- As Hiro's life continues to hang in the balance, he distracts himself with saving the lives of others. Meanwhile, Angela tries to help the new "Nathan" remember his past, at the risk of his remembering too much. Elsewhere, Tracy is determined to get her old job back, but soon realizes that she needs to make more of an impact.—NBC Publicity
- "Heroes" - "Chapter Four 'Acceptance'" - Oct. 5, 2009
Our heroes remain apart in their own storylines.
First up is Hiro who has decided to continue his "Dial-a-Hero" escapades against Ando's wishes,since the time travel is contributing to whatever is killing him.
Since he went back in time to hook up Ando and Kimiko they are in love and have decided to get married. She tells Hiro that although they've never been close- since he hasn't been a "serious" person like her- she wants him to give her away at the wedding. He is touched and says yes.
Kimiko tells Ando the good news. He says Hiro shouldn't make promises he can't keep since the wedding is a year away and he might not be here anymore. He urges Hiro to tell Kimiko that he is dying. But before he can the "Dial-A-Hero" line rings. It's a former Yamagoto Industries employee named Tadashi who is on the roof threatening to jump. Hiro goes up and hears his story. Turns out Tadashi photocopied his butt at a company party after drinking too much sake and was fired from accounting. He says his family is ashamed and he jumps.
Hiro goes back in time and stops him from photocopying his butt and is surprised when he returns and Tadashi calls from the roof again and again and again. Turns out he keeps doing it at whatever the next party is. Hiro keeps going back in time but Tadashi keeps photocopying his butt until Hiro realizes he can't change this particular mistake. So he tells Tadashi to do something he loves so it won't feel like work, to not keep secrets from his family, and to cherish life because it's short. He knows since he's dying. Tadashi is touched and decides not to jump. Hiro goes and tells Kimiko the truth about him dying. She is sad and confused. He says he has many stories to tell her and he hopes he has time. He then grabs his head and has some kind of intense pain. Kimiko asks what's wrong. Hiro says he's fine and then disappears right in front of her and Ando.
Next up is Noah Bennet. He's at loose ends not knowing what to do with his life now that's he's given up on bagging and tagging. Peter comes to see him to show him the compass in his forearm but when he arrives the tattoo is gone. He explains it to Noah but Noah says he's all set with that stuff. Peter says okay and as he takes off Claire shows up. He says he's gotta get to work in ten minutes and she's all "you live in New York." He tells her to ask her dad about his new power and zips off.
Claire has come to check up on her dad who is spending his days eating cereal and ordering Japanese take-out. She suggests he get a job. Like the lumber salesman job she finds on the want ads, noting he's a "people person." He reminds her that he never actually sold paper. She wants to role play an interview and asks about his greatest strength as a salesman. He says if he can't make the sale he'll just shoot them.
She pushes him to talk about what his strength really is. He says he's the ultimate company man. She talks about all of the people he's helped but he doesn't feel like he did, he feels like he mostly hurt people. She says that things change, people change and maybe to find out who you're going to be you have to remember who you were. He's surprised by her sage advice. By the end of the episode he's starting to do some research of speedy blade man and amass info about the compass.
Tracy Strauss, now free of Danko, has returned to ask Governor Malden for a job. He happily says he can use her, if you know what I mean... for lobbying and whatnot. But for some reason Tracy isn't satisfied with her huge walk-in closet and cushy government job. She goes to Noah to talk. He says she got what she wanted. She says she knows but feels like something's missing. He passes on Claire's advice about remembering who you were to figure out who you want to be. She meets Malden for dinner and tells him what she really wants to do is help people, make a difference in the lives of those less fortunate. He's all, let's not get crazy you're good at shtupping your way to pushing legislation through. And on that note he suggests skipping dinner and going upstairs, making each other "happy" and then figuring out the job thing later. She excuses herself and goes to the ladies room. There she starts to cry and is horrified as she watches her hands begin to turn to water. After she gets control of herself and becomes corporeal again she goes to Malden and says she can't go back to her old ways. He says he doesn't understand. She says she wouldn't expect him to.
Nathan Petrelli continues to feel freaky about not being able to remember his past or feel like it's his past that he's remembering. So Angela comes to Washington with a box of his old stuff knowing that when he touches the things they will activate the Sylar power of knowing the history of the object. He picks up a model airplane and is transported to a time when he played with it. He picks up a baseball cap and is transported to a night in his teen or young man years when he was hanging poolside with a pretty young thing and then he flashes on her face down in the pool with blood pouring from her head.
Since Peter hasn't been returning his phone calls Nathan goes to the hospital in New York to talk to him. He shows him his telekinesis. Peter says the multiple powers must run in the family. He then explains about the crazy memories and wonders if they could be real. Peter says he's heard of that and explains how it works. Nathan explains about the memory with the girl Kelly. Peter tells him if he thinks there was foul play Nathan should get to the bottom of it.
Nathan goes to visit Kelly's mom, his mom's old friend Millie (played by Swoosie Kurtz). Millie reiterates the story everyone knows: Kelly ran off, bought a one-way ticket to London, picked up her bag at Heathrow and was never heard from again. She says it did cross her mind that something else happened and she actually had Nathan investigated by a P.I. because she knew they were dating. But he came up clean. This doesn't sit right with Nathan who wanders out to the pool and puts his hand on a statue. He flashes back and sees his younger self and Kelly have a few drinks, chase each other around the pool. He goes to touch the diving board and has a flash of her slipping and hitting her head on the side of the pool. It was an accident.
Later at a bar his mother shows up saying she got a call from MIllie. She admits that she had it "taken care" of, disposed of the body and had the Haitian wipe his memory. He says it was an accident. She says it didn't look that way, his future could've been ruined and she was trying to protect him. He's aghast she could let her friend Millie believe that she was just a bad mom and that's why her daughter ran away. Angela tells him to leave it alone.
Instead he goes back to Millie and tells her the truth. She says she doesn't believe him.
Later, in his car in a parking garage he calls the police department and asks for the homicide division. While on hold, he thinks better of it and hangs up. As he gets out of his car he's attacked from behind and knocked out.
We cut to Millie having lunch with Angela. She tells Angela about the meeting with Nathan. She says she didn't believe his story but can only hope that wherever Kelly is she's happy because that's the only closure she can have.
We cut to a man dragging Nathan from a car in the woods, dumping him in an open grave, shooting him, and covering him with dirt.
Back at lunch Millie gets a call. It's the dude who attacked Nathan saying the "package" has been delivered. She thanks him and hangs up. Angela wonders if it was important. Millie says no and asks where they were. Angela says "closure." They then toast to closure.
Down at the carnival Edgar and Lydia are discussing Samuel's new habit of bringing new people into "the family." Edgar isn't sure it's such a good idea. Samuel pops out and says now that his brother's dead he makes all the decisions. Lydia is all "we were just talking." He pulls her away saying she needs to show him who's next. He dips his tattoo needle in some ink and says if she's dissatisfied with anything she can talk to him. She says she's not dissatisfied. He puts the needle to her back and the face that shows up is Bennet. He angrily asks why she keeps showing him Bennet since Bennet is no longer interested in them. She says she shows him what he needs to see and Bennet might have changed his mind. (This is when we got the shot of Bennet building a new wall of photos, clips, and evidence).
We cut back to Nathan's grave and a hands shoots out of it. And then a body emerges gasping for breath. It's Sylar.
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