Heroes Recap: Chapter Two: Don't Look Back
Peter wakes up in a hospital and tries to find out from Nathan what happened. Nathan tries to brush things off by saying that Peter jumped off the building and fell to a fire escape, and he (Nathan) climbed up and carried him (Peter) down the rest of the way. Later, Nathan admits that he flew, but lost his grip. Only at that point did Peter did fly too, and he also flies as they argue - though it's really more like walking on air, which is actually a bit more impressive.
In Texas, Claire wants to find her real parents and she talks to her dad about doing so. Meanwhile, the authorities are looking for the person who helped in the rescue at the train wreck, and they recognized the cheerleader uniform, so they've come to the school to look for cheerleaders in hopes that they can find the person who helped. During the lineup, Claire is almost pulled out, but then her "friend" Jackie steps up to say she did it, deflecting attention from Claire for the time being.
As she leaves the lineup, Claire finds out that the videotape with her killing herself (over and over) is missing from her friend's backpack, and to make things worse, she gets hit by a football player and gets her head turned all the way around on her neck. Luckily only her videotaping friend sees it, or she would have really been up the creek! Little does she know that her father is actually the one with the video, and he now knows what she can do, so she very likely is up the creek.
In Las Vegas, Niki is awakened by a call from her son asking that she come pick him up, so she frantically tries to get out of the garage and away from all of the carnage - and also that strange image staring back at her from the mirror. At a stop light she tries to watch what happened on the camera, only to find herself in a parking lot several hours later, with the phone ringing once again. It's her son, wondering where she is.
When they finally get back home, the garage is completely clean and there's a new car outside, with the bodies in the trunk and a map leading somewhere. They pack up and head out of town, and as she follows the map it leads to a dead-end road and a shovel. Digging with the shovel turns up more dead bodies, so it looks like her alter ego from the mirror has been doing this for a while now (or is in cahoots with someone who has).
In his apartment in Brooklyn, Mohinder encounters someone leaving a bug, but the guy manages to get away. However, he does meet a neighbor that knew his father. It turns out that she used to bring him dinner. They find the bug in the phone line, and then also a USB hard drive in the aquarium that contains all of his father's research, including a formula to find all the emerging "heroes".
In Los Angeles, we meet a new character, Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg of Alias), a police officer who is investigating a crime when he hears voices and discovers a little girl hiding under the stairs. Unfortunately the other officers don't look too kindly on this, and think he set the whole thing up so he can get credit for it, especially when he seems to have inside knowledge of other happenings inside the department that he shouldn't know about - so he ends up getting himself arrested. In reality, it looks like he can hear what others are thinking.
Hiro has made an interesting discovery in Times Square - he has found a comic book about him. It is about the recent events in his life, and it is published by Isaac, so he goes to the address within to find Isaac dead on the floor. Unfortunately he picks up the gun just as the police arrive, and that makes him the prime suspect in the killing. During the questioning, it turns out that he did not arrive in New York yesterday, but he has been missing for some five weeks. He doesn't know how to react, and it looks like he brings on the nuclear destruction promised in Isaac's painting.

















