- Nathan and Peter try to find the shape-shifting Sylar before he can make contact with the President and assume his form as well. Clare goes off to try to stop Sylar on her own, only to end up as a captive. Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando make a rash attempt at stopping time so they can break into Building 26. They hope to free those that still survive and have powers, while Danko, framed by Sylar for the murder of an agent, has a talk with Noah Bennett over their views on fighting this war. Elsewhere, Angela meets with Matt to ask for his help to save Nathan, when she has a dream about him being in danger from Sylar.—matt-282
- "Heroes" - "Chapter Twelve -An Invisible Thread" - April 27, 2009
Previously on Heroes...Ando begs Matt to help them take down Danko and Building 26, but his "game changer" son, Matt Jr, takes precedence to him now, and he tells them to "let it go, guys." The duo decide to carry on without Matt, but when Hiro freezes time so they can sneak inside Building 26, he gets a severe headache and nosebleed. Mohinder decides to stay behind at Coyote Sands and check the film reel Peter found, but is attacked by Danko's agents. Matt returns to LA to deliver his son to ex-wife Janice, but agents are down the street about to invade her home. He realizes he has to do something to keep his family safe, "or we can not have a life together." Sylar takes James Martin's shape-shifting and life, leaving James-as-Sylar's body for HRG to believe he's dead. Sylar then poses as Nathan and makes a live speech on TV, goading the President into meeting with him as the real Nathan watches from the Coyote Sands Diner with Angela, Peter, Claire, and HRG.
Mohinder tells us there are nearly 7 billion people on the planet, each one of them unique, different. He asks what the chances of that are and wonders why. Is it simply biology? Or is it something more? A master plan that drives the randomness of creation.
As he speaks we see Nathan get tranq-ed again by Danko; Parkman riding a Greyhound bus back to DC, marked Chapter Twelve "An Invisible Thread"; a bloody-nosed Hiro with Ando outside Building 26.
As Mohinder drones on about something unknowable that dwells in the soul we semi pick up where we left off. Instead of agents swarming a car with Angela, HRG, and Claire at a roadblock we are back at the three of them in the car Outside Arlington, Virginia. Angela sleeps in the back and wakes with a start. She had a dream Nathan was in trouble. So are they. HRG tells Claire and Angela that the construction site they passed was a fake and there will be a roadblock ahead. He stops the car tells them to get out, head for town and then to Nathan. He gives them a secure cell phone and says he'll buy them some time. He reaches the road block we saw last week and the agents swarm the car.
We then get a repeat of Danko thinking he's killed Sylar with a knife to the back of the neck, and Sylar rising up. "That hurt." Danko pulls a gun and Sylar throws him against the wall. It turns out when he picked up the shape-shifting ability, he managed to relocate his "off switch" so now no one knows where to hit him just right to kill him. Danko tells him to get it over with. First Sylar tidies up by telekinetically dragging Nathan's unconscious body into another room and informing him that he'll kill him later after he's absorbed his powers and his memories. And then he's going to go meet the president tomorrow, so he can shake his hand, and thereby become he most powerful man in the world. Danko says to kill him now because he won't let that happen. Sylar says he doesn't need to kill him because in 30 seconds there won't be a person on the planet who will believe a word he says. Sylar then morphs into Danko, clothes and all, goes to the door and shoots several agents outside in the hall. He then morphs into Taub and raises his weapon and calls out to the remaining agents. Danko realizes what he's done and calls Sylar/Taub a son of a bitch.
The next morning, Claire and Angela have reached The Capitol Washington, D.C. Claire hopes her dad got away. Angela assures her he didn't, since that wasn't the plan. She says Claire has no idea the lengths a parent will go to to protect their children. Like now, Angela tells Claire to go warn Nathan because she has to find Matt Parkman. Apparently, in her dream, he helps save Nathan. Claire wonders why Angela doesn't just warn Nathan. She says that's not how it works.
Sylar is dressing in front of a mirror. He turns to rouse Nathan so he can absorb his memories. "Lightweight" Nathan doesn't wake. Sylar says screw it, he's learned what he needs to get by from Nathan's stuff. Like the cuff links, they tell him that Nathan didn't graduate with honors from Annapolis like his diploma claims. "Politicians," he sneers. A woman enters and informs Sylar/Nathan that someone is there to see him, his daughter? Claire has arrived. "Nathan" claims he found Sylar but that he got away. He says he's going to meet the President in an hour, and warn him about Sylar. Claire wonders how she knows Nathan isn't Sylar. "Claire, I'm me." Nathan grabs her necklace and -learning from it- says they spent time together in Mexico and he was beginning to think she knew him better than anyone. She apparently buys this. He tells her to lay low and hang out but she wants to come. He grabs his suit jacket from the other room, stepping around the real Nathan, changes his mind and agrees that if things do go south, he wants Claire right by his side.
Danko is corralled into Building 26. Hiro and Ando watch from the street. Hiro says he's feeling better and that it was just a headache. Ando thinks he's getting sick from using his power. Perhaps, says Hiro, but they have to get inside and free the captives and shut the operation down. Ando says to use his power instead. Hiro says they have to stop time, just once more. Ando says it's a headache this time, what if his head explodes next time? Hiro says he'll just have to take that chance.
Danko is manhandled into a cell. Everyone in the control center is shocked by this turn of events. "Fancy meeting you here," HRG taunts as he steps out of the corner shadows.
Nathan awakes in his congressional bathroom. Peter arrives and nearly whacks Nathan with the door. Nathan stumbles out, into his brother's arms, saying they have to stop Sylar.
Danko asks to hear the 'I told you so' lecture from HRG about getting into bed with Sylar. HRG's already moved on which Danko thinks is very Zen of him. "Practical," HRG says, they're going to need to throw everyone and thing they have at Sylar, if they manage to get out, so they can put a spike in the back of his head. Danko drops the news that Sylar moved the spot. HRG is not amused. Danko wonders how HRG dealt with all of this since you "can't capture all of them, or contain them." HRG says "it's all about spinning plates, living in the grey area, 20 years of middle management and it becomes second nature." So Danko figures he'll understand in 20 years? "20 years and an adopted daughter," says HRG. Without Claire, he figures he'd be exactly like Danko. Danko notes that they are in fact, in "exactly in the same position." HRG says they should do something about that. "Together," says Danko. Just as they're about to shake hands, time stops.
Ando and Hiro look in and shake their heads, realizing this is not who they seek. They leave the door open, and head into the control center to figure out where the prisoners are held. Ando takes their photos off the wanted wall, leaving the three Petrelli's, Mohinder's, and Matt's, among others. Ando turns and notices Hiro's ear is bleeding. Hiro says he's fine. They walk into a room with all of the knocked out people with abilities. "Holy crap," Hiro notes. There are a lot. They find Mohinder and unhook him from the nose tube sedation. Hiro has an idea. They replace all of the abilitied with agents from Building 26. Hiro exclaims, "Payback is very bitchy!" As he restarts time, he grabs his head again, wincing.
As time restarts, HRG and Danko, clasping hands, notice the open door and wonder if it's a trick. HRG realizes it's "Hiro."
As Ando shows the abilitied abductees which way out, Mohinder thanks Hiro and then Hiro goes weak in the knees. Ando explains about the headaches and nosebleeds. Mohinder examines Hiro, who has dilated pupils, and admits a stiff left arm, and dizziness, protesting "Bruce Wayne only slept two hours a night." Mohinder explains that Hiro has a power, but he's still human and his body is rejecting his power like a virus. Hiro protests his destiny. Mohinder tells him he can't freeze time again.
At the Stanton Hotel in D.C. Claire and Nathan have reached the meeting with the President. She wonders what the plan is. Nathan/Sylar says they'll play it close to the vest. A man approaches and as he shakes N/S's hand, he ID's him as...Liam, whom Claire recognizes from TV. "Nathan" explains Liam is the chief of staff and an old boarding school buddy. Liam offers them a suite to watch the speech and then have his meeting. Claire notices that he's signing in left-handed. He says he's "Ambidextrous. I bat righty, throw lefty." Her red flag goes up.
Danko notices on the monitors that his entire unit has been put under and wonders how it happened. HRG thinks they got a lucky break, seeing as "they were trying to kill us." He explains once again, that Danko's men "were never going to be a match for people with abilities." Danko pulls out a crazy tranq dart that he says would take down an elephant. "The trick is getting close to the elephant," says HRG, who turns his back on Danko. Just as Danko is about to stab HRG, the syringe disappears, and Hiro is stabbing Danko in the neck with the syringe. HRG turns in surprise and sees him. Hiro bows and then collapses, his nose bleeding and eyes bloodshot. HRG tells Mohinder and Ando to "call 911, [he has] to get to the Stanton...to stop Sylar."
At the hotel, Claire's phone rings and she takes forever to answer it as Nathan/Sylar watches her. She finally answers and HRG asks where she is. She says, "I'm with Nathan." He wants to know how sure she is. We cut back to Claire, and now there are two of them with the real one silenced by the one Sylar has shape-shifted into. HRG wants to know how she knows for sure. Sylar shifts back to himself and says in his normal voice, "because it's me." HRG freaks. Sylar remarks to Claire, "this is fun."
Claire opens a bottle of pinot under the power of Sylar. Claire's all "my dad's on his way, he's going to stop you and I'm going to kill you." Sylar counters that actually he's "going to kill him or have you kill him." Then he's going to kill her whole family, including "Papa Petrelli, Mama Bennet, Mr. Muggles. What's your brother's name again, Larry?" "Lyle," she snarls. "Lyle, right, he's going to die, too." He says his real dad is dying right now. He says meeting his real dad was a letdown. He points out the many things he and Claire have in common: adopted, can't die. She says he can die, she'll make sure of it. He says she'll get bored of trying to kill him after a hundred years as the rest drop like flies, except him. And then she might forgive him and maybe even come to love him. She says she'll keep trying to kill him for the rest of her life. He points out that "everybody needs a hobby." He understands that "bridges need to be built" but he thinks maybe she'll end up being his first First Lady. As he says this he's made them both drink wine and now he's stroking her face.
Real-Nathan and Peter arrive and are stopped by a security guard who informs him that Nathan's already inside. Liam returns and they enter with a purpose as Nathan informs him about Sylar. Liam asks if Sylar is "one of them." Nathan agrees he is, and then stops himself, saying "he's one of us" and to demonstrate begins floating off the ground. The security detail around Liam pulls weapons but Nathan tells them to calm down. He admits he's been lying to him and the President and "when the time comes I'll answer for that, but for right now--" Peter chimes in, "Today, we're going to course correct." Liam wonders how. Nathan and Peter explain that "Sylar can only be stopped by people like us," and to just give them a five minute head start so Peter can get close enough to absorb Sylar's powers.
Nathan and Peter stride toward the room. Peter says he'll take him high and Nathan should take him low and they should cut the son of a bitch in two. Nathan tells Peter he loves him. Peter says he loves Nathan too.
As they stop before teh suite doors, Sylar tosses Claire out of the room at them. She looks up at them and tells them to "go!" Sylar flares up his hands with electricity. She watches them enter, sees Nathan get hit by lightning, and the doors slam shut. She tries to open them but can't. She peers through door crack and she hears the ruckus, blue lightning flashing before her eye.
The ruckus stops after eighteen seconds and Claire runs in, slowly surveying the room. Peter emerges from some rubble and says they went out the window. She asks if he can fly after them and he says no. They have to find them and take off out of the room.
Moments later Nathan comes flying into the room, landing on the piano. Sylar then enters and slits his throat. Nathan stumbles backwards into a white chair and dies. Sylar says, "Claire's going to be so mad at me." He then morphs into Nathan, flight jacket and all, and leaves the room.
Matt Parkman arrives at the Greyhound bus depot (slash-alley) in Washington, D.C. Angela is waiting for him and explains about her dream of Parkman saving Nathan. Something terrible happened to him, and Matt saves him, she doesn't know how, but he has to come with her. He says he can't help. Angela says her dreams don't lie and he has to come with her. He says he has to stop the evil agents so his son can have a normal life. Angela says, "We want the same thing then. Without Nathan, none of that is possible. You don't have to read minds to know that. Come with me." Matt can't argue her logic.
Peter and Claire run downstairs to look for Nathan. They encounter HRG, who's worried that Claire is Sylar. Peter just fought Sylar, she's not him. She reassures him she's not. HRG asks if Peter took Sylar's power. He did. So now they think they can stop him. Agents arrive and draw their weapons. HRG puts down his gun and says the President's life is in danger and they need to listen to them. Claire goes up to one and presses her head against the barrel of his gun and says, "You can either listen to me now or I'll tell you after you shoot me." The agent and HRG are horrified by her statement.
Angela and Parkman are on another floor and are stopped by another agent. Matt works his mind mojo on him and they pass. They get to the suite and Parkman tries to keep Angela from seeing Nathan's body. She needs to see it, runs in and sees Nathan, kneels by him for a moment, then and starts screaming "NO! NOOO!" Parkman watches her grief envelop her as she hugs Nathan. "I don't understand," she says, in her dream, Matt supposedly saved Nathan.
Downstairs Nathan/Sylar sees Liam hustling the President (WORF!) through the kitchen. Liam asks if it's really him. He says it is. Liam says they're moving the President and they don't have time anymore to meet with Nathan. N/S says it's okay since Liam doesn't have any more time to give. He morphs into Liam and follows the president's entourage. The President is hustled into a car and Liam/Sylar gets in across from him, knocking on the window to let the driver know to proceed. Liam is glad the President is alright. The President says they "did a hell of a job, today." Liam responds with, "So did you," and extends his hand. The President grabs it smugly, but something's wrong. Sylar's face cycles through all of the people he's been, including newly injured Peter, and then settles back on Sylar. The President leans forward and jabs a syringe into Sylar's chin. He morphs into Peter who says, "Bet you didn't think I took that one from you."
Angela stands watch over Nathan's body on a couch, as HRG flops Sylar onto a divan as Matt protests their plan "is insane, it'll never work." HRG says they'll make it work as Angela claims, "it's the only way." Matt asks why they don't chain him up or tranq him? He doesn't want any part of what they're asking, which he deems crazy. Angela says they need "Nathan" to convince the president that the whole campaign was a mistake. HRG points out that if word gets out that an abilitied person killed a U.S. senator there will be a hundred Dankos to contend with.
Matt says even if he could do what they were asking "he" could never really be Nathan, he would always be Sylar. Angela says Sylar can absorb all of Nathan's memories, and the entire history of anything he touches will fill in the gaps. HRG says physically no one will ever know the difference, since it will be permanent.
Essentially, they're asking Parkman to get inside Sylar's head, convince him he's Nathan, and have him morph back into Nathan so that it sticks. HRG doesn't like it either, knowing he'll have to lie to his family yet again but they need Sylar to be Nathan, Matt is their only hope, if he "doesn't do this, Nathan is gone forever." Parkman asks how they'll explain Sylar's disappearance. HRG says there's an identical body in deep freeze at Building 26.
Angela says she knows that he would do anything -anything- to protect his son and keep him in his life. And that's what she's doing, she's begging him. Parkman reluctantly goes over to Sylar and works his mojo, grabbing his neck and repeating that he's "no longer Sylar, no longer Gabriel Gray, Sylar's dead." As he does this we see Sylar's memories disappear. Matt tells him he's now "Nathan Petrelli, son, brother, father, Senator" and we watch as Nathan's memories fill his head. His body seizes and contorts. Sylar turns away for a moment as he morphs into Nathan. "Ma?" he asks as all three look on nervously.
Mohinder returns to tell us that, "We are all connected by an invisible thread. Infinite in it's potential and fragile in it's design. Yet while connected, we're also merely individuals. Empty vessels to be filled with infinite possibilities. An assortment of thoughts, beliefs, a collection of disjointed memories and experiences. " As he blathers on we watch as Nathan, along with Peter, Angela, HRG, Claire, Hiro, Ando, Matt, and Mohinder, set fire to "Sylar's" (aka James Martin's) body at Coyote Sands.
As the body burns, Matt glares as it, knwing he can't speak of their deception. Nathan puts his arm around a slightly disconcerted Angela and declares, "It's a new beginning, Mom." Mohinder continues, "Can I be me without me. Can you be you?"
HRG and Angela exchange a look. He leaves Claire and Peter to confirm that Nathan has convinced the President to fund a new, kinder, gentler venture. "Funding, resources, deniability" Nathan says, and that he "found just the man to head up our new...what were we going to call it?" HRG always liked "the Company". Nathan steps away from the pair. Hiro holds his head and tells Ando it's time they go home. Claire steps over to tell HRG that she can't believe Sylar is really dead. HRG throws a look across the fire at Matt and says "he really is." Parkman doesn't look thrilled at this and shakes his head in disgust before stalking off. Mohinder continues his narration as he shakes hands with Peter before taking off, himself. HRG and Claire leave Angela. The Petrelli's stare into the fire.
"And if this invisible thread that holds us together were to sever, to cease...what then? What will become of billions of lone, disconnected souls? Therein lies the great quest of our lives. To find, to connect, to hold on. For when our hearts are pure and our thoughts in line, we are all truly one, capable of repairing the world and creating a universe of infinite possibilities."
End of Volume Four
Volume Five - "Redemption"
Six Weeks Later.
A former Building 26 agent named Kent Harper returns home to find water pouring out of his sink. He walks into the kitchen and the water seems to run away (as the background music is eerily reminiscent of the "JAWS" theme). It begins to form into something in the living room. It coalesces into the shape of a naked Tracy, who informs Harper "You're number four," as she holds out her hand.
We cut to Nathan's office in Washington. He's reading a story in the paper headlined "Fourth Mysterious Drowning Baffles Authorities." Angela enters in a bright red coat and wonders why Nathan hasn't been in touch for weeks. He seems distracted, he says he hasn't felt like himself lately. She hugs him (while rolling her eyes) and tells him that now is his time. Now that all the unpleasantness is behind them and the family is back together the world is his oyster. She wonders if he's heard a word she's said. He goes over to a cabinet, listens, pulls the glass dome off a clock and says that it's running a minute and a half fast. He moves it back to 11:55 and then says it's time for "lunch? Italian or Chinese?" as he walks out the office. Angela stares at the clock nervously.
To be continued...
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