Nowhere To Hide Review

This post reviews last week's (first broadcast November 13th) episode of Heroes #7 "Nothing To Hide". Spoilers after the cut...
The title is ironic as Jeff from the spoiler section end of episode 4 of The 9th podcast noted, as it seems in each scene there is someone who has a secret from someone else. I knew at the beginning of the episode that Peter was dreaming (but I didn't know that Charles Deveaux was played by Richard "Shaft" Roundtree) so his revealing his power to him wasn't real. We finally see his brother Nathan's wife (played by the lovely Rena Sofer) who reveals to us the audience that she is paralyzed and that it comes out in the dialogue that Nathan is somehow to blame. My wife Kathy and I disagreed on Nathan telling his wife that Peter's lie to cover up his dalliance with Niki/Jessica was the truth. She felt that she should've told her, and while I would usually agree, Her saying that she believed she would walk again but needed a reason or hope from him, what was he gonna say? I still think the fling was contrived and stereotypical (an unfaithful politician? What are the odds?)
Niki reveals her powers to her friend, giving her alter ego the name "Jessica" (sadly ending the "ikiN" name given in some fan circles) that seems to come out when she or her child Micah is threatened (which, although the layman practice of psychology coined the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", I'm going to speculate that Jessica is a physical manifestation of multiple personality disorder, given that MPDs usually manifests when one can't cope with a situation and a particular personality comes out, such as endangerment in Jessica's case)
After what seems too long we see Matt the cop again (and did you notice at the end of the episode the two lines by his neck, maybe starting the RNA tattoo/brand that Jessica had?), apparently reading a secret his wife's keeping, which is she is having an affair with his partner Matt, who is played by Rick Peters. Kathy recognized him from the PAX series Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, but missing his Australian accent he used in that show. Matt's called back in by the FBI agent about a case that I recognized was another with powers from the burn marks around where one would use a keyboard or open a door. Ted's radiation and scorching from touching has apparently put his wife in a coma and in the hospital, where they track him down. Matt ends a standoff by relaying Ted's wife's thoughts to him. When he mentioned listening to the "American Beauty" album that I thought was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, but I found it was pointed out in one of the Heroes forums that's it's the title of a Grateful Dead album. Given Ted's physical appearance it sounds more likely.
Claire's secret keeping shows up story-wise in the form of a tape that has resurfaced (that her adopted dad HRG watched previously) that her brother finds and watches, and didn't buy her explanation after her reaction of it being special effects, staples her hand, see it heal, freaks out and locks himself in the minivan. Claire ends up playing the "I'm adopted, poor li'l me, boo hoo" card, and gets it back.
And my favorite Hiro the Japanese geek meets DL the phasing fugitive and his son Micah as they encounter a car crash. DL tries to get the trapped girl out, Hiro freezes it when the cliched gas and fire go to the car and explodes happens, and addresses a problem with having a power: you can freeze time, but what if you don't have super strength? As I was preparing this review, I wondered about the 9th Wonders comic Hiro had with his story in it: it's issue 14, but if the powers didn't manifest itself until 6 months ago (which is an upcoming episode title) and comics are usually at best monthly, is there a time discrepancy? But the creators of the show have said 9th Wonders is an anthology comic a la Tales to Astonish or Amazing Fantasy, and perhaps Issac the painter had a vision of Hiro's time/space trip to NYC, maybe thought the publishers of the comic were looking for artists/writers, and did his vision as a comic book story.
And the question of if powers can "run in the family" like with Peter and Nathan was possibly further confirmed at the end when Micah got a broken pay phone to work to call his mother. Did anyone else notice that he seemed to recognize Jessica while talking to her?
The puzzle pieces are starting to come together as the characters and stories are starting to intersect.