Chapter Three 'Under the Mask':
Volume: One
Written by: Seamus Kevin Fahey
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Original airdate: October 1, 2015
Synopsis:
Malina walks into the snowy landscape, told to get ready by an invisible woman. As the sky changes colors and dark clouds gather, she lifts her hands and makes them all disappear. Malina worries that she won’t be ready but the woman tells her the world will need her soon.
Bennet takes Quentin to a hospital at his insistence but while there, a doctor recognizes Bennet and calls security. Bennet takes a guard captive and learns that he was there on June 13th and puts a man in the hospital. As the guard shows him the security footage, first seeing what appears to be his daughter lying dead on a hospital gurney, then Molly Walker, and then noticing that the footage moves out of time back and forth. Bennet theorizes that Hiro was involved. He gets Quentin and the two escape with Bennet distraught that he had his memory erased, wondering why.
Joanne is gleefully happy at having obtained the files on so many powered individuals, but between her and the radio news talking about evos, Luke is looking distressed and tense. He goes to shut off the radio but a spark jumps from his finger to the dashboard and the car breaks down. They end up walking to a diner where they eat and Joanne again is trying to get Luke to be more excited about their goal, but as he cuts his steak, the knife heats up and cooks his steak from rare to burnt. Later, he asks for a moment alone as he walks behind the diner and starts to glow from his hands and then throughout his entire body.
Miko battles the guards at Yamagato Tower and is winning the battle until Harris Prime enters the fray, easily subduing her and taking the sword. Elsewhere in the building, Erica Kravid, head of Renautus, talks to her board about their Epic system in preparation for the launch. She is intrigued by Harris’s info about Miko and the sword which they know to belong to Hiro Nakamura. They are confused that Miko claims to be the daughter of Hachiro Otomo, wondering how that is possible. Later, Harris goes to try and force Miko to talk through means of torture, asking her if she has her father’s power and asking if she remembers the incident and the death. She has no memory of what he is referring to as he opens a briefcase containing several knives, saying he is going to help spur her memory. Ren, who managed to sneak into the building using his ingenuity, runs into the room causing a distraction. Miko grabs a knife and cuts Harris’s hand off and she and Ren escape, with Ren telling her saw Erica take the sword with her earlier. Back in the room, Harris rises up and his hand grows back into place, but then his severed hand grows an entire second body as well, resulting in two of them.
Taylor takes Molly to a plane, leaving behind the gambler, Francis, who was not cleared for the flight. With Molly being uncontrollable, they tranquilize her. Molly later awakens and asks if Taylor understands that Renautus plans to kill her, and will likely kill her boyfriend Francis, or even worse as they are learning how to take evo’s powers and utilize them however they wish.
Carlos watches as corrupt policemen take a woman captive, but after they throw her out a window due to her not cooperating with them, she flies away. Carlos begins to back away but makes some noise accidentally and tries to run from them. Luckily, the pastor has shown up and uses his power to turn them both into smoke and they disappear inside another part of the building. Carlos, in the guise of El Vengador, later finds the woman and her friends, telling them that the man from earlier traced her and is on his way to capture them. They manage to escape, but Carlos faces off against him, soon discovering that the man himself has super strength. Carlos takes a severe beating but manages to jump out a window and get away.
Harris flies above the arctic in a helicopter, relaying messages back to Erica. They land and begin setting up a base of operations and within moments, Epic is operational. In Midian at Renautus headquarters, Erica is glad to see her daughter Taylor is back safe but won’t answer her questions about her boyfriend Francis. Quentin and Bennet break in and manage to distract Molly’s guards and get her way from them. Molly however is scared of Bennet and dead set against going with him. She leaves them and is immediately recaptured by Renautas. She is strapped into their machinery as Erica talks to an entire roomful of people about Epic, which is a way to track every powered human in the world remotely, using social glasses. She demonstrates its abilities by revealing someone in the audience who has powers and is taken away.
Tommy readies to go hang out with Brad, but his mother Anne, doesn’t believe him, getting the truth out of him that he was going to a party. He reveals that he has been getting text messages from someone, warning him to be safe. She forbids him to go, fearing being discovered, but he uses his powers on himself and teleports himself behind her and leaves the house. At the party, it’s revealed that he used this power to get beer for it, but he ends up leaving with Emily to walk her home. As they talk outside, Hatman watches from afar, smiling, until Tommy’s mother appears and places a gun on his head. He tells Anne he made a promise to follow the plan and keep an eye on Tommy, but she warns him to stay away from them. They get into their car and drive away but as they do, something causes their car to crash.
Back-issues:
Rya Kihlstedt plays Erica Kravid, head of Renautus. We’ve seen her before in season 1 of Seaquest, episode 14 “Greed For A Pirate’s Dream” (after gaining advance knowledge of volcanic attack, SeaQuest needs to convince treasure hunters to cease excavations, or die trying). She was in a couple episodes of Nashville with Hayden Panettierre, and a few episodes of Dexter. She was a main cast member of Home Alone 3, a lead in The Buccaneers mini series (four American girls go to England to find husbands), and starred in a Leonard Nimoy movie, Brave New World (in a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo). More recently, she was in Orphan Black as Eleanor Miller, Superman and Lois as Ally Allston, and Obi-Wan Kenobi as Fourth Sister.
Chapter Four 'The Needs of the Many':
Volume: One
Written by: Joey Falco
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough
Original airdate: October 8, 2015
Synopsis:
Joanne shoots an evo on his doorstep with Luke silently expressing remorse, wondering about the man’s family. As they stay at a motel, Luke asks her to sit out the next hit, but she feels his head, feeling how hot he feels and figures he is sick and needs rest. She leaves to take care of business and he uses his powers to heat up a glass of water, throwing it against the wall in frustration. He looks outside the window and sees many colored lights glowing in the sky. Later as he and Joanne drive to the next hit, she comments again on how lucky they are to have the list and Luke tells her that he has spent a lot of time mourning their child and wonders if he was going to lose her as well, citing their differences in how they reacted to their first killing. He reveals his powers and sets the list on fire. She stops the car and aims the gun at him but ultimately lowers it and leaves him, walking away.
The invisible woman, Farah, finds a frozen butterfly in the arctic. Malina tells her she is ready and brings the butterfly back to life, followed by bringing an entire swarm of frozen butterflies back to life as they start to head south, stopping at one point for Malina to try out her powers on the ground, causing a giant tree to suddenly grow. They’re seen however by a man who tries to radio for help but Farah turns invisible and knocks him out.
Tommy uses his powers to get he and his mother Anne out of the crashed car, and then he sends her to the hospital. Tommy waits for news about his mother but the nurse tells him she needs a blood transfusion. Tommy volunteers to be tested, despite Emily’s protests. Eventually however, they discover his blood is not compatible. His mother’s only hope is a blood bank several states away so Tommy and Emily teleport there and back with the blood. The nurse tells him to run, because his blood was sent to a federal database. Before they can get away, several men approach him telling him if he teleports away, his mother won’t get the blood he just delivered.
Meanwhile, Ren makes a post on social media asking his followers to join them in Midian, dressed up in their Evernow cosplay, hoping to use it as a distraction to help him and Miko break into the building. On the plane, Miko wonders why Harris made the reference to her being dead and Ren tries to cheer her up with humor. Upon arrival at Midian, dozens of cosplayers surround Miko and Ren.
Jose uses his ability on his grandfather’s car to try and fix it, when Carlos realizes that he can fix and upgrade the car with bulletproof glass and use it as part of his budding arsenal against the corruption in his town. He decides to upgrade the El Vengador costume to include kevlar and gears that can enhance his own strength. The Pastor is unimpressed but is more understanding when Carlos says he is doing this because he wants to believe in something bigger than just himself. Jose comes home to find the car completely fixed and working as Carlos drives off. Jose, frustrated he couldn’t ride with him, throws a bolt away and hears it fall somewhere under the floor. He finds the hidden staircase and discovers the El Vengador costume and mask, taking it upstairs. The pastor shows up and Jose reveals his powers to him, but the super strength man shows up and while Jose gets away, he tases the pastor before he can activate his own power.
Quentin and Bennet capture Taylor and force her to help them into the building, preying on her distrust of her mother. Taylor talks to her mother to find out about Francis, but Erica avoids the question, giving Taylor more reason to help Bennett and Quentin. They make it inside but are stopped by several Harris clones but Bennet manages to take them out easily. Inside they manage to find dozens of Evos strapped to tables, wired into a machine. Molly wakes up and grabs Bennet’s gun, holding him at bay, telling him they all knew what was at stake and to do whatever was necessary to keep them safe. She reveals that she never told Erica where the location of “it” was and that if she tells Bennet what “it” is, he won’t go back and then they’re all dead anyway. Molly then takes her own life.
Harris tells Erica of Ally’s death and she is livid when he reveals they still haven't found “it.” Her only consolation is that Epic will still work, but only within 100 yards of an evo. He mentions they found a signal in Canada that showed promise and she tells him he needs to find the child, ordering him to take The Shade with him, revealing that Phoebe is still alive and seemingly possessed by her powers.
Back-issues:
We’ve seen director Jeff Woolnough before, he directed 3 episodes of Sliders, season 3 episodes 13 & 21 “Murder most Foul” and “The Other Slide of Darkness”, and season 5 episode 8 “The Java Jive.”
Further Resources:
Heroes Reborn IMDbHeroes Reborn Wiki
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