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Remember when Nathan and Peter went up into the sky so they could save the world from Nuclear Peter? Well, he blew up, all right, but then he regenerated and saved Nathan before he could plummet to his death. And D.L. actually survived his shooting. And even though we didn't even know Maya and Alejandro four months ago, we check in on them too at Alejandro's wedding. Before they can cut the cake, however, Maya has one of her black-eyed hissy fits and everyone dies. After Peter delivers Nathan to the hospital, Tobby and Elle show up and grab Peter and take him back to The Company.
Tobby explains that The Company is on the track to a cure while Elle practically makes out with Peter on the sofa. Back at the hospital, Nathan learns that he's been burned over most of the left side of his body. He really is rather crispy. Over in D.L.'s wing of the hospital, Tobby shows up and tries to recruit Niki into The Company by offering her a chance to cure herself of her split personalities. Adam and Peter strike up a friendship through the wall that divides their rooms.
Nathan tells his wife the truth about his ability and Peter's explosion, but Mama Petrelli covers it all up by suggesting that Nathan has delusions of grandeur and that this sickness was passed down by his father. Of course Nathan's wife believes her. Niki goes off her Company-supplied meds, and this makes another personality come forward to trap Niki in her mirrored prison again. Peter tries to ask for permission to leave the facility, but Tobby turns him down. Adam tells Peter that they need to break out of there so that Adam can heal Nathan with his blood.
Peter also goes off his meds, but his results are much more positive. He phases through the wall and he and Adam easily walk out of their prison. Maya is busy being a nun when Alejandro brings a cop to take her into custody. Of course she has another hissy fit and starts the black stuff flowing, but Alejandro calms her down and they manage to escape. Niki's new alter ego takes her to L.A. D.L. goes to find her and she's with some grease-ball coke fiend. Niki wakes up after D.L. shows her a family portrait. They go to leave, but the coke fiend decides that shooting D.L. in cold blood is a better idea.
Peter and Adam visit Nathan's bedside, and the second Adam's blood is in Nathan's system, he starts to heal. On their way out of the hospital, Elle and the Haitian Sensation appear and all hell breaks loose. Elle shoots her blue electricity at them both and Adam goes down while Peter runs off. The Haitian Sensation gives chase and Peter takes his shirt off (thankfully!) and runs through a shipyard. This, of course, explains how Peter wound up in a container at the end of the first episode. Instead of capturing Peter and taking him back to The Company, the Haitian Sensation just locks up the inside of the container, gives him his "S" symbol necklace, and erases his memories, saying that it's high time Peter got himself a new life.
We catch up to today and Peter remembers everything. "Good then," says Adam, "shall we save the world?" Oh hell YEAH. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on Heroes: West discovered the truth about Claire's father; Claire's father had a spat with Mohinder because Mohinder shows up in a painting with a smoking gun that Bennet thinks is going to be aimed at him; Mohinder and Niki went up against Papa Parkman, but then Niki injected herself with the virus, only to discover that Mohinder's blood was no longer a cure; Peter and Caitlin discovered just how little of a cure there is in the future when they got captured by some HAZMAT dudes and quarantined; Peter escaped via time travel and met Kensei in the Hall of Lost Hero Crap, only to learn that Kensei is none other than Adam Monroe. And hot. He is Adam Monroe and he is hot. In fact, they're both hot. It's the Hall of Hot Heroes and their Lost Crap.
The voiceover is back, but thankfully it's brief. It basically just says that it's man's ability to remember that sets us apart from the cockroaches and rats. Peter runs around the Hall of Hot Heroes trying to force his way back to the future. Moyawnder says some more shit about celebrating triumphs and being warned about mistakes, but I've long since stopped listening to the voiceover, so I don't even care if it's important anymore.
Peter finds the note from Adam again and reads it over, commenting that he doesn't know any Adam. Of course that's when Adam himself appears, allowing Peter to shoot electricity at his hand, followed closely by a miracle of self-healing. Adam introduces himself, but clearly Peter doesn't remember him. Adam realizes that this means Peter's been in contact with the Haitian at some point. And here I was thinking Peter's amnesia was caused by the explosion in the sky. I thought that was a totally cheesy plotline, by the way, and now I feel chagrined and kind of...stupid. Of COURSE Peter came in contact with the Haitian! God!
Adam has a solution to Peter's memory loss: self-healing. Since Peter can do what Adam can do, he can heal his own mind. He instructs Peter to think about what matters to him most. Peter pulls out the photo of him and Nathan. "His name is Nathan," says Adam. Peter repeats the name, and suddenly, his memories of Nathan come flooding through fast and furious until...
...it's four months ago and we're back at Kirby Plaza as Nathan tries to tell his poor brother that they have to save the world together. Nathan steps forward and embraces Peter, and they shoot up into the sky as I try NOT to cry like I did the last time. As they skyrocket into the atmosphere, Peter tries to tell Nathan to let him go. "You go, I go!" yells Nathan as the flesh peels off his face. Peter tries to explain that it's taking all his powers not to explode, so he can't fly away like Nathan can. I take this to mean that if Peter explodes, he needs to be able to switch over and regenerate. He can't be concentrating on trying to fly, too. I guess his thinking is that at least Nathan can fly out of range, and Peter can just explode and regenerate in peace. Why yes, I am fanwanking, thank you for asking!
At any rate, Peter pushes Nathan off and he starts falling through the sky. Nathan yells after him, to no avail. Peter screams and finally explodes in a mini nuclear blast. Down in the plaza, Claire and her father look up at the explosion and realize that Peter and Nathan have, indeed, saved the world. Unfortunately, Nathan's in bad shape and has basically passed out in the clouds. He's dropping through the sky like a stone when suddenly Peter appears and scoops Nathan up and flies back to New York. This whole scene is so totally effin' awesome I can't deal. I suppose it also helps that both Peter and Nathan are more attractive than ever throughout it, what with the intensity of emotion and brotherly love being tossed around like beer nuts at a cheap dive. Mmmmm. Beer nuts.
Cut to Niki and Micah at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. Micah's asleep in her arms as she watches the news. A doctor arrives and informs them that D.L. survived the shooting and is going to be just fine. Niki weeps with gratitude. Then we cut to the Dominican Republic to get backstory on two characters we could care less about. That's right. Even though the Wonderless Twins weren't part of the original storylines last season, we have to suffer through their stupid expository storyline. Do you really want me to go into excessive detail here? Because seriously? Their whole backstory can be summed up thusly: Alejandro marries a bitch whom Maya hates, and Maya catches her cheating on Alejandro and has her black-eyed meltdown for the first time and she kills everyone and Alejandro finds out and hates her and Maya cries and becomes a nun and Alejandro turns her in to the police and Maya cries more tears of blackness and Alejandro stops her and they both realize their powers and then they go on the run. The end.
I really could care less about them. Sorry, actors -- you're lovely. But this story makes me want to poke my eyes out with chopsticks.
So, yeah, it's four months ago in the Dominican Republic, and Maya's acting more like a jealous girlfriend than a sister at her brother's wedding. She chastises him for marrying someone he's only been dating for four months and tells him that he barely knows her. Also, she's totally dancing with her ex-boyfriend at the moment and she's obviously enjoying it. Alejandro's a blind idiot who thinks that it's totally over between them and that his new bride loves him the most and that it's all going to be shiny and happy and awesome. Maya thinks he's a fucking moron.
Sure enough, the bride takes her ex by the hand and wanders off. Maya stops dancing and leaves her brother alone on the floor so she can go and cry black tears in a corner somewhere. Unfortunately, when she wipes her eyes, she doesn't look at her hand to see that her tears aren't the clear kind. She hears something across the hall and goes to investigate, and, of course, it's the bride with her legs wrapped around the waist of her ex-boyfriend. It's possible that wedding vows in the D.R. are different than those in the U.S., but I'm still thinking that banging your ex on your wedding night isn't included between "Do you take this man?" and "I do." ["Um, that's kind of culturally insensitive of you, Erin." -- Miss Alli]
Maya calls her sister-in-law a bitch and is about to go catty on her when the ex runs over and puts his hand over her mouth and tells her to keep her mouth shut. Maya screams that she'd rather see the bride dead than married to her brother, and that's when the Black Tears make their official debut and the fuck-happy exes drop to the ground with black leaking out of their eyes. Maya catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror and finally sees the black stuff on her face. She calls out for her brother and exits to the street, only to see that the whole damn town is dead, thanks to her. Alejandro runs up, and Maya's surprised that he's still alive. He asks what happened, and she says that she thinks she did it. Judging by the fact that she has black shit leaking from her eyes, I'd be inclined to agree with her, Alejandro. She spazzes out and runs away.
Back in New York, Peter carries Nathan's ruined body through the doors of what I'm assuming is Roosevelt Hospital, the Hospital of Heroes. He calls out to the staff, telling them to save his brother and do whatever it takes. The only damage that appears to have been visited upon Peter is that his clothing is rather...smoky. That's it. But it's enough to raise the eyebrows of a nearby cop, so the second he looks away, Peter goes invisible and walks off. He reappears in a corridor elsewhere in the hospital, and before I can appreciate how much I used to kind of love the emo bangs before I turned against them, Elle shows up with Tobby and shoots some blue electricity at Peter, bringing him down. "Did you have to use the full blast?" asks Tobby. "He can take it," smirks Elle.
There are no clever titling tricks in this episode, apparently, as we just get a simple "Four Months Ago..." on a black screen that leads into a close up of Peter's sleeping face. A female hand is twisting the emo bangs around her finger. "He's not a toy, Elle," says Tobby. "He could be," she says in this creepy little-girl voice. Peter wakes up and looks at her. She puts a finger to his nose and shoots a little blue spark at it. He jumps back into the corner of the sofa and asks where he is. Tobby tells him he's in a safe place. Peter asks after Nathan, and Tobby tells him that the finest doctors in the world are working on him, but the situation is dire.
"So who are you?" asks Peter as Elle continues to fondle him like he's a magical life-sized doll. "What am I doing here?" Tobby tells him that he's an old friend of Peter's parents and that, while he's safe, his brother is another story. Elle mentions Peter going nuclear, and he realizes that they know who he is and what he can do. She literally can't keep her hands off him during this whole scene, and it's kind of hilarious. Her fingers are in his hair and tugging on his ear and just generally treating his body like a wonderland. Heh. Tobby claims that as long as Peter's abilities have control of him instead of the other way around, he's a danger to everyone. "Believe me," says Peter, pulling away from Elle's intrusive hands, "if I could turn 'em off, I would." "Oh, we've done that for you," trills Elle. And, sure enough, when Peter goes to use his TK, nothing happens.
Peter asks how they stopped his powers, and Tobby introduces the Haitian Sensation, saying that he can suppress people's powers very easily. Peter asks what this place is, and Tobby tells him it's a kind of research facility to help people like him. Except it totally isn't. Elle says they can get Peter to live a normal life. Tobby explains that thirty years ago, The Company had to shut down work on a vaccine that would disable Peter's powers, but, due to recent events, they've reinstated this research, and they're very close to finding a cure. "Forever?" asks Peter. "You will never have to worry about hurting anyone you love ever again," says Tobby. Peter grimaces. "How long until it's ready?" he asks. "Good!" says Elle brightly, throwing her arms around his neck. "You're making the right choice!" "Good boy," says Tobby. Heh. I love that they're all treating him like a highly trainable terrier here. "Good boy, Peter! Shake! Shake or no cookie!"
Hospital for Heroes. Ma Petrelli is looking into her eldest son's eyes as he comes to. Her concern for him is written all over her usually cold face. Nathan blinks, and his left eye is like a negative representation of his right, and his skin looks like a polish sausage left on the grill for too long. It's really extremely disturbing. However, it's good to see that, even though his whole face is burned to a bloody crisp, The Pasdar's lusciously long lashes are still dusting the tops of his impressive cheekbones. Fire cannot kill the beauty that is The Pasdar!
Nathan whispers Peter's name, and his mother tells him that Peter's disappeared and that the Coast Guard is searching the ocean for his body. Nathan hits a button on his bed to raise himself up so that he can see his reflection. Ma Petrelli tries to stop him from doing so, but he does it anyway, and the full impact of his trauma is terrifying. His mouth is half-open in a permanent grimace, the hair on the left side of his head is burned off, and his body looks like a festering sore. I certainly hope the makeup team wins an award for this one because DAMN.
Elsewhere in the hospital, Micah and Niki go to visit D.L. Hugs and kisses all around! The doctor shows up and asks Niki to step outside. She walks out into the hallway, and I almost can't concentrate on the scene because HOLY SHIT WHAT IS SHE WEARING ON HER FEET? What are those, silver cowboy boots? Worn on the outside of her black jeans? Really? Is this what it's come to? Is she attending the gay rodeo later on the back of her My Pink Pony? What, would a pair of regular damn cowboy boots have been out of the question? Is Pat Fields doing some consulting work on the show this week? Is Peter going to show up wearing a yellow plaid halter with purple polka dot hot pants and a furry white pimp hat later? The hell?
Niki tells the doctor that they don't have insurance to cover the costs and would he consider taking her silver boots as payment? The doctor just smiles and tells her that the silver boots wouldn't cover the cost of the bedpan beneath D.L.'s butt, but not to worry -- the bill's been taken care of. Niki wants to know by whom, and that's when Tobby steps up and introduces himself. The doctor leaves, and Tobby asks if she's seen a morning newspaper. She hasn't and asks why he wants to know. He says that there wasn't a single mention of what happened last night in Kirby Plaza, nor was there any item about the untimely demise of poor Mr. Linderman. "Who the hell are you?" says Niki fearfully.
Tobby says that he's here to help and that Linderman made a mess of things, but he's here to right the ship. Niki points out that he's paid their bills -- what does he want in return? He just wants to help her with her illness. "I know you think that Jessica is gone," says Tobby, "but we've discovered that when these abilities manifest, the way the mind deals with the new reality sometimes results in a fracture of sorts. A split personality." Niki's thoroughly freaked out that Tobby knows all this, but she insists that Jessica is totally over. Tobby asks how she can be certain that another personality won't show up at some point. Uh-oh. That doesn't bode well for the future. Tobby tells her that The Company can help her, but the catch is that she has to leave her family behind. I have no idea why leaving her family behind has anything to do with getting cured -- shouldn't The Company want ALL of them behind the facility walls? Niki basically tells Tobby to go to hell, because she won't leave her family now that she's just gotten them back together. Tobby says that they have medications she can take at home, but there are side effects. Niki cries as she ponders this alternative.
The Company. Peter looks down at a plastic cup full of pretty little pills as Elle rids his head of the emo bangs once and for all. Elle must have gone to cosmetology school, because she does a damn fine job with the haircut. Peter asks if he has to take the pills every day, and Elle asserts that it's a little cocktail they cooked up to dampen his abilities -- kind of like The Haitian Sensation, only in pill form! She brings him a glass of water, and he swallows the pills in one gulp. She slinkily removes the towel from around his neck and sends some electricity into his skull. "Ow! That hurts!" "You'll get used to it," she says from the doorway. "And then you'll start to like it." Hee. Kristen Bell is awesome in this role. You just know her character tortured small animals as a child, but she was so cute, you couldn't blame her for it!
After she leaves, Peter hears a voice call out "Hello?" from the room door. "Who said that?" asks Peter. "Me," says Takezo Kensei, heretofore known as Adam Monroe. Yay! I love David Anders, but I especially love David Anders not dressed up as a seventeenth century samurai.
Three Months Ago. It's Micah's birthday, and D.L.'s singing him the birthday song. Micah blows out his candles and looks to his mom for some enthusiasm, but it seems that the anti-power drugs make her one big old wet blanket. Micah says that he wishes they could all fight evil with their powers and become the Terrific Three, like the Fantastic Four, only minus one. D.L. tells him that that's just asking for trouble and that he wants to be a hero to his son without having to use his powers. He's already halfway there, he says, since he's just gotten a really good job that will make Micah proud. He tells Micah to get ready to go out bowling, and he scampers off. D.L. turns to Niki, and she's like a pale imitation of herself. She hates that she's like this, and he says that the medication will take some time to level out. He assures her that things will get better, but she's not so sure. After they leave, Niki goes inside and promptly drops the drugs down the drain.
The Company. Adam informs Peter that it's been nearly a month since he came to be living door, and still he doesn't know Peter's name. That's because Peter just wants to be left the hell alone. Adam says that being left alone is fine in the short term, but it gets kind of old after you've been there for, say, thirty damn years. He guesses that Peter was just minding his own business one day when he discovered that he could do all these extraordinary things. It was totally cool at first, but then it became a burden when he realized he could hurt people. "If they wanna leave me inside here forever, that's fine by me," says Peter. Adam surmises that Peter's been through something awful and he says that he's sorry for that. Peter takes this in and decides to tell Adam his name. "It's nice to meet you, Peter," says Adam. "I'm Adam."
Another month passes, and Elle enters Peter's room, looking devilishly gorgeous in a royal blue blouse, black pencil skirt, and black heels. She crawls right up onto Peter's bed and sidles up to him. He tells her that he's "not in the mood" today but she says she wants to do just "a little one" and she'll up his dose. He reluctantly agrees and sits up. They put their hands close together and Elle shoots electricity at him. He pulls back when it gets too painful, and she immediately smiles and hugs him like he's a kitten she just kicked for shedding on her pillow. It's totally weird that she somehow derives a childish joy out of hurting him but at the same time, it's completely hilarious.
Peter gets up and goes to take his pills and says that he's been there two months and still doesn't know anything about her. He thought there was more to her than her sadistic lightning fetish. "I liked you better when you just laid there," she says. Amen, sister. She takes his hand as he asks her what her story is. She says nothing. "What are you, afraid?" he asks. Then it hits him. "No. You just like to be in control. I get it. I figured as much. Sorry I asked. Won't happen again." He hands her his water cup and turns away. She senses that he's washed his hands of her, so she turns around at the door and says that she accidentally set her grandmother's house on fire when she was six and caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio when she was eight. She spent her ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in her arm. That sounds like an awesome birthday, actually -- I might do that for my fortieth.
"I've lived in this building for sixteen years," she says, moving back over to him. "Ever since the psychiatrists diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But...they were just out to get me because I threatened to kill 'em. I'm twenty-four years old and I've never been on a date. Never been on a roller coaster. Never been swimming. And now you know everything there is to know about me. I don't have the luxury of being any more interesting than that." She walks to the door and spins on her heel. "Later alligator!" Oh, she's batshit crazy. That's awesome. After she leaves, Adam warns Peter to keep his distance from her. "I caved in a desperate moment six years ago and I'm still paying the price." Heh. I bet. It's probably a good thing that he can regenerate ALL of his body parts, is all I'm saying.
Peter says that all he wants from her are the drugs. Adam remembers that Peter still actually BELIEVES that The Company is telling him the truth about this whole cure thing. "What do you mean?" asks Peter. "They've been days away from perfecting it since I got here thirty years ago," says Adam. "[Tobby's] not trying to fix you, Peter." Peter disagrees, saying that they created this facility to help the Heroes. Adam's like, dude. You're not in a facility. You're in a prison. I mean, really, Peter. It's not like you're in a four-star hotel with room service and hookers on speed dial. You're wearing gray clothes, your shoes don't have laces with which you can hang yourself, and your TOILET is in the SAME ROOM AS YOUR BED. What about that doesn't scream "prison" to you? Adam tells Peter to try and leave if he's so sure it's NOT a prison. Peter considers this.
Hospital for Heroes. Ma Petrelli enters Nathan's room and sees that his wife Heidi is there, looking extremely worried. She apologizes and leaves, but Heidi runs after her. Once out in the hallway, Heidi tells Angela that Nathan told her the truth about everything; the flying, the car crash, the bomb, all of it. Heidi thinks it's the pain medication, but she has a look on her face that suggests she's thinking it might actually be true. Angela steps forward and puts her hand on Heidi's arm and starts spewing all that crap about delusions of grandeur and paranoia like she did back when Peter was yammering on and on about being able to fly. It's pretty clear that as Angela continues to touch Heidi, Heidi is somehow being brainwashed or something. This convinces me that Angela's power is like mind control, and that she has to be touching the person in order make the suggestions come to fruition. Remember how she used to touch Nathan and Peter all the time and how weird I found it? This explains EVERYTHING. Angela touches Heidi's hair and arm and asks her to keep Nathan's condition a secret. Heidi nods her head in silent assertion.
Vegas. Niki's practicing her "buy one of our cars" speech in front of the mirror. D.L. enters and hugs her, and they share a cute moment about having butterflies for the first day of work. He tells her that he's so happy for her that the medication worked itself out. He says he's going to take Micah to school and tells her to have a great first day. He walks out, and a new personality starts talking to Niki from the mirror. "He's gonna know you're not taking the stupid pills." Niki doesn't even turn around. "Go away, Jessica. I don't need you anymore." "What makes you think this is Jessica?" says the personality. Niki turns around and looking out of the mirror is a seemingly younger, flirtier version of Niki. "Remember me? That summer you ran away to L.A. and told everyone to call you Gina?"
Niki says that she's not real, and Gina insists that she is and that she for sure isn't going to go and sell cars; she's going to go back to L.A. to play. Niki insists that she's in control and that if she can handle Jessica, she can handle a bimbo like Gina. "Then why aren't you taking your meds?" asks Gina with a smile. And just like that, Niki's behind the glass, and Gina's out in the open. "No!" shouts Niki, slamming her hand against the surface as Gina saunters off to get rid of that hideous poly-blend jacket. Jesus, how many personalities does this chick have? And why are they all better coiffed than Niki?
The Company. Peter's trying to get Tobby to let him out to visit Nathan. Tobby starts out by saying that this will be possible, just not right now, but the more Peter presses, the quicker Tobby drops his façade of concern and just balls-out says that Peter leaving the facility just ain't gonna happen. He leaves, and Peter shouts, "I'm never getting out of here, am I?" Tobby ignores him as he passes by both of the cells. "Suddenly the room starts to feel like a cage," says Adam. Peter doesn't understand. "If they're not gonna help us, then why are we here?" "To keep us from being out there," says Adam. "Why, because we're dangerous?" "No, Peter. Because we can save the world."
This definitely piques Peter's interest, and he starts listening intently to what Adam has to say. "Years ago, I tried to take my abilities public," he says. "I thought that if everyone knew that my blood had curing powers, I could help. How naïve I was." "That's why they put you in here," says Peter. "Well, if it were possible to kill me, they would have, I assure you. Instead, I am locked up in here when I could be curing your brother." Now Peter's REALLY interested. He asks how this could be done, and Adam tells him that just a small amount of his blood could allow Nathan to regenerate and heal. Peter thinks about this for a moment and then stands up. "So how do we get out?" he grits.
Cut to a building on fire. At first I thought it was Elle, having what for her counts as a fun Friday night, but once D.L. came into view in full firefighter regalia, I realized that this is D.L.'s new job. A woman is screaming that her daughter's still inside, and D.L. makes like a hero and runs right back inside. The fire gets worse, blowing out windows, but D.L. phases right through a solid wall with the little girl in his arms. Everyone, of course, thinks it's kind of weird that he managed to rescue the girl through what remains as a solid fucking wall, but they quickly ignore the bleeding obvious when the chance to praise someone for being a hero is dangled before them.
Later that night, Micah sees his father's heroic rescue on the TV, and he rushes to hug D.L. when he comes through the door. He's very excited that his father's a real bona fide hero. D.L. asks where Niki is, and the second Micah tells him she hasn't gotten home from work yet, he immediately senses that something's wrong. He goes into their bedroom and sees "Gone to L.A. C Ya!" scrawled on the mirror in red lipstick. He surmises that Jessica's back.
One Month Ago. Elle enters Peter's cell, drops his meds on the table, and turns to leave. Peter stops her and asks if she's not going to give him a little jolt. When she moves closer, he grabs her around the waist and pulls her down onto his lap, saying that he's started liking their little electricity sessions almost as much as he's started liking her. She smiles and starts to jolt his hand, but he kisses her instead. Damn, they're sexy together. It could be just that Milo and Kristen are just really good actors and therefore have chemistry with EVERYONE, but remember Simone? Yeah -- Tawny and Milo? Not so much. So they kiss, but Elle kind of jolts him with electricity through her mouth and they pull back, surprised and a little bit excited.
He gets up and takes his pills, and she presses up against his back, asking him if he's had enough fun for one day. He just sexily smiles at her and hands her his empty pill cup and water glass. She takes them and leaves, and the second she's gone, he spits the pills out and flushes them down the toilet. He tells Adam that it's his fifth day without the meds, and Adam tells him that it's time to try. I'm not even going to nitpick that there are security cameras in both their rooms that are probably supposed to be picking up their voices AND movements, because I'm digging this episode so far, and I really don't want to screw it up for myself right now.
Peter moves to the wall and tries to phase through it. He concentrates and manages to go through. "It's nice to finally meet you," he says to Adam on the other side. "You know, for 400 years old, you've held up pretty well." I'll say. "Come on," says Adam with a smile. "Let's go heal your brother." They move over to the wall and, after Adam puts his hand on Peter's shoulder, they phase through to the outside world.
Ugh. Venezuela. Maya's praying in some church. Alejandro shows up. I don't care. He asks her to come home. Still don't care. Alejandro asks how she managed to poison everyone. She says she didn't and that she's evil inside. He says she said she killed them. She did. Not caring over here. She thinks him not dying has something to do with them. Cops show up because Alejandro brought them along and Maya freaks out and does another Black Tear Festival and everyone drops except for Alejandro and he grabs her hands and tames the Black Eye Beast and that's when they realize he can keep her hissy fits under control without dying himself and they run before everyone wakes up. See how their story can be distilled into one paragraph? It's easy!
Los Angeles. Niki's hooked up with a coke dealer with whom she's partaking in a little pick-me-up. They head out onto the dance floor. D.L. shows up and finds Niki among the crowd. He goes right over to her and grabs her, saying, "Jessica!" "Guess again," she smiles at him. The coke dealer tries to intervene, but D.L. shoves him off and says that she's his wife. Then he shows her a picture of their family. She looks at it as the coke dealer tries to pick a fight with D.L., but only winds up watching his hand phase through D.L.'s head. Heh. He hits the guy in the stomach as Niki reappears, wondering why she suddenly wants to stay up all night and talk about how no matter how hard you try you just can't get the toothpaste off the porcelain and is that because toothpaste is stronger than glue or is it that toothpaste actually IS glue and do you want to go for a walk because I can't really sit still right now maybe we can get a drink or maybe build something?
D.L. grabs his wife as soon as he realizes that she's back, and they run out of the club. But the coke dealer has a bone to pick with them, and he circles around and shoots D.L. from point-blank range right after he and Niki tell each other that they love one another. Aw. Guess D.L.'s gone for good now. Oh, well. His storyline was kind of played out anyway. Sorry, Leonard -- hope you get another job soon!
Three Weeks Ago. At D.L.'s wake, Micah looks over his father's medal of valor. His cousin Damon asks if he can play with it. Damon's a fucking idiot. Monica comes up and smacks him for asking Micah that. She pulls Damon away as Grandma Uhura asks if Niki's going to be all right. Niki says she needs to get some help. Grandma Uhura says that whatever Niki needs, she's there to provide it. They hug. The family leaves and passes Tobby on the way out. He sees Niki, and she nods at him as if to say, "Yeah, now that I've fucked up my family, I'll totally come and get help."
Hospital of Heroes. Peter and Adam enter and go right over to Nathan's bedside. Adam says that he's taken care of everything: plane tickets, money, and now he's going to take care of Nathan. As he draws a syringe of his own blood, Peter looks down at his brother and apologizes for letting this happen to him. Adam injects his blood into Nathan's IV. Peter asks how long before it starts working, and Adam says they won't have time to find out, because The Company is probably already on their trail. They start to leave, but Peter stops when he notices that Nathan's already starting to heal. Adam grabs Peter and says they have to get the hell out of there. Peter spies that picture of him and Nathan and grabs it.
Outside the hospital, Peter tosses the frame aside as Adam tells him that Nathan will be as good as new by the time he wakes up. He hands Peter his ticket and passport and is about to go over the plan when Elle and the Haitian Sensation show up a short distance away. "You disappointed me, Peter!" she calls out. Adam tells Peter that there's a warehouse in Montreal on Rue St. Jacques, and that they should meet there. They split off from each other. Elle shoots electricity at both of them, bringing Adam down and setting Peter's jacket on fire. He gets up and continues to run, stripping his clothes off in the process (yay!), as Elle orders the Haitian to go after him while she chases Adam.
Peter runs off with the Haitian in pursuit. He vaults over a fence and winds up in a dockyard filled with containers. He runs through them until he smacks right into the Haitian. He tries to use his powers, but of course, the Haitian has put a damper on them, so nothing happens. The Haitian hits him square in the chest, and he goes flinging back into an empty container. They have a momentary fist fight that ends as quickly as it begins when the Haitian takes out some handcuffs and locks Peter to the inside of the container. "You take me back there and I'll just keep escaping," says Peter. "I'm not taking you back," says the Haitian. "You deserve a better fate. Your mother helped me when I was in need." "So now you're helping me?" The Haitian removes the "S" symbol from around his neck and places it around Peter's, saying that Peter must start a new life. "I fear this is the only solution. Your secret is safe with me. Go with God, my friend." And then he reaches out his hands for Peter's head. Peter screams in pain and then it's over and the Haitian walks out, leaving Peter with no clue as to who or what he is.
Uch. Voiceover. "There are many ways to define our fragile existence. Many ways to give it meaning." Ma Petrelli enters Nathan's room, and he turns to show her that he's completely back to normal. She doesn't look that surprised. Voiceover: "But it is our memories that shape it and give it context."
Cut to present day. We catch up with Maya and Sylar and their budding fauxmance. We see Niki thanking Tobby and leaving the facility. The voiceover continues and says that we are destined to hold the dark with the light and the good with the evil. We see Nathan showing up at the pub in Ireland that Peter and Caitlin so recently vacated. The voiceover says this dichotomy is what separates us and makes us human.
Over in Montreal, Peter comes back from Memory Lane. "I remember!" he says, gasping. "I remember everything!" "Good then," says Adam. "Shall we save the world?" Peter just gets smile in the corner of his mouth.
Awwwwww yeah.
on Heroes: The shit hits the fan.