Chapter Seven 'Out of Time':
Volume: Two
Written by: Aron Eli Coleite
Directed by: Daniel Attias
Original airdate: November 5, 2007
Synopsis:
Kensei, having captured Hiro, along with Yaeko and her father, keeps the time traveler from using his powers by making sure he is continually dosed by opium, rendering him unable to concentrate. He monologues about taking over half of the country and taking Yaeko as his princess, saying he will change history
When the guard walks away from the tent, Yaeko uses her ingenuity to escape her shackles and removes the opium from Hiro, managing to rouse him enough to teleport them all away. Hiro tells her that he must go and defeat the army and the guns so Japan can be safe and history restored. Hiro says he hopes he can still turn Kensei back to the light side, that there is still good in him. He tells her to meet him by the cherry blossoms and teleports to the camp where he begins pouring gunpowder out to blow up everything. Kensei arrives, and the two begin dueling with Hiro finally getting the better of Kensei when he threatens Yaeko. With the tent now in flames and ready to explode, Hiro teleports away without Kensei, who refuses to take his hand and be saved.
Hiro talks to Yaeko, telling her he had to kill Kensei. Yakeo is glad he is safe and wants him to stay with her and live with his princess, but Hiro knows he can’t stay and risk the timeline changing, telling her about Kensei’s last story where he had to cut out his heart to save the princess. As he prepares to leave, she tells him that she will tell everyone the story of his exploits as Kensei, so that a future young Hiro will have tales to listen to in order to help him sleep. The two kiss and Hiro teleports away.
Hiro places Kensei's burnt samurai mask on Ando’s desk when he isn’t looking, who then turns to see Hiro back. They rejoice like old times and have a happy reunion until Ando has to tell Hiro that his father was sadly murdered.
Mohinder talks to Bennett on the phone who asks him if he has received a gun from The Company yet but Mohinder tells him no. Mohinder tells him he is under watch now by his partner, but Bennett tells him to do what needs to be done because of the danger to his family. Mohinder is shocked that he seems to be considered expendable and hangs up when Jessica returns and tells him Bob needs them. As they walk, they are stopped by Bob who tells them they are evacuating the facility. When asked why, Nathan and Matt appear, telling them that Maury is coming to kill Bob.
Bob tells the group that Matt can’t protect him and they can’t run, but instead need to face off against Maury, with Matt using his powers to best him. Matt is insistent that he can’t do what his father can, despite Bob’s claim that he can. Bob instructs Mohinder and Jessica to infect Maury with the virus which again Mohinder objects to because it could end up getting out and infecting everyone.
Matt goes to see Molly, talking to her in her coma, feeling awful for having brought her into this, telling her that he loves her, and then seeing a blip on her readings. He realizes that Molly can hear him and he finds new confidence.
As Mohinder and Jessica go to get the virus, she stops and begins experiencing a vision of DL telling her she’s just a killer and not cured at all. Mohinder comes back to see if she’s ok, and the two walk on. While they gather the supplies, Jessica has another vision of DL and begins talking with him, yelling at him, which startles Mohinder who tries to awaken her from the vision but she punches him away. Under coaxing from the vision, created by Maury nearby, she grabs a vial for the virus, rushing to find Bob to kill him.
Bob tells Nathan about Adam, about how they locked him up years ago, and just recently escaped and is the one behind the murders, using Maury as his instrument to do so. He explains how Adam thought of himself as God and began talking about holocausts and plagues and punishing humanity to save the world, the same way his loyal disciple Linderman did. Bob then tells Nathan that Peter is alive, showing him footage from 3 months earlier where they found him and rescued him, but he has since ended up disappearing.
Jessica breaks down the door protecting Bob and Nathan and goes to attack him but Nathan talks to her, telling her to stop, reminding her of Micah, and she plunges the needle instead into herself, infecting her.
Meanwhile, Matt suddenly finds himself in his old childhood home, with Molly at the table. She says that this is where she’s been kept by his dad. Matt yells out for his father and suddenly Maury appears there, astonished, realizing that Matt brought him here. Molly is scared but Matt tells her that this isn’t Matt’s nightmare scenario, but his father’s. Maury denies it, saying that it hurt him to leave, but Matt counters that Maury never fought for anything that he loved. Matt opens the door, takes Molly’s hand and escapes, leaving Maury trapped inside, screaming, while in the real world, the father lays on the floor, comatose. Molly comes out of her own dream and tells Matt she heard him tell her he loved her as they hug.
As Mohinder works with Nikki to cure her of the virus, he comes to their startling conclusion that the virus has mutated and his blood is no longer a cure for this strain. He tells Bob who tells him that they will destroy the remaining virus vials, and that if he wants to save Nikki, he needs to get Bennett’s daughter, Claire, who has regenerative powers and can heal everyone. He hands Mohidner a gun, but Mohinder is aghast that he should have to kill Bennett. Bob tells Mohinder how Bennett just killed his former boss, Ivan, and is getting sloppy and dangerous, and that Claire is the key to saving everyone. Mohinder comes clean about his and Bennett’s plans to take down the company, telling him that he doesn’t know who is right and wrong and that they all need to stop playing games. Mohinder takes the gun, wanting to do the right thing for Niki.
Claire awakens to a text from West who is actually downstairs in her kitchen with her mother cooking waffles. Claire is shocked but manages to cover it up, as well as hide a picture of her father before he can see it. The two end up making out while listening to music when Claire decides she has to tell him about her father. They go to grab popsicles from the fridge, but West sees her father enter from the front door. He panics, telling Claire they have been discovered and rushes them out the back door. Claire tells him that she was trying to tell him that the man he was abducted by was her father. West is shocked and asks her if this was all a trap to get him and he flies off before Bennett comes out to the yard.
Later in the evening, Sandra talks to her husband and asks him if he got to meet Claire’s boyfriend, surprising him. He goes to Claire, showing her the newspaper article, reprimanding her for not being careful and she pushes back against him about his special copy store company trip. As they yell at each other, Sandra and Lyle come down as Mr. Bennett tells them they are moving because it’s not safe anymore here. Claire refuses, telling them that they will have to go without her.
Peter and Caitlin wander the empty streets of future New York when they are suddenly surrounded by men in quarantine suits who take them away, demanding to know if they’re infected, and then washing them aggressively as they scream out in protest.
Fully decontaminated, a man finds Peter who tries to get to the bottom of the mystery, finally understanding that Peter has no idea about how the virus started a year ago and has now killed 93% of the world.
The man takes Peter to Angela, but he doesn’t recognize her as his mother. She talks to him, telling him about his powers, but he doesn’t understand how she knows it all until he uses his mind reading ability to scan her thoughts and sees his whole childhood laid out before him, realizing now who she is and who he is.
As Angela tells him what needs to happen to save the world, Peter sees Caitlin being deported and she goes to him, separated by a fence. They cry out to each other and as she is pulled away, his powers activate and Peter finds himself back in the past in the Montreal building. He hears something behind him and sends out a bolt of electricity that is caught by a hand, which is burnt then quickly heals. The man known as Takezo Kensei steps out of the shadows, asking Peter why he would do that, before revealing that his name is Adam.
Back-issues:
Mark Harelik played the DHS officer. He has a long history of being “that guy” in shows such the Big Bang Theory, Medium, Breaking Bad, Pushing Daisies, The Good Wife, Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Desperate Housewives, and Boy Meets World, amongst others. He was a lead in the HBO series Getting On (cranky nurses, anxious doctors, and administrators wrestle with the darkly comic, honest, and compassionate realities of caring for the elderly in a rundown hospital). He also played Ben in Jurassic Park 3. Most recently he has appeared in episodes of The Rookie, The Morning Show and Perry Mason, however, he did have a bigger role in the series Preacher playing God (after a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire and his ex to find God).
Chapter Eight 'Four Months Ago...':
Volume: Two
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Original airdate: November 12, 2007
Synopsis:
After Peter sends a bolt of lightning towards someone sneaking up behind him in the Montreal building he entered, the man who was previously known as Takezo Kensei, steps out, his hand miraculously healed, and introduces himself as Adam, and that together they are going to change history. Adam mentions that The Haitian has obviously messed with Peter’s mind, and that if he thinks about someone that matters to him most, he can heal his mind and get his memories back. Thinking of Nathan, he starts to see flashes of his personal history come back to him, as he starts to remember what happened four months earlier.
Nikki and Micah receive word that DL is going to be ok, Mr. Linderman’s bullet just missing his aorta. Nikki pulls the doctor aside to explain they can’t pay for his medical treatments, but the doctor waves her away, saying it’s been taken care of. Bob shows up and tells Nikki not to worry, that he is there to help, not just with her bills, but her illness and her alter ego of Jessica. While Nikki maintains Jessica is gone, Bob asks her what makes her think a new personality couldn’t also emerge. He tells her of the medication he’s developed designed to suppress abilities and warns her of the dangers, but reminds her of the dangers she has posed to her family.
Later, DL makes the decision to become a fireman in order to use his ability to help people and Nikki has gotten herself a job interview. DL talks her up and leaves for his work, taking Micah to school. Nikki however catches a glimpse of someone in the mirror, not her, and not Jessica, but someone new named Gina. She takes over and leaves a message on the mirror saying she is headed to LA while Nikki finds herself trapped in the reflection.
DL manages to use his abilities to rescue a trapped girl in a burning building, becoming a major hero, but when he returns home, he is shocked to see Micah alone and no sign of Nikki. Finding the note on the mirror, DL heads to LA, thinking that Jessica has returned. He finds her dancing the night away in a club with some guy, and he steps in, taking her away. The man finds them on their way out and shoots DL, this time, the bullet wounding him mortally, and he dies.
Maya, at her brother Alejandro’s wedding, watches with disgust as her brother’s fiancee, now wife, dances with him. She walks away from the party as a black tear falls from her eye. She hears some commotion in another room and goes to investigate, finding her brother’s new wife making out with another man. The man attacks Maya, telling her she better keep quiet, but Maya’s power activates and kills the wife, the man, and everyone at the wedding. Alejandro comes to find her, and she admits that she thinks it’s her fault everyone died, before she runs away.
Alejandro finds her a month later, having joined a convent to hide. He has, however, brought the police, thinking she poisoned everyone at the wedding. The cop goes to arrest her but Maya's power activates and he starts to fall over and die. Alejandro grabs her hands and helps her concentrate and calm down, but the policeman is already dead. Alejandro grabs her and together they run off.
Peter, healed after his explosion and fall, takes Nathan to the hospital, dropping him off and then escaping by using his invisibility. After he turns visible however, Bob and Elle step out from a corner and she stuns him with her electrical powers, taking him into their custody. When he awakens to find Elle stroking his hair like he’s a toy, Bob explains he is a friend of his parents and he is in a safe place. They explain that the Haitian with them has the ability to suppress his powers, and that they’ve developed pills that do the same thing, enabling him to not be a danger to anyone anymore.
As Peter sits in his room, Elle brings him his pills daily and plays with him, giving him little shocks that she seems to enjoy just a bit too much. A voice calls out to Peter later from the next room, and the man, over the next month, talks to him about their abilities, introduces himself as Adam, and begins to convince Peter that he isn’t in hospital but more of a prison. This is confirmed when Peter asks to talk to his mother but Bob says that it isn’t possible right now. Adam tells him how he tried to go public with his powers in order to help people and that is how he found himself locked up. He tells Peter that if they can escape, one drop of his blood could completely heal Nathan.
Meanwhile, a horribly scarred Nathan lies in his hospital bed, attended to by his mother who tells him of how Peter has gone missing. Later, Heidi visits Nathan, interrupted when Angela shows up. She takes Heidi aside and tells her of Nathan’s condition that the Petrelli men have, one where they have delusions of grandeur and believe they can do fantastic things such as flying and becoming a bomb. Heidi believes it to be the pain pills causing Nathan to believe in such things, but Angela presses her to keep this secret.
Peter manages to con Elle into thinking he has been taking the pills and after a few days, is able to use his power to phase through objects to finally meet Adam face to face and together they walk through the wall and out of the facility. They go to the hospital, sneaking in, and inject the IV with Adam’s blood. As they leave, they see the effects immediately as Nathan’s face begins to heal. They start to leave the hospital but Elle and the Haitian show up to recapture them. They split up with the Haitian chasing Peter, finally cornering him in a shipping crate, telling him that he isn’t taking him back to The Company, giving him his helix necklace and instructing him to go and start a new life somewhere as he removes Peter’s memories and closes shipping crate up.
As we return to the present day, Peter tells Adam he remembers everything now. Adam asks him if he’s ready to save the world, to which Peter nods yes.
Back-issues:
The little girl DL saved from the fire is Kiernan Shipka, who currently plays Sabrina in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Heroes EU:
Quarantine / Man on Fire
Howard LeMay and his family are trying to reach a quarantine site, due to a virus killing everyone in their old home city. Along the way, they have to stop for gas and food and find themselves held up at gunpoint by a lone medically-masked survivor in a convenience store gas station. He asks to be taken along, telling them he’s clean as well. Upon reaching the quarantine site, his family and the man go inside while Howard remains outside to try and get through to his branch of Homeland Security. He then hears a yell for help, and it’s revealed that the virus has manifested inside the quarantine site. Unwilling to risk getting sick himself, he locks the door and his family inside, much to his wife’s horror, before leaving alone.
In Man on Fire, we see DL going through the training to become a fireman and being pushed down every step of the way by the captain, Burke, who is convinced DL will never become a fireman given his past. DL pushes them as best he can until he day of the big test: saving mock victims from an actual burning building. Unfortunately the fire was set incorrectly and the fire got out of control, trapping some of the firemen inside. DL uses his powers to phase through the floors and get to the basement where he manages to turn off the gas controlling the fire, saving everyone. All the while he thinks of Micah and how he loves seeing his father use his powers like this. Outside, the captain congratulates him on being a hero, and welcomes him to the force.
The Last Shangri-La? This was an exclusive interactive edition that utilised Flash Player. There isn't much information about it, however, what we do know is that a new Hero is introduced when Hana Gitelman enlists the help of her allies, and a wanderer named "Traveler" answers the call. He has the power of Omnilingualism, instantly able to speak and understand any language, verbal and non-verbal, fluently.
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