Chapter Seven 'Cold Snap' (II) (23 Mar. 2009)

"Heroes" - "Cold Snap" - March 23, 2009 Danko is grooming: face-washing, shaving with an old-fashioned straight razor... See full synopsis »

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator), Bryan Fuller

Stars:

Jack Coleman, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Tracy Strauss
James Kyson	...	Ando Masahashi (as James Kyson Lee)
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 XVII	...	Eric Doyle
Elizabeth Lackey	...	Janice Parkman (as Lisa Lackey)
William Duffy	...	ER Doctor
Zeljko Ivanek	...	Emile Danko
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Millie Houston

Storyline

"Heroes" - "Cold Snap" - March 23, 2009 Danko is grooming: face-washing, shaving with an old-fashioned straight razor... See full synopsis »

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Plot Keywords:

escape | paris france | helium balloon | wheelbarrow | baby | 

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Japanese

Release Date:

23 March 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tailwind Productions, Universal Media Studios (UMS)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

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.

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Quotes

Matt Parkman: Penny for your thoughts.
Daphne Millbrook: Since when did you start paying people for their thoughts?

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Connections

References Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

User Reviews

Completely blew me away

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.