Heroes Season 4 Episode 16 Pass/Fail airs Monday January 18 at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“PASS/FAIL”

01/18/2010 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : THE VERDICT OF AN UNEXPECTED TRIAL COULD MEAN THE END OF HIRO - GEORGE TAKEI, TAMLYN TOMITA, MADELINE ZIMA, DAWN OLIVIERI AND DAVID ANDERS GUEST STAR - Hiros (Masi Oka) life hangs in the balance as his brain tumor worsens, prompting him to subconsciously deal with some of his past decisions. Meanwhile, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) pays Claire (Hayden Panettiere) an unexpected visit to get answers as to why he isnt quite himself. Elsewhere, Samuels (Robert Knepper) plan to impress his long-lost love, Vanessa (guest star Kate Vernon), takes a terrifying turn. Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee and Sendhil Ramamurthy) also star. Lisa Lackey, Danielle Savre, Sally Champlin, Satomi Okuno and Jordan Dang also guest stars.

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Sylar paid a visit to Samuel in Heroes Season 4 Episode 14, which led him to the conclusion that he needs to go see Claire.

HRG could call Claire, but he doesn’t want to do so. They will have to do the tracking the old fashioned way and place a call to Vanessa Wheeler, whose family owned Samuel’s childhood home. Looks like he’s going to California.

Lydia, meanwhile, is looking to find a new leader. There’s a man of compassion who could be the next Joseph. Maybe she could call him. Peter awakens, compass on arm.

Parkman’s being a stay-at-home dad in an effort to stay at home and lock his doors. He gets a visit from Noah, who says that Samuel’s after Claire, and maybe tomorrow it will be little Matt Parkman.

As planned, Hiro and Ando have made their way to a mental institution and are getting Hiro “strapped in.” On his way to his new room, Hiro stats yelling about Dr. Watson when he sees the name Ahmadi on one of the doors. Ahmadi is Suresh.

Vanessa denies knowing Samuel in person, as she did on the phone. Parkman might be able to convince her she can trust them, though.

Peter goes to see Emma, and he sees the cello with a compass on it. Looks familiar.

Samuel seems obsessed with Vanessa, more and more since Joseph died. Maybe they don’t need to find Samuel. Perhaps Vanessa can get him there instead.

Like Emma, Peter knows Samuel, only he thought his name was William. When she pulls out the compass, Peter suggests keeping her distance.

So why hasn’t Suresh broken out yet? Storm troopers (the orderlies) have dulled his senses with Jawa Juice. Hiro grabs Suresh’s pills and switches them with aspirin. Well, that worked, except that Ando accidentally swallowed them.

Samuel arrives, with Eli by his side to serve as a distraction as he hauls Vanessa off. Samuel thought he got the upper hand over Noah, but all went as planned. He and Parkman are tracking Vanessa.

Angela had a dream, and she tells Peter that there’s nothing he can do to save Emma. He has to save himself. Although the dream was foggy, the message was not: she’s going to help kill people. Something to do with the cello.

Hiro wakes up Suresh, who busts out of his room. They grab Ando, put him in a wheelchair, and run to freedom. Those pills gave Ando some nice firepower, which allows them to escape as the confused storm troopers look on.

The signal HRG hoped to follow has disappeared. Parkman suggests that maybe some days he can’t save the whole world. Go home and hug his little girl.

Like his mom, Peter has a dream about Emma. Afterward, he comes to destroy the cello.

As they’re running through the woods trying to escape the storm troopers and ewoks, Suresh suggests that Ando use his red light on Hiro to get him to teleport them out of there. Let’s just hope nobody dies. It works, and Hiro’s back to normal.

At Parkman’s suggestion, HRG stops by to visit Claire. He’s torched a lot of bridges, but hopefully he can still repair the one with his daughter.

Parkman, on the other hand, is realizing that maybe there’s more to the world than just his family.

HRG admits that he cares for Lauren more than he might have wanted to admit. While they’re kissing, they get a visit from three escapees from a mental institution.

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Heroes Season 4 Episode 15 Close to You airs Monday January 11 at 9/8c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“CLOSE TO YOU”

01/11/2010 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : H.R.G. EXPOSES SAMUEL’S GREATEST WEAKNESS IN AN EFFORT TO STOP HIM - LISA LACKEY, DAWN OLIVIERI AND ELISABETH ROHM GUEST STAR - H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) recruits Matt (Greg Grunberg) to help him take down Samuel (Robert Knepper), as they use his long-lost love, Vanessa (guest star Kate Vernon), to lure him to them, but Samuel has his own plans for Vanessa in the works. Meanwhile, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) go to extreme lengths to save Dr. Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy). Elsewhere, Peter’s (Milo Ventimiglia) introduction of Emma (guest star Deanne Bray) to his mother (Cristine Rose) brings forth visions of a very grim future. Hayden Panettiere also stars. Todd Stashwick and Sasha Pieterse also guest star.

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Hiro seemingly went mad, while Claire did some digging into what Samuel is up to in Heroes Season 4 Episode 13, but in the end the focus shifted to Nathan’s funeral.

86 hours ago, HRG met with Peter to show him Nathan’s body and tell him the plane’s ready to go.

Samuel gets a visit from the one person with abilities he could probably do without: Sylar. With all these powerful people around, Sylar could sure have himself a good feast and get a lot more powers. That may be tough to do when Samuel knocks him out with his own increasing power base, though.

Angela warns Peter to not seek vengeance against Sylar.

Edgar pays HRG a visit, but his speed and knives don’t work this time. Then he brings him to a freezer and injects him with something to slow him down and level the playing field.

Sylar’s not exactly dead, so Samuel puts him in Lydia’s trailer. Everybody has to play to their strengths. Hers would be being a piece of flesh. By slipping him the tongue, she’s able to get glimpses at what he wants. He grabs her power, which allows him to find out that what she wants is to manipulate him to her goal: killing Samuel. Once she calls him impotent, though, that’s pretty much all there is to this little meeting.

Peter decides to go around saving people, so he heads to the scene of a shootout of a disgruntled ex-employee, and Claire follows him. His hope is to talk some sense into the shooter. The problem with this plan is that Claire’s the one who can’t get hurt by bullets, whereas Peter just lands himself up on a stretcher. At least she can give him her power so that he’s now virtually invincible.

Edgar having been exiled may make him willing to cooperate. It should work better than slicing him anyway. He and HRG are both worried about what Samuel’s up to. The problem is they have differing opinions how to proceed. Edgar wants to leave the others alone but just get rid of Samuel. HRG wants to reintegrate them back into society.

Samuel agrees to a game of chance. He’ll tattoo Sylar to see whether he belongs there or not. The result leads Sylar to believe he doesn’t. Instead, he’s off to see the cheerleader.

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Claire went to the carnival in Heroes Season 4 Episode 12, and she decided to stick around for a while.

Samuel is going to the city to get someone to help their plan come together. He tells Claire they’ll end up with a permanent place, and then she may want to stay. Or go. Her choice. Well, she’s not really free to go, but she can think she is.

Hiro’s on the streets of Japan, where he sees a woman getting mugged. His reward for being a hero: the cops arrest him.

Ando’s been looking for Hiro for about six weeks, so as it turns out that’s where Hiro is headed after the police get their hands on him. Perhaps Ando can explain why Hiro is talking in riddles. Perhaps not.

Emma gets a letter from the medical school. Her application has been denied. When she gets home, she gets a visit from Samuel. He’s the one who sent her the cello.

Hiro has a plan: go to the land of swamp dragons and rescue Dr. Watson. Sounds like somebody needs his brain operated on. Nonetheless, Ando’s starting to understand. Some of this is from Sherlock Holmes, some from X-Men. Maybe if they go get his comic books they will get to the bottom of this mystery.

Samuel’s reason for visiting Emma is because he hopes to locate another hero also overwhelmed by his gift.

Claire thinks she’s being followed. Pretty much because she is. Eli’s all around her. She leads him into the house of mirrors, where she, too, can now appear as multiple people. Then she knocks him out. After that, she sneaks in to find out what Samuel’s been so preocupied with since she got there. It doesn’t end there, though. Eric Doyle is back to see if he can control her again. While inside the trailer, she finds out that Samuel is using HRG’s old files to find people with abilities. He’s planning something. Doyle is okay with that.

Based on Hiro’s rambling about Don Quixote and Spiderman, some of it in Spanish, Ando has determined that Hiro wants to go to somewhere in Florida called Arkham. A search leads to a psychiatric hospital. Well, that should be fun.

Samuel tells Emma her playing is like a siren’s song. This proves true. A little bit of playing allows him to track down the hero he’s looking for, Ian. Before leaving, Samuel gives her the compass to help get her to a place he’d like her to visit.

A plane crash pops up on the TV. Nathan Petrelli was the pilot.

Claire manages to talk some sense into Doyle, who suggests talking to Lydia if she wants to know what’s happening. She guesses what happened to Joseph: his brother Samuel killed him. Lydia begs for help to find someone who can stop Samuel. That will have to wait, seeing as Eli’s waiting for Claire as she walks away. Samuel is around to see this and pretend he doesn’t know what’s going on and that Claire’s not a prisoner. He admits he killed his brother, but says he just lost control.

Ian’s power is to create plant life. Kind of a boring power, but he can turn this wasteland into a paradise, a new home. Once Ian has created this new environment, Samuel reiterates to Claire that she’s free to go. Regardless of what she’s seen, she is open to the invite back and has no intention of giving the compass back to her father.

Claire gets a call from Peter. Something happened to Nathan, which makes her next stop a funeral.

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Heroes Season 4 Episode 13 Upon This Rock and Season 4 Episode 14 Let It Bleed air Monday January 4 at 8/7c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“UPON THIS ROCK/LET IT BLEED”

01/04/2010 (08:00PM - 10:00PM) (Monday) : “HEROES” RETURNS WITH A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR EPISODE - THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS INTENSIFIES AS FINAL RESPECTS ARE PAID TO A FALLEN HERO - RAY PARK, DAWN OLIVIERI, DAVID H. LAWRENCE XVII AND ELISABETH ROHM GUEST STAR - As Claire (Hayden Panettiere) becomes immersed into the world of the Carnival, she becomes increasingly suspicious of Samuels (Robert Knepper) motives. Hiro (Masi Oka) is on a mission to rescue one of his own, but has difficulty communicating his intentions to Ando (James Kyson Lee). Samuel has his sight set on Emma (guest star Deanne Bray) and her ability to complete his master plan. Meanwhile, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) returns to the Carnival in search of answers and Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) continues to struggle with the loss of his brother. Elsewhere, H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) sets his plan in motion to take down the carnival. Cristine Rose also stars. Todd Stashwick, Saemi Nakamura, Sasha Pieterse and Dawn Lyen Gardner also guest star.

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Claire and Gretchen reunited at Thanksgiving dinner, where Claire promptly stole the compass from her father in Heroes Season 4 Episode 11. Sylar, meanwhile, took over Nathan’s body, but not completely.

Lydia tells Samuel that she knows the truth, but she plans to keep the secret safe since she’s got a daughter to look after.

When he realizes the compass is missing, HRG immediately suspects Claire and calls to leave a voicemail warning her to stop whatever it is she’s planning. Lauren offers her CIA assistance to help track Claire down.

Peter plans to fight Sylar by taking his powers from him. He’s going to get Nathan, and if there is no Nathan, he’ll just have to settle for revenge.

Claire and Gretchen arrive to meet Lydia. She’s something like a crystal ball. Claire’s question is whether she’s supposed to be there. In response, she gets a tattoo of herself as an indestructable cheerleader.

Peter’s greeted by a seemingly nice lady on the elevator. She attacks him and throws him out. Yeah, that would be Sylar’s shapeshifting. As Sylar gets more aggressive, he finds out he’s powerless. Peter got some new abilities from the Haitian: mind erasing and power blocking. Perhaps if he tortures him some, they can make a deal. He’ll let up in exchange for Nathan’s return. Sounds like a pretty one sided deal because it is. Sylar tells him to just keep going. Following this session, Sylar shifts back into Nathan.

Gretchen doesn’t care for their little carnival trip, but Claire’s enjoying herself and thinking she may well be able to fit in there.

Emmett, Samuel’s new right hand man (or men as it may be) pays HRG a visit. He’s looking for something, and nobody will get hurt if he gets what he came for. That is before all the shooting starts. The prime one is the only one that can be shot, so the plan is to shoot them all and hope for the best. While HRG and Lauren are arriving at that plan, Emmett disappears, along with the files about the bad guys.

Samuel’s telling the kids stories, and when he’s done with his story, he drags Claire over to tell one of her own. While she’s doing that, Gretchen confronts him. What do these people want from her? He says they have a lot of love, whatever that means.

One of the carnival games is rigged. A guy who played minor league ball for three years was forced to miss the ball tosses. Afterward, he wants to see the man in charge to discuss the stolen money. Samuel lets the guy just keep punching him until Claire breaks it up. You can’t beat self healing girl in a fight, dude. Once he realizes that, it’s time to run the other way.

Nathan’s grown tired of fighting, but his brother tells him he can keep going. After a discussion about how Sylar’s killing him, Nathan jumps off the building. Peter grabs hold, but Nathan will not struggle to help him out. His parting thoughts before letting go are that Peter can do anything. Following a thud, Sylar walks away.

Following her visit, Claire has decided to stay for a couple more days rather than leaving with Gretchen. Samuel’s not after her, though.

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Heroes Season 4 Episode 12 The Fifth Stage airs Monday November 30 at 8/7c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“THE FIFTH STAGE”

11/30/2009 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Monday) : SAMUEL STARTS TO SEE HIS VISION TAKE SHAPE - H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) is greeted by some unexpected visitors and Samuel’s (Robert Knepper) grand plan begins to come to fruition. Meanwhile, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) struggles to accept the truth and takes extreme measures to get what he wants. Elsewhere, Claire’s (Hayden Panettiere) journey leads her to an unexpected destination. Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto and Cristine Rose also star. Jimmy Jean-Louis, David H. Lawrence XVII, Madeline Zima, Dawn Olivieri, Todd Stashwick and Elisabeth Rohm guest star.

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