The last time an eclipse happened, everybody got their powers, and Heroes Season 3 Episode 9 led us up to another impending eclipse. Hiro was reverted back to a 10 year old, which didn’t help Ando any in getting him to stop playing pranks and reading comic books. Sylar saved Elle from herself in an act of empathy he wasn’t sure he was capable of. Parkman managed to reawaken Angela with Daphne’s help. Suresh figured out there’s a human catalyst (a third piece of the formula), and Claire suspects it must be her because she knows she’s different.
Arthur asks Sylar to find Claire and bring her back to him. Elle offers to go with him, saying that being a company girl is all she knows.
Nathan’s going to find the Haitian, Parkman’s going to find Hiro, and Claire, she’s told she has to just hide. Peter wants to go with Nathan, seeing as he doesn’t have any abilities and runs the risk of just getting in the way.
Suresh continues to mutate and wants to know what’s taking Arthur so long. Arthur’s got people working on it, but his concern is how his drawing of Claire dying is possible. There’s an eclipse today, and if Claire dies, the catalyst dies with her, removing Mohinder’s chance of being cured.
Daphne realizes she’s a betrayer, a liar, a thief, and selfish. Nonetheless, Parkman trusts her.
Parkman doesn’t have to look far for Hiro. The comic book says that Parkman has to fix Hiro, so Ando shows up at Matt’s door with a Hiro whose main concern is how he can stop doing the potty dance.
Claire’s been reunited with her dad, who plans to keep her (and by extension the catalyst) safe. She thinks it’s just business.
Daphne says she’s not a nemesis any more. She’s a good guy apparently. Regardless, she runs away, accusing Matt of pausing when he answered the question about whether he trusts her.
Elle’s worried about Sylar becoming a yes man. She wants to know who he really is, so she tells someone he’s a serial killer, which is not entirely untrue.
HRG wants his daughter to stop acting stupid and careless like a girl who can’t get hurt. In addition to insulting her, he wants to train her to make her stronger.
Tracy agrees to do as Arthur says, with Angela standing over her shoulder.
Parkman knows about Lawrence, Kansas from reading Daphne’s mind. With comic book in hand, Hiro agrees to teleport them there. Then they’re distracted by the start of an eclipse.
Whatever’s happened to Suresh, it doesn’t look good. He’s upside down attached to a wall in a cocoon. Strangely, he seems to be fine. Not at all mutating any more.
Nathan’s not sure what happened. He’s gone from flying to falling really fast. He and Peter land in the forest and are still on their quest to find the Haitian, whose village is nearby.
Parkman can’t use his mind control to convince Daphne’s father to let him in. Hiro’s powers are gone as well.
Nathan and Peter get lost, which leads to a fight. Nathan wants credit for saving his brother so many times and wants him to earn some respect. Peter thinks Nathan’s just a puppet of their father. In the future, Nathan chooses Arthur, which doesn’t sit well with Peter.
Claire’s got some anger issues to address. She wants to know why her father always leaves. Just then, Elle shows up, powerless like the rest. Sylar’s surprised by his powerlessness as well. So Elle will just have to do things the old fashioned way. She shoots Claire. HRG has managed to knock both Sylar and Elle to the ground and grabs Claire and flees. He takes her home but insists that no call be made to the hospital because gunshot wounds are reported to the police. Claire’s just happy to be feeling pain.
Parkman doesn’t think he can do anything without his powers, but Hiro wants him to know this is part of the hero’s quest, to triumph without powers. Either that or Hiro will continue to throw corn at him.
Arthur wants Suresh to get everybody’s abilities back. Or else.
Hiro and Ando head to a comic book store. It’s Wednesday. New comic book day.
As they’re walking with the Haitian, men with guns capture Nathan. His father warned them he was coming.
When Daphne’s father leaves, Parkman takes the opportunity to go to talk to her. He’s never giving up because he loves her. When he walks in, he sees her back in her old life, the one she was so afraid of going back to. It turns out she’s crippled.
Sylar’s relieved to not have powers. Elle blames herself for pushing him to become a monster.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 11 The Eclipse Part II, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.