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Despite the series low ratings for this expensive show and the resulting speculation surrounding what that would mean for its future, NBC entertainment president Angela Bromstad told THR that Heroes is not considered “on the bubble” for renewal. Additionally, she indicated that Heroes season 4 will be 18-20 episodes, somewhat abridged from a typical season order (the current season is 23 episodes).

Granted, regardless of how much people are talking about Heroes ratings decline, it is still tied with The Office as NBC’s top show among the key 18-49 demographic. Additionally, Day One, the upcoming show about a group of survivors in the wake of a catastrophic global event, may make a good combination with Heroes for a sci fi block.

While this news does not serve as official confirmation of the series receiving a renewal, it sure would seem that it’s unlikely that it will be cancelled.

HRG continued to walk the line between the two sides in Heroes Season 3 Episode 17.

Claire’s still hiding Alex in her closet. There’s a train leaving to Albuquerque, where he can start over. He’d rather stick around to be with his family and friends because they’ll find him anyway. After her mother comes in to grill her about the missing $300, Alex can come out of hiding since he’s now been discovered.

Peter and Parkman are now priority 1. Danko has authorized any means necessary, including lethal force, to take them down.

Speaking of Parkman, he’s still painting creepy pictures of the future. Peter wants to run, but Parkman just wants to find Daphne. He’s got a lead from when he was in Noah’s head: they need to find a hallway. The computer pops in with some actual information, an address to Daphne from Rebel, who says they’re coming. Just in time, they flee the scene. Given the paintings, there’s a good guess where they’re headed, though.

Claire introduces Alex as her new boyfriend. She tries to claim they’re intimately involved, but since she’s jailbait, this doesn’t fly. So she tells the truth. Would have been better off with the lying.

Luke and Sylar are still on their way to Sylar’s father. They have managed to escape the agents for now. While Luke’s trying to talk Sylar out of his need to see his father, Sylar all of a sudden stops at Big Jim’s Franks & Fries, for no apparent reason.

Sandra knows that there’s a van parked right outside watching Claire. She wants to help come up with a plan, and Alex is open to this.

Since Matt can only control so many minds, Peter borrows his ability. This means that they can control more minds, but it rules out the rooftop escape plan since he can no longer fly. They’re able to mind control enough people to gain access to a computer, but since that room is being monitored, it tips off Danko and the others exactly where they are. HRG tells Danko to not go out there, but he doesn’t listen, so his guys draw their guns on him.

In order to make a fake ID, Sandra grabs Lyle’s driver’s license because he got a C- on his history exam. Sometimes Claire just wishes she was normal to make things easier, but her mom doesn’t blame her for her problems with her father, whether they get a divorce or not.

Sylar and Luke go inside the abandoned building, where Sylar says he’s been before with his father back in 1980. He’s positive he can remember his father, and as proof, he’s found the toy car that he had that day from his memory.

Alex was hoping to get a kiss, but Claire’s mom interrupts just in time to stop them. There’s a compartment in the basement that he can hide in. The agents barge in the house, but they’re unable to find anything.

Daphne has been transferred to a medical facility. Rebel’s back, and he shows them a tape of the operation. Peter makes a copy of the footage as a bargaining chip.

HRG triggers the fire alarm in order to disrupt Parkman’s train of thought. It works, and they’ll have to run. Just in time, too, as Rebel warns them they have 30 seconds. They’re captured in the hallway. Parkman insists on holding them while Peter escapes.

Sylar recalls more of what happened, when he saw his dad kill someone, leaving her on the side of the road with a gash in her forehead. Mommy?

Nathan asks his mother whether she’s helping Peter, and whether she’s Rebel. She denies that she’s doing any of it. Then he gets a call from Peter. He wants a trade: Parkman and Daphne in exchange for the stolen files. Not the best deal.

Sandra causes a distraction, while Claire and Alex slip out the back. It buys them some time, but not much. When they get to the bottom of the hill, it’s a good thing he can hold his breath underwater. This also gives him the excuse he needed to kiss Claire, who is struggling to breathe underwater.

Danko’s not making the deal. He has another plan. He’s following orders, just not Nathan’s. Because he considers Peter a terrorist, he refuses to make a deal with him.

HRG goes with them and lets Peter read his thoughts that this is a double cross and that he needs to get lost. Danko’s shot strikes Peter, who falls but flies away. Obviously, Nathan’s involved, since he would have needed him to be able to fly away. Nathan agrees to take care of Peter if he just comes with him, but all the help he needs is a hug, which allows him to get the flying ability back. Angela warns Nathan that the game has changed, and he needs to be ready.

The footage has been leaked to the media as promised.

Sylar will let Luke live, so he can go back home to his mother and suffer. Now that he’s seen the truth, Sylar wants his father dead.

Danko drugs Parkman and drops him from the van wearing a bomb. He hopes people will beg him to hunt them.

Claire has learned that she wouldn’t trade her life for anything. Then she goes downstairs to see the creepy puppetmaster guy, who got a message from Rebel that Claire will save him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 19 Shades of Gray, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Claire tried to be normal for about five minutes but ultimately joined the rebel cause in Heroes Season 3 Episode 16. Hiro finally learned a lesson that he doesn’t need powers to be a hero, and after working on capturing all the heroes, HRG ultimately collapsed in a bar, being dragged off by those he had captured.

Parkman, Sylar, and Suresh came up with a plan to kidnap Noah by drugging him. They realize they don’t have much of an alternative. With his mind compromised, Parkman is able to get into his head and see what happened five weeks ago. Angela wanted him to know the company’s time has passed and that it’s over. He wants to adapt and get it right, but she’s tired of this whole thing. Now Parkman realizes that he’s going to be able to get to the memories he needs, and he’s willing to push as far as necessary, against Suresh’s concerns.

Nathan’s hunter, Danko, wants surveillance on HRG, and he’s also spying on Nathan, who he doesn’t trust either.

Parkman wants to keep pushing on, despite the pain he’s inadvertently inflicting. Back to four weeks ago. Nathan arrives at the Bennet house to talk to HRG. Everything’s going to change, but Claire will be safe. He plans to replace Primatech with the resources and authority of the United States government. Certain exceptions will be made, like Nathan. And Claire, if HRG agrees to help. He hopes to have scientists figure out how to remove the abilities. HRG warns him he’s going to be seen as the villain, and none of the heroes will understand. Noah’s tired of doing crossword puzzles anyway, so he’s game.

With that last memory, they got the combination to HRG’s storage, which contains everything they need. Peter will go and just hopes Mohinder and Parkman don’t kill each other while he’s gone. Peter’s heist is being monitored, and Danko knows exactly where to find him now.

Nathan wants Peter caught, but without bloodshed. The team arrives with their weapons on stun, but then Peter just flies out. HRG warns that Peter’s probably dead, and they sent him right where they wanted him.

Now we go back to three weeks ago, in an attempt to find out who else he’s working with. HRG defends some of the people that are being targeted, but Danko doesn’t have any interest in any of them. HRG hops in a cab with Suresh as the driver and tells him what’s happening. He needs his assistance to stop the government program from blowing up in their faces. Parkman thinks that’s why Suresh really didn’t want him in his head, not because he was hurting him. Suresh said no, but he never saw anything that he could do to stop it even after he found out he was telling the truth. When they turn around, HRG’s gone.

They dash through the parking lot while Noah steals a car. Peter’s back just in time, landing on the windshield, and then they tie him back up. Peter knows they’re going to be caught up to eventually.

Time to go into his head, with or without the drugs. Back to one week ago. HRG arrives at Danko’s door. Danko sees this as a war, which requires single-minded focus. The people are just targets. Having done this for 20 years, HRG views the key as seeing people’s humanity, not their abilities, but he agrees that Danko’s the boss. Peter’s got another address.

Danko tells Peter to just go ahead and kill him. That will prove how dangerous abilities are. Nathan’s there now. He seems to have arrived rather quickly. Peter fires a shot, enough to wound Danko. Nathan warns Peter that he can’t pull the trigger because, if he does, Suresh and Parkman are dead. Danko’s not happy with his life being saved. He was hoping that Suresh and Parkman would be killed.

When he grabs a gun, Parkman’s told that Daphne’s alive. HRG agrees to let him go back inside his head without fighting so he can see for himself. Two days ago, he saw her, still alive despite the wound to her shoulder. In order to allow him the time to find this out, Suresh is outside and sacrificing himself, getting captured. Then the guys barge in the room and get Parkman to surrender, too.

Suresh is awakened inside Building 26. Nathan tells him the plane was taking them to a location that was supposed to contain them, but the hardliners now believe based on their actions that containment is not possible. He asks for his help to eliminate the powers. Daphne’s alive, for now, until his associates start killing people.

HRG promises Danko his complete focus. Danko blames Nathan’s personal issues for the heroes getting away. HRG believes now that Danko trusts him, although Angela doesn’t believe he trusts anybody.

Parkman’s painting the future, but he doesn’t like the mass destruction at his hands that he’s painted.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 18 Exposed, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 17 Cold Wars airs Monday February 23 at 9/8c on NBC.

Monday February 23, 2009
9:00 PM 1.0 HEROES
COLD WARS

HEAD GAMES ENSUE AS MATT EXTRACTS THE TRUTH FROM HRG — EMMY AWARD WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK AND BREA GRANT GUEST-STAR — While being held hostage, HRG (Jack Coleman) is subjected to Matt Parkman’s (Greg Grunberg) unique brand of interrogation, revealing how he became involved with Nathan’s (Adrian Pasdar) government plot to capture those with abilities. Meanwhile, Matt’s discoveries bring Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) face-to-face with “The Hunter” (guest star Zeljko Ivanek). Sendhil Ramamurthy and Cristine Rose also star. Ashley Crow also guest stars.

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The heroes escaped from the crashed plane… and then all returned to the same place and the scene of the wreck later on in Heroes Season 3 Episode 15.

Claire’s at home having a normal breakfast with a normal family when she receives a text message from the rebel looking for her help. HRG warns her that they can’t stray from the script because they’re being watched after her little plane crash problem. After he tells her she’d better be ready for class and leaves the room, she gets another text telling her to warn Alex at Sam’s Comics.

Nathan’s list of targets includes Sylar, who’s off to meet his father with Luke. They’re heading west, but Luke won’t tell him where.

Claire arrives to see Alex, who’s surprised to see a girl. She struggles to convince him until she jabs something through her hand and heals. When HRG shows up, it’s time to run.

They try sneaking out (poorly), and Alex runs into HRG. So Claire calls him, which is enough of a distraction to knock HRG down and make a run for it.

Ando and Hiro have arrived in New Delhi, India as planned. Hiro plans to save the bridge and stop the wedding like in Parkman’s drawing. Ando goes to see the bride and shows her his powers as a sign of whether she should marry or not. So the wedding is off.

DHS is now running Nathan’s show. He wants to reinforce the facilities to deal with his magic prisoners. Abby Collins doesn’t buy what he’s selling, and she demands to see the prisoner being held without a warrant or rights.

Sylar tells Luke to stop trying to be his friend or die. Luke brings up a red wagon, which Sylar remembers (who didn’t have a red wagon?). This happy memory ends with Luke’s revelation that Sylar was sold because his dad needed cash.

Abby knows Tracy, and she vows to end Nathan.

Alex can breathe underwater, though he’s never told anyone. He and Claire have been followed by the car registration, which they realize just in time to bail and run.

Hiro’s sulking because Ando stole his chance to have his powers back. He tells Ando to go save the bride, which he attempts to do before being beaten down and carried away. Hiro plans to save him and runs in with a loaf of bread, ready to attack.

HRG is told that his daughter’s car is parked half a block away from his current location.

Luke and Sylar are having dinner, and Sylar has to tell him his powers are not for amusement. Sylar hopes to meet his father to find out why he turned out the way he did. With that, Luke gives him the address, hoping he won’t kill him now. As some men show up, they make their way out slowly, but turn into half a dozen pretty quickly. Sylar proceeds to fling people around, and they learn that bullets are useless. Sylar thanks Luke for the address and drives away. Then Luke is shot.

Now that Ando’s been kidnapped, the wedding is back on. Hiro objects as the ceremony is happening. The wedding is back off again, or so the bride requests. So the groom calls off the wedding and agrees to give Hiro his lousy friend back.

HRG asks Claire if she knows what kind of trouble she’d be in if people think he can’t control her any more. She responds that he can’t.

Nathan receives notice that the project has been terminated. He asks for 5 minutes to prove what’s going on. His argument is that they’re so dangerous they have no Constitutional rights. As they’re talking, Tracy escapes and takes a hostage, which she then freezes and smashes before getting tasered and recaptured. Abby agrees to give him all the funding he needs.

Claire tells her mom what’s going on with her dad. It’s worse than the company. They’re taking anyone with an ability, dangerous or not. His argument is that either he’s onboard, or Claire’s on the list.

Tracy thinks that Nathan wanted her to escape because he knew exactly what would happen if she did.

Hiro doesn’t have his powers back, but he has learned that he doesn’t need them to be a hero. They have received a fax from Rebel of an address in LA.

HRG is moving out of the house, but he’ll be around, as will Claire’s new buddy Alex who’s hiding in the closet.

Sylar returned to get Luke, and they’re driving west again.

Despite Tracy’s accusations, Nathan wasn’t the one who let her escape, but her getting out was no accident. Somebody had to die to save the project.

Drinking at the bar, HRG goes all fuzzy and collapses, being picked up by Peter, Suresh, and Parkman.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 17 Cold Wars, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Volume 4 Fugitives began in Heroes Season 3 Episode 14. HRG rounded up all the heroes and put them on a plane. Claire broke on to that plane and freed them, which was going so well until a big hole got torn in the side of the plane.

The pilot managed an emergency landing, but the plane broke apart when it hit the ground. Some of the prisoners have escaped.

Hiro, Parkman, and Suresh are together and hiding from the search party.

Claire and Peter are also together and running, until HRG pulls a gun on them. He doesn’t pull the trigger, though, and Peter runs away. HRG doesn’t believe anybody will know anything, and the evidence will be destroyed to make sure of it.

They no longer consider those onboard prisoners. Rather, they’re terrorists who must be wiped out.

As Peter’s running, he comes across Tracy, who he convinces to go with him and fight.

Parkman’s under a trance and begins drawing. Hiro and Suresh want to see if they can blend in… by first ditching the bright orange jumpsuits.

Ando’s in Tokyo trying to get a flight to Arkansas (the place Clinton’s from) because that’s where he thinks Hiro has been taken. Daphne shows up to find him and has a faster way to get to Arkansas.

Suresh suggests that Hiro should turn himself in because he’s no use without his powers. Hiro refuses and still wants to be a hero.

Parkman’s drawing leads him to believe that Daphne is in trouble.

In New Jersey, a kid named Luke is being yelled at by his mother Mary Campbell for getting into a fight. When he arrives back home, there’s a strange guy in his living room, a guy who apparently made Sylar angry judging by his hands being staked to a chair. Not getting anywhere with Special Agent Simmons, Sylar’s decided that now he has to torture them in front of him.

Ando and Daphne arrive and see the soldiers and the cheerleader. Daphne dashes off because Hiro must be alive since Ando kills him in the future, and she wants to make sure that he stays alive.

Peter’s only got one power. He doesn’t know why, but he can only hold on to one power at a time, losing the old one as he picks up a new one. Tracy knows how Nathan thinks because she thinks the same way (yet she didn’t see this kidnapping bit coming).

Claire’s not happy with her father (either of them), as usual. They want her to just go off to college and pretend like none of this has happened. Daphne speeds in and grabs Claire. Nathan warns HRG that Claire’s running out of favors. HRG responds with blackmail, asking what the hunter would do if he knew he was one of them, too.

Parkman and Suresh arrive to find Ando, and Claire and Daphne arrive at the same spot, the place from Matt’s drawing. Then Hiro joins them. As she’s planning how to get the people out of there, Daphne’s shot. Then Claire gets shot. Parkman uses his powers to get the shooter to turn on his own men.

Sylar’s captives want to know what they ever did to him. Nothing. Wrong place, wrong time. Really no difference between him and a flood or tornado. He decides to turn his attention toward Mary first, and he doesn’t think Luke will really mind. This is enough to draw Luke into using his powers.

Claire’s been captured again and is freed again. HRG tells her to go home and live a normal life, and he’ll do what he can about Peter and the others.

Nathan gets a call from Tracy. He promises she won’t be hurt if she gives herself up now. She’s got something he wants: Peter. This gives her some room to negotiate.

Sylar wants to see Luke’s ability, the ability to melt, burn, or boil things, kind of like a microwave. Sylar accuses Luke of lying a lot, but he’s telling the truth when he says that Mary hates her son. As they’re talking, Simmons escapes and grabs a gun, which is the last thing he’ll ever do considering he’s melted and all. Mary thinks Luke is a freak, and Sylar is none too pleased because he just killed the one shot he had at finding his old man. Sylar will do Luke a favor and let him live. As Sylar’s walking away, Luke says he knows where his father is.

Tracy and Nathan arrive at the rendezvous point. If she delivers Peter, she gets to go free. Peter comes out of the woods with a gun, but Nathan’s got some people with guns behind him to back him up. So Peter grabs Nathan. With his new flying power, Peter goes free, but Nathan wants Tracy captured. Nathan thanks HRG for not shooting Peter when he had the chance.

Based on Parkman’s drawing, the heroes are planning to head to India. Hiro wants to get his powers back. Parkman wants revenge. Peter warns that they have to leave everything behind because everything’s been compromised anyway.

Sitting at home pondering getting a part time job and sticking around for a while, Claire gets an anonymous text message from “a friend” saying there’s still hope and a chance to fight back.

Angela won’t give Nathan reassurance this won’t all end badly.

Nathan returns to see Tracy. He tells her he won’t help her. As they’re shoving tubes into her, she yells “You’re one of us” repeatedly.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 16 Building 26, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Volume 3 Villains ended in December with Heroes Season 3 Episode 13.

Tonight is the start of Volume 4 Fugitives.

Nathan’s on the TV talking about his meteoric rise in such a short time. As Tracy’s watching the show, some guys dressed like ninjas break in with guns to taser her. They want Petrelli to know they got the first one.

Hiro’s got a lair now, and he hopes to get Ando to wear spandex and ride a motorcycle. He can track Ando’s position anywhere on the planet with a GPS implant. Ando takes off on the motorcycle, but he’s not wearing the spandex.

Peter’s a paramedic now, and a guy dies on the scene. He thinks he should have been stronger.

Angela is working on getting Claire into school. They want her to have a normal life, but she doesn’t believe that’s possible as long as Sylar’s still out there. Despite the fact that they found dental remains at Primatech, Claire doesn’t buy it and thinks Sylar is out there and killing, while HRG covers it all up.

Speaking of the devil, Sylar’s in a shop talking to Martin Gray, who 27 years ago went out to the store and never came back. Sylar says he’s his son and has some questions for him.

Daphne is using her speed in order to get finished with her job by 10 in the morning. Matt wants her to live a normal life like he’s trying to do.

Nathan doesn’t want Claire getting in the way when they take down Peter and Parkman, which Claire overhears by listening on the other line.

Martin tries to fake his way through this, but Sylar doesn’t believe a word. He wants to know who he really is. Martin was given Sylar by a man who needed money, his brother, who will presumably be paid a visit next.

One of Peter’s co-workers is afraid of Nathan because his family is from Iran.

Claire calls Peter to warn him about his mom and brother. So his reaction is to go see his mom. He gets in a cab where he finds Suresh is his driver. Suresh is trying to just be normal. Everybody’s under the radar, with the exception of Nathan. Mohinder would be completely fine with the government stepping in and trying to remove the threat of people with abilities, by whatever means necessary. As Peter hops out of the cab, the next customer has a gun. He leads him toward the men with the guns who got Tracy. Suresh may be surrounded, but ripping the door off the cab and using it as both a shield and a weapon proves effective. He runs and eventually meets up with HRG, who drives him a little way before tasering him himself.

Peter arrives at the house and finds Nathan, who says it’s all him and he’s doing what’s necessary. Despite the hostile tone of the meeting, Nathan asks for them to have dinner together, and Peter agrees. Nathan wants to know what Peter can do these days but doesn’t get an answer.

Usutu, the African painter, is there to see Parkman (only not really). This illusion tells him this is the calling to be a prophet. He can’t live a normal life because he’s not normal.

To Hiro’s dismay, Ando s using his Ando-cycle to pick up chicks at a strip club. When he hears Hiro getting roughed up and captured on the other end, though, he gets his game face on.

Parkman’s drawing is interrupted by a knock on the door. It’s Claire. They look at the drawings to try to figure them out. They’re of them, right now. When she asks what’s on his neck, he gets tasered. Excellent ability to see into the future 30 seconds. Claire is now surrounded.

Nathan wants Peter to tell him he’s with him, but Peter wants to fight him with every breath he has. So then he gets captured, too.

Sylar arrives to an empty home to look for Mr. Gray. The multiple taser blasts that ensue don’t slow him down any, and he breaks free. He wants one of the men, Agent Daniel Simmons, to tell him who sent him to the trap. With no answer, he just kills him.

Once he figures out Hiro’s not overly difficult password, Ando is now able to track Hiro because he, too, has a GPS inserted in himself.

They don’t have Sylar, but they do have Claire, who hates Nathan. But he gives her a free pass to go away and tells her to just forget everything she’s just seen. She takes that as an invitation to kick the guy driving her in the back of his head so she can hop on the plane that’s carrying the others. Once onboard, she frees and wakes everybody up. Peter takes care of the men who were supposed to be guarding the captives. Then she tells the men flying the plane, including copilot HRG, that they’re going to make an unexpected landing. Peter seems to have picked up a new power, the ability to freeze, which accidentally destroys part of the plane and gives them no choice but to land in a hurry. Peter attempts to hold on, but what he’s holding rips from the plane. Suresh reaches for Peter’s hand, and the start of the new volume ends as his grip begins to slip.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 15 Trust and Blood, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Hiro and Claire went back in the past to try to change who received the catalyst in Heroes Season 3 Episode 12. They succeeded, as Hiro was injected with it instead of Claire. Too bad Arthur showed up to steal the catalyst and trap Hiro on a light post.

Even though Arthur’s dead, Nathan doesn’t want the plan to die along with him. Peter’s not interested in continuing the plan, though.

Sylar breaks the news of Arthur’s death to the others and tells them he’s going to prove to them they’re all monsters, too.

Claire tells them her weakness, which she believes is Sylar’s weakness as well since he’s got her healing ability.

Meanwhile, 16 years ago, Hiro’s still hanging on a pole, asking a pigeon to help him.

Suresh’s infection has spread to his lungs, and he believes he’ll die if he doesn’t inject himself with the formula. Except the formula is stolen from him out of thin air. Daphne gives it to Ando, who hopes to become a time traveler, even though Matt warns him that he may end up just like Suresh.

Hiro manages to no longer be on the pole. He returns to his house to ask himself for some help finding the formula.

Sylar tells Claire that, if she kills Angela, he’ll allow them to leave. She’s not interested in the deal.

HRG goes to find a bunch of mad dog killer types, offering them their freedom in exchange for bringing them Sylar’s head. They’re just bait.

Peter, likewise, is working with some thugs, who say he’s one of the good guys now.

Ando tries to use his new time traveling power. Except he doesn’t have a new time traveling power.

Creepy puppetmaster guy is up first, but he can’t control Sylar and joins the list of casualties.

Then Sylar pumps Meredith with adrenaline so she can’t control her fire. Sylar tells HRG that the glass is bulletproof, and that he might need the one bullet he’s got left to eliminate the threat.

Nathan tells Knox he’s backing the wrong horse because Peter always loses. After they get into a fight, Tracy’s back, and her freezing power proves to be the difference.

Ando’s having trouble controlling his power, whatever it is. When Parkman touches him, he’s able to hear every thought of every person in the city. When Daphne touches him, she splits into two Daphnes. She thinks she traveled back in time, a few seconds anyway.

Sylar tells Claire he’s raised the stakes. Save daddy or save Angela. She goes downstairs, but Sylar ripped the keypad out of the wall. HRG has Meredith press her hands against the window with as much heat as she can, then Claire jumps through the glass to free HRG. Claire grabs her dad and runs off but tells her mom she’s coming back for her.

Tracy tells Nathan they need a new game with their own rules, which they can do as long as they get the formula. So he fires her.

Daphne and Ando plan to go back in time to where Hiro was. Not that they know it’ll work.

Hiro’s dad catches him hanging around and pulls out a sword. Hiro rips up the formula into two pieces, then disappears. Daphne and Ando have managed to track him down and bring him back to the present.

Hiro and Daphne arrive to tell Tracy they need the formula. She says she’s got plans for the formula and calls him Pikachu. Punching her and stealing the formula turns out to be an effective idea, though.

Once they’re done destroying the formula, Flint wants to blow up the building, whether there are people inside it or not. Nathan comes up and knocks Flint out, then he turns his attention to Peter. This fight is ended by Flint setting the place on fire as planned. Peter injects himself with the formula, and he flies out with Nathan.

Angela admits to Sylar that she’s not his mother. He forces some more truth out of her, which includes that he’s a monster, not a hero. The good news is that she knows who his real parents are. He’ll have to leave her alive to get any more out of her. As he’s trying to force the truth out, Claire knocks him down.

Claire goes back to save her mom, too, but they’re forced to leave as she explodes the building.

Now Peter’s got flying ability, and he saved his brother because he’s his brother, even if Nathan wouldn’t have done the same.

Hiro’s got the formula and tears it up.

So concludes volume three. Volume 4, Fugitives, begins February 2, 2009 when Heroes returns. Nathan wants to get the government involved to round up all the heroes and put them in a facility where they won’t be a danger.