Chapter Ten 'Six Months Ago' (II) (27 Nov. 2006)

Claire Bennett is at home reading when the cheer leading captain walk in with a uniform and informs Claire that another cheerleader dropped out and the spot is hers if she wants it. Hiro ... See full summary »

Director:

Allan Arkush

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator), Aron Eli Coleite

Stars:

Noah Gray-Cabey, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Noah Gray-Cabey	...	Micah Sanders
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Niki Sanders / Jessica Sanders
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Adrian Pasdar	...	Nathan Petrelli
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Leonard Roberts	...	D.L. Hawkins
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Nora Zehetner	...	Eden McCain
James Kyson	...	Ando Masahashi (as James Kyson Lee)
Graham Beckel	...	Hal Sanders
Zachary Quinto	...	Sylar
Erick Avari	...	Chandra Suresh
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli

Storyline

Claire Bennett is at home reading when the cheer leading captain walk in with a uniform and informs Claire that another cheerleader dropped out and the spot is hers if she wants it. Hiro Nakamura has traveled back in time to the Texas diner but realize he can't after she tells him she has a terminal disease. Nathan Petrelli and Peter Petrelli are preparing to take down their dad D.L. Hawkins and Niki Sanders are newly weds. Chandra Suresh has come to America to find and contact the people he thinks have taken an evolutionarily step. Sylar is the first but doesn't appear to have extraordinarily powers but then has the power to move things with his mind after he invites and kill another person on Chandra's list and then goes back to Chandra

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Plot Keywords:

box of doughnuts | flashback | midland texas | wristwatch | new york city | 

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Japanese

Release Date:

27 November 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 33, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tailwind Productions, NBC Universal Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Hiro phones Ando and realizes he's talking to himself he hangs up and says "Gurehto Sukotto!" i.e. "Great Scott!", the favorite exclamation of Doc Brown, the inventor of the time machine in Back to the Future and, before him, of Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet in "Superman".

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Goofs

The EEG monitor that Gabriel is hooked up to is scrolling way too fast, too fast to be interpreted live at least. EEG normally scrolls much slower, especially if real-time interpretations are to be made.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Mohinder Suresh: [narrating voice over] To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose. The Earth spins at a thousand miles an hour as we desperately try to keep from being thrown off. Like the first blush in winter, that signals a great migration. Was there any warning of their arrival? A sign, a single event that set this chain into motion? Was it a whisper in God's ear? Survive. Adapt. Escape. And if we could mark that single moment in time, that first hint of the prophecy of ...

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Connections

References Yojimbo (1961)

User Reviews

Six Months Ago provides excellent background on our Heroes

Before I recap this weeks plot, I forgot to mention that Peter got arrested in the end. Now we begin with Hiro again appearing six months earlier at Charlie the waitress' birthday posing with her on camera. In this same time-line, Chandra, Mohinder's father is visiting a watch shop. The watchmaker tells him his watch is two minutes (or seconds) early. Chandra is actually looking for the watchmaker who we find is named Gabriel Gray. He wants to test him for whatever special powers he might have. In Las Vegas, Niki is in AA and is living with husband D.L. and son Micah. They visit her sister Jessica's grave which says she died in 1987. Her estranged father comes and gives Micah a present then gets angry when his grandson takes it apart. Niki's "Jessica" alter ego later seems to kill him as payback for all her abuse. In New York, Peter has just graduated from nursing school and has a party attended by Nathan and wife Heidi who is still walking here. Peter is reluctant about Nathan prosecuting their father in a mob trial. Later, Nathan is talking with Heidi about protecting his brother as he drives when they get rear-ended. Nathan flies upward while the car with his wife still in it hits a corner of an expressway causing her invalidity. At the waiting room, Peter agrees to help Nathan on the witness stand. Their father later dies. In Los Angeles, Matt pulls over Eden for speeding. Eden uses her powers to persuade Matt to let her go and eat doughnuts. A fellow cop catches him and tells him his detective exam is in an hour. Matt fails it and later reveals to his wife he has dyslexia. In Texas, Jackie makes Claire co-cheerleading captain after another girl quits. Claire doesn't really like Jackie but agrees to join. It's during a brief fight with Jackie that Claire discovers how her hand can heal quickly after being bloodied. Also during this time her dad meets Chandra and is told about Claire being special. Claire's dad also learns about Chandra's late daughter. Chandra hopes to meet Claire. Claire's dad, however, meets Eden, who he just found, and asks her to get Claire's name of Chandra's list. Chandra tests Gabriel and finds nothing. Gabriel gets angry and leaves. Before he does, while Chandra is in another room, he finds a name: Brian Davis with phone no. attached. Davis arrives at Gabriel's watch workplace and displays his telekinesis. Gabriel introduces himself as Gabriel Syler (after his watch's maker) and kills Davis intending to take his brain. During all this, Hiro tries to get back to the day before Charlie was killed but can't. So instead, he performs lots of magic to prove to Charlie he's from the future. Eventually, she falls for him and reveals she has a brain aneurysm. As they kiss, Hiro is suddenly transported to Japan with co-workers doing some stretching exercises. He then transports back to present time (and rides a bus) back to Ando. Unfortunately, Charlie is still dead...Wow, lots of backstory about almost everyone except Issac and Mohinder. Sweetest scenes were between Hiro and Charlie. Most intense were between Gabriel/Syler and Chandra. Well, actually that would be when Nathan flew up as the car with his wife bumped into an expressway bridge corner. Good background on everyone and I can't wait for next weeks fall finale before next January's new episodes...