Elle's First Assignment, Part 1 - 2
Mentions Arthur Petrelli as important like Linderman, could have a power then spies on Bennett, Muggles barks at her so she goes to use her powers on him, but Eden turns on the sprinklers, shorting her out as Bennett tells her to leave Claire alone. She notices Claire hanging out with Zack at school and follows them but keeps missing them demonstrating her powers. She goes to his place to seduce him into giving her the tape but decides to use her powers instead. As she starts to, Bennett cold cocks her from behind, the Haitian takes her memories, Bennet gets the tape from Zack, and the Haitian removes his memories as well. At school, Claire asks who the girl is, but Zack says he doesn’t know. Elle meanwhile doesn’t remember the two incidents with Claire either.
Normal Lives
The Bennets are on their way to Cali, stop at a diner, overhear cops talking to someone he recognizes about bodies of some thug enforcers being totally mangled. Bennet realizes it’s a powered being from his early days with the company. After family goes to bed, he goes out to take Mr. Muggles for a walk, leaving him in the car, taking a bag because Sandra has his gun, and he finds Marcus working at the diner they were at earlier. He faces off with him and Marcus shows how he can crush anything at all but Bennet knows the power is in his fingertips so he avoids them and beats him until he’s knocked out. He calls Bob to collect, refusing to come back to work and says he won’t be found until he wants to be found.
The Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei
Adam recounts his past marriages while lying in the coffin. Some died naturally, some met their demise due to circumstances like the civil war. Others yet died when they couldn’t handle learning about Adam’s power. One wife drank herself to death, while another stayed married to him but after many decades, they would call Adam her husband, then son, and then her grandson. He tried to romance Yaeko’s descendent, but it didn’t work out. He had sons but decided he didn’t like children. Ends with Adam commenting that he has a future bride out there that will soon find him. He does mention being someone who went by the last name Sanders. As in Niki?
Golden Goose
Richard Drucker is being flown by a pilot nicknamed Goose and they crash in a small mountain village in Bhutan. 15 years later, Bob comes looking for him, questioning the pilot who decided to stay there. He says he has no idea where Drucker went after the crash, but Bob doesn’t believe him, turning Goose’s arm to gold and asking again. He repeats his answer so Bob gets angry and turns him entirely to gold and leaves.
The Man with too much Brains
Matt Neuenberg is a kid that has the ability of being super smart but doesn’t really like school, being bullied usually and pressured into helping others with tests. A girl asks him to try out for the talent show, which he does, showing off his talents of being smart by answering trivia questions. Unfortunately the crowd calls him a freak and a weirdo. As he rushes off stage he runs into Elle who promises to take him somewhere safe. He ends up being tested on at the company very painfully but she talks to him later and tells him he is protected here more than anywhere else.
Hannah and Drucker’s Plot Discovered
Matt begins to enjoy his captivity, having fallen for Elle. Meanwhile, Hana Gitelman and Drucker, appearing as cyberspace digital beings called T.Monk and K.Apila, have infiltrated cyberspace, referred to by Drucker as another universe. He is trying to get an encrypted file but needs her help. As they do so, Matt sees data being sent from Bhutan and wonders why. Elle calls Bob to find out and he immediately initiates a protocol causing Elle to demand that Matt wear these hidden special glasses and begins taking in all the information he can from their computer mainframe so she can destroy it after. He thinks he can’t store that much information but Elle assures him the company knows his limits.
The End of Hana and Drucker
Hana and Drucker realize the mainframe is being destroyed while they’re inside cyberspace and they are trapped. Elle destroys the mainframe with her powers and Bob shows up to take Matt who has passed out, with him telling Elle to restart his heart but don’t kill him. She does and Bob is overjoyed that Matt survived and saved the data, telling he’s proud of him while herself begs for the same accolades. Matt is transferred to a nicer room as a reward but is still a prisoner with no idea of the outside world due tot he windows being walled off. Elle arrives to take him on a special trip outside but it is really back to the company to extract the data from him. Stells him it will only be a small pinch and he won’t be hurt but once the transfer begins, it’s goes bad and he dies from the pressure of the transfer. The doctor seems certain that the data made it through before Matt died while Elle cries.
The History of a Secret
A young man named Abu is reflecting on how the pyramids were built and thinks he knows how it really happened, due to him being able to suddenly lift a one ton boulder. He dreams about an ancestor of his, the pharaoh, who may have had powers as well, as did his family. One of the pharaoh’s family members showed off his powers and was reprimanded by the pharaoh for doing so. In the dream, Abu speaks with someone who tells him to learn from his ancestries but to keep the secret. Abu awakens realizing Egypt is his destiny.
The issue ends but then there’s one more page where Abu goes to his father who shuts down his thoughts of having powers immediately, refusing to speak of it. It ends abruptly. Possibly missing a page.
Past Experience
Kimiko recalls her last, hearing her father tell Hiro stories of Takezo Kensei, seeming resentful of her father’s obsession with the hero. After her father dies, a man named Kin approaches her telling her that the Yamagato Fellowship, a museum built by her father dedicated to Kensei, is suffering from a lack of leadership. She is sent to take care of the project, knowing that the Yamagato Industries board is working to remove her from the leader position. Two executives go to Kimiko and deliver a PDA gift from a client company to her, suggesting it should go to one of them since he was the primary executive on the account. Kimiko takes a lesson from a Kensei story and reprimands them for their pettiness instead of realizing they all work together and are stronger united and takes a sword, cutting the PDA in half, much like Kensei broke a prized sword in half in the story, and asserting herself as the leader, deciding to bring Kensei to the internet so more people can learn from him.
War Buddies Part 7: Coming Home
Linderman returns home from War and tries to find his place in the world. He is approached by a beautiful young woman who seduces him, the next morning they go for a hike and find a dying deer. He uses his powers to heal the animal back to full life, while the woman takes notes on what he did, thinking to herself that once she steals his power, she will be unstoppable. She goes to use her power to do that, but he attacks her back and kills her. He opens her notes and finds a man’s name on a page, Arthur Petrelli, and heads off to find him.
Blindsided
A glassless Bennet passes his eye test without any issues, but is then called away for a mission to find Howard Grigsby, a man who manifested powers a few months ago and went in a killing spree, believing to be sent by god. He finds Grigsby holding a family hostage and is discovered by the killer as he activates power, blinding everyone. Bennet makes a last ditch effort to shoot the chandelier out and manages to take down Grigsby and save the family, but he himself end Suzi suffering damage to his eyes, requiring the use of glasses.
A Lesson in Electricity
Benjamin Franklin readies his experiment to harness lighting, along with his son Will. Once the lighting hits the kite, it travels down to the key but instead of stopping there, blocked by a silk string that wouldn’t conduct the electricity to Franklin’s hand, the lightning continues to travel across the string because the string was wet. The bolt hits Franklin and knocks him out but he comes to. Will recounts the story later in a diary, but reveals he always kept secret that Franklin seemed to absorb enough electricity to kill a man, but was just fine afterwards, wondering if the world would ever be ready for that information.
Pieces of Me
Ryan Covington has dreams in that he walks into a castle, and sees his whole life depicted in the windows, from his bright to the death of his wife in a car crash. Sanjog Iyer appears to him in the latest interaction of the dream and tells him he needs to figure things out for himself. When his dream self looks into a mirror, he sees a grinning reflection that grabs him and throws him through a window to the ground below. Sanjog appears again to tell him that the things that happen in the dreams should stay there so that he can focus on what matters most, his actual real life he still has.
On the Lam
Linderman’s former software engineer Brian recounts how Linderman found him and offered him a job, eventually asking him to rig the election for Nathan Petrelli. Unfortunately the plan didn’t work and Brian went into hiding, working at a casino not far from Linderman’s Corinthian Hotel. He notes that Nathan still won the election somehow and now lives in an abandoned nuclear fallout shelter. After seeing Linderman dead and his hotel being torn down, decides it’s time for him to get even.
Bounty Hunter
A woman named Linda Travara, a bounty hunter, is being fired because while she completes a lot of her assignments, sometimes the people in her assignments end up dead. She is approached by a woman in glasses asking her to find a number of people for her, and she does exactly that. One man, Jason Welkes, she takes longer to find and when she does, she ends up not turning him over to the woman like all the others, but killing him and keeping him in her car trunk. The woman gives Linda the next name to find, but is disappointed that she can’t find Jason and decides to reconsider confusing to employ her. Linda panics and kill’s the woman, taking her notebook, and finding the next name she was to seek out: Daniel Linderman.
Different and the Same
Piper has the same recurring dream of being abducted by aliens, causing her to be medicated to live a dull, recitative, unfeeling life. One night during the dream, Sanjog Iyer appears to try and help her figure out what really happened and who she is. In the dream, strapped to a table she is able to bend her knee in such a way she can release her restraints with her feet. A girl, Debbie, reveals herself to be her twin sister, separated at birth, and helps her escape, Piper being able to squeeze through it, but leaving Debbie to be captured by The Haitian and Bennet. Debbie awakens, realizing that somehow she had lost her memory of the incident, realizing it wasn’t aliens. Piper’s mother realizes that Piper is having more delusions and calls their doctor, Mr. Noah Bennet himself.
Moonlight Serenade
Linda recounts her past, explaining how she can see people’s aura’s and are drawn to them. In her dreams, she was able to take people’s auras and they would give her warmth. She decides that she needs that in real life and begins searching for people with brighter auras in order to feel a greater warmth. She finds an old woman who has a blazing bright aura and tricks her back to her room in a senior care center. The woman talked of seeing angels all her life, and asks Linda if she was an angel. Linda lies and says she is before she grabs the woman and removes her aura, killing her. Afterwards as she walks away, she begins seeing the ghostly apparitions that the woman saw.
Donna’s Big Date Parts 1-3
Donna, a receptionist, goes on a date with a man named Blake but gets a call from a mysterious voice named EvsDropper during it that tells her he is dangerous and a killer and to grab a gun taped under the table and make an excuse about a family emergency. Back at home she uses her powers of enhanced sight to see that Blake was watching her from a half block away. She takes the gun and sung her peers, manages to shoot him directly through his night vision goggles. As Donna panics, running to her car, Elle shows up and zaps her, explaining that Donna shot her partner Thompson, and that she has a feeling Donna will fit in with them at the company just fine.
Donna awakens at the company next to a Bennet who warns her about trusting the company and how she has powers. A former trainee of Bennet’s named Felicia show up to take Donna to see Bob. He does states her powers but is disturbed when she mentions that Bennet told her that they all have powers. Bob turns and says this won’t work out now and has the Haitian wipe her memories, sending her home, and ordering them to try it again tomorrow. At home, Donna hears from the voice in the telephone again, EvsDropper, who show Sher the camera footage of what happened to her and she decides to fight back.
Donna allows herself to be recruited by the company and begins teaming with Felicia. After a shopping trip to get new clothes, Donna is pulled into Gael Cruz’s office, a man that EvsDropper wants info on, but the man tells her she is benched and off all missions. As she leaves, she decides to try and find her file to find out what made this sudden change happen and finds Thompson reading her file. She manages to grab it from him and sees a picture of a painting that Isaac a Mendez did of her, dead. Thompson says the commonly isn’t punishing her by benching her but trying to protect her.
Trust Issues
Thompson trails his own partner, noting that four human agents had been killed lately and wanting to find out who was doing it. The suspected agent is Cushing, who can secrete corrosive acids. Thompson corners Cushing standing near the dead body of another powerless human, holding him at gunpoint. Cushing uses his powers to escape but is caught by Thompson and the two fight. Gael Cruz shows up and shoots Cushing dead, with Thompson reprimanding him. Cushing emotions the name EvsDropper before dying and Thompson realizes they were set up. He then goes to find a new partner, and is assigned Donna.
Donna investigates Cushing’s death, worried that Thomson will find out she’s a double agent. Eventually with help from EvsDropper she finds the bullet that killed Cushing. She confronts Thompson and he reveals the information about the unknown person killing their agents and gets Donna back on active duty to help. She then calls EvsDropper to tell her she’s doing things her way from now on because both sides seem to be killers.
Faces Parts 1-2
Penny Logan works for the company, tracking down specials, and manages to blend in anywhere due to her training, taking down a man with the ability to emit a nerve gas when he sweats.
Unfortunately her ability to go about unnoticed works to her disadvantage when guys she is interested in don’t even notice her. One such case is Thompson who noticed Penny’s mother instead and hits on her. Penny is angry, it wanting to work with her as a partner, but Bob insists that her mother’s ability is very useful and gives them their next target, a teleporting boy who is aware he’s being tracked due to EvsDropper’s help. Penny’s mother uses her ability to change Penny’s face into the face of his girlfriend, enabling her to get into his apartment and knock him out. Her. Other refuses to change her face back for right now and Penny ends up getting hit on by Thompson, eventually sleeping with him. (In the last panel she looks like her old face though)
As her mother’s ability wears off, Penny goes leaves before Thompson wakes up and goes to work. She talks with her mother while Thompson tries to find the girl he slept with, eventually coming up with a match that it was the teleporter’s girlfriend. He rushes off to find her but Penny has her mother redo the face change and she intercepts him. Unfortunately the real girlfriend comes home and he orders them both inside at gunpoint. Penny tries to explain about how her mother actually did this, and eventually the Haitian and her mother show up to change her back and erase the girlfriend’s memories. Thompson isn’t mad about the incident because he had a great time with her and relishes the idea of being with what is basically a different looking person every night. This causes Penny to feel that she would have rather had her memories wiped and kept the face.
Root and Branch Parts 1-3
Three different operations to capture a rogue duplicate of the leader Julien “The Root” Dumont are set to happen at the same time: Donna and Thompson in Antarctica, Bianca Karina and Devin Patterson in Australia, and Sabine Hazel in the Congo, Africa. The first two teams capture their targets, but Sabine’s gets away. Julien says it’s fine because he can sense where that third target is, something that confuses Sabine because she knows that the third duplicate is dead.
Together they drive to a forest clearing where Sabine pulls a gun on him, believing him to be a duplicate and not the original Julien. He reveals that despite the fact she has slept with many of his copies, he is the one that really loves her, but she shoots him dead. As he dies, Julien thinks back on his powers, revealing he can create copies of himself but if the original were to die, then all the copies would as well. Returning to base, she sees the clones are still alive, and then finds the original Julien, hooked up to machines to ensure he keeps living.
Sabine goes to Bennet for advice and he tells her that Dumont’s power and how they were going to use it wasn’t ever perfected, and warns her against disconnecting him, that the flood of memories could kill him. She does anyway and helps him escape as the clones start dying in their cells. She has Julien make another duplicate to help them escape, and after a car chase, they are eventually picked up by someone she asks if they are EvsDropper and the man, who looks just like Julien, says not exactly.
Berlin Parts 1-2
Devin and Bianca are in Germany to capture a man known as The German, but are met by Bianca’s fiancée, Gael Cruz. Definitely is resentful at being babysat, and Bianca is upset that Gabriel is investigating her, as well as everyone, for being the possible mole in the company.
An unseen figure talks with the German, warning him of being hunted, but he shrugs it off, willing to kill to complete his mission. Bianca and Devin move into place to capture the German but he’s not there, taken by surprise when he busts through a door and uses an ability to hold Gabriel against the wall with the metal frame of the bed. Bianca and Devin rush in but the German uses his powers to evade all the bullets being shot at him and then in turn shooting his own bullets at the ceiling, and sending them directly into Devin, killing him. Gael gives Bianca a tear gas canister which she sets off causing the German to be subdued but due to her powers, being able to assort her lungs to breathe in any situation, manages to survive.
The Kill Squad Parts 1-3
A group of soldiers working for the company are sent as a support team to help with finding a super powered being named Lewis who has powers related to plants and plant growth. The soldiers talk about the different regimes that have led the company with the lead one, Fallon, reminiscing about how he got hired there, referencing Eden and Candice as people he knew. When they come across Lewis, he has become more powerful then he was and begins attacking them with roots growing from his body. After he kills most of the men, Fallon shoots at a bunch of oil drums behind Lewis, causing an explosion that knocks Lewis out, noting that he used all his bullets except one that he was saving for Gabriel Gray.
Fallon is put in charge of hiring a new team of men for the kill squad, recruiting a deputy who asked too many questions when Skylar killed people in Midland, Joe, brother of Karen and Ted Sprague, and a man named Drake. With Lewis sedated with a mix of herbicide and ultraviolet light, they are to taken him to Guyana. With them is Paulette Hawkins, who has the ability to augment other’s abilities. The goal is to cover up a large caretaker that developed when a local manifested powers and went overboard with them. Gael calls wanting a status report and Fallon reports that the mission was a success, vegetation restored, but they unfortunately lost Paulette. She turns, confused, when Fallon puts a bullet into her, killing her, as Fallon thinks about killing all of the powered individuals that exist.
Going Postal
Echo DeMille was a mailman when he manifested his powers of controlling sound and accidentally killed an agent of the company. Since then he went on the run, trying to get back in touch with his girlfriend, but being unable to. After months he decided to try his family’s cabin and find his girlfriend there but after he kissed her, he realized it wasn’t her and was just a trap. He used his sound power to take down everyone except for one man who was unaffected, later revealing his power is to absorb sound, an ability that also made him deaf. Echo, now in a special muzzle, vows to go postal when he gets out of captivity.
Our lady of Blessed Acceleration Parts 1-2
Two unarmed company agents are in France looking for a speedster that has been stealing things all over the city. Meanwhile, Daphne Millbrook has been enjoying her newfound speed and just taking whatever she wants with it, working for a Moroccan man who gets her to steal museum items which he then sells back to their countries of origin. The two agents manage to track their speedster to the Moroccan after he helps Daphne steal the Mona Lisa, thinking he is the speedster himself. The Moroccan uses his own ability to phase through hunts to get away. But the agents quickly catch him. Later, Daphne meets the Moroccan’s boss, who hires her to go to Japan to break into the safe of Kaito Nakamura.
Daphne enlists the help of a Yamgato employee who is also stealing from the company, getting him a prototype he made in exchange for information about Nakamura’s safe. He tells her it’s genetically locked and he can’t help her, sending in his goons to get her, but they’re no match for her speed. The alarm goes off and locks her inside, but she manages to escape via the roof. She gets a message in her phone that shows her the company feed with Hiro saying that his and Ando’s destiny is inside that safe. Daphne suddenly has a great inspiration and takes off running.
Hindsight
Donna has been captured and interrogated about who EvsDropper is but she has no idea of course, and Gabriel and Bianca are not believing her when she says she stopped working with EvsDropper. Gael calls out that only humans seem to be the only ones getting killed and calls the specials “freaks,” causing a division amongst their ranks, which Donna wonders if was EvsDropper’s plan all along.
Foresight
As the fight begins, Thompson opens a canister of tear gas, knocking everyone out except Bianca who takes Donna way to a hotel room for safety. She locks up Gael until he dioceses to calm down but he instead calls Fallon and his team back. Thomas;on goes to Donna and tries to stop her from leaving when d=she gets a message from EvsDropper telling her to meet her. The two go to meet her and Donna uses her telescopic vision to see who EvsDropper really is, telling Thompson to get everyone they can here to help them.
Into the woods Parts 1-3
Sabine is taken to EvsDropper’s forest cabin where Julien is laid in bed to rest while she discovers dozens of armed Julien clones. She decides to take Julien away but a clone says EvsDropper won’t allow that. Sabine says she wants to talk to EvsDropper as a voice calls out to her and she turns to see Connie, Penny’s mother, with a gun pointed at her. Connie says destroying the entire company is the only way to insure they don’t come after them. Connie and Sabine begin fighting until Connie reveals that Julien is actually her husband.
Connie reminisces about when Penny was born and how Julien ended up dying a few years later. She then reveals that she fell in love with Julien’s clone which made her realize that the real Julien was still alive and demanded to see him. After seeing him hooked up to the machines, still alive, she vowed revenge. As Donna, Thompson, Gael and their army starts to breach the perimeter of the cabin, Sabine sides with Connie and helps evacuate the real Julien.
As they escape, the clones make their stand. Thomson and Donna go on foot to try and find Julien and Sabine, eventually coming face to face with them. Donna betrays Thomson holding him at gunpoint, but reveals that she is actually Penny, disguised thanks to Connie’s ability, having abducted the real Donna at the hotel earlier. The real Donna meanwhile is tied to a large amount of explosives on the bridge.
As Penny goes to shoot Thompson, taking on another appearance, a shot rings out and Penny’s head explodes, revealing that Fallon and his men have arrived. Connie is also taken down as the battle enrages. Thompson heads for the bridge to save Donna after Sabine, Gael and Bianca get the real Julien, and rove away, telling them that Thompson can make his own mistakes, refusing to send help.
Thompson tries to get Donna loose but her feet have been nailed to a wooden board. He professes his love for her and she returns it after pushing him off the ridge to save him from the explosion. Elsewhere, Gael, Bianca, and Sabine are stopped by the Julien clones, but he orders Bianca to shoot the real Julian, killing the other clones instantly. Sabine is confused but Gael reveals she is the alckage because she is pregnant with Julien’s baby.
