Episode 108: 7 Minutes to Midnight
Mohinder scatters his father's ashes across the waters of Kanyakumari, India. Across the world, Isaac wakes up to find Eden talking care of him. "You'll be completely clean in no time," she tells him. "That mural on the floor, we're not going to let that happen." As she finishes shaving him, she tells him that she went through "the same thing myself." At the Burnt Toast Diner in Texas, a sheriff and his deputy have breakfast over a crossword puzzle. Their waitress, Charlie, helps them out with some obscure answers. Charlie even translates the Japanese phrase on Hiro's jacket as he has breakfast with Ando. Strangely, after owning a book on Japanese for only one week, she can now speak the language fluently. Mohinder unpacks his things in his father's old office, finding a locked drawer. He's interrupted by Mira, an old girlfriend who once said some terrible things about his father's theories. She's been promoted at her company to head of genetic research and asks Mohinder to come in for an interview with the partners, but only if he makes sure his father's theories stay locked up where they belong. At F.B.I. headquarters in Los Angles, Audrey calls Matt an "idiot" for assaulting a fellow officer and jeopardizing her investigation. They go to interview Ted, but he's not talking and Homeland Security is on his way to send him down the "rabbit hole" as a suspected terrorist who is hiding radioactive material. Charlie flirts with Hiro, but he's shy and doesn't know how to respond. She has to get an order while a sinister man in dark clothes stares on as he reaches out to summon his coffee cup, which slides across the table and into his waiting grasp. An enraged Ted thinks Audrey and Matt are trying to book him for terrorism. Grabbing a glass of water, he threatens to blow up the building. Radiation detectors turn red, and the water begins to boil. Matt calms Ted down and learns about his past by reading his mind: one day, Ted blacked out. When he came to, everything started dying and he had a strange mark on his neck... the same mark that Matt has on his. In a dream, Mohinder recalls an argument he had with his father shortly before he took off to America to become a taxi driver. Mohinder tells his dad that he is a fool and is becoming a laughingstock over his theories, but Dr. Suresh doesn't care. He knows who will be shown up as the real fool. As they argue, Suresh notices a mysterious boy looking for a lost soccer ball. Ted recounts celebrating a big sales commission at a hotel bar in Kansas where a mysterious Haitian man lingered in the shadows. Two-days later, Ted awoke in Arizona and couldn't remember what happened. From then on, he started getting headaches, experiencing stranger powers, and his wife got sick from radiation. Matt recalls that he once saw a man like the Haitian, but is interrupted when Homeland Security agents take Ted away, but not before he shouts at Matt to "find the Haitian." Claire's father arrives at his office at Primatech Paper Company in Odessa, Texas, which is clearly a front for something else. He talks to the troubled Isaac about Claire and a man named Sylar who is killing people with special abilities. Bennett tells Isaac that Sylar is going to kill Claire tomorrow night at her school's homecoming. While opening a can of tomatoes in the kitchen, blood starts pouring from Charlie's skull. A co-worker comes in and screams... Charlie's dead. Her skull has been ripped wide open. When he finds out that she died the same way that Isaac does in the future, Hiro decides to go back in time to prevent her death. Right before Ando's eyes, Hiro vanishes. Mohinder asks his mom about a dream where she told his father that he could "never take the place of her." His mom reveals that Mohinder had a sister named Shanti who died at the age of five, two years after Mohinder was born. Chandra Suresh was convinced that Shanti was special and never told Mohinder about her so his son wouldn't compare his father's love of him to his love for her. Isaac refuses to take heroin one last time in order to paint Sylar, even after Bennett promises to teach him how to use his abilities without drugs. "For years," Bennett explains, "a number of us have been tracking... people like you... sometimes things go right... sometimes things go very wrong." Fourteen years ago there was a case that ended in death and a baby girl with no one to take care of her. Since Bennett and his wife were having a hard time conceiving a child, they adopted the infant as their own. Mohinder discovers the mysterious boy breaking into his father's locked drawer. Mohinder has a gruesome vision of his father's death in his New York cab. Standing outside the taxi, the kid points at Mohinder, snapping him out of this strange vision. Back in the office, the kid opens a palm and gives Mohinder a key. When Mohinder wakes up from this dream, he removes the same key found in his father's address book. Bennett forces Eden to shoot Isaac up, but she refuses. "Do you remember what you were when I found you?" he tells her, insinuating that she was once a junkie, too. She gives in, shooting Isaac up with the destructive drug. Matt's wife looks through a photo album as he comes into their bedroom. Realizing that he knows, Janice confesses her affair, promising that it's over. A call from Audrey interrupts them: Ted escaped from the Homeland Security personnel by exploding the car they were in. Mohinder opens the locked desk drawer, reaches in, and finds a secret files on sleep research and a picture of the mysterious boy that has been haunting him. With drug injected, Isaac begins to paint while Claire works on a homecoming banner under her father's worried eyes.

Wow, ok so all those people Sylar killed had abilities. So why is he only killing the minor ones (well in the writer's eyes :wink: ). I thought he knew about the others. So it would appear that Ted is the bomb....but we know they're going to somehow stop him. I was all for Claire's dad being a good guy, but damn he's good at looking evil. So now I wonder what Eden's story is. Was she on drugs before too?? At first when Eden saw Claire I didn't think she'd known who Claire was. Hiro :sad: :sad: :sad: Obviously he went back further than yesterday. Did anyone catch that photograph of the waitress. The first time they showed it (just before the cop sat with Hiro & Ando) it only had the waitress in it....at the end Hiro was in that picture. I didn't catch any date for when the picture was taken though. I can not wait til next week now. Where's our Hiro now????

A lot of things about this episode didn't make sense to me. 1. Hiro and Ando are surprised that the waitress can speak Japanese so well in less than a week. However, Hiro picked up English pretty rapidly, too. He's only been in the U.S. for a short time and he's doing pretty well. How do they account for that? 2. If the girl has the ability, don't you think she would have a better job than being a waitress? Unless she only very recently acquired that ability. 3. When Matt and Ted were talking about the Haitian, I thought Matt was telling Ted about the time he saw him at the bar before being taken in to see Claire's father. They implied that they did something to Matt and that's how he has the powers he has, however Matt already had the powers before then. Was Matt talking about another time before then that he saw the Haitian? 4. And how is it that Matt's even remembering the Haitian? I thought his memory had been wiped clean. 5. Mohinder is told that he had a sister who died when he was two. How is it he had no memory of her until recently? Why is he remembering her now? Is Mohinder having psychic dreams or is there a hero who is able to contact people through dreams and they're trying to tell him something? Is there any chance that his sister didn't really die and was taken away from the family? 6. Is the key Mohinder was looking at the same one he used earlier to get into Sylar's apartment or is this a different key he's found? 7. How is that Hiro and Ando just "happen" to keep bumping into other heroes? First, it ends up that Ando was one of Niki's clients. Then, Hiro just happens to be at the diner where Nathan shows up. Next, Hiro and Ando run into DL, who just happens to be Niki's husband, at the site of the crash. Finally, they stumble across the waitress at this other diner. Is this just coincidence or are there more heroes out there than they realize? Or perhaps Hiro's future self instructed him to drive to New York instead of flying because he knew he had to meet all these people along the way. I purposely didn't mention Hiro and Ando getting a call from Peter because that was a bit different. Peter didn't just "happen" to call Hiro. he did so after getting a visit from the future Hiro. ** I didn't think Claire's father was implying Eden had been a junkie, too. I thought she had some kind of power and he had helped her learn how to use it. However, the recap from the official site implies that she was also a drug addict. So is the kid with the soccer ball supposed to be Sylar or does he just know something about Sylar?