Heroes Season 3 Episode 8 was all about Hiro’s spirit walk a year in the past, where we found out the history of what’s transpired.
We pick up where we left off. With Hiro screaming his head off. He’s got no clue what’s going on, but Ando forces him to blink to get them out of there. It seems he believes he’s 10 years old.
Arthur wishes to access Sylar’s empathy, and he knows he’s capable of it since Peter didn’t really survive a 7 story fall on his own without any powers. He brings him in a room to meet up with crazy electro girl Elle.
Peter doesn’t want Claire to go with him because he wants her to stay innocent. When Knox and Flint show up, she tells him to run because she has a plan. Her plan? To run and jump out of a building. This buys him enough time to get down the stairs, and she escapes without a scratch on her. They head down into the sewers.
Suresh is beginning to think it’s impossible to give people abilities without an adverse reaction. Yeah, I noticed. He believes that most of the previous powers happened during the last eclipse. He’s also come to the conclusion that he needs some sort of catalyst, which could not be stored in something but rather in someone. Kaito Nakamura springs to Arthur’s mind.
Elle seems to be angry about something. Apparently Sylar murdering her father is troubling for her.
Daphne pays a visit to Arthur. She asks him to leave Matt out of this. He tells her to just stay with Parkman, who wants to help Angela.
Peter tells Claire about how she killed him (or will kill him). He asks her to just go home, but she won’t leave him, feeling she has a favor to return for him saving her. She tells him to go while she deals with Flint and Knox, but they came for her, not for him.
Hiro has trouble buying that he’s got a gift. Sounds too much like Star Trek. Ando teaches him how to freeze time, but he’s mostly just interested in playing pranks on people.
Parkman decides to try to get inside Angela’s head, though he’s not sure he actually can. He asks Daphne to just stick around and watch him.
Elle continues to try to fry Sylar. It’s pretty obvious he’s invincible, though. He tells her to just let all the anger and betrayal out because he can take it all. Following her last surge of electricity, she goes from anger to self pity and asks him to kill her, too.
Nathan and Tracy have arrived at Pinehearst seeking answers. He’s relied too heavily on his father throughout the years and has to see him if he’s alive. His dad asks him for a hug. I’ve seen what happens when that mistake is made. Nathan stays away. Arthur tells him he was born with a talent to lead a nation. Sounds too similar to Linderman for Nathan to be interested, but Arthur promises him they can save the world together.
As he’s trying to convince Elle that she should continue on, he touches her, and her pain disappears. Now he’s got her ability as well. She begins training him how to use her power, which conveniently involves a lot of touching.
Ando wants to go to Odessa, Texas, but Hiro just wants to go to a comic book store in Tokyo. This could take some time.
Tracy wants Nathan to get himself together and stop being so under his father’s thumb. She wants to go to Washington and see if they can get some assistance, but he’s worried that his brother will come back from the future and shoot him (again) if they tell anybody anything. He’s going to Primatech so that he can see what he can dig up. He asks her to go to Washington and cover for him. So when he flies away, she marches right back in and sees Arthur. She offers for Nathan to be his public face, considering the world thinks he’s dead and all. She’ll push Nathan over the fence on to the right side as long as she comes out on the right side in the end.
Parkman gets into Angela’s head, but she tells him it’s hopeless and that Arthur’s too dangerous. As he’s freeing her, Daphne shows up and says she’s there to help him, which she does by stabbing him. She tries to wake him up in reality, and she notices he’s bleeding. She says it wasn’t her. Or was it? Arthur tells him she’s betrayed him and that he should send her away. She pleads with Matt and tells him she loves him. With that said, Angela tells Arthur they used to be like that, too, and that he has to let her go. He obliges. Matt wakes up, and he’s not bleeding. Daphne tells him that it was her and that she meant every word of what she said. Just then, Peter arrives to warn him that she can’t be trusted.
While reading a comic book about what happens next, Hiro and Ando see that an eclipse is coming.
Angela wakes up to tell them that Arthur has the formula, both halfs. Apparently, somebody who shall remain nameless has stolen the formula right out from underneath them. Both she and Peter have seen the future (as has Parkman), and it’s not one that they want to face. She knows of the catalyst. They don’t know who the host is. Until Claire pipes up about how Sylar said she was different that is.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 10 The Eclipse Part I, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.