his mom. Micah says he was "just fooling around." D.L. is suspicious, but accepts it, since the phone was labeled "out of service". D.L. tells the boy that they have some driving to do.

Matt talks to his wife about the last couple of days that they had together. Wanting to say more about their issues, he overhears her thoughts that "he knows" something that she hasn't shared. Suspecting something, he leaves quickly for work, not allowing himself to find out what was in her mind.

At the police station, a commotion erupts as Audrey enters the men's locker room to tell Matt that he should put on some "real people" clothes. At his protest, she tells him that the station commander has already been informed, and gives him an FBI ID badge. They go in search of a man who killed Dr. Robert Fresco, an oncologist. The suspect, initially suspected to be Sylar, is actually Theodore Sprague, a man with the power to emit radiation. He is found at the hospital with his wife, Karen, who is dying of cancer. When he realizes Matt and Audrey are police, he uses a nurse as a hostage and shield. Audrey pulls her gun on him, but he says he may go "nuclear" if she shoots him. He wants to be with his wife; the doctor's death was an accident, he says, from trying to persuade him to do more for her. Matt can hear Karen's thoughts, even though she is in a coma, and he allows Theodore a final conversation with her. This calms the man down, and he releases the nurse, who has burns on her arm where Theodore was holding her. He then allows himself to be taken into custody.

Later, in the police locker room, Tom McHenry, Matt's former partner comments on Audrey's presence, and how Matt will be allowed to take an oral interview for the detective exam. Matt says he didn't know that was an option, and Tom says that Audrey must have pulled some strings. Matt then overhears Tom's thoughts about sleeping with Matt's wife, and he promptly punches the man in the face, then leaves in anger.

Hiro and Ando are driving down a road, and pull over when they come across a two-car collision. They see that woman is trapped inside one of the cars. D.L. Hawkins and Micah Sanders are in the car ahead of Hiro and Ando. While D.L. tries to save the woman, gasoline spilled onto the roadway ignites, and the car explodes just after he pulls her from the car. Hiro freezes time and saves D.L. and the woman from the explosion by pushing them to the side of the road.

Zach visits Claire and gives her the tape. Though relieved, Claire is annoyed to think Zach had simply misplaced the tape when he tells her he found it under his bed. Claire hides the tape under a jacket while talking to her mom, and her younger brother Lyle, seeing the corner of the cassette, takes it out and watches it. Claire returns and panics when she sees Lyle watching the tape on the computer. She stops the tape and tries lightly to attribute the video to special effects, but Lyle, disbelieving, staples her hand and becomes horrified when he sees the wound automatically heal after Claire pulls out the staple. Lyle takes the tape and leads Claire and Zach, who arrives on bicycle, on a chase around the yard before he locks himself in an SUV on the driveway. Claire and Zach try vainly for apparently some time to force him to come out, but Lyle refuses, saying Claire is a freak. Claire finally convinces Lyle to surrender the tape and come out by saying the knowledge of her powers would simply alienate the whole family.

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