In this weeks episode of The Heroes Rewatch, Cory and Tom have a lot of unanswered questions as they discuss season 4 episodes 18, Brave New World.
Chapter Eighteen 'Brave New World':
Volume: Five
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Adam Kane
Original airdate: February 8, 2010
Synopsis:
As Bennet and Claire try to escape their buried underground camper, they realize they are too far down to be heard. Bennet realizes that Claire will survive due to her regeneration abilities, but that he will soon die due to lack of oxygen. He believes Samuel’s plan was to make Claire watch her father die. He tells her to please stay hidden, knowing how the world will work if they find out about people with powers, but she just wants to live out in the open. He begs her to stay hidden as his dying wish but she refuses, desperately trying to dig them out when suddenly water rushes into the small trailer, revealing Tracy has arrived. She manages to get them out, telling Bennet he owes her. Bennet goes to find Samuel while Claire goes to try and convince the family to leave. Bennet unfortunately finds himself captured by Edgar who holds him with a knife at his throat. Luckily, Bennet is able to convince him he is there to stop Samuel, and Edgar relents, revealing he is there for the same reason.
Peter and Sylar awaken from their nightmare trap, ready to go save Emma, but upstairs, Matt is facing off against Eli, unable to push his thoughts into any of them as only one of him has any real thoughts to affect. They quickly over power him as another duplicate faces off Peter and Sylar. While the Elis manage to pin Matt to the counter and grab knives so they can all stab him together, Peter and Sylar make it upstairs, having easily subdued their own batch of Elis. Peter wants Matt to use his powers to find out what Samuel is doing by reading Eli’s mind, but he refuses. Peter uses his copied power to do so and learns of the plan. They go to leave but Matt won’t let them, not trusting Sylar, not understanding how many years they spent in his nightmare trap. Sylar invites him to view his mind and he does, seeing that Sylar thinks he has changed, but still not believing it fully. Sylar asks for the chance to prove he has changed. Matt allows them to go on Peter’s insistence, and then plants a thought into Eli’s mind.
Back at the carnival, Samuel is speechifying as he is wont to do, when Emma approaches him and he tells her about how it’s time for her solo. She realizes that what Peter said was correct, and Doyle shows up to force Emma to do Samuel’s bidding and have her play a new cello, telling her to summon everyone to the carnival. People come to the carnival as Emma continues to play her fingers bleeding from Doyle’s control on the cello.
Peter and Sylar show up, splitting up with Sylar going to find Emma and telling her he’s there to save her. Unfortunately, Doyle takes control of him and holds Sylar at bay while forcing Emma to keep playing. Eventually, Syalr is able to keep Doyle distracted as Emma uses another aspect of her powers to attack Doyle with sound, knocking him down, allowing Sylar to take over and hold him prisoner.
At the hospital, Hiro has awakened, completely healed and in full control of his power. He receives an origami crane and a note telling him to come to another room. He goes and finds an old woman, Charlie, who explains she found herself in the past in 1944 and ended up living her life out there. Hiro wants to go back and save her from 1944 and return her to her proper time at the Burnt Toast Diner but Ando asks him if he is doing it for her or for him. As Hiro talks to Charlie, her granddaughter comes in to say hello. After she goes to get her parents, Emma’s children, she tells Hiro that she led a good life, and is happy with it, especially given her family that came out of it. Hiro understands and decides that she has found her happy ending and leaves with Ando to go to the carnival to help Bennet with Samuel.
Claire tries to convince the family to leave Samuel, explaining what his plans are, but they don’t believe her, choosing to listen to Samuel as he arrives and manipulating them into believing him. She plays her final card, telling them he killed his brother, which gives them pause, but again, Samuel starts to manipulate them until Edgar shows up and confirms what Claire said, followed by Bennet, and Eli, powered byMatt’s control, who confirms that he indeed was the one who shot Lydia. With that, the people start following Claire out and Samuel begs them to stay, yelling at them.
Samuel runs out to the gathered crowd and asks them if they want a show, beginning to bring the earth up all around them as carnival rides and tents start to fall and people begin panicking and running away. Peter shows up, copying Samuel’s power and the two face off against each other, raising the ground up against each other again and again, comparing their differences in how their brothers treated them, with Samuel’s Joseph keeping him down and Peter’s Nathan building him up. Hiro shows up and Claire begs him to teleport all of the family away. Hiro is nervous to try with so many people, but Ando supercharges him and gets everyone away safely. Instantly, Samuel’s powers disappear and he’s left defenseless as Peter punches him to his knees. Sylar and Peter then share a moment where Sylar reveals he felt good being the hero.
Lauren calls in favors to get the incident seen as just a gas main rupture and the illusions of a brilliant showman and Samuel is taken into custody. The news people are asking everyone for their eyewitness accounts but Bennet says No Comment, with Claire following in kind. Claire changes her mind though, wanting to live out in the open and tells them to watch her as she climbs a high carnival ride and jumps to the ground, a fall that would have killed anyone. She, of course, rises up, and relocates her out of joint shoulder as they stare in awe, capturing it all for the world to see.
Back-issues:
K Callan played old Charlie. We, of course, know her from Quantum Leap where she played the mother in “The Americanization of Machiko Mackenzie,” and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman where she played Martha Kent. She continues to work to this day, recently being seen in Poker Face, NCIS, and Knives Out.
Heroes EU:
Consequences
Angela tries to make sense of what Samuel has wrought on her family.
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