In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom start new team ups and contemplate death as they discuss season 3 episodes 3 & 4, One of Us, One of Them and I Am Become Death.
Chapter Three 'One of Us, One of Them':
Volume: Three
Written by: Joe Pokaski
Directed by: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Original airdate: September 29, 2008
Synopsis:
Angela talks to the captured, currently powerless Gabriel and tells him he was adopted. She then calls in another person named Bridget with the ability to know all about an object’s history just by touching it. Angela offers her to Gabriel as a sacrifice as she rips off the tube suppressing his powers, as he kills Bridget. Later, Bennet shows up and tells Angela he’s found news footage of the escapees robbing a bank, telling her he is only helping her until they are caught and then he wants to return to his family. Knowing he needs a partner, Angela tells him his new partner will be Gabriel. He’s aghast at the thought, but is left with no choice as she says Gabriel just needs structure that Bennet can give him. Gabriel questions whether Angela really is his mother, and she comforts him by saying that his hunger can be controlled with The Company’s help.
At the bank, Peter continually tries to stop the situation from escalating, even standing up against the Firestarter from assaulting a woman. The German cracks open the safe and they get the money they were looking for, but the police show up, with Knox revealing he called them because he wants revenge on Bennet, whom he calls the horn rimmed glasses guy. As more police arrive, The German decides he is going to leave with his cut, but Knox, his powers amplified by the fear around him, punches The German through the chest and through the wall behind him, killing him instantly.
Tracey practices her freezing powers on a rose, missing Nathan’s swearing in ceremony. He goes to her to try and find out what happened, but she is too focused on how he called her Nikim and the reporter’s research, eventually finding out about Niki and Micah, and heading off to see them in New Orleans. Once there, she finds out Niki died, and runs into Micah. He knows that she isn’t his mother, and he uses his powers to find a connection between her and his mother, revealing the name of the doctor that delivered them both, Dr. Zimmerman. She goes to find him, and he mistakenly calls her Barbara before she corrects him. When she asks if he knows her, he admits that he is responsible for creating her.
Claire decides to not go to school, knowing that she can’t just act normal but her mother pushes back against her. Claire’s birth mother Meredith attempts to intervene, but Sandra shuts her down, causing them all to have a very awkward moment together. Later, Meredith takes Claire aside and tries to help train her by heating up an old shipping container while they’re inside, pushing Claire until she breaks and admits that she really only wants to hurt the man who attacked her, Sylar. Later, Meredith and Sandra have another argument about how to raise Claire, but Claire interrupts, saying she forgot about a cheerleader retreat, but really is just a ruse so she can get out of the house, taking her dad’s Primatech records with her.
Matt continues his spirit walk, seeing scenes from his past that have come true, painted by the man who found him in the desert. The man says he’s been painting Parkman his whole life, but now the paintings must be changed, throwing paint over an image of Matt with a loving woman and young baby together with him. Matt tries to stop him but the man’s eyes have gone Issac white as he has entered the future telling trance state. Later, Matt tries to achieve the same state by eating something the man has prepared, but it takes the man's headphones being placed on to Matt to push him into it.
Hiro and Ando track Daphne to a German movie theater, and confront her but after she tells them her plans, she can’t run away, her powers not working. Hiro also cannot use his powers as they see the Haitian with a briefcase walking by and entering the theater. Hiro and Ando follow him, watching him inside when Daphne shows up and tries to cause a rift between them, calling Ando a sidekick. When The Haitian leaves, Hiro follows him, with Ando trailing behind, upset at being left again. As they see that The Haitian has the other half of the formula, they devise a plan that Ando decides to not follow to the letter, instead knocking out the Haitian, enabling them to get the briefcase. Unfortunately, that also means Daphne’s powers have returned and she runs in and steals the briefcase from them, running away as Hiro and Ando are grabbed by the now awakened Haitian, and then placed into containment at The Company.
Bennet and Gabriel show up to the bank, with Bennet trying to take the lead but Sylar takes on the personality of a typical FBI agent and manages to take over from the police, getting them full access. Bennet goes inside, telling Gabriel to wait outside. The plan works in that the hostages are released, but it’s discovered that Peter, inside of Jesse’s body, has been discovered by Knox after a trick question he asked. As Knox turns his attention to Bennett, trading barbs with him, Peter yells at the Firestarter that no one dies today, setting off Jesse’s sound power and knocking his captor out. He then sets his power on Knox, knocking him over, as well as Bennet when everything suddenly stops. Scarred Peter has shown up and frozen time, and then removes Present Peter from Jesse, taking him away to show him the trouble the world is facing. Once they leave, time unfreezes and Knox and Jesse both begin beating on Bennet, but Gabriel shows up and uses his powers to hold them still. The Firestarter recovers and goes to use his powers against Sylar when Bennet grabs a gun from the floor and shoots him, knocking him out. As they wrap things up, Gabriel tricks Bennet into going outside as he slams the door shut and kills Jesse, taking his power while Knox runs away. Gabriel tells Bennet that the hunger is just too great. Back at the Company, The Firestarter is placed back into containment, as well as Gabriel, telling Angela she was wrong about him, but she simply says that they will see. Outside the cells, the Haitian asks Bennet if he is being replaced, with Bennet telling him just temporarily, just until he finds Sylar’s weakness and kills him.
Back-issues:
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan is a working TV director. His first directing credit was on Steven Speilberg’s Taken mini series, and also directed an episode of Surface, among many other credits.
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine was the desert man named Usutu. In 2020, he was named one of the biggest breakout stars and was awarded the coveted Best Actor Award at the Durban International Film Festival for his lead performance in Ekwa Msangi’s Farewell Armor (reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them). He was also in 26 episodes of Treme (life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA).
He was in 10 episodes of The Lincoln Lawyer (25 episode series), and 30 episodes of The Chi (a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption). He was also a lead in the movie Tasmanian Devil (after moving to the United States, Nigerian immigrant Dayo (Attah) struggles to find a balance between his desire to join a college fraternity and bonding with his estranged father who is a strict pastor at a local church).
Chapter Four 'I Am Become Death':
Volume: Three
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: David Von Ancken
Original airdate: October 6, 2008
Synopsis:
As Mohinder analyzes his rotting skin, he hears a disturbance in a neighboring loft and goes to investigate, witnessing a woman in an obvious domestic violence situation, but after Suresh busts in to help and attacks the man, the woman yells at him to leave. Maya shows up later and comments on how he’s left food out rotting and let the lab become a complete mess. She tries to get him to go out with her and have some fun but he gets aggressively angry with her, causing her to leave.
Tracy talks with Doctor Zimmerman and he starts to explain about his experiments and giving children powers through DNA manipulation. Tracy wants to know who was responsible but the doctor actually can’t remember, saying they were all made to forget. Tracy gets distraught and grabs him, begging to have her abilities removed, but he says he can’t do that. Her abilities go into overdrive and he starts to freeze before she calms down and leaves.
Meanwhile, Scarred Peter takes Present Peter four years into the future and shows him how everyone has abilities, being either born with them, or paying for them, due a formula that was developed. Scarred Peter tells Present Peter that he needs to find Sylar and change the past, that he couldn’t do it because he had “stepped on too many butterflies” and made mistakes. He warns his past self about Nathan, Claire, and Mohinder, but before he can say much more, he is shot by Claire, who has arrived, along with The Haitian. Claire takes aim at Present Peter but he manages to elude them both, heading to Mohinder’s lab, asking him why he needs to find Sylar, but Mohinder has gone totally native insectoid like, creeping around in the corners. Peter reads his mind and finds Sylar’s location, teleporting away to Costa Verde, where he finds Claire’s old house, inhabited by a young boy named Noah, and his dad, Gabriel. As he talks with Gabriel, the father realizes who Peter is and pulls him aside to talk, telling him he is Gabirel, and no longer the man he was, Sylar. Peter tells him he needs his ability to save the world and asks him to paint the future, to which he does, and sees the earth exploding. He takes off his broken watch, the one that gave him the name Sylar, and instructs him on how to see the insides and how it works, and how to fix it, showing Peter how to access his ability.
Claire stands over the comatose Scarred Peter, as Knox and Daphne discuss their options upon learning about a second Peter being there. Claire wants to use Molly to find Peter, which Daphne is against, but Knox says if she doesn’t ask, then he will ask instead. Daphne returns home to her husband, Matt and their new baby. Matt is extremely happy to be married and have an actual family, but they argue about asking Molly to use her abilities. Eventually Daphne wins out and Molly tells them Peter’s location.
Back in the present day, Ando and Hiro, still in containment, argue with each other, with Ando angry that Hiro no longer trusts him, putting the two at odds as Ando refuses to help him anymore.
Nathan, newly appointed as senator, is being asked to choose a desk for his office, and Linderman appears, suggesting one particular model, but Nathan goes his own way, pushing back against the man that no one else can see. They argue, with Linderman telling him he will be President, but Nathan can’t believe that and insists on going his own way.
Back in the future, as Peter and Gabriel stare at the painting of the exploded earth, Noah calls out to him, and they leave to find Knox holding his son captive and Daphne and Claire nearby. They tell Peter if he comes with them everything will be fine. Gabriel tries to tell Peter to go, but he won’t, wanting to save them. Claire tells him that once he’s dead, the boy will be released. Claire goes to shoot Peter but he uses Daphne’s superspeed to dodge as Daphne attacks Peter. Noah runs towards Gabriel and he tells his son to hide as Knox comes at him. The two fight, but Knox, powered up due to the boy’s fear, kicks Gabriel away into furniture that hits Noah and kills him. Gabriel freaks out, and begins manifesting Ted Sprague’s powers and goes nuclear, killing everyone within four miles of the town.
Back in the past, Hiro tries to use his belt to pull down a grate to escape, but Ando intervenes. Hiro won’t let go of the belt, but Ando wins the tug of war and manages to pull the grate down so Hiro can escape. Hiro realizes he can’t reach the grate though and asks Ando for help one more time. As Ando helps him, Hiro starts to apologize, realizing how badly he has been treating his friend. As Hiro finally reaches the grate, The Haitian enters, taking the two to see Angela.
Tracy, distraught over the information she discovered from Doctor Zimmerman, places a call to the police, intending to tell him she murdered the reporter, but her powers activate as she gets stressed and the phone becomes frozen and falls and breaks. She goes to Nathan and decides to resign. She leaves but Linderman appears and tells Nathan that he has to help her. Nathan finds Tracy ready to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge but he swoops down and rescues her, showing her his ability. She later then shows him her ability to freeze things.
Mohinder continues his experiments and realizes he can’t stop what is happening to him and cannot remove any abilities, noticing the sticky web-like substance on his fingers. As someone knocks on his door, he answers it to find the angry husband who attacks him. Mohinder is unfazed due to his strength and pulls the man inside the loft.
Back in the future, President Nathan Petrelli and his wife, the First Lady Tracy Strauss, comment on the sad event that led to the destruction in Costa Verde. Elsewhere, Claire and the Haitian, have Present Peter captive alongside the comatose Scarred Peter as she cuts him, intending for him to feel the pain for all the people that died in her hometown. Nathan arrives, asking to talk alone with Peter, and he releases Peter, telling him that because of what Peter did, the government has sanctioned an army of men and women with abilities. He tells Peter to read his mind to see if he’s lying. Peter realizes that Nathan really believes this is a good idea and decides that he needs to understand Nathan better, cutting his head open, being fueled by Gabriel’s ability’s hunger, and thus killing his brother.
Peter teleports away into the past, into Sylar’s cell, telling him that he has his ability now Sylar tells him that he is like him now but Peter says he will never be like him. Sylar says that he already is, calling him brother.
Back in the future, Matt and Molly watch news reports of the explosion in Costa Verde, with Daphne returning home. As Matt goes to her, she collapses, revealing she wasn’t fast enough as radiation burns cover her entire back. Back in the past, Matt awakens from his trance, seeing what he and the Usutu painted and what they mean, intending to find Daphne. Usutu talks about a totem that will guide him, an animal that will help him, as Matt looks down upon a turtle.
Angela talks to Hiro, expressing how he is such a disappointment despite his father’s great hopes. Ando defends Hiro, telling her that Hiro will save them. Together, the two men go and dig up Adam Monroe’s body. He awakens, and starts choking Hiro.
Heroes EU:
How escaped Level 5 inmates Knox and Jesse first aroused The Company's attention.
Resistance
The events that lead up to Claire's decision to kill Peter Petrelli.
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