Episode:Cautionary Tales

Cautionary Tales
Season:	Two
Episode number:	209
First aired:	November 19, 2007
Written by:	Joe Pokaski
Directed by:	Greg Yaitanes
Previous episode:	Four Months Ago...
Next episode:	Truth & Consequences
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Summary

• Noah tries to save Claire and his family.
• Hiro attempts to save his father and learns a horrible truth.
• Matt turns to his ability to get what he wants.
• Elle, Bob, and Mohinder go on a mission.

Synopsis

The Bennets are packing in preparation for leaving their home, when Claire comes down the stairs, dressed in her cheerleader outfit. When she starts packing for school, her father starts to argue with her about the fact that they are leaving Costa Verde that day, but Claire refuses to listen to him. Noah threatens to do something if she doesn’t change, but Claire interrupts him, mocking him about his former days with the company and attacking him on how they will never stop running. Noah then threatens to tie Claire up, but Sandra steps in and says that Claire can say goodbye to her friends at school but they are leaving that night.

At Kaito’s funeral, Hiro is called up to deliver an eulogy in his father’s honor. He walks up to the podium, but then quickly walks away without saying anything. Ando meets up with him and asks if he’s okay. Hiro replies that he came back to late, that they don’t even know who the murderer was and that it is all his fault. Ando then urges him back to the podium saying that it isn’t his fault. Hiro refuses saying if he does, then he is accepting that his father is gone. He then Teleports back one week ago to when his father was killed.

Claire spells it loud and clear.

Matt is looking at the picture of the Group of twelve when Molly walks in. He gets up to make her some cereal, but she inquires at the picture he was looking at. He says it’s a ‘puzzle’ and that they fit together somehow, but Molly interrupts saying that she can Find them for him. He hastily refuses saying that he made that mistake before and that he just wants her to be a normal girl. She protests but he insists for her to be a normal girl. When she persists, he uses his power to project a plea into her mind. She agrees and walks off but he then uses his power again to make her come back to finish her cereal.

Mohinder meets Bob at a Costa Verde hotel. Mohinder wonders how they will kidnap Claire and Bob says ‘swiftly, grab Claire and take out her father’. Mohinder protests to any killing but Bob says it’s just a phrase and that he’s made the right choice. He then says that he needs a new partner and introduces him to his daughter, Elle. Bob then asks Elle if she’s been working on her ‘sharpshooting’, and she aims her hand like a gun and fires a small spark at a nearby glass, destroying it and lighting it on fire. Mohinder is shocked at her accuracy, while Elle blows her finger just as if she had fired a gun.

Claire is laying out rocks in a pattern, when West appears and asks her ‘what’s her deal’. They then ague about Claire’s neutrality with Claire saying that ‘she’s just a cheerleader’; West ponders whether the whole situation is just a big coincidence and Claire nods; West then flies off after saying that he ‘wants to believe her but he doesn’t’. Claire’s pattern turns out to be the word sorry.

Matt is at work trying to get information on the Angela Petrelli case when Detective Fuller tells him that it’s solved and to get off it. Matt refuses and uses his power to make him have 24 hours and be able to talk to Angela again.

At the Bennet home, Noah and Sandra are discussing West and Sandra is shocked that Noah abducted him at such a young age. Noah then shows her the picture of him lying dead noting that Claire was right and that ‘Everything is about me’. He then shows her that picture of Mohinder shooting a gun, saying that while he could be shooting at him, Mohinder is ‘one of the good guys’. He also tells her his urgency to find West.

Mohinder answers his cell to Noah who asks if Molly can track down West for him. Mohinder says yes and Noah thanks him. Mohinder then walks back into his room in which Elle and Bob are in and says that they can use this to their advantage by feeding him a false location. Elle disagrees saying that ‘you don’t change your plans mid-stream’, but Mohinder threatens to tell Noah everything if they don’t do it his way. Bob relents and Elle passes Mohinder a gun.

One week ago, Hiro is listening to Kaito and Angela’s conversation about their death threats. When Angela walks away, Hiro reveals himself to Kaito who becomes pleasantly surprised. Hiro tells him that he’s been in the time of Takezo Kensei and that Kaito is going to die tonight. Kaito asks him how he knows this and Hiro tells him he’s just come from his funeral. Kaito tells Hiro that is his fate then, but Hiro refuses to listen, saying that he will show him that he felt this way once, teleporting him and Kaito back in time.

Noah is leaving the house saying that ‘he just can’t wait around’. When he walks outside, West picks him up and flies him high into the sky. While in the air West threatens to drop him and that he wants answers about Claire, Noah says that Claire lied to him so he must be pretty important to her. They then crash into the ground and Noah--who recovers first--pins West to the ground. While he has West pinned on the ground, Mohinder calls Noah saying that West is at the corner of Verbena and Palm. Noah is however with West at the corner of Ocean and 4th. Noah lets West go saying that he needs his help.

Elle screams in pain when she discovers creating electricity when you are soaked is not the smartest thing to do.

Claire is at a cheerleading practice when her coach calls her over saying that someone from the education commission wants to see her. It turns out to be Bob, who then proceeds to call her by her real name Bennet; Claire quickly runs away releasing he is someone from the company.

Elle and Mohinder are waiting for Noah, when Mohinder asks Elle if she’s killed many people. Elle pushes off the question, saying that it isn’t any of his business. Mohinder then says that he should talk to Noah alone first because he trusts him.

Noah arrives at the corner of Verbena and Palm, while Mohinder jumps into the back of his car, asking Noah to give them Claire because they need her blood. A shocked Noah replies that ‘You’ve gone native’ and says that they will never get Claire; Mohinder then pulls out his gun saying that he must do what he thinks is right.

A frightened Claire runs back to her house and sees Noah’s death painting. She is then startled when she feels her mother’s hand on her shoulder, but quickly warns her about Bob and asks about the painting. Bob then appears pointing a gun at both of them saying that Isaac was an incredibly skilled and accurate painter.

Noah and Mohinder stop somewhere and Noah asks Mohinder who his partner is, when Elle appears. Noah smirks at her saying that he definately knows her. Elle starts manifesting her power and starts walking towards them but is surprised when Noah looks above her. She turns around and West tackles her into a car knocking her unconscious. Noah disarms Mohinder and points the gun at him, but West talks him out of firing. He then settles for kicking Mohinder in the chest.

Noah then arrives back home to find Sandra bound to a chair; she tells him that Bob took Claire. Noah replies that he has got collateral; When Sandra asks what sort of collateral, West walks into the house carrying an unconscious Elle.

Noah wakes Elle up, who discovers she is wet, chained to a chair and her feet in a bath of water. Noah says that he needs to speak to her father and Elle remarks ‘Do you think this is my first day?’ and attempts to zap Noah with her power. She unfortunately forgets she is soaked and the water her feet are in conducts the electricity she creates and she ends up zapping herself, resulting in her screaming in pain. Noah tells Elle that he was there when they first brought her in, that her father experimented on her, and he pities her for the testing they put her through. He tells her that he plans to trade her for Claire.

Noah prepares to shoot Bob who is cradling Elle, while Mohinder looks on.

Bob is finishing Claire’s binds when he receives a call from Elle’s cell, he picks it up expecting Elle but hears Noah saying that if he hurts Claire then he will kill Elle and that he will be waiting at the imperium parking lot in two hours to trade. Bob then takes some of Claire’s blood.

Hiro and Kaito appear seventeen years ago just when Hiro’s mother has passed away. When Kaito asks why he did this, Hiro replies that he needs to make him understand his pain. When Kaito still refuses to be saved, Hiro accidentally runs into his younger self, who tells him that he refuses to let his father die. Hiro is shocked and tells his younger self that they cannot play God.

Noah prepares to leave to trade Elle for Claire, when West insists on coming along, arguing that he is the quickest way of escape. Noah relents and attempts to give Sandra a gun that she refuses and tells him that girls pick boyfriends that are like their dads.

Hiro and Kaito teleport back to the night when Kaito is killed. Kaito tells him he is proud of Hiro and Hiro teleports away. Kaito’s death plays out like before, but Hiro stops time when they are just about to fall over the edge, determined to see whom the killer is. It turns out to be Adam Monroe.

Matt visits Angela in jail who tells him that she is less impressed with his mind-reading abilities than she was with his father. Matt however uses his developed telepathy making Angela tell the truth about who killed Kaito and about a mystery woman.

West, Noah and Elle wait for Mohinder, Bob and Claire to show up. When they do, Elle and Claire walk back to their respective parties. When West starts to fly away with Claire, Elle breaks her binds with her power, and unloads a blast of electricity upon West hitting him dead center. She then manifests her power for some revenge on Noah, but is too slow; Noah shoots her in the shoulder; she screams and then collapses.

Apparently Resurrection is quite a shock.

Bob runs to his daughter’s aid and finds himself looking up at Noah’s gun. Just as Noah is about is shoot, Mohinder shoots him in the eye and he falls to the ground, dead; fulfilling Isaac’s last two paintings. West constrains Claire from running to her dead father, flying her away as Mohinder, Elle and Bob look upon Noah’s body.

West flies Claire back to her house, Claire remarks to West that the last thing she ever said to Noah was that she hated him. West says that she didn’t mean it, but she says she did and walks in to tell her family the grave news.

At Kaito’s funeral, Hiro is again called on to eulogize his father, but he still refuses to saying that if he does then he is accepting that he is gone. He then goes on about all the things his father taught him saying that his father lives through his teachings. As he talks, several things are shown, Mohinder is shown holding the gun he used to kill Noah with. Bob is shown trying to tend to Elle’s now bandaged wound, which she pushes him off with a look of distaste. Matt is shown looking at the now fully labeled picture of the twelve. Hiro is shown rubbing off the red paint of his father grave. Sandra is shown cuddling Mr. Muggles and Claire and West are shown cuddling.

As Hiro finishes speaking, an IV of blood is shown to be inserted into a dead Noah. The blood regenerates his eye, effectively resurrecting him. He wakes up to find himself in the company hospital.

Memorable Quotes

"You've gone native!"

- Noah (to Mohinder)

"What are you gonna do? Tie me up?"

"If I have to."

"Noah, put down the tape!"

- Claire, Noah, Sandra

"There's something bigger going on here. I don't know what it is, but these guys are involved in some kind of organization. Like, from back in the '70s."

"Like a disco?"

- Matt, Detective Fuller

"Stings like a bitch, doesn't it?"

- Noah (to Elle)

"You touch my daughter, and I'll kill yours."

- Noah (to Bob)

"We have the power of gods. That does not mean we can play God."

- Kaito (to Hiro)

"They say girls tend to find boys just like their dads."

"Because he can fly?"

"No, her real dad - YOU."

- Sandra, Noah

"What's your superpower? Punching bag?"

- Elle (to Mohinder)

"I'm Takezo Kensei!"

"Yes you are."

- Young Hiro, Hiro

"Holy sh-"

- Noah

Character Appearances

Sandra Noah Claire Lyle Hiro Kimiko

Ando Chanting monk (I) Chanting monk (II) Old monk Kaito Angela

Matt Molly Mohinder Bob Elle West

Detective Fuller Coach Randolph Mr. Muggles Flashback monk Adam

Trivia

• This episode featured a number of moments that reflected similar scenes in prior episodes from the first season.

- Claire says to West, "I'm just a cheerleader." Claire said this to Peter in Homecoming. Also of note is that both Cautionary Tales and Homecoming were the ninth episodes of their respective seasons.

- When Mohinder is in the back seat of the car that Noah is driving, it reflects the scene in which they first meet in Genesis. In that scene, however, Mohinder was driving, while Noah was the passenger.

- When Noah heals and sits up on the bed, he says "Holy sh--" and his dialogue is cut to the to be continued screen. A scene similar to this occurred with Claire in One Giant Leap.

• This is the first episode to feature Claire wearing her Costa Verde cheerleading uniform.
• Victoria Pratt is also the name of an actress who was a main character in Fireworks Entertainment's television series Mutant X, which was distributed by Tribune Entertainment (WB Network) as well Fireworks (Global and International Networks) from 2001-2004.
• The song playing during Claire's cheerleader practice is "Back to the Streets" from Panic! At The Disco's upcoming album.

See Also

• For images from Cautionary Tales, see images from Cautionary Tales.

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