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.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 11 Thanksgiving, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

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.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 10 Brother’s Keeper, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

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.

Promo

Tracy and HRG tried to bust Jeremy out of prison in Heroes Season 4 Episode 7, but their efforts proved futile when they found his body in the street. Samuel, who met up with Tracy while she was in town, got vengeance for his death, though. Speaking of deaths, Gretchen found out someone was trying to kill her, while Parkman’s body was overtaken by Sylar.

Tonight we head back to Hiro, where he left off three years ago with Charlie at a diner in Texas.

You’ve heard the story before. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl dies. Boy travels back through time to try to save her life.

No matter how hard Hiro tried, the Brain Man, Sylar, always got to her. So he’s back to try again.

Samuel believes they need Hiro, so it’s time for him to go back to the past as well.

Sylar finds out that Charlie’s got a genius memory. His theory: the cause is that blood clot in her brain. Perhaps he could help her fix that.

HRG’s at the diner, too, trying to stop a deranged serial killer with super powers from offing his cheerleader daughter. He’s also having breakfast with some blonde chick, something he does twice a week, only this time she’s brought a motel key with her. Duty calls, though.

This is the biggest butterfly Hiro needs to correct. Samuel’s willing to help, but he wants to make sure that Charlie’s actually worth it to Hiro. She is.

Hiro freezes Sylar (and the rest of the world), wheels him off, and tosses him in the bottom of a bus. Once that’s done, he plans to be awesome charming super cool. Then he realizes a flaw in his plan. If Charlie doesn’t die, he doesn’t go back to save her, and history goes kablooey. Great scott. So then he pays a visit to himself. Don’t bother with the cheerleader. Save the waitress. Go back six months into the past. With that, now he’s in the picture with her.

So then future Hiro goes to talk to Ando. He promises to wait for six months ago Hiro to show up.

Charlie has decided to go to Japan with Hiro. That’s where Takezo Kensei was born. As she starts spouting off random facts, it seems something’s wrong. She’s still genius girl… on autopilot. Her aneurysm is rupturing, and she’s dying. Not if he can help it. Time to go check that bus for Sylar. Hiro’s got an offer: help and learn about the future. His life… and death. He agrees to help and fixes Charlie with ease.

Living up to his end of the bargain, Hiro tells Sylar’s story. He gathers a lot of power, becomes the strongest of them all, and dies alone, with nobody caring.

HRG wants to back out of this workplace romance with Lauren. He still loves his family.

Charlie was okay with dying. Now she feels like she’s cheating. Saving her changed history and was selfish. Eventually, she reconsiders and realizes that she loves him, too. When she steps outside, butterfly man has taken her back to his carnival. Hiro takes them forward to the carnival, where they meet another time traveller, a dead one that Samuel asked to trap Charlie somewhere in time. So where is she? Samuel has no plans of telling just yet because he needs help fixing his past.

He made a mistake about eight weeks ago. He killed Suresh. Well, that explains where he’s been.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 9 Shadowboxing, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 8 Once Upon a Time in Texas airs Monday November 2 at 8/7c on NBC.

“HEROES”

“ONCE UPON A TIME IN TEXAS”

11/02/2009 (08:00PM - 09:00PM) (Monday) : HIRO GETS A SECOND CHANCE TO SAVE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE - JAYMA MAYS RETURNS AS CHARLIE - When Hiro (Masi Oka) travels three years into the past, he has a second chance to save Charlie (guest star Jayma Mays) from the hands of Sylar (Zachary Quinto). However, Samuel’s (Robert Knepper) presence serves to complicate Hiro’s mission even further. Elsewhere, H.R.G.’s (Jack Coleman) past with his Primatech partner (guest star Elizabeth Rohm) is revealed. James Kyson Lee, Hayden Panettiere and Sendhil Ramamurthy also star. Danielle Savre, Sally Champlin and Dawn Olivieri also guest star.

Promo

Hiro travelled back in time again in Heroes Season 4 Episode 6, this time with a goal to save Charlie. Samuel attempted to get Sylar to turn to the dark side, culminating in the death (thanks to Edgar) of the cop who was after Sylar. HRG and Peter paid a visit to healer Jeremy, which gave Peter a healing power and Noah a new purpose.

Being trapped inside Parkman’s head offers fringe benefits to Sylar: the ability to sleep with his wife.

Jeremy has been locked up by the cops. He seems to be having a pattern with problems in that town. Whether charges are being pressed against him are unclear, but help is just a phone call away. Tracy arrives in the town with no lattes. They won’t release Jeremy to Noah because he’s not family, but it turns out he’s very fond of his aunt Tracy. I’ll bet.

Claire wants to talk about how her roommate has a crush on her. She doesn’t want to mess up the first real friendship she’s had since she left Texas. While they’re chatting, people with hoods and masks bust in. Naturally, Claire beats them up. Next time, they might want to choose a better initiation for their sorority. Realizing what’s going on, Claire allows them to kidnap her and Gretchen so they can spend some time tied up together in the dark. Claire’s gonna need some more time to decide which team she wants to bat for.

When they arrive, they’re left in a room to compete with another pair of girls. The winner gets to sit out Hell week. They’ve been taken to a slaughterhouse to search for clues.

Despite the arrival of Jeremy’s next of kin as requested, the police still want to hold him. They’ve found a drawing and some words in his notebook about being the bringer of death. Noah responds that half the songs in his iPod sound just like that seeing as he’s 17. Jeremy also allegedly kills animals for fun.

Samuel shows up. What’s Tracy’s next move once she frees Jeremy? He takes her to the carnival and insists he’s a friend.

Gretchen hasn’t yet decided either. She has had more boyfriends than girlfriends. Claire, meanwhile, is a virgin. Maybe they’re strange attractors, a physics term for particles that end up together that don’t really belong together but end up super powerful when they are. Fascinating place to be having this discussion. This time, Claire ends up having to save Gretchen’s life from certain doom, and she’s starting to think this isn’t a game.

Matt asks Janice to trust him while he goes out and gets rid of the psycho inside his head. She’d like him to stick around, and she’ll take baby Matt Parkman elsewhere. His plan is to call Suresh.

HRG has given Jeremy a new identity, Jared Mitchell. He will be living a few doors down the hall from him in DC. Tracy assures him nothing will happen, and he will be safe.

Gretchen keeps asking questions she probably doesn’t want to know the answer to. She eventually arrives that the conclusion that somebody’s trying to kill her, although it’s not a conclusion she’s ready to believe.

As he’s being escorted out of the prison, Jeremy’s confronted by someone who doesn’t want him to get away with murder. Jeremy kills him in front of a mob of people. Well, that’s gonna be a little harder to cover up. HRG says that he can save him. Perhaps that will buy him some forgiveness. Not interested.

Jeremy’s been dragged outside by one of the cops, who chains him to a car and has someone start driving it.

During his drinking binge, Parkman has found a way to get rid of Sylar. Keep chugging until he’s ready to pass out. In the process, he discovers that Sylar is afraid of dying.

Claire and Gretchen have won. They find a teddy bear hanging on a meat hook. As Claire realizes she needs Gretchen, the next attempt on her life comes a bit closer with Gretchen’s strangling. That didn’t work either. In the process of this battle, Claire stabs the invisible Rebecca to reveal their attacker. That probably wasn’t part of the plan. Now would somebody mind getting Claire down from the wall she’s been stabbed to? With that, two additional people now know Claire’s secret.

Tracy and Noah find Jeremy’s body abandoned in the street.

Parkman wakes up from his drunkenness. When he blacked out, Sylar stepped in. Now Sylar’s in the driver’s seat. Good luck with that.

Samuel has arrived at the scene of Jeremy’s murder. With the flick of his hands, the people responsible for it (and the building they’re in) are no more.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 8 Once Upon a Time in Texas, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.