Heroes: Back to the Future!

Apparently Tim Kring has finally started to get the ball rolling, linking together two consecutive non-sucky episodes. This episode jumped four months into the past, tracing Peter's life, as well as parts of Nathan's, Nikki's, and the twins' (however, it's becoming more and more apparent that the twins are on their way out, and will probably kick the bucket in the next two episodes, as Sylar takes their power and then cries tears of emo).

So Peter exploded, regenerated super fast, and then rescued his falling big brother, all in, say, thirty seconds. It was a new record for that sort of thing. Nathan goes to the hospital to get the Anakin Skywalker treatment (that's what I would request, in his position) and Peter goes off to find non-nuclear clothes, because clothes wrapped around a nuclear bomb turn gray when the bomb goes off. Then Elle zaps him, proceeds to look hot and flirts like a woman with no father.

Elle's secret? She's homeschooled. The explanation for her sadistic mind set and her yearning for a affection can be traced to the fact that she is homeschooled. Or at least that's the explanation we have now. Homeschoolers, while having a serious lack of social skills, are not usually known for being ruthless killers or femme fatale (which is French for "fatal Kristen Bell"). This calls Bob's parenting skills into question.

In other news, the Hatian knows his real power is being mysterious, Angela Petrelli's power may be persuasion, apparently no one cares if you shoot someone in a night club, apparently no one cares if D.L. is shot, Nikki is a line of Barbie dolls (this one being Hollywood Vagrant Barbie), and West is possibly dead, which I assume because he wasn't in the episode.

Right now I'm cheering for two things: for the twins to die a slow and painful death (but offscreen, so when I watch it it will be quick and painless), and for Elle to find everlasting happiness. Hopefully both of those will happen next week, and perferably in one stroke.