"Heroes" Chapter Seven 'Cold Snap' (2009)

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator)
Bryan Fuller (written by)

TV Series:

"Heroes" (2006)

Original Air Date:

23 March 2009 (Season 3, Episode 20)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Tied Up While Barefoot | Mental Blackout | One Word Title | Insane Asylum | Regeneration

Cast

Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Tracy Strauss
James Kyson Lee	...	Ando Masahashi
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Noah Gray-Cabey	...	Micah Sanders
Brea Grant	...	Daphne Millbrook
David H. Lawrence	...	Eric Doyle (as David H. Lawrence XVII)
Elizabeth Lackey	...	Janice Parkman (as Lisa Lackey)
William Duffy	...	ER Doctor
Zeljko Ivanek	...	Emile Danko
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Millie

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Tailwind Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: Hiro and Ando are watching Baby Matt Parkman. Hiro unplugs the TV and we see it is a 3-pronged plug, but when we see lying on the floor, it is a 2-pronged plug.

Quotes:

Noah Bennet: You should've stuck with Matt Parkman. You could've walked right past me and I never would have known.
Tracy Strauss: We did walk right past you.

Movie Connections:

References "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (#6.7)" (1992)

Completely blew me away

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This isn't just the standout episode thus far of this volume -- it's one of the standouts of the whole series. Not one but two really stunning, emotionally hard-hitting climaxes to two different story threads, both of which nearly had me in tears.

I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, so I can't get too specific, but there's a major act of heroism from a really unexpected source, and really moving, if ultimately futile, romantic gesture, and both were incredibly well done.

Also, it was cool to see that my guess as to a particular mystery individual's identity turned out to be right.

Honestly, the only flaw in this entire episode is that the opening scene involving Danko and (indirectly) Sylar was a little unconvincing. I can't quite accept that a highly trained special-ops military sociopath walks into his apartment and finds something there that he didn't put there (at the end of last episode) -- and and his response is to go in the washroom and start shaving? Unless there was a time lapse between the two during which he actually searched the place thoroughly... One can only hope.

But really, a slightly weak beginning was more than made up for by the rest of this amazing episode. If they manage to keep up this pace for the rest of the volume, it may even surpass season 1.