Chapter Eight 'Shadowboxing':
Volume: Five
Written by: Misha Green & Joe Pokaski
Directed by: Jim Chory
Original airdate: November 9, 2009
Synopsis:
As the sorority pledges freak out at seeing Becky turn visible and Claire healing, Claire comes up with a cover story for their water bottles possibly having been drugged, telling them that she saw them being attacked by wild dogs, which Gretchen backs up by saying she saw the two of them making out. The girls agree that must be what happened and they all agree to keep quiet.
Back at their dorm room, Gretchen freaks out about what happened and worries about how Becky is out to get her. Claire shows her how baby powder could make Becky visible while she goes to the sorority house to find her. Upon arriving, she sees the girls from the scavenger hunt but they have no memory of what happened as she looks to see her father and the Haitian have arrived to help at Claire’s behest. Bennet sends her and the Haitian back to the dorm room, since Becky won't be able to use her powers if the Haitian is there. Bennet enters Becky’s room and begins searching it, finding one of the carnival’s compasses. When he realizes Becky just entered the room, he draws his stun guns and faces off against her. She reveals herself and starts telling Bennet who she is and how she watched him kill her dad and now she is here for revenge. As Bennet goes to stun her, some sorority girls enter the room and Becky goes invisible as Bennet leaves.
Back at the dorm room, Gretchen has packed and wants to leave, not ready to make this type of thing her regular everyday life the way Claire has. Claire asks the Haitian to go with her to the airport to make sure Becky doesn’t show up to hurt her. After he leaves, Samuel shows up and reveals to Claire that he knows about her thanks to his “niece” and begins telling her how Bennet killed Becky’s father when he was looking for Becky years ago, causing Becky to have mental and emotional issues. He explains he has surrounded himself with people with abilities to make life comfortable for him and them. Bennet shows up and holds him at gunpoint, but recognizes his role in hurting Becky as a child and asks him about the compass he found. Samuel explains Danko killed his brother and that they just want to stay hidden from him and people like him. Bennet handcuffs Samuel, preparing to take him into his car while he tries to prey on Claire’s emotions. Bennet is suddenly attacked by an invisible Becky and as she also attacks Claire, Samuel grabs the stun gun and shoots Becky. Bennet recovers and holds them both at gunpoint, pushing Claire aside so she wont get hurt, but at Claire’s pleading, he lets Samuel and Becky go. Bennet and Claire return to her dorm room where he tells her she deserves the best and wants that for her as they kiss goodbye. Bennet returns to his apartment and continues his investigations into the carnival and Samuel.
Meanwhile, Peter has been using his new healing power to save patients in his ambulance that would have likely died, but the power seems to drain him physically each time he uses it. At the hospital, Emma is tasked with trying to help an injured patient while a doctor is rounded up, but she decides she can do the sutures that the patient needs. Peter sees her from afar, but is distracted as he sees another patient that needs his immediate attention, again using his ability and draining himself. Emma sees him and has him sit to rest but Peter wants to get back to helping people. He mentions he saw her doing the suture earlier and asks her about it as she reveals that she dropped out of medical school.
Later, Emma finds a young girl passed out on the floor and calls for help. Peter comes running and she tells him she needs a thoracotomy. As she begins administering the anesthesia, Peter uses his power subtly and heals the girl, but sweating heavily, tells Emma that she saved her. Later, she shows him a picture of her nephew who drowned while she was babysitting him long ago and is the reason she dropped out of med school. He gives her a tiara from the young girl they saved, and she thanks him for saving her as well. Peter encourages her to go back to school and later Emma goes to her closet and pulls out her own doctor’s coat, considering.
Sylar, in control of Matt’s body, tries to get on a plane to fly to New York to find Peter Petrelli for stabbing him with a syringe and to get more answers. Luckily, Matt used his power over Sylar to have him unknowingly pack a gun in his bag, resulting in him being detained. After he gets out hours later, he rents a car and starts to drive, but Matt eventually causes him to not see a piece of metal on the road which causes his car to have a flat tire. Sylar tries to fix it but is having problems doing so until a tow truck driving by stops with the driver Hank offering to help. Matt lords his control over Sylar but Sylar decides to kill Hank to force Matt’s hand into telling him what happened to his body. Sylar goes to the Burnt Toast diner and threatens to kill the waitress unless Matt tells him the truth about what happened. Matt finally gives in and tells him everything and who was involved. Sylar goes to leave but once outside it’s discovered that the waitress called the cops on him due to Matt taking over again and causing him to doodle a death threat on his napkin. As the police hold Sylar off at gunpoint, Matt takes control and makes Sylar pretend to draw a gun, causing the police to fire and take him down.
Nathan/Sylar sleeps at the carnival but his face keeps shifting between his two sides. He awakens and sees the face of Nathan in the mirror, and quickly gets dressed, walking around the carnival for a moment before flying away. Peter returns home and begins taking down his wall of newspaper clippings about his various rescues. He answers a knock on the door and is surprised to see Nathan rush in, claiming he thinks he’s in trouble. Samuel and Becky return to the carnival and he promises her that she will get her revenge eventually. They're interrupted by Lydia who tells Samuel that Sylar is gone.
Back-issues:
Misha Green has been working her way up, having penned scripts for many TV shows. Recently, she has created and developed the shows Underground (about the American Civil War), and Lovecraft Country. She is currently writing and directing Tomb Raider 2, a sequel to the 2018 reboot, and is developing a remake of Cleopatra Jones (1973).
Chapter Nine 'Brother's Keeper':
Volume: Five
Written by: Rob Fresco & Mark Verheiden
Directed by: Bryan Spicer
Original airdate: November 16, 2009
Synopsis:
Nine weeks earlier, Mohinder is teaching again in India, living with a woman named Mira, and having a normal happy life. He is still plagued by thoughts of his father’s work as he has held onto the box of papers and film that he found at Coyote Sands, much to his girlfriend’s annoyance. To maintain the peace with her, he tosses it all away in the trash and the two walk off together. Later that night however, Mohinder can’t help himself and retrieves the box and watches the film titled Samuel, starting to understand his father’s research. Chandra discovered that people with abilities emit a kind of force when gathered together, giving them possibly even greater power. The film documents the birth of Samuel and how seismic disturbances occurred more and more as they neared his birth.
Mohinder uses his father’s research to create a compass that can hone in that invisible force, but Mira is fed up and tells him to leave. Mohinder goes to find Samuel and while he does find him, his brother Joseph sends Samuel away so he can talk with Mohinder alone. Joseph reveals that he has been trying to hide Samuel’s powers for 40 years and wants Mohinder to leave and burn the film so the truth is hidden. Samuel however overhears their conversation.
Mohinder returns to his motel room and contacts Mira to tell him he’s coming home, finally giving up on his father’s work. He begins to burn the film but time stops as Hiro shows up and switches the film with a dummy copy. Samuel, having heard the conversation earlier with Joseph, shows up, demanding to see the film that Mohinder has just started to burn, but Mohinder refuses, leaving Samuel to crush a rock and use the pieces to impale Mohinder, killing him. Samuel leaves, and Hiro comes out of a hiding spot, revealing to Mohinder he actually came back too late once already and saw Mohinder killed, which prompted him to go and find a Kevlar vest to put on Mohinder this time, saving him from death.
He asks Mohinder to hide for 8 weeks so that Samuel doesn’t think he’s alive, but Mohinder refuses, recognizing Samuel as a threat to everyone. Hiro takes drastic measures and uses his powers to arrange for Mohinder to be placed in a mental asylum under sedation to keep him out of the way and not endanger Charlie’s life. Hiro returns the film to Samuel in the present, but Samuel doesn’t return Charlie right away, telling him only “soon.”
Tracy meanwhile sits in a coffeeshop staring at a poster for the Sullivan Brothers Carnival. A conversation with the waitress turns contentious and Tracy’s powers begin to activate on their own, freezing the cup she is holding. The waitress is visibly shaken and Tracy hurriedly runs out, going to find Bennet for help but only finding Claire. She tells her of how her power is out of control and she finds herself starting to freeze herself. Claire puts her in a hot bath and makes hot tea for her but it’s no use as the water starts to freeze in there as well. She starts freaking out and ends up freezing Claire solid. As she tries to get Claire into the bath, Claire’s foot breaks off and Tracy sits down, distraught, but Claire manages to heal herself and thaws out. Together they sit and bond, talking about what’s going on and Claire reasons that it is likely not a physical thing affecting her, but psychological. Tracy tells Claire about Samuel, and having a place where she belongs and Claire reveals she too has met him, and has been wondering if a normal college life really is for her. Tracy later meets with Samuel and he starts up a conversation with her about how to use her abilities to help everyone.
Peter and Nathan return to his offices and learn of the cover story their mother provided for him, that he was away on vacation. The Haitian shows up and warns Nathan to stay away while he speaks with Peter, giving him an address for a storage room where Peter and Nathan soon travel to. Upon opening a box in the room, they find Nathan’s dead body, the throat sliced open. As he touches the body, he begins seeing glimpses of what happened and learns that Matt Parkman was involved and the two head to LA to find him. Nathan’s assistant however tells him that Matt is under guard in a hospital for attempting suicide by cop.
When they arrive at the hospital, they sneak in and Peter uses his ability to heal Parkman and he wakes up but warns them to get out, telling them about Sylar. Matt is erratic, looking insane, as he talks with them and with Sylar. They find the idea that Nathan is actually Sylar unbelievable but Sylar takes over Matt’s body and begs Nathan to take his hand so he can get back to his own body. Peter tries pulling Nathan away but Nathan slams him against the wall with telekinesis, starting to understand why he has extra powers. Nathan moves closer to Matt/Sylar in the bed but a cop comes in and yanks Nathan away, with Nathan’s hand brushing against Matt/Sylar as Matt returns to total control of his body and Sylar disappears. Nathan flicks the cop away, grabs Peter and the two fly out the window. Matt meanwhile, has managed to use his powers to convince a cop to wheel his bed to the morgue, then takes his uniform and wipes the man’s mind so he can get away. He calls Janice and tries to explain things before leaving the hospital.
Landing out on a mountain, Nathan starts to try and understand what has happened to him. Pete refuses to leave him and copying his flying ability , they fly home together. Once there, Nathan asks Peter if he could ever really look at him the same way, knowing that while he may look like Nathan, he is actually Sylar.
Back-issues:
We’ve seen director Brian Spicer before, he directed 6 season 1 episodes of Seaquest DSV, and a lot of other TV show episodes. He also directed Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie in 1995.
Heroes EU:
The Painted Lady
Lydia reaches out to bring Amanda back into the family fold.
Prodigals Part 1
Tracy embarks on a secret mission for Samuel.
Webisodes:
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 9
Written by: Oliver Grigsby
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: November 23, 2009
Synopsis: Sent by Samuel to take Amanda from her mother, Caleb pays a terrible price.
Episode Title: Slow Burn Part 10
Written by: Oliver Grigsby
Directed by: Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling
Original release date: November 30, 2009
Synopsis: Samuel's plans to separate Amanda from her mother fails, but Amanda chooses to stay anyway.
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