Air Date: January 29 2007

Writer: Natalie Chaidez

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Bits: A spotty history of Primatech Paper is starting to unfold.....or is it really a paper company...this is the question. So what is you-know-who doing working at this strange place, anyway?

Sorry, I have to comment here about 'the list'!

There is starting to be so much talk about "The List" that I began to feel like everyone on the show was talking about some mailing list or something, just like online marketers who say, incessantly, that the money is in 'The List.'

I didn't know whether to yell out my email address or not while watching this episode! I didn't know whether, perhaps, Joel Comm, Tellman, Mike F, or one of the other boys was going to show up as a guest star or not!

;)

We view Niki in jail at the start of this episode, and she is in quite bad shape, psychologically. A psychologist diagnoses her as having a

*drumroll* *rattatattabrrrrrattattat.......* This will surprise you.....*ch-ching!*

MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER.

Okay - so nobody who has been watching is surprised about that, so I'll move on.

While DL is having troubles making the rent payment, Micah goes out and fools around with some bank machines. The overly clevery little guy used his powers to make the machines talk the green stuff right into his little hands. Micah then delivers fistfuls of cash to D.L. so that bills can be paid.

Matt discloses to his wife, more details about Primatech Paper, and his story is strange that she has trouble believing Matt.

When Matt must consider making the same statements stick on paper, under the law, about Primatech, he realizes he is getting nowhere in telling things as he understands them, so he recants on his statements. He tells his superior officials that he lied and was just talking to try and look like a hero after failing his detective testing for a third time. When the review board puts Matt on a 6 month suspension, he goes home and stalls for time by fixing the plumbing before telling his wife about the situation. He learns in this episode that his wife is pregnant on top of all that is going on in his life, and this last part adds a bit of cheer to an otherwise and overly gloomy situation.

Claire is researching about her biological mother, with friend, Zach's help. Claire puts up the windchimes to summon The Haitian, and she asks him about her real family history. The Haitian is reluctant but tells that Claire's mother died 14 years ago and he warns that this is the last of family past that he will tell.

Claire and Zach come across some old newspaper articles during their research. The articles report about a fire and claim that she and her mother both died in a house fire 14 years ago. The pair reason that it would have been acceptable for officials to believe that baby Claire had died in the fire, while really, she had regenerated somehow and was fine. Claire and Zach surmise that if this were possible, it might as well be possible that Claire's mother also experienced similar circumstances and might be alive somehow. Through sheer persistence, the research finally pays off...

Meanwhile, Claire's dad notices the wind chimes while his daughter is out doing research, which she is simply calling 'homework' for the time being. The Bennet parents are starting to worry that Claire is taking her studies a little to seriously and spending too much time in books.

Like mother, like daughter! Once Claire and Zach manage to track down the woman they think might be Claire's real birth mother, the woman, Meredith Gordon lights a cigarette with flames from her fingertips!

Don't try that at home, kids!

Ando and Hiro are still hanging around the museum and Hiro's extraordinary abilties seem not to have returned to him. As the pair try to leave the museum parking garage, they are kidnapped!

A kidnapper offers Hiro and Ando a plane ticket from his "Boss," but Hiro immediately declines, to the kidnapper hauls the pair along to go speak to his boss.

The Boss turns out to be none other than Kaito Nakamura, Hiro's own father. (George Takei, formerly "Sulu" of Star Trek fame - doesn't he look GREAT as Hiro's father?).

Nathan tries to find out where Peter is from Mohinder, but neither of them has seen Peter in several days. Mohinder confides in Nathan, mentioning Chandra's "LIST" and how this might fit together with Peter's abilities. Mohinder explains how Peter's DNA is probably soaking up the powers of other people exhibiting extraordinary abilities. Mohinder convinces Nathan that if they can find Peter and Mohinder can study him, he might be able to help Peter.

Meanwhile, Peter wanders around for a while and comes across Claude, who is unnerved and shocked that Peter can actually see him. Claud has the extraordinary ability of invisibility and is not used to being approached at all. Peter appeals to Claude for help in learning to control his powers, but Claude is more than a bit reluctant, telling Peter that people try the same and keep failing to control the special powers.

Claude refuses to help and ducks out on Peter, however, Peter tracks him and finds him up on the rooftop of the Deveaux building. Once more, Peter asks Claude for help, and once again, Claude refuses to concede.....

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