I don't usually watch the show, "Scrubs," but today I made an exception and tuned in for a little bit. During one episode, a woman was remarking on a rooftop beach how death had been a motivator in her life. She said, "It forced me in the 8th grade to ask Peter Petrelli to the sock hop."

"Heroes" has become one of my favorite shows, if not #1. And whenever I hear the name of a character I like, which is pretty much all of them, I think, "Awesome!" It's like randomly hearing the sound of an electric guitar and being blindsided by the sudden and brilliant Force of Cool!

Almost as soon as I heard the woman say "Peter Petrelli," I thought, "Did I hear her correctly?" I had to check the net. Surely there must have been other reports from people who made the same connection.

After a little while, I came upon a search query that gave me what I was looking for. Yes, other people caught the quote, and they were just as surprised as I.

In all honesty, one of the first places my mind went upon hearing his name on "Scrubs" was to a theory about his time travel ability coinciding with the power to phase from one dimension to the next. That way, he could move from the "Heroes" universe, to the "Scrubs" universe… to our universe! Save the Cheerleader, Pete!!

Heroes is absolutely incredible. They have the option to make it complex, and they do so brilliantly. Monday, amnesiac Peter took his Irish gal pal for an unplanned trip to 2008, where over 90% of the world's population has been ravaged by disease. Peter and his lady are separated, and she is deported back to Ireland.

Then, Peter goes back to some other time, possible present-day, possible the time of the previous generation of heroes, Linderman's, generation. He meets Adam, the immortal samurai Hiro just made an enemy of, 400 years in the past.

All right, so the guy's immortal. That means all healers are immortal. That means Claire and Peter are immortal, and previous future Sylar was as well.

Back to the issue at hand. Peter left the future where "9 out of 10 dentists agree…that they're dead," but his girlfriend is still there! And you just know they're going to save the world again like they did at the end of Season 1. They stopped the bomb, and prevented the devastation and ensuing development of an anti-hero police-state. So they'll stop this disease too. But where does that leave Peter's lady?

In "Back to the Future 2," old man Biff in 2015 traveled back to 1955 giving his younger self a sports almanac with all the winners in every major sporting event for the next 45 years. 1955 Biff got rich. When Doc and Marty left 2015, they returned to 1985-prime, which was a Hell version of the time they once knew. Doc and Marty left Jennifer, Marty's GF, on a porch swing in 1985-prime. Then they went back to 1955, fixed history, and returned to the original 1985. There, they found Jennifer on the same porch swing.

How did that work? If Doc and Marty fixed the timeline in 1955, then the versions of them that were in 2015 a few days prior would have ended up back at the original 1985 to begin with, and would have brought Jennifer home and probably woken her up at some point. Like, "Here, your home now. Good night." How did she jump from 1985-prime to the normal 1985?

Well, anyway, if Heroes does that, and Peter never goes back for his GF (like that would happen), then she'll first show up in Ireland in the diseased 2008, having been missing for a few months. Then, Peter and co. will change history, cleaning up 2008. At that point, his GF will be in Ireland in the clean 2008. Or will she?

I think what could happen instead is that she randomly appears in clean 2008 at the time and place where she showed up with Peter in dirty 2008. She'd randomly appear in NY, and wouldn't be sent to Ireland because there wasn't any disease to mandate deportation. But does she show up without Peter? Hmm…

The way around this conundrum would be to have Peter go back to diseased '08 and bring GF back to 2007. I think they'll do that.

Alternatively, Peter and friends could first save the world, and then Peter goes to clean 2008, picks up GF, and returns with her to the present (by that point, the present would probably be the end of Season 2).

But man! I wish they'd explain what would happen if she were just left there, in a future soon to be rewritten. I'll bet there are a lot more interesting possibilities than what I've come up with.