Last week was a special two hour premiere event. First in Heroes Season 3 Episode 1, Peter shot his brother to prevent him from spilling his secret, the governor discovered his new Senator (Nathan), and Parkman was sent to the middle of the desert by Peter. Then in Heroes Season 3 Episode 2, Suresh made himself a superman (briefly), Bob was killed by Sylar, and Angela immediately took over for Bob, after which she told Sylar she’s his mom.
Expanding on her apparent wackiness, Angela tells Sylar that she gave him up for adoption. Then she leaves him with a victim with a new power.
Peter’s gang of new pals are looking for a party. They walk into a bank and start flinging fireballs to scare people.
Noah shows up, but he’s just there to put the escapees back where they were and doesn’t want anything to do with Angela. She’s got a perfect new partner for him: Sylar.
Claire’s biological mom Meredith is around, but her adopted mom isn’t very happy about it.
HRG doesn’t want to work with a psychopath, but Angela tells him she’s going to put Sylar in play whether it’s under his supervision or not.
Hiro hopes to get his father’s formula back, but Daphne already sold it and is on to the next half.
Although Sandra isn’t thrilled about her being there, Claire doesn’t have any problems with her mom, so she decides to play hookey with her.
Tracy wants to know more about Niki, the woman people keep confusing her with. She decides to go to New Orleans to track her down.
In theory, a bank job is about money, but not this one (well, it was for one guy, but he’s dead now). They just want to raise hell until the man from the company gets there.
The man with Parkman painted his future when he was a boy. Pretty good job, too.
Angela says she hopes to make Sylar not a crazy killer.
Daphne doesn’t know anything about this whole world coming to an end stuff. She just wants to make a buck.
One of the paintings of Parkman’s life hasn’t come true, even though the rest have. The one with him and a woman and child has… changed. Time to cover it up and paint over it.
HRG takes the bait of the news story and goes to the scene of the robbery. His plan for Sylar: stay close and keep his mouth shut. Not listening to all of this, Sylar plays the role of an FBI agent pretty convincingly and lets the cops on the scene know who’s in charge. Regardless, he tells Sylar that he’s not going anywhere near the buffet of all those powers.
Ando and Hiro believe the Haitian’s got the other half of the formula, and they’re both right and on his trail.
Tracy goes to Louisiana and finds a casket with a familiar face, then runs into Micah. He’s curious whether she has a power, too. Then he shows off his power. He finds out they were born in the same hospital on the same day with the same doctor.
Ando knocks out the Haitian, and Hiro grabs his briefcase. Just long enough to allow Daphne to steal it. She speeds away. The Haitian wakes up. Hiro’s power stop working. Probably not good.
We find out what Knox’s problem is. He blames HRG for taking away his life unfairly. Peter accidentally discovering Jesse’s destructive power gives him the upperhand, but whatever powers Peter’s got, he’s not up there with time stopping future Peter. He doesn’t really want to listen to himself but does despite his hesitation, leaving HRG in the hands of the real Jesse.
Until Sylar walks in, that is. Poor wannabe villains. Sylar knows that he was just told to stay put so that he would disobey and come in and save the day.
Claire’s mom has a nice family outing planned. She uses her firepower not to burn her but to suck the oxygen out of the room. As she’s running out of air, Claire finally admits that the reason she wants to stop bad guys is to get revenge.
Sylar turns out to be just a killer. He lets Knox go and then steals Jesse’s power.
Parkman’s new future is no longer about birth but about someone dying, presumably as a result of him. He hopes he can prevent that from happening by learning from his spirit walk.
Tracy pays a visit to Dr. Zimmerman, who tells her he created her.
Angela still has hope that she wasn’t wrong about Sylar, but HRG plans to kill him.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 4 I Am Become Death, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.