Heroes Season 3 Episode 25 concluded Volume 4 with Nathan’s death and Sylar subsequently assuming the role of Nathan. Tonight, Volume 5 Redemption begins.
One of the good things to come out of the cancellation of Prison Break is that we get to see Robert Knepper (T-Bag) join the Heroes cast as Samuel. He’s the leader of a carnival clan, one gifted with extraordinary abilities. Mourning the loss of his brother Joseph, he tells his followers that there are others out there just like them.
Claire’s moving into a dorm and meets her new roommate Annie, who’s an AP student expecting somebody similar. But Claire got her GED because she was traveling and saving the world and such. Annie wants Claire to map out her future and put childish things behind. This should be oodles of fun.
Hiro and Ando believe that somebody will call Dial a Hero. Well, at least Hiro does anyway. Just look at the bar graph. Ando’s remembering a day years ago where he spilled something on Hiro’s sister. His theory is that she hates him because of that day at the carnival.
Peter’s a paramedic. He’s sitting in gridlock going nowhere, but he’s sure he can find a shortcut, by way of leaping tall buildings in a single bound.
Claire goes to class where she’s given 45 minutes to solve an equation. She’s gonna need a little longer than that. Maybe 45 months. Realizing this, she promptly bails, after having a vision that she’s been tasered by snipers.
The woman Peter saved ended up having twins. He can’t celebrate. 30 seconds more, and all three of them would have been dead. Him getting there faster than humanly possible is not good enough.
Ando and Hiro have their first client. A little girl wants to get her cat down. Are there no fireman around? As a reward for rescuing him, the cat attacks Ando and makes him fall. Lucky thing Hiro can freeze him.
Noah considers his decision to turn Sylar into Nathan an emotional one, hence, wrong. Now he doesn’t want anything to do with him.
When HRG gets into his car, it fills with water, which begins to freeze. He’s been paid a visit by Tracy Strauss. Danko can’t figure out how she survived. He put in a bullet into her himself and shattered her into a thousand pieces. Danko’s plan: kill Tracy before she kills them.
Claire meets up with Gretchen, somebody who may well be more normal than the rest of the people in the college. As they’re talking about how they’re from Texas, Gretchen recognizes the name. There was a Claire Bennet who got decapitated.
After he saves Ando from the fall, Hiro freezes.
As much as she may wish to pretend otherwise, Angela’s nightmares tell the truth. Sylar is Nathan now, and that doesn’t sit very well with her. To complicate things, Nathan’s confused. When he looks back on his life, it’s like it’s not his life he’s looking back on. Furthermore, he doesn’t feel mortal. Rather, he feels invincible. Mama suggests going out to get a big expensive sports car and a younger woman with questionable morals to get over this midlife crisis.
Angela calls Parkman with worry that Sylar’s beginning to emerge again. Her request is to apply a patch or upgrade him, but he believes he’s out and done with this whole thing.
While messing around in his office, Nathan realizes he’s got a creepy shocking power.
Noah pays Claire a visit at school. Annie’s been catching him up, telling him about how Claire needs to apply herself.
This morning when he was talking about redemption, Samuel left out the part about vengeance.
Tracy joins Noah and tells him that the reason why she’s still alive is simple. Her one cohesive thought was to kill all of them. He’s willing to help her out because he, too, is seeking redemption. It’s not quite that easy to seal a deal, though. Noah plans on getting what he wants. Danko will forget about Tracy.
Upon his return home, Danko runs into Tracy, a woman he no longer recognizes. Then he’s attacked by Edgar, Samuel’s assassin. Edgar then makes the mistake of attacking Tracy, who’s not nearly as easy a target and uses her powers to gain the upperhand and not end up all chopped up.
Ando’s wheeled the still frozen Hiro back to the office, where he manages to wake him up. Instead of freezing time, time froze him. Now his nose is bleeding. He doesn’t want to see a doctor. He’s already done that. The news is not good. He’s dying. Maybe soon. This all started the night of the carnival. He got his fortune that he would be a powerful hero. Ever since then, he’s been focused on doing just that. What if he never got that fortune? Hiro puts his foot down about going back, but that doesn’t prevent him from accidentally going back to that night at the carnival 14 years ago.
Thanks to Lydia, Samuel thinks he’s found somebody who can help them fix the past. He just needs to go back 14 years first.
When she returns to her room, Claire sees the windows open. Outside lies the corpse of her roommate.
Like Angela, Parkman is having nightmares about Sylar, who wants his body back.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 2 Jump, Push, Fall, which airs next on NBC.