In her effort to discover the truth about an apparent suicide, Claire jumped out her window in Heroes Season 4 Episode 2. Then she proceeded to push her insides back to the inside, which was not lost on her new friend Gretchen, who saw the whole thing.
Samuel thinks he’s found someone to fill Joseph’s shoes.
Peter Petrelli’s been served. He might need to be more careful when he’s saving people.
Parkman just got his 30 day sobriety chip, but he slipped and used. Sylar’s tired of being stuck in this hell. It’s a lot more boring than the actual hell. However, Parkman’s convinced that Sylar has no power, or so he says. He and his partner are on a stakeout and bust into the suspects house, where the powerless Sylar proceeds with his mind games. Strangely enough, though, Sylar warns him that the drug dealer’s in the closet and has a gun, which is enough to convince Parkman to get on the floor, escaping his fate of being riddled with bullets.
Claire greets her dad with a “What are you doing here?” The answer to that is her roommate Annie’s death. She plays it all off as just an adjustment to college. Everything’s going just fine. When she’s getting ready to go out to eat with him, she heads to the bathroom, where she meets up with Gretchen. Whatever she thought she saw, she didn’t see. There was no hurling out a window or snapping of bones back into place. Gretchen follows her back into her room, where Noah kindly invites her to eat.
Parkman’s searching for the drugs, which is proving to be futile. Sylar continues to try to get him to use his abilities, which he refuses to do. As long as Sylar’s stuck inside Matt, he may as well be useful. He always thought he would make an excellent cop. Perhaps there’s something that doesn’t fit in the picture, like the stuffed rabbit on the floor. The house is used for something a lot worse than they thought.
Peter goes to meet the guy he saved. The one who sued him. Welcome to America. Only he’s greeted by Samuel, someone he knows he never met before. With that, he’s just going to let the lawyers handle it.
While there, he meets a woman who accidentally drops a coffee mug and sees an Aurora Borealis ink blot coming from it when it breaks. The nurse suggests that maybe, because she’s deaf, she’s seeing sounds.
At lunch, Gretchen says she’s going to change her major to study the human body, such as how some girl she saw was unable to feel pain. HRG may have to come out of retirement.
Back to Parkman and the bunny and being insulted by Sylar. In his searching, he finds a ransom note.
HRG’s plan is to erase Gretchen’s memory. Claire’s plan is, well, she doesn’t have one, but she intends to think of one.
Not getting anywhere with the suspect, Parkman gives into temptation and uses his power to locate the girl underneath the stairs. The dead girl underneath the stairs. Only problem is there is no girl there, dead or otherwise. There’s no ransom note either. Not even a rabbit. Sylar used his own power against him.
A theory’s floating around that Peter has caused the accidents so that he can get the glory from them.
When he gets home, Peter goes straight to the newspaper clipping, one that’s been modified by Samuel to make it appear as if he was on the bus.
Back at the dorms, Claire tells Gretchen to go ahead and ask her anything.
With the modified newspaper photo in mind, Peter returns to Samuel, who agrees to drop the lawsuit after they chat. When they’re done, Samuel returns home, to the place where his parents were the butler and maid. His pleas of how his brother just died and he’d like to look around fall on deaf ears. They’re in the middle of a dinner party and don’t want to be disturbed.
Claire and Gretchen continue their bonding, which includes Claire handing over a pair of scissors and letting Gretchen slice her with it. Then Claire suggests being roommates. Gretchen considers this a step up from the boring girl who smells like pickles.
Parkman’s partner lets him know that attacking the criminal who didn’t do anything (more than what he’s suspected of doing anyway) will ruin his life. So Parkman uses mind control to convince his partner that it was all just self defense. Sylar is proud of him. Today is the first day of the rest of his life.
Peter shows up at a sink hole. Dinner party’s over. Then he looks at his arm and sees he’s got one of those creepy compasses on it.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 4 Acceptance, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.