Is Noah 51 years old?

Did I miss something? That's his birthday?

Lol, at first I thought you meant the year..

I actually thought that too and wondered if it was his BDay or something. Or a date that is important to him.

How does 7957 translate into a birthday?

Nice catch.. if that combo happens to be HRG's birthday.

People often use dates of importance as their lock combo, so having that number be his birth date would make a lot of sense to me.

And 7957 could either be July 9, 1957, or September 7, 1957.

07/09/1957

I guess that's an idea, but it seems way too simple for a man like him.

Nah, he was born in 1962, I think in August. This is from his ID, shown in Distractions.

7-9-57...............

July 9 1957? Interesting observation. It may be.

and Peter's a girl?

Oh, I see. Well, we could also reverse it too.

7/05/1997

Don't know if that accomplishes anything, but it's worth a shot.

Nothing states that this is Noah's date of birth. Something contradicted the F in Peter's passport: He's actually a male. And the writers said it would be edited for the DVD, but it wasn't

Why reverse it if it's that's its order?

Never said that it was the correct way.

It's just taking a different approach to the same information

It could be how many days old he was when he started work at the company.

I can see people reversing their birthdates in a lock combo to make it harder to crack.

From and including: Tuesday, July 9, 1957
To, but not including : Monday, May 7, 1979

It is 7972 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

That was a good try?

If you divide 7957 by 365, it comes to 21.8, which is about how many years noah has worked for the company. neat, Huh?

I'm thinking these were just arbitrary numbers for the lock. If there was significance to why they are what they are, I doubt it'll come up on the show again. Plus, Noah's license placed his birthday in 1962. I wouldn't really like it if birthday's keep getting switched around. Makes things confusing.

They just focused on that number so much, I'm sure we'll see it pop up again.

So you're saying that if it is his bday, that he could have been born in 1977 or 1997? I'd be willing to bet on the second one.

You're questioning what you said?

No, I stated that if it was, how could his year of birth be 1977 or 1997? It isn't his date of birth, though.

I think the numbers will definitely be important. They closed up on them too long. But I'd be lieing if I said I had any idea what they mean....

Wouldn't surprise me if that was his birthday. After all, Jack Coleman is also 51 years old, and just look at Sandra Bennet. She certainly isn't too too young either.

It's important because it's how Peter got in there.

It could be that they focused in on them because that's what Matt focused in on when scanning through his memories.

i highly doubt someone of his background would fall into the faux pas of using something like a birthday for an important combination. but then again, this is tv, and hiro's password was ando.

My guess is either the number of days he worked for the Company (which would be relevant considering what's inside the room), or he just picked a random number between 0000 and 9999 and memorized it. It's one thing for Hiro's Andocave password to be Ando, but HRG is a pro.

7/9/57 is Tim Kring's date of birth!

Yes. According to Wiki, that's Kring's Birthday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kring

LAME. they could've done something cooler like... idk the date HRG joined the company. whatever.

My thoughts exactly!

Yeah, but if you reverse 7957, you get the year 97. Noah is not 11 going on 12. Even if you take it as 79, he's not 29 going on 30.


I think the numbers were focussed on because of their importance as well, but I think that importance was just Matt's proof to Mohinder that the information he was getting was real and pertinent, not just Noah feeding them falsifications.

Maybe Sandra's birthday...I mean as was said, a man like HRG using his own birthday as the combo lock seems a bit too simple. But it could just be.

I think this might be to most logical answer.



Sandra's birthday would mean that's she's 50/51 years old and to me, neither Noah or Sandra look that old.

It's a neat easter egg. In the show, it's just a random number. Outside the show, it's a tribute to the writer. It happens all the time in shows, cartoons and such.

Darnit. I was about to say that!

That was done to show Pete and Mo (and us) that Matt was obtaining correct information from Noah. No more, no less (I think).

Good point.

well, just cuz it's kring's bday doesn't mean that the number can't have more significance in the story. i don't think it's gonna be a big deal if it is special, though. honestly, i'm surprised that bennett would store this stuff behind a simple padlock that could be taken out easily and even bruteforced.

Kring's Birthday. Priceless!

I thought the number had some relevance.

'1234'

That's the number to my luggage.

Yeah that's cool that they use the little trivial things to reference things in real life but I like shows that use those things to reference stuff from the show, like they could have used the year Hiro went to historical Japan. Sure they have no relation but I guess I should know the whole cast and crew, their birth dates, their spouses names, the car they drive, and their pets names to catch all the little cookies.

So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! -- Dark Helmet

1, 2, 3, 4, 5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage! -- President Skroob.



I love Spaceballs.

You mean like the license number of Kaito's limousine back in season one?

What I'd expect at this point is that the number would have no actual importance to anyone in the show, but it'll keep popping up all over the place anyway, like THX-1138 in everything George Lucas does, or CRM-114 for Kubrick (and as Linderman's catalog number for the Kensei sword), or the phrase "See You Next Wednesday" for John Landis.

"Heroes" has its spiral symbol, with a bunch of unrelated explanations, and the fact is that none of the explanations has to make any sense or be connected to the others. It's just a little wink in the direction of the audience.