Robert Knepper, who played T-Bag on the now defunct Prison Break, will make his debut on Heroes season 4 according to THR. As villains go, he should make a good one.

This has been expected for a while now, but NBC today officially confirmed that Heroes will return for season 4. It is currently expected that the season will be slightly abridged from normal and from the current lengthy 25 episode season 3, but no confirmation has been made available at this time.

In Heroes Season 3 Episode 24, we went back to how it came about that Sylar decided to pose as Nathan Petrelli.

Angela had a dream. Nathan’s in trouble. He’s not the only one. HRG has Claire and Angela get out of the car and go to Nathan, while he rides ahead to the truck full of people waiting for him.

Danko jabs something in the back of Sylar’s head, but it doesn’t do anything to him. He’s moved his little off switch that used to be in the back of his head. He plans to meet with the President the next day, so he can shake his hand and shapeshift into him. Danko threatens to expose him if he doesn’t kill him, but he doesn’t need to kill him. He just has to shapeshift into him and fire on his own men. Now nobody will believe a word he says.

Angela’s going to find Matt Parkman because in her dream Parkman saves Nathan’s life.

Claire has arrived to see Nathan. She asks how she knows he’s not Sylar, which he is. He seems to have her convinced that he’s not an imposter, and they go off together to the Stanton Hotel to intercept Sylar.

Hiro wants to stop time again, but Ando’s worried his head may explode.

Danko’s tossed in a room where he meets up with HRG.

Peter comes to get the real Nathan.

HRG tells Danko that, if he didn’t have Claire, he’d be in exactly Danko’s position. Danko responds that he is in the same position, so they plan to work together.

Then they’re frozen by Hiro, as is everyone else. Ando notices that Hiro’s ear is bleeding, but he says he’s fine. They locate Suresh and rescue him, moving the guards into his place instead. When time unfreezes, Hiro’s having medical problems. Suresh tells Hiro that his human body is rejecting his powers like a virus. He instructs him to not freeze time again.

The prisoners are all gone, and the entire unit has been captured. Hiro arrives to jab a vial into Danko. Then they both collapse.

Claire gets a call from HRG. Only it’s not Claire. It’s Sylar.

Claire plans to kill Sylar, who plans to kill HRG. Everybody dies some time. He wants to make her his first First Lady, but first he has to get her past her urge to kill him.

Nathan arrives at the hotel, and he’s told he’s already inside. The man in there is dangerous. He’s one of them, or rather, he’s one of us. The government needs to stay out of it, but Nathan and Peter can handle it. They just have to get close enough for Peter to touch him.

They break inside and begin to battle. Claire closes the door to let the battle happen, and whens he opens it, Nathan and Sylar have gone out the window.

They’ve moved to another room where Sylar slashes Nathan’s neck and leaves him for dead before taking his shape.

Parkman arrives, and Angela is there waiting for him so he can save Nathan. By the time they arrive, Nathan is dead.

Sylar is informed by Secret Service agent Liam Samuels that the President won’t be able to meet with him today. Perhaps he’ll be able to meet with Samuels, though. With one more body change, Sylar meets with the President. Only it’s not the President, though. It’s Peter, who stabs him in the neck.

HRG and Angela have a plan. They need Sylar to be Nathan Petrelli again. Parkman grabs hold of Sylar and turns him into Nathan. Then they burn the body, but nobody else knows what’s actually happened.

The President has agreed to Nathan’s proposal. He told him he’s found just the man to head up their new “the company.”

Volume 4 ends there, and volume 5 Redemption starts six weeks later.

A building agent arrives to find a flood. He’s greeted by a person who takes form from the water. It’s Tracy, and she’s found her fourth mysterious drowning victim.

Angela goes to pay Nathan a visit, and it seems he’s got some of Sylar’s powers. He can tell a clock is running a minute and a half fast.

That concludes season 3. Heroes has not yet been officially confirmed for season 4, but the buzz is positive that we will be seeing it again in September.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 25 An Invisible Thread airs Monday April 27 at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“AN INVISIBLE THREAD”

04/27/2009 (09:00PM - 10:01PM) (Monday) : AS “VOLUME 4: FUGITIVES” COMES TO A CLOSE, THE FIGHT TO STOP SYLAR HAS CONSEQUENCES THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING EMMY AWARD-WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK AND MICHAEL DORN GUEST STAR Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) faces off against Sylar (Zachary Quinto) to keep him from meeting the President (guest star Michael Dorn). Sylar has his own plans for his new partner. Meanwhile, Hiro (Masi Oka) learns that there are repercussions to regaining his ability. Elsewhere, Matt (Greg Grunberg) is forced to go to extraordinary lengths to protect his future with his family. Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee, Hayden Panettiere, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cristine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia also star.

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The family reunited to dig up some bones in Heroes Season 3 Episode 23. They plan to put their lives back together. Nathan wants to start things off by going back to Washington, but somebody beat him to it.

Big Matt Parkman’s afraid he’ll miss out on little Matt Parkman’s childhood. He’s going to win his family back. Hiro and Ando want to go to building 26, but Parkman won’t give them directions in an effort to protect them.

One of the agents spotted Sylar on a surveillance camera. Danko assured him Sylar’s dead. That may well be true. Sylar is slowly losing himself. He’s shifting and reassembling so much that he’s not coming together the same way.

Sylar finds a guy who can smash objects into dust with his mind. Just before the guy is captured by the agents, Sylar kills him, spraying his blood on the wall with the words “I am Sylar”.

Danko tells Sylar to find an anchor, something that reminds him of him, so he has something to hang on to when he’s feeling lost.

Hiro’s got a plan. Ando is bait. He will be knocked unconscious and be taken to the lair. He considers his power superior to Ando’s. When shots are fired and Hiro freezes time, though, Ando is not frozen, so neither of them has to be bait.

Sylar gets a box from an unsolved murder victim, Virginia Grey, Sylar’s mom, who he killed.

Hiro unfreezes time to allow Ando to get tasered to continue with the original plan to have him be bait.

Danko believes he’s located Rebel. They shut down the power because no electricity means no machines. Micah sees Sylar and says he can help him with his problem. He just has to join the people with abilities instead of working against them.

Hiro’s disguised himself as one of the kidnappers so he can travel along with Ando. He gets busted because the guy he took the place of didn’t wear glasses, so Ando bails him out with his power. They’ll have to do things the old fashioned way and locate building 26 by GPS.

The agents get Micah in their sights. They shoot and knock him into the water. Another Micah runs away, though.

Micah suggests changing into someone who can make a difference, like Nathan Petrelli. He could tell the President he’s made a big mistake.

Sylar wanted his mom to die. It was no accident. Now he wants to know how he can be special when he killed the only woman that ever loved him. In memory of his mom, he can be whatever he wants, even President of the United States.

Parkman has returned baby Matt to his mom. When he arrives, he knows they’re being watched.

Nathan/Sylar is holding a press conference. He blames the President for being unwilling to meet with him despite his talk about wanting change. When the President agrees to meet him and shake his hand, real change will come to the country.

Nathan hopes to be able to get there first.

Ando wants to be equal partners with Hiro. He agrees and then tries to use his power, which causes his head to hurt.

Janice is ready to leave, but Matt says he can’t go with her. Until he ends what’s going on, he can’t have a life together with her, which he maybe wants.

Nathan Petrelli goes to confront Nathan Petrelli. It’s people like Sylar that caused him to go to the President in the first place. Just as Sylar’s about to off him, a shot is fired by Danko. You can’t go around killing US Senators. Because Sylar doesn’t want to listen to him, he jabs something in the back of his skull. He’ll have to try harder than that to kill him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 25 An Invisible Thread, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 24 I Am Sylar airs Monday April 20 at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“I AM SYLAR”

04/20/2009 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : SYLAR’S NEW ABILITY BEGINS TO TAKE ITS TOLL ON HIM - EMMY AWARD-WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK, NOAH GRAY-CABEY AND CLINT HOWARD GUEST STAR - Sylar (Zachary Quinto) continues his unusual partnership and begins to have an unexpected identity crisis. Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) take measures toward bringing down Building 26. Meanwhile, Matt’s (Greg Grunberg) new found fatherhood changes his priorities. Elsewhere, Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) sets a plan in motion to right the wrongs of his government operation. Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cristine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Lisa Lackey and Ellen Greene also guest star.

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Sylar the shapeshifter, Danko, and HRG started to play mind games on each other in Heroes Season 3 Episode 22, as little Matt Parkman gave big Matt Parkman the encouragement he needed to continue. At the end of the episode, Angela, Peter, Nathan, Claire, and HRG proceeded to dig up a bunch of bones when they arrived at Coyote Sands.

The digging continues. There are a lot of graves there. What happened out there?

Flashback to February 1961 and a relocation center. Angela and her sister Alice are meeting Dr. Chandra Suresh. One of the first people she meets is named Linderman. The doctor told their parents that place would make Angela’s nightmares go away. She assured her little sister everything would be fine. Before she and her parents died there. Now she knows that everybody needs to come together there now, or history will repeat itself.

Angela’s been dreaming about her sister, alive. She thinks she has to find her body to give her a proper burial. The company started there and worked fine for 50 years… until now. Peter and Claire aren’t very happy about the ways of the company, such as memory erasing, blackmail, and murder.

Young Angela believed she and the other freaks were there to be saved. Her nightmares came true, not the coolest power.

Alice has something to share with her sister. She thinks she can control the weather.

Claire asked for some alone time with Angela. Why didn’t she tell Nathan and Peter about her sister? After dancing around the question, Angela asks: did you ever do something so shameful that if you talk about it you might never stop crying? Then they’re interrupted by Angela’s dream coming to life.

Peter still blames his brother for making him miss a 1986 World Series game. Missing Mookie Wilson somehow continues to interfere with their relationship 20 years later.

There’s a severe storm warning over Coyote Sands. Mohinder arrives just in time to find the hectic conditions. He came to find out what his father was doing there 50 years ago as a doctor. Now he’s not so sure he wants to know.

Back to black-and-whiteville. Suresh wants to talk to Angela. She’s had dreams about him. He’s going to kill everybody there. He wants her to rest assured… that won’t happen.

With that flashback done, the storm’s gone, but so is Angela.

Seeing the bones, Mohinder’s disillusioned by his father’s killingness. He worked there and survived, while everybody else died. The most obvious answer is usually the right one. HRG defends his dad.

Suresh thinks they’re destined to repeat their parents’ mistakes. Nonetheless, he has to believe there is hope for redemption.

Claire can’t remember the last book she read or the last movie she saw. When does she get to go back? When does digging graves not seem like just a regular everyday experience?

Back in 1961, Angela’s plotting an escape. Her sister would just slow them down, though, so she’ll have to lie to her and leave her behind.

A growed up Angela gets a visit from her also growed up sister Alice.

Having escaped, Angela’s having trouble getting the cops to believe her. Rather than worrying about that, she’ll have a dance to make up for missing her prom. The cook won’t let her dance with a colored, but they don’t have to be afraid since he’s got the power to make him forget what he saw and go back to his cooking. When she hears about a severe storm warning, she insists they have to get back to Alice.

Alice really is still alive. She’s been there for 50 years, staying in that same place because her sister told her she’d be safe if she stayed there. And the world would be safe from her.

The night Angela left, Dr. Suresh came for Alice. Wanting him to not experiment on her, she created a severe storm. Then total chaos erupted, and armed guards began firing on people with abilities.

Now that her life’s pretty much over already, Alice doesn’t have to stay there any more. She can go home. Wherever that is.

Angela apologizes for lying to her. Time for another storm and some people to get knocked out with lightning. Despite an apology from Angela, Alice doesn’t want to go home. She will take her up on that leaving the place she’s stayed at for 50 years, though.

Peter’s ready to leave, but Suresh will be staying behind. He’s not ready to forgive himself yet.

Peter has realized that families have the capacity for forgiveness. They need to try to put their lives back together.

Nathan plans to go back to Washington, take ownership of his mistakes, and talk to the President. Looks like Sylar beat him to it. He’s on the TV holding a news conference in Nathan’s body.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 24 I Am Sylar, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 23 1961 airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“1961″

04/13/2009 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : THE HAUNTING SECRETS OF ANGELA PETRELLI’S PAST CAN’T STAY BURIED FOREVER - As Nathan (Adrian Pasdar), Claire (Hayden Panettiere), Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) and H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) help Angela (Cristine Rose) uncover her past, she reveals the dark secrets that have haunted her for years. Meanwhile, Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) learns of his father’s involvement in a long forgotten government operation. Diana Scarwid, Alexa Nikolas, Laura Marano, Ravi Kapoor, Casey Kringlen, H. Michael Croner and Edwin Hodge guest star.

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Danko teamed up with a Sylar looking shapeshifter in Heroes Season 3 Episode 21. Meanwhile, Angela had a dream that she needs to reunite the family and go see her sister.

HRG’s examining what appears to be Sylar’s body. Danko says to trust him and that he’s not getting up this time. Funny how HRG’s tried all these years to capture him, yet Danko managed to do it this quickly.

Hiro and Ando are searching for big Matt Parkman. It’s their duty to unite the two Matt Parkmans. First they have to overcome the mystery of how to get the baby to stop crying. That and why their new car all of a sudden has stopped working.

Parkman’s looking for revenge on Danko.

Sandy comes to see HRG, and she’s not leaving town until he finds Claire.

The shapeshifter plans to destroy HRG.

Noah gets a call from Angela, talking about Coyote Sands. For 20 years, he’s asked about it but been told not to ask. She has spoken to Nathan, who will meet her there with Claire. He needs to meet them there as well. Noah, however, would apparently prefer to do some more digging into Sylar’s dead body.

Ando and Hiro are now hitchhiking. They’re picked up by a guy who looks Japanese but speaks redneck. His truck is now broken, too. Must be the baby.

HRG pulls the object out of Sylar’s skull. He wants a DNA analysis, but he does not want the body cremated.

Sandy brings some papers to sign. She wants to get a divorce because he’s a liar who’s endangered their lives. If only it were the real Sandy and not some shapeshifter.

If they can get the baby to stop crying, they’ll be able to proceed on their way. Until then, they’re stuck making funny faces. Ando probably can’t stay like that all the way to New York.

Parkman follows Danko to someone he apparently cares about. Except it turns out to be an escort.

The DNA matches James Martin, the shapeshifter. At least he was the shapeshifter until Sylar came along.

Matt tells the escort, Elena, that whatever Danko’s told her, it’s all a lie.

Suresh has gone to his apartment and finds some items in storage. There’s a place called Coyote Sands.

Sandy gets a visit from an angry gun-toting HRG. The signature on the divorce papers doesn’t match hers. If she’s really a shapeshifter, though, she probably wouldn’t have her phone and know where the dog’s pills are. His explanation about Sylar’s shapeshiftingness, which she believes, doesn’t ease her mind.

Elena has found where Danko really lives, thanks to Parkman. His fantasies of a normal life don’t change the fact that he kills people for a living. He really does care about her, though. Still, Parkman can’t kill her, so he drops the gun. Danko, however, has no problem killing Parkman. In the nick of time, Hiro arrives to stop time and wheel Parkman away. He lost the girl and didn’t hit the target.

Sylar’s gotten his hands on HRG’s old Primatech files. Only it’s not Sylar. It’s the real HRG. He wants Sylar on a platter. He’s on assignment as the leader of team six.

Matt Parkman didn’t want to be rescued, but perhaps he’ll change his mind when he meets Matt Parkman.

HRG goes with Danko to confront the leader of team six. After he shoots him, he insists he’ll heal. He doesn’t. Not until everybody else is out of the room anyway.

Danko calls Elena to explain his being a mad dog killer type. Jakob is the man he really wants to be, and he wants a chance to prove himself.

Angela, Peter, Nathan, and Claire have arrived at Coyote Sands. Whatever has happened, Nathan’s still his brother. They have to understand the past, which means grabbing some shovels and digging. Whose skull is that? Perhaps if they keep digging, they’ll find more. During this body hunt, HRG arrives as well.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 23 1961, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 22 Turn and Face the Strange airs Monday April 6 at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE”

04/06/2009 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : RELATIONSHIPS ARE TESTED AS DANKO TAKES THE OPERATION TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL - EMMY AWARD-WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK GUEST STARS - As Danko (guest star Zeljko Ivanek) spearheads the government operation, someone close to him is put in the line of fire. HRG’s (Jack Coleman) life continues to spiral out of control and his marriage is dangerously close to the breaking point. Meanwhile, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) continue their road trip with a special delivery for Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg). Elsewhere, Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose) unearths the demons of her past. Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Ashley Crow also guest stars.

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