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.

Sneak Peek

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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Before touching Parkman’s hand and no doubt ending up with unintended consequences in Heroes Season 4 Episode 10, Nathan decided that he doesn’t exist any more because he’s becoming Sylar. Meanwhile, Suresh had his own trouble. He wasn’t killed, but he was locked up in the nuthouse.

Samuel’s got his hands on the film that he wanted now. He’s watching the part where he’s being born, a disaster waiting to happen.

Hiro wants to know where and when Charlie is. Samuel is not ready to play just yet, and Hiro can’t make him since it’s not like he can just kill the only person who knows where to find Charlie. But smile, it’s Thanksgiving.

HRG runs into Lauren at the supermarket, where he checks out some yams before inviting her for dinner.

Peter goes to visit his mom, who says that Nathan’s dead body was a shapeshifter, and Parkman is unbalanced and can’t be trusted. Not buying this story, the question is simple. Is Nathan really dead? Yeah, Nathan would like to know the answer to that, too.

Claire’s surprised to find that her dad brought a date. No, not a date. Just an old friend. Mom will understand.

Hiro is not quite ready to enjoy Thanksgiving. First of all, they don’t celebrate that in Japan. Second, Samuel is a liar liar pants on fire. If he did fix the past, though, that would lead some to believe that Joseph should still be around. They fail to realize that Samuel’s goals were more selfish than that. That said, Lydia wants to go back to eight weeks ago so she can see what happened to Joseph.

Angela tells the boys that they really did see Nathan’s body, although his mind still lives on in his current body.

As if Thanksgiving dinner isn’t awkward enough, Sandra’s boyfriend Doug suggests going around the table and saying what they’re thankful for. This can only end badly. When they get to Claire, she’s just not feeling it. She’s thinking about dropping out of school.

Back to the night Joseph died. He warns his brother that he has the power to kill millions. Because of that, he has to be controlled. It’s then that Samuel learns that Suresh was instructed to burn the film. Furthermore, a man from the government is coming to take Samuel in. Well, that’s about all that needs to be said before Joseph gets killed by his brother, which Lydia and Hiro witness.

Doug tells Claire this will all blow over. Stuff like this happens to everyone. Really? So she grabs a knife and slits her arm. Perhaps a visit from Gretchen will cheer her up.

Nathan informs his family that Sylar’s in there with him. Then a freaky light show happens. No need to get an exorcist, though. Sylar’s back. What’s for dinner?

Samuel just learned that the person who killed his brother is there sitting at the table. Edgar speaks up… Samuel is the one who murdered Joseph. The time traveler saw it. Hiro denies seeing anything. Perhaps, then, Edgar killed Joseph. Before Samuel can make Edgar suffer the same fate as his brother, Hiro freezes time, telling Edgar he has to run away to live to fight another day.

Sylar finds out that Nathan’s not so dead after all. He can control Sylar, just like Sylar controlled Parkman all that time.

After her visit with Gretchen, Claire tells her dad she’s going back to school. What she’s really doing is taking the compass she stole from him and seeing where it leads.

Peter promises his mom that he’ll find a way to get his brother alive again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 12 The Fifth Stage, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 11 Thanksgiving airs Monday November 23 at 8/7c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“THANKSGIVING”

11/23/2009 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Monday) : THANKSGIVING UNITES FAMILIES TOGETHER AND BRINGS NEW REVELATIONS - H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) hosts an untraditional Thanksgiving dinner. Elsewhere, the Petrelli family gets a surprise guest at their table. Meanwhile, Samuel (Robert Knepper) continues to hold Hiro (Masi Oka) hostage, as Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) goes in search for the truth. Greg Grunberg, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cristine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Ashley Crow, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Madeline Zima, Ray Park, Harry Perry, Elizabeth Rohm, Andrew Connolly also guest star.

Behind the Scenes

After getting his body taken over by Sylar, Parkman got the cops to shoot him in Heroes Season 4 Episode 9.

Samuel wants Hiro to go back in time and save a film.

Tracy’s wondering what life would be like living in a carnival.

Nathan thought he had a handle on things, but the last few weeks, he doesn’t know who he is any more.

Not too many weeks back, Tracy told HRG she didn’t want anything to do with him ever again. So of course this week she’s back to pay him a visit and look for help, inadvertently shattering his doorknob upon arrival.

The Haitian has been sent by Angela to wipe out Nathan’s and Peter’s memories, but he doesn’t want to. Instead, he hands Peter a card and tells him it is up to him to fix things, but that he should go alone.

Nine weeks ago in India, Suresh is going through a box when he finds a film made by his father, in which he says that people with abilities gathering together exponentially increases the force generated by each of them. Then there’s a baby being born.

Tracy’s next victim as she continues to freeze things without meaning to do so: Claire.

Peter doesn’t go alone. He drags Nathan with him. This lets Nathan be the one to make the discovery of his own body inside a coffin.

Maybe it’s a shapeshifter. Perhaps if Nathan touches the body. Doing so gives him bits and pieces of the story. They’re off to find Parkman to get some answers.

Tracy wants to drag the now frozen Claire into the tub. She breaks off her foot in the process. It’s a good thing she heals.

Parkman’s been located. He’s in a hospital in Texas, after having tried to commit suicide by cop. If they can get in, Peter thinks he can save him since he heals people now.

Using his father’s formulas, Suresh has created a compass. His concern is if the child on that film is still alive and surrounds himself with a large enough number of specials.

Peter and Nathan go to visit Parkman, and Peter heals him. When he wakes up, he tells them to run. Then he tells them the crazy story about how Sylar’s inside his head and Nathan’s dead. Sylar takes control and asks for one simple thing: Nathan to take his hand. It all adds up to Nathan. The new powers are Sylar’s. He doesn’t exist. There’s a touch and a flash. Where is Sylar? Whatever the answer, Nathan flies away with Peter over his shoulder.

Suresh arrives at the carnival, compass in hand, looking for Samuel, who may or may not even exist. He believes that Samuel can multiply his powers simply by being near others.

Parkman’s wheeled away and then proceeds to use mind control on the guard to convince him he’s dead.

Samuel’s brother Joseph has made it his life’s work to keep him in the dark about the true nature of his power. He probably didn’t count on Samuel overhearing this conversation. Suresh believes this was all a mistake and that he should have left that film in the trash. That said, he wants to burn it. Cue Hiro. He grabs the film and replaces it with another one.

Tracy met this man named Samuel. Yeah, Claire met him, too. Tracy’s considering joining him. Claire’s advice is maybe she should.

Evil butterfly man shows up and attacks Suresh. Bulletproof vest. Unlike the future Hiro comes from, Suresh is now no longer dead. Hiro wants him to just go away for eight weeks until Charlie is released. Nonetheless, Mohinder wants to keep fighting. Since he refuses to disappear, Hiro will have to make him disappear by locking him up in a psych ward in a padded room, where he just gets jabbed with needles at the first sign of revealing his real identity.

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Hiro went back to the past and saved Charlie in Heroes Season 4 Episode 8, but Samuel took advantage of the situation and hid her somewhere in time.

Back to Claire and Gretchen in the slaughter house. Claire’s got an excuse/explanation. The water bottles must have been drugged. Problem solved. Aside from the whole someone trying to kill Gretchen deal.

Peter’s using his new healing power to help the people he’s rescuing. As if miraculously, these patients are turning out not to be as bad as they first thought.

Parkman (aka Sylar) is headed to New York. The last thing he remembers is being stabbed by Peter. Maybe he’ll tell him the rest. There’s a problem. The socks he thought he was packing this morning… actually Parkman’s gun. Airport security’s gonna have a problem with that.

Lydia’s starting to believe that getting Claire on their side is a lost cause, but Samuel will continue to pursue it. Claire, meanwhile, wants to hunt down Becky, while Gretchen stays behind and fears for her life.

At the hospital, somebody hands a patient off to Emma and tells her to keep pressure on the wound until she sees a nurse or a resident. She feels ready to take care of this situation herself.

The girls from the slaughter incident have completely forgotten about it. The Haitian is in town. They don’t remember being kidnapped or anything about an attempted murder.

Sylar’s free after hours of talking, but he’s still on the no fly list, which means he’ll have to drive to New York, as long as he can avoid Parkman’s sabotage. After getting a flat tire from an object in the road Parkman didn’t want him to see, he kills a guy as a senseless random act Except he didn’t kill him. Parkman did. Sylar can do whatever he wants, like killing people in cold blood. Either Matt accepts that and stops the sabotage, or he’ll have to deal with further consequences.

When Claire returns, Gretchen’s packing. Claire’s reassurances fall on deaf ears. Her fear of being killed by an invisible psychopath is winning. As Gretchen walks out, Samuel comes to visit.

Sylar takes Parkman’s body to a restaurant, where he’s got a funny (not funny haha) story. He tried to kill a waitress there once. Either he spills the details of why he’s trapped inside his body, or Sylar kills again.

Samuel tells Claire that she’s not the one Becky is after. Becky says that it’s all about HRG. She’s seen him before. Back when he killed her father when she was 5. It was then that she discovered her ability to be invisible. Her plan isn’t to hurt Claire. It’s to hurt both of them.

There’s a reason why Claire is standing there listening to Samuel tell the story about Becky’s past. She’s stalling, waiting for her father to show up with a gun. Something everybody in the room can agree with: Rebecca is very disturbed. Before they throw down, HRG wants some answers, such as what’s up with the compass and the dead bodies it always shows up next to?

Emma discovers a girl on the floor. She’s not breathing, and there isn’t any time to get her to the ER. Emma saves the day.

As HRG’s preparing to haul Samuel off, he and Claire are attacked by something invisible. Rather than shoot, he lets them escape, at Claire’s insistence.

Thanks to the blackmail, Parkman has agreed to tell Sylar the whole story, which sounds kind of crazy. With this information, he’s gonna go find Nathan, then he’ll kill every single person remotely involved. He’ll have to get past the cops first. Seems Parkman has doodled threats on a napkin, and police surround the building. Parkman wants to prove he’s man enough to take a life. Sylar’s. He’ll die, too. Matt provokes the shooting, Sylar falls, and Parkman disappears.

We find out why Emma dropped out. Her nephew drowned right before her second year of residency, and she tried to revive him but was too late. Maybe she couldn’t save him, but she did save the little girl. For his part, Peter saved Emma.

Following the shooting that left multiple bullet wounds in his chest, now the paramedics are trying to revive Parkman.

Although Becky failed, Samuel feels comfortable that Claire’s right where they want her, and he still promises revenge.

Nathan pays Peter a visit. He thinks he’s in trouble.

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Heroes Season 4 Episode 9 Shadowboxing airs Monday November 9 at 8/7c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“SHADOWBOXING”

11/09/2009 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Monday) : CLAIRE LEARNS THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ATTACKS AND SYLAR TAKES MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HANDS ? JIMMY JEAN-LOUIS, MADELINE ZIMA, DEANNE BRAY, DAWN OLIVIERI AND TESSA THOMPSON GUEST STAR — Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is determined to get to the bottom of the Sorority Rush attacks on her own, until H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) intervenes only to realize he may be the source of her troubles. Meanwhile, Peter’s (Milo Ventimiglia) new ability is a perfect fit for his job and gives him the opportunity to help Emma (guest star DeanneBray) accept her new life. Elsewhere, Sylar’s (Zachary Quinto) battle at gaining full control over Matt’s (Greg Grunberg) body escalates –with potentially dangerous implications at stake. Robert Knepper and Adrian Pasdar also star. Kat Purgal, Carlease Burke, Danica Stewart,Candice Patton, Sally Champlin and Assaf Cohen also guest star.

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