While Heroes tends to skip around from character to character in each episode, this episode focused the majority of the week’s plotline on Nathan Petrelli and Hiro Nakumura.

Hiro’s power is still unpredictable, and it’s killing him. When his sister, Kimiko, tells him that she and Ando are getting married and asks him to give her away, Ando expresses his concerns to Hiro. He must tell Kimiko the truth, but Hiro is still thinking in “hero” mode, and before Ando’s words can settle into his mind, Hiro’s hotline phone rings, and he rushes off to save a young man named Tadashi from jumping off the roof.

Hiro learns that Tadashi was recently fired from his job at Takamoto for inappropriate behavior, but before he can talk Tadashi from killing himself, the young man jumps off the roof, and Hiro heads back into the past to save him.

The next time we see Hiro, he is reliving the moment with his sister, but he’s more concerned about finding out what happened to Tadashi. Ando tries talking to him, but the phone rings and Hiro learns that Tadashi is on the roof again.

Nathan is still coming to grips with his memories, and Angela watches him. He tells Peter that he’s seeing things he didn’t partake in, including a memory of his old girlfriend Kelly, who he thought ran away years earlier, floating dead and bleding in her family’s pool. He decides to visit Kelly’s mother, Millie (Swoosie Kurtz,) and asks her if maybe Kelly didn’t really run away, but she’s convinced that she was a  bad mother.  Afterwards, Nathan enters into the family’s yard, and sees visions about what really happened that night. He and Kelly were drinking and she fell into the pool and hit her head on the concrete edge.

He asks his mother about it, and she admits to having staged the entire runaway scenario, then making the Haitian wipe Nathan’s memory. Guilt ridden, Nathan confesses the truth to Millie, but she says she doesn’t want to hear it, doesn’t believe him. Later, as Nathan tries to phone the murder into homicide, he chickens out. As he’s getting out of his car in the parking lot, a man comes at him from behind and injects him with something. Later we see the man toss Nathan’s body into a grave. The man shoots him multiple times, then starts to bury him. Millie and Angela are out to dinner talking about Nathan’s visit, and Millie tells Angela that she’s so sad about Nathan’s delusions. Her phone rings and the man tells her he’s done the job she asks.

Hiro discovers that you can’t change the past, but have to accept who you are and what you’ve got, wisdom he shares with Tadashi that convinces the young man not to jump off the roof.

Acceptance is never easy. As we go through our daily lives, experiencing hardships, as well as joys, we may find ourselves wishing we could change things, or make amends for past wrongs, but a real hero knows that the only way to live an honorable and just life is by accepting ourselves just as we are.

Next week! Sylar’s back, and I hear Claire will be singing to the tune of Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” song. Let’s tune in together, and find out if she liked it.