Heroes (TV Series) Chapter Eleven 'Fallout' (2006) User Reviews

The One After Homecoming...

[taylorkingston · 7/10 · 10 March 2017]

Well, the first episode after the "save the cheerleader" factor of the series. I honestly cannot remember my initial thoughts, since I was nine at the time, but now, I really enjoy this episode.

In this episode, everyone who knows about the bomb is wondering if it's still going to go off. Hiro, and Ando meet with Isaac at the Burnt Toast Diner to discuss their future plans. Since Noah has captured Sylar, he is keeping him in a room in the Company's dirty-little-secret basement. And Claire is adjusting to the fact that her father knows the truth about her abilities.

Best part of this episode: Everything.

Worst part of this episode: Nothing in particular.

Overall, I give this episode a 7 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Great.

Some minor corrections to the above synopsis...

[neil.strawbridge · 10/10 · 10 December 2006]

A couple of corrections to the above post (with all respect to the individual who wrote it):

On Eden's confrontation with Sylar...

Eden confronts Sylar, a wall of thick glass between them. She attempts to use her power of persuasion on him to convince Sylar to kill himself. It doesn't work, and when he realizes that Eden was so close to Chandra Suresh (literally the girl next door) and that she knew of his abilities, he becomes angry and uses his telekinetic ability to abruptly pull her through the glass wall, shattering it and injuring her. "You knew what I was and you let it continue." Sylar tells Eden that he's going to consume her power.

Eden points the gun at his head. Mockingly, Sylar tells her "Eden, you know that won't hurt me." She realizes that he is absolutely right. She also realizes that she cannot allow him to absorb yet another ability. She points the gun at her own head and pulls the trigger. The formerly crystal clear glass behind her is suddenly stained red.

On Claire's encounter with the Haitian...

Up to this point, Mr. Bennett's assistant, the Haitian, has been acting under his orders. "I work for your father," he says to Claire. "He sent me here to make you forget... like he sent me to your friend... and your brother... and your mother, so many times." He goes on to say that her father will be there soon, expecting that Claire won't remember anything. "But it is very important," he says, "that you do." Then he asks, "Tell me, Claire. Can you keep a secret?"

"Heroes" is one of the most well-written series I've seen in a long time. Not since "Babylon 5" have I looked with such anticipation toward next week's chapter! This one will end up in my DVD collection when it comes out. :-)

Fallout is excellent end-of-the-year episode of Heroes

[tavm · 10/10 · 7 December 2006]

Peter is in the interrogation room questioned by FBI agent Audrey and mind-reading cop Matt. When Matt tries to read Peter's head, Peter ends up reading Matt's ending with a colliding block effect. Peter mentions that Claire, not the dead Jackie, was who Syler was after so Matt and Audrey leave to get her as Peter is left behind. Jessica hit Niki's ex-husband D.L. but the bullets went through him though Jess doesn't seem to know this yet (she must have memory loss from when D.L put his hand through her previously). The next morning, D.L. and son Macah go to a cabin to settle down just before Niki comes nearby and sees her Jessica reflection on a puddle with Jessica saying how stronger she is for anyone, especially Niki, to take her on. Jess must have figured out by this time that D.L. was still alive and takes her gun and hides it as Micah finds her, thinking it's his mom, and takes her back to the cabin. As Micah calls to his dad, D.L. kicks the door open and attempts to knock out Jessica. Sometime after kicking down Micah, Niki comes back and turns herself in the the police. Back to the interrogation room, Claire is questioned with her father witnessing stopping short of revealing her powers since her dad doesn't want anyone else to know. Claire later stops by Peter's cell to tell him what a hero he is to her while her dad confronts Syler and calls him by his real name of Gabriel Gray. He later gets orders from above to keep Syler alive though Eden, with her powers of persuasion, mentions being able to make Syler kill himself without anyone being the wiser. Eden then visits Issac and gives him a cell phone and a card. Issac calls the number on the card and gets Hiro, still at the diner in Texas. They agree to meet at a bus station. At a nearby hotel room, Issac tries to paint without drugs for the first time as Hiro and Ando watch. The result is a scene of Hiro with a sword confronting a dinosaur. Hiro looks at that and says, "I gotta get me a sword." Eden calls Mohinder in New York and confesses she lied to him, promising to tell him everything after she takes care of some business. She goes to Syler's cell and attempts to kill him, but he manages to break the glass between them and somehow quickly point the gun back at her instantly killing her. Before going home, Claire is assured by her dad that he'll take care to explain to her little brother about knowing her powers and is ordered to have the tapes Zack recorded of her to be destroyed. She does just that when Zack brings them, then goes to her brother who has no memory of the incident. Neither does Zack later on and he's now wondering why Claire is speaking to him since she's ignored him since sixth grade. Claire, now feeling alone, calls her dad who reassures her everything's all right. Just then his Haitian assistant, who was always silent previously, surprises Claire and reveals he's wiped certain memories of everyone she's been close to and was going to do the same to her but reneges this time. He only asks her, "Can you keep a secret?" During this whole time, Peter has been having dreams or visions of his brother Nathan, Syler, and now of being back in New York with all the other heroes except his brother running away from him as he begins to explode...But wait, now he's back in present time feeling normal with Nathan embracing him and some of the others coming back...Wow, what a way to end the year before the month-long hiatus! So Eden's now dead. Although I mentioned that Syler pointed the gun back at her, I now wonder did Eden purposely turn the gun around to keep him from getting her persuasion powers or did Syler manage to get some of Eden's powers before or after killing her? When Matt shook hands with Claire's dad, he didn't recognize him but on a later stakeout he did recognize his Haitian assistant with him. So how long before he figures out that his mind's been wiped by the Haitian man? And was Peter actually about to cause the bomb explosion or did he get close to that man who actually makes things burn sometime before? I can't wait to find out all these things and more come January 22, 2007!

Chapter Eleven 'Fallout'

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 17 March 2021]

With Sylar captured. Eden wants him dead.

Mr Bennett though has to follow orders and still keep Claire safe.

This means doing mind wipes on people who know of her abilities. Claire finds that the silent Haitian does actually talk.

For the rest, the aftermath at the high school leaves Peter Petrelli having an important vision about himself.

Claire may still be in danger and it might be from someone other than Sylar.

With its large cast, the focus can be lost when Heroes moves to other characters. Maybe Niki/Jessica was not needed in this episode.

Hiro and Ando meeting up with Isaac Mendez though did a lot to move the story forward. There was something else that was going to happen and the Heroes still needed to band together at some point.

Now Sylar has been established. It is obvious the producers are going to get rid of a few minor characters from now on.