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Heroes episode 3.13 "Duel"
Airdate: December 15, 2008
With his time warp powers gone, Hiro is stuck in the past, at the same night that his mother has just died. So Ando, Matt and Daphne decide they must get Hiro back to the present! And the perfect solution? Inject one of them with the formula to create a new time traveler.
So the trio search for Mohinder at Isaac’s apartment in the hopes that he would have perfected the formula and willingly give one of them a shot. Matt can read minds, ("only" adds Ando) and Daphne can run (really, really) fast. Ando wants to be guinea pig, since of course he has no powers, and OK Hiro is his BFF.
OK, slow down there, folks. Let’s think through what these three people are doing and think back. Angela Petrelli asked Matt and Daphne to get Hiro into the Company, so that, presumably everyone would have worked together to stop Arthur Petrelli from perfecting the formula! Unfortunately, Hiro appeared at Matt’s apartment thinking like a kid, and Daphne wanted to go home. They all traveled to Daphne’s home in Kansas and end up at the comic book store, where Hiro learns he has to take Claire back in time, to get his memories back again. That’s when Hiro decides he’s wants to be the catalyst, and Claire was more than happy not to let her babyself be it. So, now the past has changed. Enter Arthur Petrelli who gets the catalyst and all of Hiro’s powers. Meanwhile, Ando, Matt and Daphne are reading all of this from Isaac’s lost sketchbook.
So, they want to save Hiro by asking to be injected with the same formula they were supposed to destroy. That doesn’t make sense to me, not in the smart way at least. If they want to know how to save Hiro, why don’t they just read the sketchbook and find out. Besides, was there ever a guarantee that an injection creates a certain power?
I hope these loopholes get answered next week. "Heroes" has gotten a lot of criticism this season for being too confusing and leaving so many unanswered questions. I still have hope, I still love the show, but I’m really hoping things properly get wrapped up.
image credit NBC / Photo: Chris Haston