"Heroes"
Chapter Nine: Cautionary Tales (2007)

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator)
Joe Pokaski (writer)

TV Series:

"Heroes" (2006)

Original Air Date:

19 November 2007 (Season 2, Episode 9)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Hiro learns of his father's death and travels back in time to save him only to realize that he must let events unfold as fate intended...

Plot Keywords:

Slusho | Psychic | New York City | Invisibility | Mental Blackout

Cast

David Anders	...	Adam Monroe
Kristen Bell	...	Elle Bishop
Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
James Kyson Lee	...	Ando Masahashi
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Ashley Crow	...	Sandra Bennet
Nicholas D'Agosto	...	West Rosen
Barry Shabaka Henley	...	Detective Bryan Fuller
Adair Tishler	...	Molly Walker
Saemi Nakamura	...	Kimiko Nakamura
George Takei	...	Kaito Nakamura

Goofs:

Continuity: Throughout the beach scene, the light changes between afternoon and evening sun.

Quotes:

[Parkman is telepathically trying to get information out of Angela Petrelli]
Angela Petrelli: If you take this secret from me, you're not just like your father...
[she wipes blood from her nose]
Angela Petrelli: ...you are him.

Cautionary Tales was another great episode of "Heroes"

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Because his family is in danger again, Noah tells his family they must leave but Claire refuses. She later writes "Sorry" with stones for West to see. When she tells West she's staying, West doesn't seem happy to hear it, in fact he's miffed she didn't tell about her father before. That's what the "Sorry" stones were for. Ando and Hiro attend Hiro's father, Kaito's, funeral. Hiro doesn't accept his father's death and goes back to one week before when Kaito was talking to Angela Petrelli. As Kaito greets his son, they go back to the mother's funeral where Hiro meets himself as a young boy. It's there that he accepts his father's words that "you can't play God." Matt now has the power to change people's minds as he finds out with Molly and his partner. He then uses it on Angela who's fighting the best she can especially when he questions about a woman standing next to his father in the Company group photo. She tells Matt the way he's going, "You're not just like your father. You are him." When Bob introduces Mohinder to his partner in getting Claire away from Noah to get Claire's blood, it's Elle who's revealed to Bob's daughter. As Noah gets confrontations about his methods from both Claire and his wife Sondra, he goes out and gets attacked by a flying West. Somehow, he convinces West he meant no harm to him. As Claire is at cheerleading practice, she is interrupted by the coach as she leads her to Bob, who's asking about Debbie's underage drinking and then mistakenly calls her "Ms. Bennett". As Claire goes back home to warn her parents, Sondra recognizes Bob from her husband's former job at the Primatech Paper building. Noah manages to hold Elle's feet in water for a while as she temporarily gets electrocuted but Mohinder, in having to pick sides, puts Noah at gunpoint and has him lead him to Claire. Bob now has Claire tied up. Noah makes a deal to switch Elle for his daughter with West's help. All ends tragically as Noah threatens Mohinder at gunpoint, West flies Claire away as soon as possible just before her father gets shot in the eye, and Elle also gets shot. Bob manages to get Claire's blood in a vial before any of this happens. Back at the funeral, Hiro does a speech in which he says, "as long as my father word's and deeds live in me, he'll always be here". Before this, Hiro was shocked to find, when he stopped time as his father fell to his death, that his killer was Takezo Kensei a.k.a. Adam Monroe. As the last words of the eulogy are being said, we find Noah lying with his eyes suddenly regenerating. He then gets up and says, "Holy-" as "To Be Continued" appears on screen...Wow! What another great episode of "Heroes". Lots of great stuff about fathers and their children. Nice to see George Takei one more time. Also great stuff from Jack Coleman as Noah Bennett. Hiro was the coolest especially with the eulogy. Only two more episodes before the strike happened so until next time...