Chapter Nine 'Turn and Face the Strange':
Volume: Four
Written by: Rob Fresco & Mark Verheiden
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Original airdate: April 6, 2009
Synopsis:
Bennet inspects Sylar’s dead body again, with Danko asking him if he ever really wanted to really catch Sylar, given how quickly he managed to catch the killer as opposed to Bennet. Sandra shows up and tells Bennet that she is looking for Claire, but Bennet is convinced that the body he saw isn’t Sylar, unable to focus on Sandra’s concerns.
Danko leaves Bennet and Sandra, heading to a restroom where he changes, revealing Sylar, and telling the real Danko that he wants to destroy Bennet.
Ando and Hiro are on their mission to reunite Matt Parkman with his son, but the car stops when Toddler Touch and Go starts crying. They manage to hitch a ride with a big rig driver, but again, when the baby cries, the truck completely shuts down. Returning to their car, they realize that by Ando making a funny face, he can make baby Matt Parkman laugh and thus, the car can start working again. They continue their journey after talking with Mohinder on the phone who tells them that Matt is going down a dangerous path, giving them Matt’s last known location.
Mohinder, determined to leave for India, and failing to stop Matt from going through with a revenge plot against Danko, returns to his old apartment, finding all of his research gone, collected by the Company. The landlord tells him about some research Chandra had in the basement storage, and Mohinder studies it and discovers the existence of a place called Coyote Sands, a place that all roads concerning abilities seemingly lead to.
Matt goes to find Danko and plants a thought in his head that someone he knows is in danger and to go to them. Matt follows him and finds that Danko has a girlfriend/personal escort named Elena who believes that Danko, known to her as Jakob, will one day leave his wife and kids and be with her only. After Danko leaves, Matt enters her house and while he had planned to kill her as revenge, he tells her all about Danko and his true life. With Matt’s help they go to Danko’s place and Elena confronts him, with Matt forcing him to reveal everything to her. Matt realizes that Danko seemingly does care for her, but he actually doesn’t care if Matt shoots her, calling his bluff. Matt can’t bring himself to do so and drops the gun, allowing Danko to grab his gun and shoot Matt. Luckily, Hiro arrives and stops time, getting Matt safely away. Matt is not ready for Hiro’s pep talk about fighting the good fight, but then he is introduced to his son and finds himself renewed.
Later, Bennet chases down Sylar’s dead body which was scheduled for cremation. Instead he removes the metal spike from the back of Sylar’s head and sends it off to be analyzed. Bennet is once again met by Sandra at his apartment, and she tells him she is filing for divorce, telling him she can’t trust him anymore and doesn’t love him. She leaves, with Bennet shocked, but as she turns the corner, she reveals that it is once again Sylar as he shape shifts back to himself again.
Bennet begins checking the divorce papers and finds that Sandra’s signatures don’t match. Not only that, the DNA results come back and show they belong to James Martin, the shapeshifter. Bennet confronts Sandra, accusing her of being Sylar, roughing her up as she tries to deny him, but Bennet is too far gone by now. Once she receives a call from Lyle asking about Mr. Muggles, Bennet realizes that this is actually his wife but she demands he leaves, frightened by what Bennet has just done to her.
Bennet leaves and goes to Danko, pretending to be Sylar, but quickly holds him at gunpoint, asking to know where Sylar is. They wait for Sylar to return from masquerading as a soldier capturing more people with abilities, and Bennet holds the soldier up at gunpoint. He shoots the soldier to prove that it’s Sylar, but the soldier bleeds out, and Danko pronounces him dead. Bennet takes off, escaping the building and running away. The dead soldier then suddenly gets up, revealing that it actually was Sylar all along. Bennet, with no where else to go, heads to the place Angela called him about earlier, Coyote Sands.
Angela, Peter, Nathan, and Claire rendezvous at Coyote Sands. Angela tells them to dig, that they deserve the whole story, eventually unearthing a buried skeleton with a bullet hole in the center of their skull. As Bennet arrives to join them, they keep digging, uncovering more and more skeletons.
Back-issues:
The truck driver was played by Kenneth Choi, best known as Howard Chimney Han on the currently running show 9-1-1 where he’s a lead. He was also a lead cast member in the show Allegiance (a rookie CIA analyst doesn't know that members of his family are part of a Russian sleeper cell), and Ironside (centers on Robert T. Ironside, a tough, sexy and acerbic police detective relegated to a wheelchair after a shooting who is hardly limited by his disability as he pushes and prods his hand-picked team to solve the most difficult cases). He also had a recurring role in The Last Man On Earth (almost two years after a virus wiped out most of the human race, Phil Miller only wishes for some company, but soon gets more than he bargained for when that company shows up in the form of other survivors), and American Crime Story. He was also Principal Morita in Spider-man: Homecoming.
Steve Donner, the soldier, was played by Ned Vaughn. He’s a character actor with credits in movies and TV shows such as The Hunt For Red October, Rush Hour, Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Boston Legal, Frost/Nixon, 24, Beach Boys: An American Family, Jag, Crossing Jordan, Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: The Next Generation and more recently MaXXXine (in 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past).
Chapter Ten '1961':
Volume: Four
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: Adam Kane
Original airdate: April 13, 2009
Synopsis:
Peter, Nathan, Bennet, and Claire continue to dig up body after body with Peter questioning why they are even doing so, asking his mother what they’re doing.
Angela thinks back to her past when she arrived at Coyote Sands with her sister Alice and their parents, as well as other families and their children, thinking that they could be cured of her powers here, having been rounded up by the government and told exactly that.
The two quickly meet a young Charles Deveuax, Daniel Linderman, and Bobby Bishop who awkwardly flirt with Angela. Alice, not feeling comfortable, wants to leave but Angela assures her sister that she needs to be there and needs her support, promising that she in turn will always be there for her, while outside, the rainstorm stops, and the sun comes out.
Back in the present, Angela tells them all about how she was able to get away from this place as a child but everyone else, including her family, died. Because of her dream, she felt she had to come here and find some piece of her sister in order to put her to rest. She explains that this was where The Company started and now that it has fallen, they need to get the secrets hidden again. Peter refuses to take part in kidnappings, killings, and mind wiping in order to become a new company and leaves with Nathan going after him, talking with him in a diner. Peter refuses to budge, remaining unforgiving of Nathan, reminding him of how selfish Nathan has always been, even as children.
In 1961, Linderman demonstrates his ability to Angela while Deveuax tells her that the place they are in is the same as the Nazi concentration camps or the Japanese internment camps. As Alice awakens and interrupts Angela and the boys, she ushers her sister back to bed where Alice tells her sister that she thinks she can control the weather, relating a childhood story about how a hailstorm smashed their dad’s car after Alice got mad at him, as outside their window, snow starts to fall.
Claire and Angela have a bonding moment about how Claire is so strong facing such adversity when they are interrupted by a sudden giant storm. Angela believes it to be Alice and calls out to her but Claire drags her back inside. Bennet gets trapped in the storm and then attacked by Mohinder who holds him up against the wall, fearing that he is after him, but Bennet reveals the truth about how he was trying to work against Danko. Mohinder reveals that his father was a doctor in this camp and that he came to figure out what he was doing here.
Back in the past, Chandra talks with Angela and gauges her powers, with Angela telling him that she has seen how he will kill everyone here, even if just by being involved in this project and not directly. Suresh assures her everything will be fine and prepares a large needle, telling her that it won’t hurt a bit.
Back in the present, Angela runs out into the storm to find her sister but when Claire chases after her, the storm suddenly abates and Angela is gone. Returning to camp, Nathan and Peter, along with Bennet and Mohinder begin searching for her.
In 1961, Deveuax tells Angela that the time has come to make their escape, but Alice can’t come along because of “reasons”. He convinces Angela to lie to her, which she does, telling Alice that she will be back soon, but not to worry because she had a dream that Alice would be safe in the camp. Later at a diner, Deveaux and Angela dance but the owner tells them to stop because they don't allow white and coloreds together. Deveuax tells him and the other diner patrons to pretend like nothing happened, and they all follow his instructions and go back to what they were doing. Angela suddenly remembers that Alice needs… socks… and they have to get back to her.
In the present, Mohinder and Peter share a moment, with Mohinder telling Peter that perhaps a new Company with him involved would work better, because he never knew the pain and fear that his mother’s company had to deal with. Nathan and Bennet talk about how they made a mess of things, while Claire talks with them about wanting to get back to a normal life again.
Angela awakens in Alice’s makeshift home and the two talk, with Alice revealing what happened in the past. Suresh had come for Alice and when he tried to use a needle on her, she panicked, which resulted in a guard having to restrain her, causing her powers to activate and the weather start to go wild, with lightning crashing through the door as she makes her escape. Suresh catches up to Alice and slaps her, trying to bring her out of her panic, but her father sees this and grabs Alice away, blasting at Suresh with a power of his own before he is shot by the soldiers. Alice escapes under a building while a wild storm decimates everything around her. She tells Angela she waited here, thinking that everyone would be safe from her if she did so. Angela tells her it’s time to go home together, that she has socks for her, something she would steal throughout her life to remind her that there are simple ways to protect the ones they love. She then apologizes for lying to her, which is a revelation to Alice, not realizing that her sister had even lied, which sets her off and has her conjuring another huge storm as the rest of the family finds the two together. Mohinder tries to get Alice to stop but he reminds her too much of his father and lashes out against him. It isn’t until Angela tells Alice that Peter is family and to not punish him for her mistakes. Alice stops the storm, but refuses to go with her, leaving and disappearing outside.
They search for Alice but to no avail. Peter readies himself to leave with the others, but Mohinder says he is staying to find out what happened here with his father, having gained a movie reel of lab work done from Bennet earlier. At the diner, the Petrellis and Bennets discuss a new Company with Peter setting some ground rules. Nathan decides to head back to Washington to try and clear things up as best he can but as they look at the TV they see Nathan himself already doing so as Bennet reveals that it is Sylar.
Back-issues:
Edwin Hodge played young Deveaux. He’s best known for recently playing Agent Ray Cannon in the last three seasons of FBI: Most Wanted, and as a lead in the movie Parallel (follows the journey of Vanessa, a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces). He was a supporting cast member in the one season drama Good Sam (follows a talented yet stifled surgeon who embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma), Six (Navy SEAL Team Six attempt to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan when they discover an American citizen working with the enemy), and Jack & Bobby (the early life of Bobby McCallister, a progressive President of the United States from 2041 to 2049, is explored).
Chandra Suresh was played by Ravi Kapoor. He has a lot of small credits, but in Crossing Jordan he played a recurring character, Dr. Mahesh Bug Vijay (or Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy) Brash, stubborn and resourceful ME Jordan Cavanaugh revives her career in Boston, occasionally breaking the rules and ticking off the cops or her co-workers. On the home front, she gets crime-solving help from her retired-cop dad). He was also in Gideon’s Crossing (Chief of experimental medicine at a prestigious hospital uses unorthodox healing methods on critically ill patients. Skilled healer mentors young doctors while treating patients).
Adult Alice was played by Diana Scarwid, best known for Psycho III where she played Maureen. She had a main cast role in Rumblefish, a movie written by SE Hinton of Outsiders’ fame (absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare). She was also a lead in Mommie Dearest (the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted). She’s been a main supporting cast member in many movies such as Silkwood (a worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant), What Lies Beneath (the wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind), and Truman (though considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt). She’s been in various cameo roles over the years such as Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, LOST, Criminal Minds, Pushing Daisies, Prison Break, and The X-Files, to name a few. She also had a main role in the series Wonderfalls (24-year-old loner B.A. Jaye lives in a trailer park and sells souvenirs in Niagara Falls. Animal figurines and dolls speak to her and force her to interact with people and try to help them).
Young Alice was played by Laura Marano, who did quite a bit of acting in her youth, mostly in Disney type shows, like Austin & Ally (following the lives of confident aspiring musician Austin, quiet talented songwriter Ally, and their two friends). She was a lead in the movies Saving Zoe (the high school freshman kid sister of the murdered Zoë finds her diary, which sheds new light on the murder missed by the police. She investigates), The Perfect Date (to save up for college, Brooks Rattigan creates an app where anyone can pay him to play the perfect stand-in boyfriend for any occasion), Netflix’s The Royal Treatment (New York hairdresser Izzy seizes the chance to work at the wedding of a charming prince, but when sparks between them fly, will love or duty prevail?), and Robert DeNiro’s The War With Grandpa (Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back). She’s managed to take her musical ability (as seen in Austin & Ally) into a full fledged singing career, putting out some albums and music videos.
https://www.youtube.com/@LauraMaranoOfficial/videos
Young Angela was played by Alexa Nikolas. She had most of her roles as a child actor in various dramas and sitcoms. She was notably in Hidden Hills (a sitcom about life in the suburbs), and a Nickelodeon sitcom called Zoey 101 (Zoey Brooks and her brother Dustin attend their first day at Pacific Coast Academy, a private boarding school that is enrolling girls for the first time in its history).
Heroes EU:
Scenic Route
West and Alex need Mr Bennet's help.
Exodus
Rachel's coming out party.
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