Summary
Before the recap begins, a quick refresher on the characters:
Nikki - 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
As Micah sleeps in the backseat, Nikki discovers a skeleton
buried in the desert. She uncovers the hand and finds
a skull ring. She takes it. Tying up her hair, she opens
the back of the car, revealing the bodies of the two
mobsters she found dead in her garage.
Claire and her father walk into Claire's high school,
with her father carrying a rival team's mascot (a wolf
in a football uniform with a noose around its neck).
The two run into Jackie, who complements Mr. Bennett
on his glasses and, in return, he complements her on
being a hero. Not one to miss an opportunity to brag,
Jackie excitedly tells Mr. Bennett that she is planning
on running for class president.
After Jackie leaves, Claire makes a sarcastic comment
and says she has to run off to get something from her
locker. She kisses her father on the check and turns
to go. Mr. Bennett tells her to be careful as she walks
off.
In Japan, Hiro waves the comic book chronicling his
life in front of Ando's face, saying it explains his
story. Ando thinks his friend has been hitting the sake
a little hard. Even a panel in the comic with the exact
conversation the two just had does not convince Ando.
Hiro says he can convince Ando beyond a shadow of a doubt,
and when his watch alarm goes off, he exclaims that they
have to hurry because a girl's life is in danger.
Once again, Peter stands on the ledge of a tall building,
arms outstretched. He looks towards the sky and then
slowly down at the ground below him. He steps off and
crashes into the dirt below him. He was standing on a
swing set probably no more than eight or ten feet of
the ground, not eight or ten stories. He tries again
and, again, he falls to the ground.
Later, when Peter tells his brother about trying to
fly, Nathan warns him to keep his voice down. But Peter
will not let it go. He went to the library and found
a book by Chandra Suresh (Mohinder's father) that says
flight might be predicated by genetics. Nathan is more
worried about a reporter who is curious about why Peter
jumped off a building.
Mohinder, looking like hell in a dirty undershirt, types
furiously at a laptop. He hears a noise at the door and
picks up a pistol. It is only Eden, his neighbor, bearing
food. He tells her of his frustration at being unable
to decipher what his father was working on. He tosses
the laptop to the ground. Eden goes to pick it up and
discovers a small notepad tucked behind the back. Inside
are notes, what look like samples of blood, the name
Sylar, and a key.
Matt tries desperately to explain how he found the little
girl and knew the name Sylar. When he says he can hear
voices, his interrogator thinks he is crazy. She asks
him to tell her what she is thinking. He replies that
is just happens and he cannot control it. Thankfully,
it decides to switch on and he hears her thought. He
tells her what she was thinking and she offers him a
job with the FBI.
Zach confronts Claire about the missing video. He cannot
understand why she would be content with being a pretty
blonde cheerleader. She relies that her only options
in life are being normal, or being a freak and/or guinea
pig.
Isaac works in his studio. Simone arrives with some
food and news from Isaac's editor: his comic book is
late. She wants him to go to rehab but he says he cannot,
he has to paint the future. He has to save the future.
Simone leaves, telling him to paint a future without
her in it. His phone rings and Isaac picks it up. Hiro
is on the other end, speaking in Japanese, which Isaac
does not understand.
Using the comic book as a guide, Hiro and Ando arrive
at the location where a girl is supposed to get hurt.
The only problem? There are lots of girls, all in the
same school uniform. The two split up, hoping to find
the girl in time. Hiro spots the van that hit the girl
and yells for Ando to warn it off. He runs forward, waving
his arms, and the van veers quickly to the side, attempting
to avoid hitting him.
Instead, it heads directly towards the girl. By trying
to stop the accident, Hiro and Ando caused it. Hiro quickly
closes his eyes and, with some effort, is able to stop
time. He rushes towards the girl and moves her out of
the way of the van. When times starts again, the van
jumps forward, crashing into the stand the girl was standing
in front of.
And overjoyed Hiro runs to Ando, who is standing with
his mouth open in shock. Having proven that he has the
power to stop time, Hiro hopes Ando will go with him
to save the world.
The sun now shining brightly overhead, Nikki finally
finishes burying the two bodies. Drenched with sweat,
she sits down in the car and looks at the skeleton ring,
and then quickly in the mirror. Micah wakes up and Nikki
drives off, heading for Micah's grandmother's house.
She is overjoyed to see her grandson, much less enthused
to see Nikki. She thinks she can give Micah a stable
home and provide for him better than Nikki can.
Nikki shows the grandmother the skeleton ring, telling
her she found it on the body of one of the men D.L. (her
husband, the grandmother's son) killed.
The female FBI agent brings Mike to the little girl
he found, saying they need any information the little
girl has about her parents' murders. She tells Mike that
Sylar is supposedly responsible for at least a dozen
murders. Each person was impaled with ordinary household
items but there was never any sign how. The girl will
not talk and the agent thinks Mike will simply be able
to hear her thoughts. She might also be in danger.
Mohinder and Eden stand outside Sylar's door (or at
least the address written in the notebook). Eden is getting
scared but Mohinder breaks in and begins taking photographs.
They stumble upon a secret room containing a map just
like Mohinder's fathers, only with many more strings
and many more people. One of them is Nathan Petrelli.
Eden wants to leave but Mohinder wants to keep looking.
He finds a closet-like room covered in words like "FORGIVE
ME." He wonders aloud what his father had gotten
himself into.
Mike and the female agent hear the little girl screaming.
They manage to scare off a man who was trying to grab
her. The female agent runs after her, leaving Mike to
comfort the girl. She catches up with him in a tunnel
and raises her gun. Sylar turns the tables rather quickly,
somehow forcing the agent to point her own weapon at
her head. She desperately tries to pull it away with
her free hand but cannot.
Thankfully, Mike shows up in the nick of time and fires
several rounds into Sylar, who collapses. When Mike turns
to check on the agent, Sylar stands up and simply disappears,
apparently jumping straight up.
Hiro and Ando are seated on a plane, with a woman between
them. Ando is worried that they have made things worse
but Hiro reminds his friend that a "hero" does
not run from his destiny. He then worries that he might
need a secret identity. The comic book depicts every
step of their journey, including the woman falling asleep
between them.
Simone runs into Peter when she goes to check on her
father. Peter tells Simone that he has quit, because
nursing is not what he is supposed to be doing. He knows
that he is meant to be doing something more important
than trying to save the world one person at a time. Simone
is disappointed, but she seems to understand. They say
goodbye and Peter walks off.
At a kegger around a bonfire, Jackie shares her story
of saving the man with her fellow cheerleaders. Claire,
meanwhile, flirts with the quarterback. He gives her
a drink, reassuring her that it is okay to drink this
far away from home. They talk about Claire being adopted,
because the quarterback thinks she is upset about wanting
to meet her real parents. When she says he does not know
her well enough to tell if she is upset or not, he rallies
off a list of things he has noticed about her. The two
kiss. A real Hallmark moment.
Mike returns home to his wife and immediately apologizes
for missing the therapy session. He tries to tell her
about his crazy, strange day but she brushes him off.
The tension between the two is more than obvious, and
the two start fighting about how she got a promotion
and he is jealous. Mike apologizes and then hears his
wife thinking that she would like him to leave. So he
does.
Claire and the quarterback make out on the bleachers.
He tries to smoothly reach up her skirt, but Claire stops
him. She tells him she is going through some things and
is not sure about going any farther. But the quarterback
is. He starts getting rough and Claire starts screaming.
The two grapple and he pulls her to the ground, and begins
tearing at her clothing. Claire manages to kick him off
her.
The quarterback slams her against a metal fence and
she falls to the ground, slamming into a piece of wood
leaning against the fence. Suddenly concerned, the quarterback
calls her name and turns her over, revealing a large
chunk of wood embedded in her neck. She is not moving
and there is blood everywhere.
Nikki and Micah drive home. Micah asks her mother why
she does not believe his father is innocent. He sounds
so sure when he says the police will never catch his
father that Nikki just has to ask if Micah knows where
his father is. A siren turns on behind them and Nikki
pulls off the road. When she asks the officer what the
problem is, he stares at her and tells her Linderman
wants to see her. Nikki gets out of the car and follows
the police officer.
At Nathan's political rally, Peter and Simone run into
one another. She tells him that he really does seem different,
more confident. Peter takes this opportunity to tell
her that he is in love with her and has been since the
moment he met her. But Peter's confession is cut short
when Nathan starts his speech. He cracks a joke about
the rain and talks about his father's depression and
his lonely fight with it. Nathan then drops a bombshell:
his brother Peter just barely survived a suicide attempt.
Angrily, Peter walks out, as his brother talks about
coming together with one another.
Hiro tries to rent a car, despite the fact that he and
Ando have a connecting flight to New York. The comic
said get a car and drive, so they get a car and drive.
To Las Vegas. It is, as Ando says, their destiny. But,
after telling them to go to Las Vegas, the comic ends
with "To Be Continued" and their destiny has
just become much less clear.
Mike sits alone at a bar eating peanuts. The bartender
seems friendly, but Mike can hear his thoughts. He can
hear everyone's thoughts. He looks around the bar, enjoying
his ability to listen in on private conversations. But
then he hears a woman thinking about disappearing and
how nobody would care. He then sees a man sitting alone
in the back of the bar whose thoughts he cannot hear.
And then he collapses.
Mohinder and Eden, accompanied by two police officers,
return to Sylar's apartment. Mohinder is sure that Sylar
killed his father. But the apartment is empty.
As Nathan walks to his car, Peter runs up to him and
punches him. Nathan calls off his bodyguards and says
he had to get on top of things. Peter punches him again
and stalks off.
Isaac sits quietly in his studio, turning the pages
of a sketchbook.
Peter tries hailing a cab in the rain but nobody is
stopping for him. Suddenly, Simone shows up with an umbrella.
He insists that what his brother said was a lie. Simone
believes him. The two kiss.
Isaac stares at the sketchbook, a drawing of Simone
and Peter embracing stares back at him. He looks at a
syringe.
A gloved hand pulls the chunk of wood out of Claire's
neck. Life returns to her eyes and she gasps for breath.
She is lying on a metal gurney, alone in a room. As she
gets her bearings, Claire looks down at her body. Her
chest is sliced open, revealing her exposed ribcage.
Her expletive is cut off as TO BE CONTINUED flashes across
the screen.
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