Volume: Two
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: Daniel Attias
Original airdate: November 5, 2007
Synopsis:
Kensei, having captured Hiro, along with Yaeko and her father, keeps the time traveler from using his powers by making sure he is continually dosed by opium, rendering him unable to concentrate. He monologues about taking over half of the country and taking Yaeko as his princess, saying he will change history
When the guard walks away from the tent, Yaeko uses her ingenuity to escape her shackles and removes the opium from Hiro, managing to rouse him enough to teleport them all away. Hiro tells her that he must go and defeat the army and the guns so Japan can be safe and history restored. Hiro says he hopes he can still turn Kensei back to the light side, that there is still good in him. He tells her to meet him by the cherry blossoms and teleports to the camp where he begins pouring gunpowder out to blow up everything. Kensei arrives, and the two begin dueling with Hiro finally getting the better of Kensei when he threatens Yaeko. With the tent now in flames and ready to explode, Hiro teleports away without Kensei, who refuses to take his hand and be saved.
Hiro talks to Yaeko, telling her he had to kill Kensei. Yakeo is glad he is safe and wants him to stay with her and live with his princess, but Hiro knows he can’t stay and risk the timeline changing, telling her about Kensei’s last story where he had to cut out his heart to save the princess. As he prepares to leave, she tells him that she will tell everyone the story of his exploits as Kensei, so that a future young Hiro will have tales to listen to in order to help him sleep. The two kiss and Hiro teleports away.
Hiro places Kensei's burnt samurai mask on Ando’s desk when he isn’t looking, who then turns to see Hiro back. They rejoice like old times and have a happy reunion until Ando has to tell Hiro that his father was sadly murdered.
Mohinder talks to Bennett on the phone who asks him if he has received a gun from The Company yet but Mohinder tells him no. Mohinder tells him he is under watch now by his partner, but Bennett tells him to do what needs to be done because of the danger to his family. Mohinder is shocked that he seems to be considered expendable and hangs up when Jessica returns and tells him Bob needs them. As they walk, they are stopped by Bob who tells them they are evacuating the facility. When asked why, Nathan and Matt appear, telling them that Maury is coming to kill Bob.
Bob tells the group that Matt can’t protect him and they can’t run, but instead need to face off against Maury, with Matt using his powers to best him. Matt is insistent that he can’t do what his father can, despite Bob’s claim that he can. Bob instructs Mohinder and Jessica to infect Maury with the virus which again Mohinder objects to because it could end up getting out and infecting everyone.
Matt goes to see Molly, talking to her in her coma, feeling awful for having brought her into this, telling her that he loves her, and then seeing a blip on her readings. He realizes that Molly can hear him and he finds new confidence.
As Mohinder and Jessica go to get the virus, she stops and begins experiencing a vision of DL telling her she’s just a killer and not cured at all. Mohinder comes back to see if she’s ok, and the two walk on. While they gather the supplies, Jessica has another vision of DL and begins talking with him, yelling at him, which startles Mohinder who tries to awaken her from the vision but she punches him away. Under coaxing from the vision, created by Maury nearby, she grabs a vial for the virus, rushing to find Bob to kill him.
Bob tells Nathan about Adam, about how they locked him up years ago, and just recently escaped and is the one behind the murders, using Maury as his instrument to do so. He explains how Adam thought of himself as God and began talking about holocausts and plagues and punishing humanity to save the world, the same way his loyal disciple Linderman did. Bob then tells Nathan that Peter is alive, showing him footage from 3 months earlier where they found him and rescued him, but he has since ended up disappearing.
Jessica breaks down the door protecting Bob and Nathan and goes to attack him but Nathan talks to her, telling her to stop, reminding her of Micah, and she plunges the needle instead into herself, infecting her.
Meanwhile, Matt suddenly finds himself in his old childhood home, with Molly at the table. She says that this is where she’s been kept by his dad. Matt yells out for his father and suddenly Maury appears there, astonished, realizing that Matt brought him here. Molly is scared but Matt tells her that this isn’t Matt’s nightmare scenario, but his father’s. Maury denies it, saying that it hurt him to leave, but Matt counters that Maury never fought for anything that he loved. Matt opens the door, takes Molly’s hand and escapes, leaving Maury trapped inside, screaming, while in the real world, the father lays on the floor, comatose. Molly comes out of her own dream and tells Matt she heard him tell her he loved her as they hug.
As Mohinder works with Nikki to cure her of the virus, he comes to their startling conclusion that the virus has mutated and his blood is no longer a cure for this strain. He tells Bob who tells him that they will destroy the remaining virus vials, and that if he wants to save Nikki, he needs to get Bennett’s daughter, Claire, who has regenerative powers and can heal everyone. He hands Mohidner a gun, but Mohinder is aghast that he should have to kill Bennett. Bob tells Mohinder how Bennett just killed his former boss, Ivan, and is getting sloppy and dangerous, and that Claire is the key to saving everyone. Mohinder comes clean about his and Bennett’s plans to take down the company, telling him that he doesn’t know who is right and wrong and that they all need to stop playing games. Mohinder takes the gun, wanting to do the right thing for Niki.
Claire awakens to a text from West who is actually downstairs in her kitchen with her mother cooking waffles. Claire is shocked but manages to cover it up, as well as hide a picture of her father before he can see it. The two end up making out while listening to music when Claire decides she has to tell him about her father. They go to grab popsicles from the fridge, but West sees her father enter from the front door. He panics, telling Claire they have been discovered and rushes them out the back door. Claire tells him that she was trying to tell him that the man he was abducted by was her father. West is shocked and asks her if this was all a trap to get him and he flies off before Bennett comes out to the yard.
Later in the evening, Sandra talks to her husband and asks him if he got to meet Claire’s boyfriend, surprising him. He goes to Claire, showing her the newspaper article, reprimanding her for not being careful and she pushes back against him about his special copy store company trip. As they yell at each other, Sandra and Lyle come down as Mr. Bennett tells them they are moving because it’s not safe anymore here. Claire refuses, telling them that they will have to go without her.
Peter and Caitlin wander the empty streets of future New York when they are suddenly surrounded by men in quarantine suits who take them away, demanding to know if they’re infected, and then washing them aggressively as they scream out in protest.
Fully decontaminated, a man finds Peter who tries to get to the bottom of the mystery, finally understanding that Peter has no idea about how the virus started a year ago and has now killed 93% of the world.
The man takes Peter to Angela, but he doesn’t recognize her as his mother. She talks to him, telling him about his powers, but he doesn’t understand how she knows it all until he uses his mind reading ability to scan her thoughts and sees his whole childhood laid out before him, realizing now who she is and who he is.
As Angela tells him what needs to happen to save the world, Peter sees Caitlin being deported and she goes to him, separated by a fence. They cry out to each other and as she is pulled away, his powers activate and Peter finds himself back in the past in the Montreal building. He hears something behind him and sends out a bolt of electricity that is caught by a hand, which is burnt then quickly heals. The man known as Takezo Kensei steps out of the shadows, asking Peter why he would do that, before revealing that his name is Adam.
