Summary
Before the recap begins, a quick refresher on the characters:
Niki - the woman who takes off her clothes and sees
herself in the mirror
Peter - the nurse who thinks he can fly, Nathan's brother
Isaac - the druggie who can paint the future
Hiro - the businessman who can stop time
Claire - the indestructible cheerleader
Simone - the dying man's daughter
Micah - Nikki's genius son
Nathan - a politician and Peter's brother
Mohinder - the professor whose father was killed for
his research
Matt – the police officer who hears voices
After another special recap by Super NBC Narration Man,
the episode began.
Back home, a stilly bloody Claire asks her father if
he is mad at her. Mr. Bennett gets his daughter a damp
cloth and then admits he has something to tell her. He
knew about her ability long before she did and he only
wanted to protect her. He has even done some things he
is not proud of to keep her safe. All he wanted was a
normal life for his daughter. Claire realizes that Jackie
died because the man thought Jackie was Claire.
Claire admits that her brother Lyle and Zach know about
her ability (her mother does not). Mr. Bennett says he
will talk to Lyle and asks Claire to talk to Zach.
Matt and Audrey (the FBI agent) are on the case and
hot on the trail of Sylar. The clearing where Eden and
Mysterious Goon captured the wounded Sylar is covered
with evidence markers. One girl at the high school was
killed but her skull was not removed. There was, however,
an incision on her forehead that indicates Sylar was
involved. However, Audrey does not believe the suspect
in custody is Sylar.
Matt is popping handfuls of painkillers and Audrey calls
him on it. Matt angrily replies that he is having headaches
and that everything with Janice is complicated.
Nathan shows up to talk with his brother. As usual,
he dropped everything to help Peter. The first thing
Peter asks is why his brother destroyed the painting.
Well, it showed Peter dead. And Peter realizes that he
can duplicate powers from his brother, Isaac, Hiro and
Claire but is still not sure if he can save the world
or even New York City. As he turns away from Nathan,
emotion clouding his face, he hears his brother telling
him that, in fact, he cannot save the world. When he
turns back around his brother is gone, replaced by Sylar.
Creepy.
He wakes up.
D.L. gets shot. Inside the vehicle, Micah reacts. There
is another shot. It misses D.L. and hits the car. Another
shot. It punctures the front tire. Jessica tosses aside
the rifle and heads across the road, determination on
her face, a pistol in her hand.
Eden sits waiting for Mr. Bennett. She hands him a folder
and tells him Sylar slept through the night. Mr. Bennett
continues alone. Standing in front of what is presumably
bulletproof glass he hits the lights and looks down on
Sylar, who is sleeping in his cell. His powers, however,
will not work. Mr. Bennett is interested in why Sylar
has more than one ability but he also thinks Sylar is
quite insane. Sylar threatens to take Claire's ability
and reacts angrily when Mr. Bennett calls him Gabriel.
He turns off the lights and leaves. He talks on his
cell phone to someone and then confronts Eden again.
She wants to tell Sylar to kill himself despite their
orders to keep him alive. Mr. Bennett seems interested
but Mysterious Goon (who Eden explains is a mute) is
waiting and Mr. Bennett walks off.
D.L. and Micah run through the woods, with D.L. pressing
his wounded arm tight against his chest. They are doing
their best to hide the direction they are heading, going
as far as to backtrack in their own footsteps. Micah
is sure it was not the police who shot his father; the
police would have to announce themselves before opening
fire. They come across a cabin and D.L. puts his hand
through the door, unlocking it. He finds some rags to
use as bandages and asks Micah for help.
Micah knows who shot his father but tries to convince
D.L. it was Jessica, not Niki. D.L. starts to reply but
then slumps over, unconscious. Micah helplessly shakes
his father's body, begging him to wake up.
Audrey and Matt begin to interrogate Peter. They know
he did not kill the girl. The blood found on his body
was his own but he has no injuries. Audrey has Matt try
to read Peter's thoughts and manages to get the phrase "save
the cheerleader" before Peter manages to duplicate
Matt's ability and everything gets confusing. Peter is
stunned that Claire is not being protected and Audrey
and Matt realize they should go find her. Peter is left
alone again.
Isaac returns to his father's apartment in New York
City and finds a note from Eden welcoming him home. He
gets on the phone with the authorities (FBI, maybe) after
faxing them a list of names (presumably from his father's
computer). Nine of the people on that list are dead already
but the authorities are doing nothing.
Eden walks in on Isaac to find him sketching and sober.
The drawings are not predicting the future but they are
drawings. Isaac is happy to be drawing again. Eden tells
him that Peter saved Claire, using his paintings, and
Isaac is excited to think that the future can be changed,
including the destruction of New York City.
Hiro is depressed. He could not save Charlie and he
could not save the cheerleader. He is in Texas with Ando,
at Claire's high school. And since they did not save
the cheerleader, the world is doomed. They decide to
continue forward, to find Peter Petrelli. Hiro's cell
phone rings. It is Isaac, who says they need to meet.
Claire talks with Audrey while Matt watches through
a one-way mirror, trying to listen in on Claire's thoughts.
Mr. Bennett is sitting with his daughter. Claire tells
Audrey about trying to save Jackie and then running away,
leaving Jackie. Audrey asks some leading questions in
the hope that Matt will hear the real answers but Claire
makes no mention of Sylar having any strange abilities
or of her own ability. The interview ends and everyone
heads out into the hall. Matt walks up and introduces
himself to Mr. Bennett, promising to do everything he
can to get Sylar. Mr. Bennett and Claire leave.
Matt explains that he was unable to hear anything from
Claire's mind. It was not exactly silence but more like
some sort of interference. He has heard it once before
when he was in the bar moments before he passed out.
The two walk off. Mysterious Goon is standing behind
a corner and walks off down the hallway in the opposite
direction.
Jessica runs through the woods. She finds D.L.’s
bloody jacket. Suddenly, Jessica is gone and Niki is
back, worried about what she did. She drops the jacket
and starts to run but trips and sprawls into the mud
in front of a river. Looking into the river she looks
up and sees Jessica standing there. The two argue, with
Jessica telling Niki that she does what Niki is not strong
enough to do. Micah's voice can be heard calling for
his mother and either Jessica or Niki (or both) respond.
But when one of them begins running again, it is definitely
Jessica. And she has a pistol.
Peter is back in his regular cell when Claire and Mr.
Bennett enter. Peter is overjoyed to see Claire and Mr.
Bennett thanks Peter and hopes he can repay Peter for
saving his daughter in the future. Peter seems to be
in pain but brushes it off. Claire asks if she can have
a moment with Peter and Mr. Bennett leaves the room.
Claire asks how long Peter has known and Peter realizes
that Claire has an unusual ability as well. She thought
she was the only one. She jokes about having died but
is shocked to learn that Peter had no idea he was going
to heal when he jumped off the building. It was, in Peter's
words, a stupid thing to do.
As Claire walks out, she turns and tells Peter he is
her hero.
Jessica runs through the woods and meets up with Micah.
She draws her gun and heads for the cabin but D.L. is
waiting for her with a shovel. He knocks her down but
she gets right back up and the two start fighting. Micah
screams at them to stop and grabs Jessica's arm. She
shoves him into a pile of rocks and he cries out in pain.
D.L. manages to get to his feet and stumbles to Micah.
Jessica stops and stares and then joins D.L. next to
Micah. Only it is Niki again, not Jessica.
Claire meets up with Zach and tells her the latest gossip:
everyone knows someone died at the high school and everyone
knows it was Jackie. He brought the tapes and Claire
quickly stomps on them. They have a Kodak Moment, with
Claire telling Zach he is her best friend of all time
and even including one of those friendly girl kicks to
the shin. Zach apologizes for getting her to go to the
prom and almost getting her killed but Claire knows he
was only trying to be a friend. She has to rush off but
not before making sure Zach will not talk about her ability.
He promises to remain silent.
Hiro and Ando wait at a bus station. Isaac gets off
the bus and is greeted by a happy Hiro, who flashes the
Vulcan hand symbol. Isaac is stunned at the comic book
Hiro shows him because it has not gone to the printer
yet. Hiro tells Isaac about the future he saw, with the
bomb going off and Isaac being dead on the floor with
head cut open. Isaac tells them that the man who cuts
open skulls is taken care of. Ando is happy the brain
man is in custody and explains that Hiro lost a good
friend.
Isaac opens his sketch book to reveal several sketches
of Hiro, Charlie and Ando at the diner. He drew it two
days ago. He still has the ability to draw the future.
Hiro shows him the last panel in the comic book. It is
the same mural that Isaac painted on the floor of his
studio. He tells Hiro and Ando that recently he drew
a picture of an exploding man. Hiro asks the obvious
question: how do you stop an exploding man?
Claire returns home to find Lyle sitting in the kitchen
alone. She asks if their father talked to him about her "thing" but
Kyle has no idea what she is talking about. He never
talked to their father, who was supposed to pick him
up after practice, and cannot remember how he got home
from school. Claire is stunned.
D.L. and Niki argue about Jessica, with Niki certain
that Jessica will return to hurt Micah. When D.L. stops
to help Micah, Niki disappears.
At the parking lot where D.L. was shot, Niki walks up
to a police officer and asks him to arrest her for murder.
Matt and Audrey sit together at a stakeout. Audrey absentmindedly
thinks that Matt can be cute and then realizes that Matt
heard her say it. She tells him he cannot listen to her
thoughts and tells him to call his wife so he can go
back home. Matt thinks that would make him a chump and
Audrey thinks not calling would make him a chump. And
then they see Mr. Bennett walking out of the building
they are staking out. Matt recognizes Mysterious Goon
walking next to Mr. Bennett and tries with all his might
to hear something, anything. All he gets is a nosebleed
and one word: Sylar.
Claire stands with her hands in her pockets at her school's
football field, waiting for Zach to ride up on his bike.
She tells him about what happened with Kyle not being
able to remember anything about Claire's ability. But
Zach does not remember anything, either. In fact, the
last time he remembers talking to Claire was in the sixth
grade and thinks the whole conversation is a joke. Claire,
shocked, realizes that "they" got to Zach already.
She runs off.
Mr. Bennett walks into the room with the big window
and turns on the lights, revealing Sylar sitting on his
bed staring at the wall. He slides some food into Sylar's
chamber and tells Sylar they are going to take him apart
like one of his watches. They want to know what makes
him tick.
Hiro and Ando stand behind a canvas watching Isaac.
When Isaac begins thinking he cannot paint, Hiro tells
him to concentrate. Isaac gets those white, glazed-over
eyes and starts painting.
Mr. Bennett gets a call on his cell. It is Claire and
she is distraught. She asks if her father remembers their
conversation from the night before (he does) and explains
that Zach and Lyle have no memory of her ability. Mr.
Bennett asks where Claire is (in her room) and says he
is on his way.
After hanging up, Claire notices someone standing in
her room. It is Mysterious Goon. He grabs her, covering
her mouth with his hand. He tells her he works for her
father and was sent to make her forget, just like he
was sent to make Lyle and Zach forget, and Claire's mother
time and time again. But Claire needs to remember. Can
she keep a secret?
Isaac, Hiro and Ando stare at Isaac's finished painting,
utterly confused. They all thought Isaac could only paint
the future but the canvas clearly shows Hiro fighting
a very large, very angry looking green creature that
looks like a T-Rex. Hiro worries he might step on a bug
and change the future (playing on the famous short story
about going back in time and killing a butterfly and
changing the future).
Mohinder gets a call. It is Eden. She tells him she
lied to him but will explain everything soon. But she
has to make things right. She has to kill the man who
murdered Papa Suresh. She hangs up.
Eden walks into the room with the window and turns on
the light. She tells Sylar that she lived across from
Papa Suresh. Sylar realizes that she knew what was going
on and let it happen. In some sense, she helped him.
But she is not planning on helping him now. She has a
pistol with her and tells Sylar that she is going to
give it to him. But then Sylar stands up and suddenly
Eden is crashing through the window and Sylar's hand
is around her throat. Bleeding and hurting, Eden still
has a grasp on the pistol and tries to turn it towards
Sylar.
He gently reminds her that it will not hurt him and
then waxes poetic on stealing her power. Before he can,
however, Eden turns the gun on herself and pulls the
trigger, splattering herself on the shattered remnants
of the window.
***
Once again, Nathan walks up to Peter's cell and tells
him. Peter collapses. When he wakes up, he is wearing
different clothing and is in New York City. But the city
is abandoned. Cars sit empty, the doors wide open. Peter
walks through the street. He sees a bicycle, its wheels
still spinning. He sees a sign asking people to vote.
Suddenly, he sees people. He sees Mohinder. He sees Matt.
He sees D.L., Micah and Niki. He sees Claire running
towards him, stopping and looking at him. He sees Hiro
and Ando. He sees his brother. He sees Simone and then
Isaac grabbing her.
And he sees his hands glowing, his body glowing. He
feels himself explode. And then he is back in Texas lying
on the ground, looking up at his brother. He tells Nathan
that it is his entire fault and then apparently stops
breathing. Nathan calls his name, slapping his face,
trying to get him to respond.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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