Chapter Seven 'Cold Snap':
Volume: Four
Written by: Bryan Fuller
Directed by: Greg Yaitanes
Original airdate: March 23, 2009
Synopsis:
Danko awakens to find Eric Doyle, drugged, gift wrapped and left hanging in his apartment with a tag that says “My gift to you.”
Bennet meanwhile, meets with Angela in her limo, telling him he needs to give up Rebel so Danko will continue to trust him. She plans to leave the city and he warns her not to go home.
Angela has a short vision that her driver is attacked and wakes up to tell him to keep driving, but the scene plays out as she foresaw. Luckily, she gets out of the car before the agents can find her. She meets with an old friend Millie, and manages to get some cash from her. As Angela walks away, she sees agents coming and heads into a building and onto an elevator. The agents hack into the controls and start bringing the elevator back down, but Peter flies down the elevator shaft and rescues her, taking her away.
Mohinder is led by Danko into the holding facility where they have a number of people with abilities, sedated on tables. Seeing Daphne there, Mohidner asks how he is expected to save her in this facility, before Danko drugs him and places him on a table as well.
Bennet talks to Danko after seeing a captured Doyle and suggests that they let Tracy escape in order to get her to lead them to Rebel. Danko reluctantly agrees and when Tracy escapes, she ends up saving Mohinder and Matt as well. They grab Daphne and escape with Matt using his powers to have them all out easily unseen.
Once out, Tracy goes her own way and finds herself trying to get new clothes in a store, but Bennet finds her, telling her he will let her go if she leads him to Rebel and she agrees. As she leaves, she gets an ATM message just for her from Rebel with where to go next. When she shows up in the train station, she is approached by Micah who reveals he is Rebel and hoping they can travel together and continue helping others. She reveals that she was using him as bait which hurts him terribly, as he thought he knew her from her books and because she resembles his mother. Together the two escape into the parking lot but agents show up. She tells him to tell the fire alarms to turn the water sprinklers on, warning him to run ahead of the ice. Tracy turns her power up to full and freezes everyone in the lot, including herself as Micah escapes. Danko approaches the frozen Tracy and shoots her, causing her to splinter into shards. As Bennet looks on, Tracy’s frozen visage on the floor shows her eye, winking at Bennet as they leave.
Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando find out that the baby is actually Matt Parkman’s son and has the power to turn things on and off regardless of their connection to power, earning him the nickname Toddler Touch and Go. Hiro tells Ando why he seems distant to the baby, explaining how he met his mother on his trip to the past and how she died in his arms. When Janice suddenly returns home, Hiro and Ando try hiding but she easily finds them, questioning them. They explain who they are and that her baby has a power as well, which she reveals started during the last eclipse. Ando tells her that there are people after them and her baby because they have powers, and she tries to distract the agents as they knock on her door. Ando manages to start to use his powers defensively, but is quickly overcome. As Hiro holds Toddler Touch and Go, he touches him and suddenly Hiro can stop time again. He gathers the baby and Ando together and tries to teleport, but finds that he can’t. Instead he grabs a wheelbarrow and carries the baby and Ando safely, 12 miles away.
At a hospital, Matt and Mohinder take Daphne in, concocting a story about her being his wife Janice who was hurt on a hunting trip. The doctor is required to report shootings to the police but Matt uses his powers to convince the doctor that it was clearly an accident. Later, recovering in her hospital room under the alias Gwen Stefani, Daphne wakes up healed, but is bothered that Matt inserted her into his ex-wife’s life by using her name and tells him she’s leaving. Matt finds her later, having used her powers to run across the ocean to Paris. When she wonders how he got there so fast, he explains he flew, showing her his new ability. They talk and hug and he takes her on a flight around Paris like she never has before but as they do she figures out that she isn’t actually there but still in her hospital bed, hanging on to her life and that Matt is in her head trying to give her the storybook ending that she deserves. She asks him to let her go, and we see Matt sitting beside her bed in the hospital as her heart gives out and she dies.
Back-issues:
Milie was played by Swoozie Kurtz, known for her many television and movie roles. One of her first big successes was a series called Love, Sidney with Tony Randall (a middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl). She appeared as a supporting character in Against All Odds (a gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated), Michael J. Fox’s Bright Lights Big City (a disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife), Reality Bites (a documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston), Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar (a pathological liar-lawyer finds his career turned upside down when he inexplicably cannot physically lie for 24 whole hours), Harvey (an unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd, a mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see), and even had a part in Cruel Intentions (two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term). She was a main cast member of Love & Money, a short lived sitcom (the penthouse residing Conklin family of socialites and the basement dwelling McBride family of maintenance men find themselves unhappily linked when the heiress daughter and blue collar son fall in love), as well as Pushing Daisies (a pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress). Her longest roles were as the mother, Joyce Flynn, in the sitcom Mike and Molly (a couple meets at an Overeaters' Anonymous meeting), and Sheila in Call Me Kat (a 39-year-old woman decides to use the money her parents had been saving for her wedding to open a cat-themed cafe, starring Mayim Bialik and the late Leslie Jordan).
Chapter Eight 'Into Asylum':
Volume: Four
Written by: Joe Pokaski
Directed by: Jim Chory
Original airdate: March 30, 2009
Synopsis:
Nathan takes Claire to Mexico in order to hide out. They have just enough money for an overnight stay but Claire sells a necklace her dad gave her in order to get more money, which Nathan decides to try and grow by participating in a drinking game with some visiting college boys. Unfortunately, Nathan is not able to keep and passes out, while Claire asks them for a rematch, and hurriedly begins drinking to catch up. Due to her ability however, she doesn’t actually get drunk and just acts that way until the competition is down and out. Gathering the money, she gets Nathan back to their room where he apologizes for what he’s done, explaining how he tried to win her over by giving a free pass, regretting how he has acted towards her in the past. In the morning, Nathan reveals that he doesn’t have connections anymore but she tells him that she thought he was amazing when they first met, and still feels that he could do anything. The two part, but Nathan finds her ready to leave town and reveals he has pawned his watch to buy back her sold necklace and the two decide to go back to the states together.
Peter and Angela end up at a church where Angela feels she is supposed to be, going inside and praying, telling Peter she always found peace here due to their family’s history in it. They have several heart to heart moments as Angela tries to patch their relationship back up. Peter prays to God, asking him to show up and help them somehow. He is interrupted when agents arrive and start searching the church. They hide in the confessionals, only to be found by Bennet who tells his men that everything is all clear, and they all leave. Angela finally sleeps and awakens to tell Peter she had a dream and knows what they need to do next, find Nathan and Claire and go see her sister.
Danko finds a number of his agents killed, the killer unknown, baffling him and Bennet. Sylar appears in Danko’s rear car seat and tells him that he is interested in finding the killer and suggests they work together. Danko is suspicious and pulls a gun on him, but Sylar has already disappeared. Back at Building 26, Danko gives Bennet the assignment to find Angela Petrelli, while an agent thanks him for his inspirational speech earlier. He then sees a package in his office and takes a call from Sylar, who tells him there is a third body that he just found, the head of which is in the box, and reveals that the man they are looking for is a shapeshifter. Danko realizes the agent that was just in his office is the killer and he gives chase, but the man ends up using his shapeshifting powers to turn into a janitor and escapes onto the street.
Danko gets the jump on Sylar when he goes to search the shapeshifter’s home, but Sylar and Danko spar verbally, with Danko finally giving in, when Sylar explains that he is just one picture on his list of suspects. Together, the two begin looking for answers to where he could be and determine he is looking for positions of power, and track him to a local nightclub. They find the shapeshifter easily as he is impersonating Danko himself. They give chase but he has already disappeared into the crowd. Danko and Sylar regroup as Danko says he lost him and they should leave. As they do so, Sylar pulls out a gun and goes to shoot Danko, but Danko whirls around and shoots him first, revealing that the shapeshifter was pretending to be Sylar. Danko tells Sylar the shapeshifter is still alive, but to do what he does without his typical method of killing his victims. Outside on the street, Danko shows Bennet Sylar’s body in a bodybag as he leaves with another agent. In Danko’s car, the female agent suddenly shifts into Sylar.
Back-issues:
Jake McLaughlin played the guy Claire was drinking under the bar (Sligo). He’s best known for his roles in Will Trent (Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate), and Quantico (a look at the lives of young FBI recruits training at the Quantico base in Virginia when one of them is suspected of being a sleeper terrorist). He was a supporting cast member in Crash (starring Dennis Hopper and Eric Roberts, it’s a spin-off of the Oscar-winning film about racial tensions in Los Angeles.) He also led the series Believe (a relationship forms between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power). He was a supporting cast member in Another Time, starring Justin Hartley and James Kyson (just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place). He’s been in several movies as a lead, such as Home (an ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past), and Last Night On Earth (faced with impending doom from a planet-killing asteroid, a couple flee to the hills of Tennessee to spend their last days together - but the chaotic breakdown of society disrupts their peaceful plans).
Agent Jenkins (temporarily a shapeshifter) was played by Kevin Alejandro, best known for his role of Dan Espinoza in Lucifer (Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels). He was also a lead in the series The Returned (a small town's residents are stunned when recently deceased locals begin returning from the dead. What should be a miracle soon becomes a nightmare), and recently a lead in Fire Country (a young convict joins a firefighting program looking for redemption and a shortened prison sentence. He and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region). He was Brother Blood in Arrow, and has made guest appearances in True Blood, Golden Boy, Ugly Betty, Shark, and Southland.
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