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
In New York City, Peter discusses stocks with Simone's
father, who lambests Peter's financial situation. But
the two seem close, able to joke over the man's impending
death and share their love for one another. Peter opens
a window and tells the man he can fly. He then proceeds
to run towards the window, certainty written over his
voice. And he flies. But it was only a dream.
He wakes up to his door buzzing and finds Simone standing
outside. She is distraught; her father passed away an
hour earlier. Peter takes her in his arms.
In Texas, Claire opens the front door and finds Zach
standing there. He barges in and announces he has found
the missing tape of Claire trying to kill herself. Although
obviously happy to know where the tape is, Claire is
upset that it was in Zach's house the entire time. Mrs.
Bennett -- and her dog Mr. Muggles -- has to leave, so
Claire is in charge of her younger brother. He finds
the tape.
In Las Vegas, Niki lies motionless on the floor. Suddenly,
she sucks in air and breathes Micah's name. She rushes
through the house desperately looking for her son. Stopping
in front of a mirror, she peers at her (solitary) reflection
and asks for help.
In Los Angeles, Matt and his wife talk things over.
The past few days have changed their relationship. He
tries to tell his wife about his ability but stops after
hearing her thoughts. She is worrying that he knows about
something.
As Niki looks at herself in another mirror, someone
knocks at the door. It is Texas Tina. Niki explains what
happened, telling Tina she failed her son.
In Isaac's studio, Simone and Peter find Isaac gone
and his paintings gone with him. Simone wanted to tell
Isaac about her father and shows Peter a sketch Isaac
drew months ago. She tells Peter about the day father
came out of his coma, when he told her about how he flew
all around the world seeing people with pain and how
he saw Peter flying with him, telling him Peter would
save the world. Peter insists he never had that conversation.
But Simone is putting two and two together. The painting
Peter needs was sold to a guy named Linderman who lives
in Las Vegas.
Nathan, his wife (Heidi) and his mother talk politics
in the kitchen. He is shocked that both his wife and
his mother pick the same . Momma Petrelli wants Nathan
to show off his family and Heidi is desperate to do anything
she can to help out. She wheels herself away from the
kitchen, leaving Nathan alone.
In the men's shower room at the police station, one
of Matt's fellow officers can tell his friend is worrying
about something. He invites Matt to join him for a beer
and a game later that night and Matt agrees. The two
are interrupted by a commotion in the shower room: a
woman has walked in. It is the FBI agent Matt worked
with earlier, who walks up to Matt and tells him Sylar
has killed again and she needs him to come with her.
When Matt insists he has to talk to his watch commander,
the agent hands him an FBI badge and tells him everything
is taken care of. All Matt has to do is change into "normal" peopl
clothes.
Claire yells at her brother for leaving a mess and then
discovers the tape is missing. She finds Lyle seated
in front of the television watching her jump (from the
first episode) and get hit by a car. She tries to explain
it away as special effects but Lyle will have none of
it. He grabs a staple gun and presses it against his
sister's hand. Claire yelps with pain and tears the staple
out, leaving two small, bloody punctures. Lyle is stunned
to see all traces of the wound disappear in front of
his eyes.
Lyle races out of the house with the tape, Claire hot
on his heels. She yells for Zach to cut Lyle off but
before either of them can get to him, Lyle locks himself
in the family car. He yells for help, calling Claire
a freak.
An oncologist with UCLA is the new dead guy. But there
is no modus operendi (MO). Sylar's killings are random.
And the body is giving off quite a bit of radiation.
The only clue is a fingerprint seared to the bone. The
agent wants Matt to Theodore Sprague, aka Sylar.
D.L. and Micah drive along slowly. Micah is worried
about his mother and wants to go home. D.L. insists she
will be fine but his son calls him a bad guy, not a hero.
Heroes do not run away.
Texas Tina and Niki sit on the floor of her bedroom
and Niki opens up about everything that has happened.
She tells Tina that she sees another version of herself
in the mirror -- calling her Jessica -- who tells wants
to take over and tells her waht to do.
D.L. and Micah come across the scene of a car crash
hin the middle of the street. D.L. jumps out of the car
and runs to help, seeing a body in a burning car. Another
car pulls up behind theirs, it is Ando and Hiro. As D.L.
presses his hand through the car window and unlocks the
door, Hiro promises Micah he will help. As he runs towards
the car, Ando calls out a warning. A trail of flame is
moving quickly towards the car. Before Hiro can react,
the car explodes. But he is able to shut his eyes and
stop time. He gently pushes a flaming tire headed for
Ando and Micah, changing its direction, and then bodily
shoves D.L. and the woman from the car out of the frozen
inferno (but not before lamenting his lack of super strength).
When time resumes, Micah yells out for his father. D.L.
is safe on the side of the road with the woman and Hiro.
Ando flashes Hiro a thumbs up sign.
The Petrelli family are seated around a fancy table
with a reporter named Oliver Denison. He asks Heidi about
the accident (Nathan was driving) and if she was angry
at her husband. She was angry at God. Peter shows up
and is somewhat surprised to find ithe family having
brunch (obviously he is not kept in the loop). Nathan
takes Peter aside and tells him not to ruin the election
for him. Peter wants his brother to get the painting
but at the very mention of the name Linderman Nathan
clams up.
Peter threatens, only half-jokingly, to fly off in front
of the reporter, but instead sits down at the table with
the rest of the family, much to Nathan's relief.
At the street, Hiro excitedly explains his situation
to Micah, who recognizes Ando from his visit to Niki.
D.L. wants to get the accident victims to the hospital
but rushes off after Ando says he called the police.
Zach and Claire try to Lyle to give the tape back, although
Zach's attempts are more stupid than helpful. Lyle wants
to put it on YouTube (despite Zach's astute observation
that YouTube is free) but an emotional appeal about family
from Claire convinces him to roll down the window and
hand the tape to her. Despite her brother's seeming indifference,
Claire hugs him after he gets out of the car.
Matt is a bit perterbued to discover that they will
not have any backup when the go after Sylar. The agent
wants to make sure he does not get away with this. They
enter a building and immediately smell something burning.
It is not radiation. Instead, they find a bunch of photographs
with faces burnt off. But there is a spike in radiation.
The two hear something and pull their weapons. They enter
another room and find it burnt to a crisp and irradiated.
The two beat a hasty retreat.
During the brunch, Peter makes several remarks about
how special his family but things turn ugly when Dennison
starts questioning what happened with Nathan in Las Vegas.
Peter saves the day by announcing Nathan brought him
to a mental health clinic in Las Vegas where he met with
a female doctor. It seems to pacify the situation.
The agent hands Matt a few anti-radiation pills. Things
are not making sense with Sylar, though. Mrs. Sprague
has cancer and the crispy oncologist had prescribed some
meedication. Apparently, Ted Sprague went nuts after
the oncologist said there was nothing he could do. The
two fought and Ted killed him. When Matt and the agent
tell him they have to take him in, he grabs a nurse.
Matt and the agent pull their guns.
Ted wants to stay with his wife and exclaims that he
has no idea what will happen if they shoot him. He might
explode.
Niki calls Nathan asking for help but he turns her down
and hangs up. Heidi rolls in and asks her husband if
he still loves her. Nathan says yes but Heidi knows what
her being in the wheelchair means for their relationship.
She asks him to tell her that everything Peter explain
about the clinic in Las Vegas was true, saying she will
believe him. With a smile, he says it was all true and
heads off to put the boys to bed. The expression on Heidi's
face indicates she may not have believed him.
At the sound of a mirror shaterring, Tina rushes in
to find Niki standing in front of the shattered mirror.
The strange helix tattoo is on her shoulder again, indicating
Mirror Niki has taken over. She tells Tina to leave.
Tina insists she is only trying to help but Mirror Niki
tells her to leave. Niki no longer needs her help. Tina
leaves.
Back at the hospital, Audrey and Matt discuss Ted's
destructive ability. Audrey applauds Matt's actions earlier
in the room and suggests he try to talk to his own wife.
As Audrey walks off, Matt calls his wife and leaves a
message. Janice sits in front of the answering machine
and listens to Matt talk about his feeling that she is
not telling him something.
Nathan calls Linderman about the painting. He then goes
to see his brother. Peter tells him to tell Heidi the
truth about what happened in Las Vegas. Nathan explains
that Heidi needs hope, not the truth about how he slept
with another woman because he needed to be with someone
whose very face did not make him feel guilty. He tells
Peter that Linderman will not be letting the painting
go. Peter tries to explain about the painting, about
how they can use their abilities.
Nathan does not buy into Peter's hope. But as he leaves,
he turns and tells
As Audrey watches Ted get booked, she notices a tattoo
under his neck next to his shoulder.
Matt has the same tattoo on his shoulder. His buddy
ffrom earlier walks up and congratules him on the Homeland
Security bust. He tells Matt that the FBI agent called
and pulled some strings to get him an interview with
the FBI. Matt is pretty happy about that until he hears
his buddy's thoughts about nailing Matt's wife. Matt
turns and punches him.
In front of a sleazy motel, Micah walks up to a pay
phone and places his hand on the keypad. There is an
odd buzzing sound and then Micach dials his mother's
cell phone. But his mother does not answer, Mirror Niki
does. And Micah can tell. But Mirror Niki tells him his
mother will not be back until she takes care of some
things. He gives her the name of the motel he is staying
at and then D.L. grabs the receiver and hangs up.
Micah insists he was just goofing around. The "Out
of Order" sign on the payphone backs his story up.
After getting cut off, Mirror Niki puts down the phone
and picks up a pistol.
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