Heroes: The Second Coming
September 29th 2008 21:08
Heroes: Volume 3: “Villains”
Who shot Nathan Petrelli? Probably the last person you would have guessed…
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We begin Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the new season of Heroes 4 years in the future, in Manhattan with future Claire trying to shoot future Peter. He tries to stop her, telling her he can go back “before they found out about us”, but she thinks it’s too late. Telling him she always loved him, Claire apologizes and shoots.
Peter stops slows time enough to sidestep the bullet and grab the gun. He’s gone before Claire can even figure out what happened.
~*~*~
Present Day: Chapter one: “The Second Coming”
We’re back to the day Nathan’s giving his speech. Only this time, we’re with the killer. A man pulls a baseball cap down low over his head and steps up, raising the gun and shooting.
People scream, Nathan falls, and Peter runs after the killer…who just so happens to be…his future self!
Seeing reports of the shooting on TV, Claire automatically calls Peter, who tells her to stay at home. She argues that she can help, that her blood—Peter cuts her off. She needs to stay there.
At the hospital, the emergency crew brings Nathan in. Doctors order Peter out until the hallway, where he slumps to the floor and waits…and waits…and waits. Until finally, the doctor comes out. “I’m sorry.”
Peter walks into to find his bloody brother lying on the stretcher. He kisses Nathan’s forehead. “It shouldn’t end this way.” He lays a hand on Peter’s shoulder and—With a gasp Nathan wakes up.
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Meanwhile…
Hiro is bored out of his mind sitting at his father’s desk at Yamagato Industries, playing with going back and forth a few minutes, fifteen minutes in the past, 45 in the future. He sighs. This is not how he pictures his next quest.
Ando knocks on the door. “You busy, sir?”
“Stop calling me “sir”,” Hiro insists. “Just because I’m in his office…doesn’t mean I’m becoming my father.”
Ando says that he can’t help it, he’s intimidated. Intimidated, why? Well, for one, Hiro now owns 51% of the company, a fleet of corporate jets, and $250 million in cash. Hiro’s response? “I can teleport, remember?” He has no interest in money.
“You can always give it to me,” Ando says with a smile. “I’m extremely interested in money.”
Slightly depressed, Hiro says that money won’t show him his destiny. He’s saved the world now…twice! And here he is stuck in a desk job? “Now look at me, a man without a quest,” he says. “All I do is sit here, bored. It’s not like destiny is going to come knocking at my door.”
Cue knocking at the door!
Hiro and Ando look at each other.
Hiro gets up and accepts an envelope from his father’s lawyer. Inside is a DVD from his father, one that informs him about his destiny.
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Claire shuts off the news and hastily packs a bag. She flings the door open and stops dead in her tracks.
“Hello Claire.”
She stares at Sylar in shock. “I saw Hiro Nakamura kill you, I was there.”
He tells her that he’s fully recovered from that, well, maybe not fully, but that’s why he’s here. “I want your power.” He takes a step forward and Claire hits him over the head with a trophy.
She runs into the kitchen as furniture begins moving to block her in. After finding the phone dead, Claire grabs a kitchen knife and slowly starts her search. Sylar follows close behind, waiting silently for the right moment to strike.
Claire stops. He’s right behind her.
Suddenly, she swings around, knife ready. Sylar’s too fast. He disappears before she can get to him.
Claire runs and locks herself in a closet, using her dog’s leash to hold the door closed. Sylar calmly walks up, enjoying this game of cat and mouse. He tries the knob. It rattles but doesn’t open, the leash doing its job.
~*~*~
Another doorknob rattles in another apartment as Maya holds up a wooden paddle, ready to hit her attacker. The door swings open and—Whoa! Mohinder Suresh almost got it that time! Maya quickly apologizes, telling him that she thought Sylar had come back.
Suresh says he hopes he did the right thing sending Molly off. He quickly starts gathering up his things, telling her that he’s going back to India. He’s spent all this time trying to find a way to take these powers away, trying to continue his father’s research, he’s found nothing. He’s at a dead end, he’s going home.
Maya argues that she came all the way from South America to find him! He can’t give up before he’s even tried! When Suresh apologizes but tells her there’s nothing he can do for her, Maya’s powers start to emerge.
Suresh’s eyes begin to go black. “Maya—”
She backs off. “I’m sorry. I should go now.”
Suresh rushes after her, suddenly changing his mind. How did she do that? She tells him that she just sort of calms down and it goes away. On the verge of a major breakthrough, Suresh begins talking about the mind and body connection and suddenly it hits him: “Fight or flight. The adrenal gland, they control our stress levels. My father had it all wrong!” All this time his father thought these superpowers originated in the blood, but it’s not blood, it’s adrenaline!
He picks up a syringe. “All I have to do is make you mad again.”
~*~*~
Back in Japan, Hiro and Ando get ready to watch Hiro’s dad’s DVD. Hiro presses play. His dad fills the screen, sitting at the desk they’re not standing next to.
“Hiro, if you’re watching this, then I am dead. I have left you my fortune.” Hiro bows towards his father’s image. “But more importantly, I leave you with a sacred duty. You are now to be the sentinel of a dangerous secret.”
“A secret…?” Hiro asks.
“One that you must keep, as I and my father before me had done. It resides in my personal safe…In the wrong hands, this secret will destroy the world. ” Hiro nods again. “So it is your task now,” his father continues, “your sacred duty…to never open the safe.”
The video ends and Hiro stares at it in confusion. Ando grins. “Well, you said you wanted a quest…”Never open the safe.””
“I don’t want to be a sentinel!” Hiro says, disappointed. “I want to be a hero!”
He automatically rushes over to the safe. Ando follows him, asking him what he’s doing. There has to be a button to open the safe somewhere! Hiro rushes back to the desk, shuffling things around as Ando says, “Kaito Nakamura was like a father to me. You will do his name a great dishonor.”
“I was nobody in my father’s eyes until I proved I was my own man,” Hiro says, still looking over the desk. “I can’t go back to being nobody.” He looks at his friend. “My destiny…your destiny, Ando…is in side that safe.”
Hiro opens a red-tied black box he finds on the desk and smiles. Inside is a remote with one circular button. Yes! He quickly pulls it out and presses the button. The safe slides open, revealing a fingerprint ID scanner.
Hiro and Ando kneel in front of it and Hiro holds up his thumb.
“Why would your thumb print work?” Ando asks. “He doesn’t want you to open it.”
Hiro presses his thumb against the scanner and grins when the light blinks green and the safe unlocks. He smiles at Ando. “Or maybe he does.”
Hiro opens the safe to find another envelope with a note pressed to it. “Please press play.”
The two friends exchange a confused look and then Hiro gets up to grab the DVD remote again, pressing play.
His father’s image once again fills the screen. “I asked you not to open the safe.” Hiro is even more confused. “But now that you have, beware,” his father warns. “There are those who will stop at nothing to get this half of the formula. “
“Formula?” Ando asks. They both look at the envelope.
“Should it fall into the wrong hands,” Hiro’s father continues, “there is only one hope; a chosen one among you who carries the purity of blood, the “light” to safeguard against the darkness…Do you understand?”
“No. Not really,” Hiro answers the screen.
“So guard this half of the formula with your life. The fate of the world depends on it. Godspeed, my son.”
The video ends.
Ando and Hiro stare at the screen a second, both processing this new information, then Hiro quickly turns around and starts to open the envelope.
“Are you sure you should—“ Too late, he’s already gotten it open.
Hiro pulls out a white sheet of paper held in protective plastic. Hiro stares at the half of formula written on it. “I knew I should’ve paid more attention in Chemistry class.”
Suddenly with a whooooosh! The paper is snatched out of Hiro’s hands. Both he and Ando let out a surprised noise, and Hiro quickly stops time, staring at his empty hands.
Hiro looks around at the time-stopped office, and follows a ghostly white and pink streak through the room, out the door, through the office…and to a girl with short blond hair. The streak suddenly catches up to her and she unfreezes.
“How are you doin’ this? Are you a speedster too?”
Uh, no. He explains that he stops time, but she argue that he doesn’t stop it completely or they wouldn’t be having this conversation.
“So…you move fast?”
“No,” she answers. “I move really fast.”
She stole something from him and he wants it back. “This?” She whips out the formula and pulls it out of his grasp when he reaches for it.
“So this whole time-stopping thing, how does it work?” If he chases her all the way to Bangkok, will time still stay frozen here?
“I don’t know,” Hiro admits, never having thought about this before.
Well that’s something he can think about when he gets up. Wait, what—Too late, the girl punches him in the face and is gone in a whirl of office paper.
~*~*~
Peter’s going through a storage closet when Matt opens the door. “Looking for this?” He holds up the gun with a pencil. Peter side-steps the question commenting on how amazing it is that his brother’s going to recover so well. “Said the bullets went straight through him, barely any damage.”
Matt asks him how he knew where to find the gun, and Peter says he just didn’t think there were that many places for “him to stash it.”
“And what makes you think he stashed it?”
Matt tries to do his mind reading thing, but Peter fights back.
Matt: Ahh!
Peter: You had to go and be the detective, didn’t you Matt?
Peter reveals his real scar-slashed face and Mat can just stare at him in shock.
Matt: How—how did you—
Peter: I came from the future. To stop Nathan from telling the world about us. I had too, it’s where it all begins.
Matt: The future?
Peter lifts his hand. “And now that you know, you can’t be here.”
Matt disappears before he can even protest.
Peter shifts back to present-faced Peter and heads out.
~*~*~
Nathan wakes up in his hospital bed, frowning at his suit hanging on the back of the door.
Peter walks through the emergency room and a woman points to a room. He opens the door. The bed is empty. The suit is gone.
Outside, a news reporter is talking on camera about Nathan’s miraculous recovering when Nathan just walks out.
“That’s him!” They follow him into a chapel, where Nathan turns from staring at the cross to a woman tell a praying woman, “I saw God today.”
Peter exits the hospital and spots the camera crew.
“I was dead and he gave me another chance,” Nathan tells the woman, kneeling in front of her. “But now I know…the reason I’m here…To do great things. To do His bidding.”
The reporter asks him if he’s ready to make his statement now. Nathan looks at him as Peter sneaks in behind a column, hand readying his gun.
“God is the only one with a message,” Nathan answers. “It’s a message of hope and urgency, because he’s not going to wait much longer.” Nathan stands up. “His message is a simple one…we’re all connected. Our hopes, our dreams, our children’s futures, reflected back in each other’s eyes.” He glanced down at the woman and her children. “We fight our own battles.” He kneels in front of her to whisper, “But we know we’re not alone. Because only together can we make our short time on this planet mean something.” The woman nods. “Only together can we be our own destiny…”
Nathan turns to look at the camera. “And we hold in our collective hearts one noble goal.” He stands up. “To save ourselves…To save the world.”
Peter replaces the safety on his gun as his brother turns toward the cross. He walks up just in time to catch Nathan as he stumbles.
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Suresh is doing an experiment with the dopamine from Maya’s adrenal gland. They just have to wait a second to see if the enzyme attaches to the cortisol. He tells her she’s very brave to “have found me the way you did.” She tells him that there’s no other choice.
He imagines that, unsettling as it may be to have this power, he’s also imagined how exhilarating “one must know to know such power, to feel so special…” Maya looks at his hands on her arms and he lets go, turning back to the microscope.
“It worked.”
“What have you done?”
“What my father never could.”
He’s isolated the genetic building blocks of the powers. “The contents of this single syringe could give powers to anyone.”
He starts to rush out, but Maya calls forlornly, “Give powers?”
Suresh smiles. “And with the added effects of adrenaline? The effects would be instantaneous.”
He leaves.
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Claire is still hiding out in the closet. Sylar bangs on the door, then stops. “I know you’re scared. I would be too alone in this house with someone like me…A man you barely know.”
He starts to wander around, looking at all the boxes that belonging to Claire’s father. He tells her he doesn’t want to hurt her, he just wants what she has.
Sylar opens the box. “See, I lost everything that made me special.” He pulls out Noah’s files. “Lost but now found.” He starts to flip through them. “There’s a whole shopping list of abilities right here. But I’m gonna start with the best. And once I have yours—”
He turns around and Claire stabs a kitchen knife into his chest and tries to run. Sylar uses his powers to pin her to the wall, drawing his bloody line across her forehead. Claire screams.
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Claire is lying on the kitchen table. “What are you doing to me?”
“Looking for answers before I bleed to death,” He answers, looking down at her exposed brain. Why doesn’t she feel anything? No nerve endings. He imagines the answers they’ll have if they could use 100% of their brain instead of just 10%, maybe 20. “Why is there evil? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How do we make love stay? All these answers, they’re all right here…” he says, trailing a finger across her brain in awe.
“Are you gonna eat it?” Claire asks dazedly.
“Eat your brain?” His gaze shifts to her face and he leans down to whisper, “Claire that’s disgusting.”
“Ahh, there it is.” Sylar reaches in to pull something out of Claire’s brain. He struggles to his feet and rips out the knife in his chest. He looks down at his stab wound, smiling evilly when he heals.
He starts to leave, then stops to pick up the top of Claire’s head, which has been lying on the floor. He places her hair back on her head and Claire takes in a sudden breath, sitting up as her body begins to heal.
“Wait,” she asks, standing up. “What about me, aren’t you going to kill me?”
Sylar turns to her. “Poor girl. There’s so much about yourself you don’t understand. You’re brain is not like the others Claire,” he explains. “YOU are not like the others…You’re different, you’re special…And I couldn’t kill you even if you wanted to.” Stares at him in horror as he adds, “You can never die. And now I guess neither can I.”
Sylar leaves.
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Suresh glances up from the microscope as Maya enters to tell him he needs to destroy this new discovery. “It’s like you said, it’s against the laws of nature.” He argues that this breakthrough, the possibilities for ordinary people to—Maya interrupts “would have my ability!”
No that’s not true. “Each individual’s blood chemistry is unique. Like fingerprints.” Their abilities could manifest in an infinite number of wonder abilities. Or terrible, Maya argues.
Suresh won’t give it up even when she argues that in the wrong hands this could be disastrous! He argues right back that “it’s IN the wrong hands” right now! An entire clandestine company dedicated to hiding this from the world? Suresh doesn’t think that’s good.
“Yes,” Maya argues. “Because of people like me. Because of Sylar.”
Right. Suresh argues that Sylar killed his father. If he could have injected himself with this compound to stop him…Maya is shocked. He’d actually inject himself with it?
Suresh grabs a syringe. “There are quantum leaps in science that one dreams of being a part of. This is one of them.” He doesn’t understand why she doesn’t understand that. Maya doesn’t understand why anyone would want these abilities. “It’s a curse!”
She steps up to him. “Can what’s in that syringe cure me or not?”
Suresh doesn’t answer.
“Then it’s evil. And you should destroy it,” Maya answers. “For the sake of all of us.”
She walks out, leaving Suresh with his own thoughts.
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Nathan wakes up in his hospital bed and looks at his brother. “Am I still here?”
“Yeah.” Peter holds up a newspaper, pointing at the headline. “Touched by God. It’s what you said in the chapel.”
Nathan thought he dreamed that. Even so, “It’s true Pete. He cured me. Brought me back.”
Peter sits on the bed beside him, reminding him “you’ve seen what people like us can do.” Nathan lays and hand on his brother’s shoulder and asks, “Who’s to say this isn’t the hand of God? All of us? With these powers…did you ever stop and think about it Pete? We could be angels, all here to do God’s bidding.”
“What happened to telling the world about is?”
“We couldn’t be angels now if everyone knew, could we?” Nathan slips back into sleep and Peter stands up.
“I don’t expect you to understand what I did to you. But I hope that someday you’ll forgive me…” He kisses his brother’s forehead and leaves.
~*~*~
“Life is funny, isn’t it Nathan?”
“Linderman?” Nathan wakes up. “You’re the one who healed me.”
Linderman steps up to the bed. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends. Rough hew them how we will.” He pauses then adds, “It seems you and I are meant for great things, Nathan…Great things indeed.”
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A man watches the news report on Nathan on the TV. “Tracy baby,” he calls to the woman getting dressed in the room behind him. “I think we found our guy.”
“Isn’t that my job Governor?” a familiar voice asks. Nikki steps out of the bedroom, pulling on a robe. “What’s his name?”
“Petrelli. Nathan Petrelli.”
‘Tracy’ smiles, watching Nathan on TV. “I like him.”
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The Desert
Matt wakes up to find a scorpion crawling on his face. He quickly shoves it off and jumps up. “NOO!” He tries to listen with his powers…nothing. “Is there anybody here?!”
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“It was like she was moving at the speed of sound,” Hiro explains to Ando as they stand in the middle of downtown. “She must have known that I was going to open that safe. What was so important on that paper?” Hiro starts to walk and Ando follows him.
“I told you not to open it.”
Hiro glances at him, then asks, “And what was my father talking about, the “light”?”
Never mind that, Ando wants to know “What about the world being destroyed if that formula falls into the wrong hands?”
He’s got it! Hiro just has to go back into the past and ask his father. No way. Hiro’s decided that he’s “never going to the past again. You saw what happened last time.” He thinks for a second, then gets a great idea. He’ll go into the future! The future?
“If the world is going to be destroyed, I need to see how so we can stop it.”
“But what if you get stuck—”
Too late, Hiro’s already gone. Ando sighs. Here we go again…
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Hiro reappears in the future, where things are quite different. Sirens blare, people are running and screaming, it’s total chaos.
On a balcony above, Hiro spots himself holding the formula.
“Give me back the formula,” Ando orders him.
“No. You betrayed me.”
“You’re wrong.”
Hiro watches in total confusion as his future self pulls out a sword, aiming it at his best friend. Just as he’s about to swing, Ando shoots a red electrical charge at him and Future Hiro falls to the ground.
Future Ando steps up and takes the formula back. Hiro watches in shock as he runs off.
He starts to walk away in a daze…then he starts to run, getting knocked by people running in the opposite direction. Hiro finally turns to look at the city.
The sky is dark with unnaturally swirling black clouds of smoke, lighting flashes as the electricity in all the skyscrapers flickers out. The electrical smoke suddenly barrels down the street, lifting cars and taking out buildings.
Hiro’s eyes widen in horror. A car flies towards him and—
Suddenly all is well again as Hiro brings himself back to the present. Ando spots him. “Hiro!” He runs over.
“Well…?”
Hiro can only stare at him, still thinking about what he saw. “We have to find that formula.”
Ando nods happily and Hiro nods back. There is no smile on his face.
~*~*~
Suresh stands at a dock with the syringe held out over the water. He pauses just as he’s about to let go, then suddenly pulls back and jabs the needle into his arm.
He pulls the needle out, flexing his hand. Suddenly he’s racked with seizures and falls to the ground.
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Nathan’s mother stands over his bedside, turning when Peter enters. She follows him out into the hall.
“What have you done with Peter?” Peter stands up and she asks. “Who do you think you inherited your first ability from?”
She has dreams. She “dreamed you’d come, I saw what you’d do.” Shooting his own brother?!
Peter argues that he had to. The powers? The greed? The war?
“Who are you to play God?” his mother asks.
“You can see the future,” Peter argues. She knows that the formula she and her friends tried to buried gets out. “And it destroys EVERYTHING.”
Her mother grabs him by the collar pinning him to the wall. “The only future I’ve ever seen in the one caused by you.”
Peter pushes her off, growling, “Nathan. Didn’t. Die. And now he doesn’t have to.”
It doesn’t matter, his mother argues. He’s changed everything anyway, “So why don’t you go back to where you came from, you understand?” She relaxes. “Now…what did you do with my son?”
“Don’t worry,” Future Peter says smugly. “I put him somewhere safe.”
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Level 5
“This is a mistake!” a man yells. “I’m not who you think I am! I’m Peter Petrelli!”
The camera moves down the hall, revealing people in cells with glass windows. They’re all the same people who Sylar saw in Noah’s files…
Suresh (voice-over): Turning and turning the widening giant…the falcon cannot hear the falconer.” *the camera swings to show Noah, bouncing a ball against the glass of his cell* Things fall apart…the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
“I’m PETER PETRELLI! Please get me out of here!”
Noah stops bouncing his ball…
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“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere a ceremony of innocents is drowned…*Claire’s mom opens her front door to find her daughter still sitting at the table, a line of blood on her forehead* The best lack awkward fiction…while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand. Surely the second coming is at hand…The second coming…”
Matt wanders through the desert, coming up a painting on a rock. It’s a picture of the earth split in half by fire.
“Hardly the words out when a vast image out of spiritus mundi travels my sight…somewhere in sands of the desert…*Sylar walks down a suburban street, red file in hand* A shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun…is moving it’s slow thighs, while all about it, real shadows of the indignant desert burns…”
Linderman sits at Nathan’s bed.
“The darkness drops again…”
Tracy/Nikki watches Nathan on the news.
“But now I know that 20 centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle...and what rough beast, its hour come round at last…”
Suresh is still lying on the ground on the dock.
“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born…”
Two guys walk up to mug Suresh. They find the syringe. “Dude’s got some money here somewhere.”
Suresh stirs, confused.
“Give me your money…I said give me your money!”
Suresh is only just starting to realize what’s going on.
“Man, waste him,” one guy tells his friend, and his friend pulls out a gun.
“Ahhhh!” he shouts in pain as Suresh grabs the gun, crumpling it like it was tinfoil. He throws it away and springs to his feet, grabbing one of the guys and flinging him down the street.
Suresh stares at his hands in awe as the guys run away. He doesn’t notice the graffiti painted on the building behind him…a world being split apart by fire…
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Yes the premiere was in two parts. Yes I am posting in in two parts.
Who shot Nathan Petrelli? Probably the last person you would have guessed…
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*****SPOILER ALERT*****
We begin Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the new season of Heroes 4 years in the future, in Manhattan with future Claire trying to shoot future Peter. He tries to stop her, telling her he can go back “before they found out about us”, but she thinks it’s too late. Telling him she always loved him, Claire apologizes and shoots.
Peter stops slows time enough to sidestep the bullet and grab the gun. He’s gone before Claire can even figure out what happened.
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Present Day: Chapter one: “The Second Coming”
We’re back to the day Nathan’s giving his speech. Only this time, we’re with the killer. A man pulls a baseball cap down low over his head and steps up, raising the gun and shooting.
People scream, Nathan falls, and Peter runs after the killer…who just so happens to be…his future self!
Seeing reports of the shooting on TV, Claire automatically calls Peter, who tells her to stay at home. She argues that she can help, that her blood—Peter cuts her off. She needs to stay there.
At the hospital, the emergency crew brings Nathan in. Doctors order Peter out until the hallway, where he slumps to the floor and waits…and waits…and waits. Until finally, the doctor comes out. “I’m sorry.”
Peter walks into to find his bloody brother lying on the stretcher. He kisses Nathan’s forehead. “It shouldn’t end this way.” He lays a hand on Peter’s shoulder and—With a gasp Nathan wakes up.
~*~*~
Meanwhile…
Hiro is bored out of his mind sitting at his father’s desk at Yamagato Industries, playing with going back and forth a few minutes, fifteen minutes in the past, 45 in the future. He sighs. This is not how he pictures his next quest.
Ando knocks on the door. “You busy, sir?”
“Stop calling me “sir”,” Hiro insists. “Just because I’m in his office…doesn’t mean I’m becoming my father.”
Ando says that he can’t help it, he’s intimidated. Intimidated, why? Well, for one, Hiro now owns 51% of the company, a fleet of corporate jets, and $250 million in cash. Hiro’s response? “I can teleport, remember?” He has no interest in money.
“You can always give it to me,” Ando says with a smile. “I’m extremely interested in money.”
Slightly depressed, Hiro says that money won’t show him his destiny. He’s saved the world now…twice! And here he is stuck in a desk job? “Now look at me, a man without a quest,” he says. “All I do is sit here, bored. It’s not like destiny is going to come knocking at my door.”
Cue knocking at the door!
Hiro and Ando look at each other.
Hiro gets up and accepts an envelope from his father’s lawyer. Inside is a DVD from his father, one that informs him about his destiny.
~*~*~
Claire shuts off the news and hastily packs a bag. She flings the door open and stops dead in her tracks.
“Hello Claire.”
She stares at Sylar in shock. “I saw Hiro Nakamura kill you, I was there.”
He tells her that he’s fully recovered from that, well, maybe not fully, but that’s why he’s here. “I want your power.” He takes a step forward and Claire hits him over the head with a trophy.
She runs into the kitchen as furniture begins moving to block her in. After finding the phone dead, Claire grabs a kitchen knife and slowly starts her search. Sylar follows close behind, waiting silently for the right moment to strike.
Claire stops. He’s right behind her.
Suddenly, she swings around, knife ready. Sylar’s too fast. He disappears before she can get to him.
Claire runs and locks herself in a closet, using her dog’s leash to hold the door closed. Sylar calmly walks up, enjoying this game of cat and mouse. He tries the knob. It rattles but doesn’t open, the leash doing its job.
~*~*~
Another doorknob rattles in another apartment as Maya holds up a wooden paddle, ready to hit her attacker. The door swings open and—Whoa! Mohinder Suresh almost got it that time! Maya quickly apologizes, telling him that she thought Sylar had come back.
Suresh says he hopes he did the right thing sending Molly off. He quickly starts gathering up his things, telling her that he’s going back to India. He’s spent all this time trying to find a way to take these powers away, trying to continue his father’s research, he’s found nothing. He’s at a dead end, he’s going home.
Maya argues that she came all the way from South America to find him! He can’t give up before he’s even tried! When Suresh apologizes but tells her there’s nothing he can do for her, Maya’s powers start to emerge.
Suresh’s eyes begin to go black. “Maya—”
She backs off. “I’m sorry. I should go now.”
Suresh rushes after her, suddenly changing his mind. How did she do that? She tells him that she just sort of calms down and it goes away. On the verge of a major breakthrough, Suresh begins talking about the mind and body connection and suddenly it hits him: “Fight or flight. The adrenal gland, they control our stress levels. My father had it all wrong!” All this time his father thought these superpowers originated in the blood, but it’s not blood, it’s adrenaline!
He picks up a syringe. “All I have to do is make you mad again.”
~*~*~
Back in Japan, Hiro and Ando get ready to watch Hiro’s dad’s DVD. Hiro presses play. His dad fills the screen, sitting at the desk they’re not standing next to.
“Hiro, if you’re watching this, then I am dead. I have left you my fortune.” Hiro bows towards his father’s image. “But more importantly, I leave you with a sacred duty. You are now to be the sentinel of a dangerous secret.”
“A secret…?” Hiro asks.
“One that you must keep, as I and my father before me had done. It resides in my personal safe…In the wrong hands, this secret will destroy the world. ” Hiro nods again. “So it is your task now,” his father continues, “your sacred duty…to never open the safe.”
The video ends and Hiro stares at it in confusion. Ando grins. “Well, you said you wanted a quest…”Never open the safe.””
“I don’t want to be a sentinel!” Hiro says, disappointed. “I want to be a hero!”
He automatically rushes over to the safe. Ando follows him, asking him what he’s doing. There has to be a button to open the safe somewhere! Hiro rushes back to the desk, shuffling things around as Ando says, “Kaito Nakamura was like a father to me. You will do his name a great dishonor.”
“I was nobody in my father’s eyes until I proved I was my own man,” Hiro says, still looking over the desk. “I can’t go back to being nobody.” He looks at his friend. “My destiny…your destiny, Ando…is in side that safe.”
Hiro opens a red-tied black box he finds on the desk and smiles. Inside is a remote with one circular button. Yes! He quickly pulls it out and presses the button. The safe slides open, revealing a fingerprint ID scanner.
Hiro and Ando kneel in front of it and Hiro holds up his thumb.
“Why would your thumb print work?” Ando asks. “He doesn’t want you to open it.”
Hiro presses his thumb against the scanner and grins when the light blinks green and the safe unlocks. He smiles at Ando. “Or maybe he does.”
Hiro opens the safe to find another envelope with a note pressed to it. “Please press play.”
The two friends exchange a confused look and then Hiro gets up to grab the DVD remote again, pressing play.
His father’s image once again fills the screen. “I asked you not to open the safe.” Hiro is even more confused. “But now that you have, beware,” his father warns. “There are those who will stop at nothing to get this half of the formula. “
“Formula?” Ando asks. They both look at the envelope.
“Should it fall into the wrong hands,” Hiro’s father continues, “there is only one hope; a chosen one among you who carries the purity of blood, the “light” to safeguard against the darkness…Do you understand?”
“No. Not really,” Hiro answers the screen.
“So guard this half of the formula with your life. The fate of the world depends on it. Godspeed, my son.”
The video ends.
Ando and Hiro stare at the screen a second, both processing this new information, then Hiro quickly turns around and starts to open the envelope.
“Are you sure you should—“ Too late, he’s already gotten it open.
Hiro pulls out a white sheet of paper held in protective plastic. Hiro stares at the half of formula written on it. “I knew I should’ve paid more attention in Chemistry class.”
Suddenly with a whooooosh! The paper is snatched out of Hiro’s hands. Both he and Ando let out a surprised noise, and Hiro quickly stops time, staring at his empty hands.
Hiro looks around at the time-stopped office, and follows a ghostly white and pink streak through the room, out the door, through the office…and to a girl with short blond hair. The streak suddenly catches up to her and she unfreezes.
“How are you doin’ this? Are you a speedster too?”
Uh, no. He explains that he stops time, but she argue that he doesn’t stop it completely or they wouldn’t be having this conversation.
“So…you move fast?”
“No,” she answers. “I move really fast.”
She stole something from him and he wants it back. “This?” She whips out the formula and pulls it out of his grasp when he reaches for it.
“So this whole time-stopping thing, how does it work?” If he chases her all the way to Bangkok, will time still stay frozen here?
“I don’t know,” Hiro admits, never having thought about this before.
Well that’s something he can think about when he gets up. Wait, what—Too late, the girl punches him in the face and is gone in a whirl of office paper.
~*~*~
Peter’s going through a storage closet when Matt opens the door. “Looking for this?” He holds up the gun with a pencil. Peter side-steps the question commenting on how amazing it is that his brother’s going to recover so well. “Said the bullets went straight through him, barely any damage.”
Matt asks him how he knew where to find the gun, and Peter says he just didn’t think there were that many places for “him to stash it.”
“And what makes you think he stashed it?”
Matt tries to do his mind reading thing, but Peter fights back.
Matt: Ahh!
Peter: You had to go and be the detective, didn’t you Matt?
Peter reveals his real scar-slashed face and Mat can just stare at him in shock.
Matt: How—how did you—
Peter: I came from the future. To stop Nathan from telling the world about us. I had too, it’s where it all begins.
Matt: The future?
Peter lifts his hand. “And now that you know, you can’t be here.”
Matt disappears before he can even protest.
Peter shifts back to present-faced Peter and heads out.
~*~*~
Nathan wakes up in his hospital bed, frowning at his suit hanging on the back of the door.
Peter walks through the emergency room and a woman points to a room. He opens the door. The bed is empty. The suit is gone.
Outside, a news reporter is talking on camera about Nathan’s miraculous recovering when Nathan just walks out.
“That’s him!” They follow him into a chapel, where Nathan turns from staring at the cross to a woman tell a praying woman, “I saw God today.”
Peter exits the hospital and spots the camera crew.
“I was dead and he gave me another chance,” Nathan tells the woman, kneeling in front of her. “But now I know…the reason I’m here…To do great things. To do His bidding.”
The reporter asks him if he’s ready to make his statement now. Nathan looks at him as Peter sneaks in behind a column, hand readying his gun.
“God is the only one with a message,” Nathan answers. “It’s a message of hope and urgency, because he’s not going to wait much longer.” Nathan stands up. “His message is a simple one…we’re all connected. Our hopes, our dreams, our children’s futures, reflected back in each other’s eyes.” He glanced down at the woman and her children. “We fight our own battles.” He kneels in front of her to whisper, “But we know we’re not alone. Because only together can we make our short time on this planet mean something.” The woman nods. “Only together can we be our own destiny…”
Nathan turns to look at the camera. “And we hold in our collective hearts one noble goal.” He stands up. “To save ourselves…To save the world.”
Peter replaces the safety on his gun as his brother turns toward the cross. He walks up just in time to catch Nathan as he stumbles.
~*~*~
Suresh is doing an experiment with the dopamine from Maya’s adrenal gland. They just have to wait a second to see if the enzyme attaches to the cortisol. He tells her she’s very brave to “have found me the way you did.” She tells him that there’s no other choice.
He imagines that, unsettling as it may be to have this power, he’s also imagined how exhilarating “one must know to know such power, to feel so special…” Maya looks at his hands on her arms and he lets go, turning back to the microscope.
“It worked.”
“What have you done?”
“What my father never could.”
He’s isolated the genetic building blocks of the powers. “The contents of this single syringe could give powers to anyone.”
He starts to rush out, but Maya calls forlornly, “Give powers?”
Suresh smiles. “And with the added effects of adrenaline? The effects would be instantaneous.”
He leaves.
~*~*~
Claire is still hiding out in the closet. Sylar bangs on the door, then stops. “I know you’re scared. I would be too alone in this house with someone like me…A man you barely know.”
He starts to wander around, looking at all the boxes that belonging to Claire’s father. He tells her he doesn’t want to hurt her, he just wants what she has.
Sylar opens the box. “See, I lost everything that made me special.” He pulls out Noah’s files. “Lost but now found.” He starts to flip through them. “There’s a whole shopping list of abilities right here. But I’m gonna start with the best. And once I have yours—”
He turns around and Claire stabs a kitchen knife into his chest and tries to run. Sylar uses his powers to pin her to the wall, drawing his bloody line across her forehead. Claire screams.
~*~*~
Claire is lying on the kitchen table. “What are you doing to me?”
“Looking for answers before I bleed to death,” He answers, looking down at her exposed brain. Why doesn’t she feel anything? No nerve endings. He imagines the answers they’ll have if they could use 100% of their brain instead of just 10%, maybe 20. “Why is there evil? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How do we make love stay? All these answers, they’re all right here…” he says, trailing a finger across her brain in awe.
“Are you gonna eat it?” Claire asks dazedly.
“Eat your brain?” His gaze shifts to her face and he leans down to whisper, “Claire that’s disgusting.”
“Ahh, there it is.” Sylar reaches in to pull something out of Claire’s brain. He struggles to his feet and rips out the knife in his chest. He looks down at his stab wound, smiling evilly when he heals.
He starts to leave, then stops to pick up the top of Claire’s head, which has been lying on the floor. He places her hair back on her head and Claire takes in a sudden breath, sitting up as her body begins to heal.
“Wait,” she asks, standing up. “What about me, aren’t you going to kill me?”
Sylar turns to her. “Poor girl. There’s so much about yourself you don’t understand. You’re brain is not like the others Claire,” he explains. “YOU are not like the others…You’re different, you’re special…And I couldn’t kill you even if you wanted to.” Stares at him in horror as he adds, “You can never die. And now I guess neither can I.”
Sylar leaves.
~*~*~
Suresh glances up from the microscope as Maya enters to tell him he needs to destroy this new discovery. “It’s like you said, it’s against the laws of nature.” He argues that this breakthrough, the possibilities for ordinary people to—Maya interrupts “would have my ability!”
No that’s not true. “Each individual’s blood chemistry is unique. Like fingerprints.” Their abilities could manifest in an infinite number of wonder abilities. Or terrible, Maya argues.
Suresh won’t give it up even when she argues that in the wrong hands this could be disastrous! He argues right back that “it’s IN the wrong hands” right now! An entire clandestine company dedicated to hiding this from the world? Suresh doesn’t think that’s good.
“Yes,” Maya argues. “Because of people like me. Because of Sylar.”
Right. Suresh argues that Sylar killed his father. If he could have injected himself with this compound to stop him…Maya is shocked. He’d actually inject himself with it?
Suresh grabs a syringe. “There are quantum leaps in science that one dreams of being a part of. This is one of them.” He doesn’t understand why she doesn’t understand that. Maya doesn’t understand why anyone would want these abilities. “It’s a curse!”
She steps up to him. “Can what’s in that syringe cure me or not?”
Suresh doesn’t answer.
“Then it’s evil. And you should destroy it,” Maya answers. “For the sake of all of us.”
She walks out, leaving Suresh with his own thoughts.
~*~*~
Nathan wakes up in his hospital bed and looks at his brother. “Am I still here?”
“Yeah.” Peter holds up a newspaper, pointing at the headline. “Touched by God. It’s what you said in the chapel.”
Nathan thought he dreamed that. Even so, “It’s true Pete. He cured me. Brought me back.”
Peter sits on the bed beside him, reminding him “you’ve seen what people like us can do.” Nathan lays and hand on his brother’s shoulder and asks, “Who’s to say this isn’t the hand of God? All of us? With these powers…did you ever stop and think about it Pete? We could be angels, all here to do God’s bidding.”
“What happened to telling the world about is?”
“We couldn’t be angels now if everyone knew, could we?” Nathan slips back into sleep and Peter stands up.
“I don’t expect you to understand what I did to you. But I hope that someday you’ll forgive me…” He kisses his brother’s forehead and leaves.
~*~*~
“Life is funny, isn’t it Nathan?”
“Linderman?” Nathan wakes up. “You’re the one who healed me.”
Linderman steps up to the bed. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends. Rough hew them how we will.” He pauses then adds, “It seems you and I are meant for great things, Nathan…Great things indeed.”
~*~*~
A man watches the news report on Nathan on the TV. “Tracy baby,” he calls to the woman getting dressed in the room behind him. “I think we found our guy.”
“Isn’t that my job Governor?” a familiar voice asks. Nikki steps out of the bedroom, pulling on a robe. “What’s his name?”
“Petrelli. Nathan Petrelli.”
‘Tracy’ smiles, watching Nathan on TV. “I like him.”
~*~*~
The Desert
Matt wakes up to find a scorpion crawling on his face. He quickly shoves it off and jumps up. “NOO!” He tries to listen with his powers…nothing. “Is there anybody here?!”
~*~*~
“It was like she was moving at the speed of sound,” Hiro explains to Ando as they stand in the middle of downtown. “She must have known that I was going to open that safe. What was so important on that paper?” Hiro starts to walk and Ando follows him.
“I told you not to open it.”
Hiro glances at him, then asks, “And what was my father talking about, the “light”?”
Never mind that, Ando wants to know “What about the world being destroyed if that formula falls into the wrong hands?”
He’s got it! Hiro just has to go back into the past and ask his father. No way. Hiro’s decided that he’s “never going to the past again. You saw what happened last time.” He thinks for a second, then gets a great idea. He’ll go into the future! The future?
“If the world is going to be destroyed, I need to see how so we can stop it.”
“But what if you get stuck—”
Too late, Hiro’s already gone. Ando sighs. Here we go again…
~*~*~
Hiro reappears in the future, where things are quite different. Sirens blare, people are running and screaming, it’s total chaos.
On a balcony above, Hiro spots himself holding the formula.
“Give me back the formula,” Ando orders him.
“No. You betrayed me.”
“You’re wrong.”
Hiro watches in total confusion as his future self pulls out a sword, aiming it at his best friend. Just as he’s about to swing, Ando shoots a red electrical charge at him and Future Hiro falls to the ground.
Future Ando steps up and takes the formula back. Hiro watches in shock as he runs off.
He starts to walk away in a daze…then he starts to run, getting knocked by people running in the opposite direction. Hiro finally turns to look at the city.
The sky is dark with unnaturally swirling black clouds of smoke, lighting flashes as the electricity in all the skyscrapers flickers out. The electrical smoke suddenly barrels down the street, lifting cars and taking out buildings.
Hiro’s eyes widen in horror. A car flies towards him and—
Suddenly all is well again as Hiro brings himself back to the present. Ando spots him. “Hiro!” He runs over.
“Well…?”
Hiro can only stare at him, still thinking about what he saw. “We have to find that formula.”
Ando nods happily and Hiro nods back. There is no smile on his face.
~*~*~
Suresh stands at a dock with the syringe held out over the water. He pauses just as he’s about to let go, then suddenly pulls back and jabs the needle into his arm.
He pulls the needle out, flexing his hand. Suddenly he’s racked with seizures and falls to the ground.
~*~*~
Nathan’s mother stands over his bedside, turning when Peter enters. She follows him out into the hall.
“What have you done with Peter?” Peter stands up and she asks. “Who do you think you inherited your first ability from?”
She has dreams. She “dreamed you’d come, I saw what you’d do.” Shooting his own brother?!
Peter argues that he had to. The powers? The greed? The war?
“Who are you to play God?” his mother asks.
“You can see the future,” Peter argues. She knows that the formula she and her friends tried to buried gets out. “And it destroys EVERYTHING.”
Her mother grabs him by the collar pinning him to the wall. “The only future I’ve ever seen in the one caused by you.”
Peter pushes her off, growling, “Nathan. Didn’t. Die. And now he doesn’t have to.”
It doesn’t matter, his mother argues. He’s changed everything anyway, “So why don’t you go back to where you came from, you understand?” She relaxes. “Now…what did you do with my son?”
“Don’t worry,” Future Peter says smugly. “I put him somewhere safe.”
~*~*~
Level 5
“This is a mistake!” a man yells. “I’m not who you think I am! I’m Peter Petrelli!”
The camera moves down the hall, revealing people in cells with glass windows. They’re all the same people who Sylar saw in Noah’s files…
Suresh (voice-over): Turning and turning the widening giant…the falcon cannot hear the falconer.” *the camera swings to show Noah, bouncing a ball against the glass of his cell* Things fall apart…the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
“I’m PETER PETRELLI! Please get me out of here!”
Noah stops bouncing his ball…
~*~*~
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere a ceremony of innocents is drowned…*Claire’s mom opens her front door to find her daughter still sitting at the table, a line of blood on her forehead* The best lack awkward fiction…while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand. Surely the second coming is at hand…The second coming…”
Matt wanders through the desert, coming up a painting on a rock. It’s a picture of the earth split in half by fire.
“Hardly the words out when a vast image out of spiritus mundi travels my sight…somewhere in sands of the desert…*Sylar walks down a suburban street, red file in hand* A shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun…is moving it’s slow thighs, while all about it, real shadows of the indignant desert burns…”
Linderman sits at Nathan’s bed.
“The darkness drops again…”
Tracy/Nikki watches Nathan on the news.
“But now I know that 20 centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle...and what rough beast, its hour come round at last…”
Suresh is still lying on the ground on the dock.
“Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born…”
Two guys walk up to mug Suresh. They find the syringe. “Dude’s got some money here somewhere.”
Suresh stirs, confused.
“Give me your money…I said give me your money!”
Suresh is only just starting to realize what’s going on.
“Man, waste him,” one guy tells his friend, and his friend pulls out a gun.
“Ahhhh!” he shouts in pain as Suresh grabs the gun, crumpling it like it was tinfoil. He throws it away and springs to his feet, grabbing one of the guys and flinging him down the street.
Suresh stares at his hands in awe as the guys run away. He doesn’t notice the graffiti painted on the building behind him…a world being split apart by fire…
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Yes the premiere was in two parts. Yes I am posting in in two parts.
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