Chapter Five 'Exposed':
Volume: Four
Written by: Adam Armus & Kay Foster
Directed by: Eric Laneuville
Original airdate: March 2, 2009
Synopsis:
Sandra confronts Claire, with Alex’s presence being discovered, despite Claire’s poor attempts at lying to her. Sandra understands the situation, telling her how she knows more than she and her father realize, revealing how she knows they’re being watched by agents outside. After a brief house search by the agents, Sandra fashions a fake ID for Alex and creates a diversion with Lyle, while Claire and Alex escape out the back into a neighboring pool where they hide underwater. When Claire finds it impossible to breathe underwater, Alex kisses her, giving her some of his oxygen, while the agents leave and continue their search. Claire returns home later and thanks her mother for her help. Sandra tells her she made some popcorn so they can relax and have a movie night but when Claire goes to get it, she is confronted by Eric Doyle, claiming that Rebel sent him to her for help.
Meanwhile, Matt continually paints the picture of him with the bombs, until they get a message from Rebel telling them where they need to go before the agents arrive and catch them. They barely escape but Danko figures out where they are headed based on the paintings left behind. Peter borrows Matt’s powers so they can sneak into the building together easier and they begin searching the records for Daphne, while Matt holds off Danko and the team with his powers. Bennet proves his loyalty to Danko by explaining they can cause a distraction to disrupt Matt’s concentration. As Rebel shows Peter the recordings made of them when they were captured, he starts copying them, while fire alarms start to blare. Matt loses control of his powers as Peter and him try to escape but are confronted by Danko and company. Matt finds himself captured as he tells Peter to escape. Later, Nathan asks Angela if she knows who Rebel is but she claims she doesn’t. Peter calls Nathan and threatens to release the footage to the world unless Nathan gives up Parkman and Daphne. Nathan agrees to the exchange but when Bennet goes to do the exchange, he tells Peter mentally that that Daphne and Matt aren't there, that it’s been a setup. Danko manages to get a shot off on Peter in the arm, but as he falls over the edge, Nathan swoops in and carries him away. As they talk with Angela, Nathan tries to get Peter to give himself up and let him protect him, but Peter borrows Nathan’s power and flies off alone. Angela tells Nathan that he needs to prepare himself because something is happening and it’s all different now.
Sylar and Luke continue their trip, but Sylar stops short, recognizing an old diner he went to once with his father. He remembers it as being the day when his father sold him to another family and then killed his mother. Luke tries to get him to move on but instead Sylar roughs him up before telling him to leave as he plans to find his father to kill him as revenge.
As the news stations begin releasing the videos Peter stole, Danko decides to setup Matt as a scapegoat, strapping him to a bomb and dropping him off, drugged, in front of the US Capitol, planning to show the world that those with abilities are evil and in turn, knowing he will be asked to hunt them all down.
Back-issues:
Joshua Rush played young Sylar. He’s has gone onto a few more roles since his time on Heroes, most notably the title role of Waldo in the Peacock series Where’s Waldo, based on the best selling books (young adventurers Waldo and Wenda use their problem-solving skills and the help of an international wizard society to stop a rival globetrotter named Odlulu from using her magic to stir up trouble). Before that, he was in the Disney series Andi Mack (a contemporary coming-of-age story about a girl who's trying to determine where she fits in. When her free-spirited older sister returns with a revelation that changes everything, it sends Andi on an uncharted course of self-discovery), as well as the series the Lion Guard (based on the Lion King, he plays a honey badger named Bunga). He also was a voice in the Puss In Boots animated series, playing Toby the pig.
The female agent, Rachel Mills, is played by Taylor Cole, originally seen in The Recruit. Her first role ever was in a Lori Loughlin led series called Summerland (Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are three kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident, also starring Zac Efron). She starred in a series of Hallmark mysteries called The Ruby Herring Mysteries. She was a supporting actor in 11 episodes of the 92 episode series The Originals (a family of power-hungry thousand-year-old vampires looking to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong). She was also a lead in the 2014 raunchy sex comedy Dumbbells (a former basketball star suffering from a knee injury looks to rehab himself at a rundown Los Angeles gym), and also starred in the series The Event, which starred Jason Ritter and Zelijko Ivanek (when a man goes looking for his missing girlfriend, he stumbles upon a government conspiracy that is bigger than the President himself). Most recently, she’s been in some hallmark movies like Long Lost Christmas, Aloha Heart, and Pumpkin Everything, amongst many others.
Chapter Six 'Shades of Gray':
Volume: Four
Written by: Oliver Grigsby
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Original airdate: March 9, 2009
Synopsis:
Eric Doyle begs Claire to help him, that he has changed, that he wants to just bring happiness to people as a puppeteer, and that Rebel told him she would help him but Claire refuses. Doyle Learns of Claire’s free pass, getting angry that she won’t help her own kind, but given the choice of forcing Claire to help him, he backs down, resigning himself to being hunted and living on the street as he sheds a tear and leaves. Claire asks her mother whether she should have helped, reasoning that she should be helping people, and finally deciding to take a job as a cover for helping Rebel instead of having people sent to her house. She passes the interview pretty easily, given she’s a hot girl that wants to work in a comic book store and will naturally bring in customers. After she leaves her shift, she calls her father to ask who she is supposed to be when leading a double life. Given that she isn’t sure what answer she wants, the truth or the nice answer, he can’t advise her. She then gets a message from Rebel that Doyle has been discovered, asking her to help him. Doyle, caught by Rachel Mills, uses his powers to knock her out but is then held up by her partner. Claire shows up in time to knock him out, helping Doyle with a new identity. She asks him if he really has changed, but Doyle merely smiles and walks away.
Hiro and Ando arrive in town to save Matt Parkman, but find themselves mistaken for babysitters for a small baby that is named Matt Parkman.
Nathan faces off against a suspicious Danko but leaves to attend to Matt down at the Capitol, as policemen surround the area. Nathan talks to Matt, urging him to use his powers to see the truth. Being drugged, his powers are weak, but slowly they come back and he’s able to read the minds of the bomb techs in the area and figure out what wire to pull in order to disarm it. Back at the base however, Danko has ordered his team to detonate the bomb. Unfortunately, Rebel has hacked into their system and shut down the detonation. As they work to get their connection back, Matt finally gets a clear message about the wires and Nathan pulls it just as Danko’s connection is restored. As the bomb fails to blow, Nathan punches out Matt and he’s taken into custody.
Nathan and Danko spar off against each other again, with Nathan firing him, but Danko answers to a higher authority and refuses to back down. He starts playing a clip of Tracy yelling that Nathan is one of them and begins his quest to figure out Nathan’s secrets. Nathan goes to see Tracy, who recently also received a message from Rebel that help was coming. He tells her that she doesn’t have to like him, but he is her last hope. Danko comes in and tries to interrogate her about Nathan, but she refuses to give him up. Danko vents to Bennet who puts him onto Angela Petrelli, hoping to throw him off their scent. Danko does confront her, but she has done her homework and learned of an operation in which he himself was somehow miraculously the only survivor. After hearing her, Danko backs off and leaves. Nathan later gets permission from the president to fire Danko, but Danko comes at him, firing a gun at the window behind Nathan before pushing him out the window. Nathan falls but then uses his ability to stop himself before flying off.
Sylar finally finds his father, Samson, a broken down old man suffering in the final stages of cancer, living in squalor, practicing his taxidermy skills. He welcomes death, which surprises Sylar, and he holds off, learning about his father’s viewpoints on life as he shows him the art of taxidermy. He reveals that he has collected and forgotten many abilities over the years and talks of how they both choose easy targets to attack in their life. He tells Sylar that his life was disappointing because there was no challenge in it, but his tone changes when he sees Sylar can heal, wanting that power for himself so he can have immortality as well. Samson pins his son to the wall with arrows and uses an ability to disorient him and keep his mind clouded. Sylar awakens to see Samson ready to cut him open but Sylar talks with him, until he has become clear enough to use his powers and fights back, pushing the man away from him. Samson tells him to kill him then, but Sylar refuses, leaving him to suffer with his disease alone, taking along the rabbit he learned to stuff.
When Danko returns home, he sees a stuffed rabbit on his table as Sylar lies in wait in the other room.
Back-issues:
Papa Samson Sylar was played by John Glover (John Soursby Glover Jr.), star of so many movies and series, notably Gremlins 2 where he played entrepreneur Daniel Clamp,
Smallville, Bryce Cummings in Scrooged, and Search for Tomorrow (238 episodes of a soap opera in the early 80’s, playing a mentally disturbed kidnapper who kidnapped Joanne, the lead character). He has some animation work to his name as well, performing as Dyson in Tron: Uprising and The Riddler in Batman The Animated Series and the video games based on that show. He also received Emmy nominations for his guest appearance in series like Frasier, LA Law and Crime & Punishment. In Shazam he played both the young and old versions of Dr. Thaddeus Sivana's stern and abrasive father.
Heroes EU:
Comrades Part 2
Ivan causes problems for Noah & Claude whilst after "The Russian".
Puppet with No Strings
There is no happy ending to Doyle's tale of woe.
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