Heroes Season 3 Episode 1 picked up where we left off last year, as Peter was shooting his brother to stop him from spilling their secret. Nathan’s searching for God, Hiro’s a rich man, and Parkman was transported to the middle of nowhere.
Claire knows Sylar’s not coming back because he got what he came for. She realizes something’s different after sticking herself with some glass and not noticing. Normally, she feels pain, even though she heals afterward.
Angela has another dream that frightens her, and she tells Peter again to go back where he came from. He’s not any happier to see her than she is to see him. She warns him about the butterfly effect: step on a butterfly today, and three years later a million people are wiped out. Her dream suggested that Claire is in trouble because he talked to her and tried to interfere in the future.
Suresh feels like a new man. He’s completely the same in every way but physically far more capable than he had ever been before. He hopes he will be able to reverse the effects and take powers away. For the time being, though, he’ll just hit on Maya.
Elle’s dad is displeased that Sylar escaped and got to Claire, making her virtually unstoppable.
Hiro’s hired some detectives to track down the speedster. Her name is Daphne Millbrook, and she’s from Paris, France.
Tracy and the governor are debating over whether Nathan’s worth the risk. She’s pushing hard for him to become the junior senator for the state of New York. Then she goes out into the parking lot where she’s shown a picture suggesting she’s a Las Vegas stripper (Niki).
Claire, unsure she’s even human, is back to making her video tapes again. Her theory is that she can prove she’s alive by getting hit by a train, but Peter jumps in to prevent her from the mistake of not really hurting herself at all. She asks him to help her be more than just a victim, as her defensive power is not enough for her. He denies her request and bails quickly so as to prevent any more alterations of the future than necessary.
Tracy comes to pay Nathan a visit. He thinks she’s Niki, too. Once they get past that, she offers him the job.
Bob’s been paid a visit. He’s no longer among the living. Elle breaks out HRG, who proceeds to shoot Sylar. Lucky him he’s invincible now. He attempts to steal Elle’s power as well, but the resulting explosion is enough to knock him out.
Hiro tells Ando what he saw when he went to the future (the part about Ando being a villain and killing him).
Peter’s worried about the changes he has made to the future and that he probably hasn’t saved the world regardless of having come back to shoot his brother.
Nathan gets over his concerns about great power carrying with it great responsibility and accepts the position as senator, as long as Tracy is on his staff. It turns out she’s got a pretty nifty power of freezing people and smashing them to bits, which she uses when another blackmail attempt over her Vegas counterpart surfaces.
Mrs. Petrelli is ready to take control since Bob has been dead for a couple hours or so. The additional bit of news is that Elle is no longer needed now that her father’s gone.
Hiro tries to outsmart Daphne, but she beats him to the punch. In order to save Ando, he lets her escape with the formula (again).
Suresh’s original euphoria begins to fade as his skin begins to peel off. He knows something’s gone terribly wrong.
Parkman wakes up next to a turtle and begins to listen to him (or rather the guy out of view who’s actually talking). It turns out he’s in Africa. He must spirit walk for many miles. The man, who knows who he is, also knows the future, though he offers no details how or why on either issue.
Nathan’s in a spirited debate with an invisible man about how he’s the one in control this time around.
A bunch of previously locked up people with powers were freed in the power surge, including Peter, who’s in the body of a madman named Jesse.
Claire’s biological mom is back and supposedly is going to make sure she stays safe.
Future Peter goes to see himself, only to find out that he’s escaped. That never happened. At least not in his reality anyway. Some of the other escapees have some fun causing death and destruction.
Sylar’s chained down for now. Angela says she’s his mom.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 3 One of Us, One of Them, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.