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After a quick review of the final bits of the last episode, we cut to "43 hours later," and Nathan lets an unknown person on the other end of a phone call that while Bennet and the pilot managed a successful emergency landing, the plane broke apart, and some of the prisoners escaped. We then cut back in time to the scene of the crash (and the rest of the episode is intercut with Nathan continuing to tell the story to the unknown person on the phone), which is swarming with commandos (presumably reinforcements) trying to track down the escapees. Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro are in one group, and when Matt's eyes suddenly go white, he leads them to an RV park (?) so he can draw the future, while Mohinder basically tells Hiro he's useless and should go home. Look who's talking. Matt's drawing shows Daphne in mortal danger, so he and Hiro head back to the crash site. Speaking of whom, Daphne shows up in Tokyo, worried about the missing Matt and having heard from blabbermouth Hiro about the secret lair, and she takes Ando to Russellville, Arkansas, the location to which he tracked Hiro.
Claire and Peter are running off when Bennet intercepts them. He lets Peter go in exchange for Claire coming with him quietly, and then the plane is destroyed by some missiles of unknown origin. The day, Nathan is on the scene, chewing ZI out for authorizing the air strike, and we learn that as much of a traitor as Nathan is to his own kind, if you're a Hero, you'd still prefer him to ZI. Bennet tells Claire that his involvement with Nathan's plan is the price he's paying for assurances of her safety, but she welcomes both her dads to cram it right before Daphne shows up and whisks her away. Daphne and Claire then both get shot before Matt mind-controls the commandos on the scene to turn and kill each other. Matt, Hiro, and Ando escape, while ZI recaptures the indestructible Claire and Daphne is left to… bleed to death? Possibly really quickly? There's so little fanfare there that I find it hard to believe she's dead, although I think the show wants us to think it. ZI menaces Claire to the point where she realizes he's really, really serious, and then Bennet sends her home while assuring her he'll do what he can for the others.
On the run, Peter finds Tracy, who complains about her life, or something, before Peter talks her into going with him -- a decision it seems he might regret when she secretly arranges to sell him out to Nathan in exchange for her freedom. Tracy is ready to go through with it but then realizes that ZI, Bennet, and others are at the rendezvous as Nathan's backup. Peter momentarily uses Nathan as a shield, and then, given Tracy's betrayal, has no ethical problem with abandoning her by absorbing Nathan's power and flying off into the night. I wonder if ZI has any idea of how Peter's power works, because it'll be very interesting when he finds out that Nathan's one of them. Also, Nathan tells Bennet he knows he had a clear shot at Peter, and when Bennet admits that's true, Nathan thanks him for not taking it.
Back at Taxidermy Central (how completely tacked on did this subplot feel this week?), some woman and her troubled kid named Luke show up to find Sylar waiting for them, along with that commando from last week, who apparently isn't dead but probably wishes he were after hearing Sylar babble about his dad for seven days straight. Sylar's plan is to torture the kid and mother in front of the commando as a psychological inducement to give up information on his dad. Turns out, however, that Luke's a Hero himself, and rather than kill him and take his power, which is microwave manipulation, Sylar allows the kid to tag along with him even after the kid kills the commando, so now we have two mutants with Daddy issues in a self-contained boring storyline.
Late in the episode, Matt, Mohinder, Hiro, Ando, and Peter all hook up and review Matt's drawings, and Hiro decides he must go to India and retrieve his powers. The five of them, led by Peter, agree to abandon their old lives and take the fight to the enemy. Also, Claire gets a text from an unknown person going by the handle of "Rebel," who tells her, "There is hope. You can still fight back." I'm with Rebel on the merits, but he or she is going to have to stop texting in all caps or we're going to have a problem.
Finally, we get the reveal of who Nathan has been telling all this to, and it's the completely obvious choice -- Angela, who now isn't jazzed about Nathan's plan, for whatever reason. I'm starting to see where Nathan gets his penchant for flip-flopping, that's for sure and certain. At the end, Nathan has Tracy sent off to internment over her declarations that he's one of them, and maybe I'm imagining things and maybe also no one cares, but this chapter is pretty good so far.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!So after the previouslies, we revisit the final bits of last episode, and then cut to a chyron that reads "43 hours later." In a washed-out, almost black-and-white image, we see Nathan calling an unknown person and telling him or her how Claire got on board the plane somehow, and all hell broke loose. His casual reference to both Claire and "Noah" really ends any suspense about who it might be on the other line. I mean, unless his dad's alive again, but I suspect even an entity as dense as this show has learned its lesson on that front. The look of the image combined with the conceit of telling the story from the future feels familiar and is probably an homage to something, but if so it's not coming to me at the moment. Anyway, we fade into the episode title card...
...and then back to the plane post-landing, which is in a clearing surrounded by light woods. It's night, and commandos are swarming as Hiro desperately runs from their searchlights. He takes a bad step and falls, complete with girly screaming (have you ever heard a man cry out on such a high frequency?), over a small bluff, and then gets dragged to his feet -- by Matt and Mohinder, who pull him flat against the bluff's wall so the commandos won't see them. When he judges it safe to speak, Matt asks Hiro if he got his powers back (like there's any reason that would have suddenly happened, or like they'd all still be in this predicament if he had) but Hiro intones that he's powerless. "A Hero's path is never easy." As evidenced by your inability to keep your feet up top, I guess. Noting some aerial searchlights heading their way, Mohinder starts off as he says they have to keep moving, but Hiro babbles about seeing Peter and the cheerleader and how it's their duty to save them. Instead of pointing out that saving the cheerleader is so two seasons ago, Matt instead opts for the equally valid assertion that the commandos are in no way fucking around. Matt then starts to walk off, and when Mohinder grabs his shoulder, Matt turns to reveal his eyes have gone white. He gestures with his head and then resumes his march, and Mohinder and Hiro uncertainly follow. They'd be a lot more uncertain if they knew that Matt's looking not for safety but the nearest box of Crayola crayons, but it's not like they have any brilliant ideas, either.
Back nearer to the burning plane, Peter and Claire babble and run until Bennet appears out of nowhere and grabs Claire while pointing a gun at Peter and ordering them both to come with him. Claire asks how he can be a part of Nathan's plot, and he replies that it's much more complicated that she knows. Well, let's see -- are you collaborating in order to ensure Claire's safety? Because not only is that not very complicated, it's the biggest "lather, rinse, repeat" the show has to offer. I don't mind the consistency -- it's actually refreshing -- but I just can't believe that either of them has the energy or motivation even to discuss it at this point. Anyway, Bennet clearly seems to think he should shoot Peter but can't bring himself to go through with it, and Claire opts to stay with Bennet as a reward, telling Peter to run, which he does. When he's gone, Claire opines that people will ask questions about the crash, but Bennet informs her she's mistaken, and no one's going to know a thing. An ominous whistling accompanies this declaration, and when Claire, dread in her voice, asks what he did, he answers by looking to the sky, from which a missile appears and blows up the plane. I hate to argue with such a dramatic display, but if someone were going to ask questions about a mysterious plane's mysterious landing, I'm not sure an ensuing mysterious explosion would get them to go about their day like nothing happened. But I could be overestimating people's average intelligence and curiosity. Having hit the deck, Claire and Bennet regard each other, and Claire starts to cry as we cut to the title card. It's a good sign for this chapter that I'm not doing the same.
We return to a shot of a wall with several Heroes' photos on it: Peter, Matt, Sylar, Hiro and Mohinder, among many others. This is in Nathan's office, and we're back to him telling the story in the future, but it really adds nothing other than to let us know that ZI's name is "Danko," so I'm going to skip these little interludes from here on out unless Nathan does something interesting with his wardrobe -- specifically, cutting down on it.
The morning after the plane's destruction, Nathan is barking at Danko for ordering an air strike, but Danko tells him he's the field commander, and the second the plane was hijacked, Nathan's prisoners were re-designated as terrorists. He sums up his philosophy: "If you have a rabid dog, you don't put a chain around its neck and pray for miracles. You put it down!" I take it Danko wondered what all the tears were about at the end of Old Yeller. He adds, with a baleful look over at Claire, who's tied to a chair and being watched like a hawk several yards away, that Nathan's daughter turned a simple transport flight into a national security emergency. Nathan says he'll deal with Claire, and Danko scores points with me: "You do that." Nathan and Bennet exchange a look...
...and then we're with Peter, who's running for his life when Tracy calls to him. She's freaking out about her life and why Nathan would do this, but Peter gets her to her senses. And by "to her senses," I mean "to shut up," so it's no wonder his stock continues to rise. The two of them resume running.
Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro have come across... an RV? Given that you can hear their aircraft overhead, it seems odd that the commandos wouldn't have secured this location that's out in plain sight, but Matt's being led by a vision of NeoIsaac, as it turns out, which he follows into the RV. When he reemerges, he's got paper and pencil, and he...draws. Dramatically, if the score is to be believed. While he does, Mohinder and Hiro steal some clothes off the laundry line to replace their conspicuous orange prisonwear, and I guess we're meant to assume that the RV owner fled the scene because of all the military activity, but this does still seem rather convenient. There's a rather funny moment where Hiro considers donning a T-shirt that reads "Rednecks are better lovers" and then thinks better of it, and it's not that the joke is so incredibly clever but that the show does so much better when it's not taking itself quite so goddamn seriously. Anyway...
...we cut to Tokyo, where Ando is attempting to find some way to get to Hiro's current location, which is "Russellville, Arkansas," and the presumed travel agent on the other end of the line is having exactly none of it, even though Ando tries to tell her that Arkansas is where Clinton is from. If Arkansas won't even acknowledge that at this point, it seems a long shot that the agent will give a flying fuck. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, because after the agent leaves Ando moshi-moshi-ing to dead air, Daphne comes superzipping up, explaining that Hiro bragga-blabbed the location of the secret lair to her. That doesn't explain how she discovered from which noodle shop Ando elected to make his calls to travel agents who think he's insane, but I suppose she's fast enough to have checked them all out in the time it takes most people to slurp down a bowl of udon. Anyway, Daphne's worried about Matt, because he didn't come home the night before, and "he always calls." I'm so surprised. Ando tells Daphne Hiro's been kidnapped, and offers that the same thing might have happened to Matt. He adds that Hiro's in Arkansas, and when Daphne asks how he knows, he tells her they have GPS trackers. Daphne: "Of course you do." If she's dead, I'm going to miss her. Ando explains about his travel difficulties, and Daphne responds by grabbing his arm and superzipping them both out of there.
Wow, NeoIsaac is still supposed to be sitting in the chair to Matt, but whoever they got to stand in for this shot is a little bit more, um, Caucasian. If he's even alive -- I actually think it might have been a Cabbage Patch doll. Hiro and Mohinder emerge from the RV in their new duds, and despite the fact that Hiro will tell anything to anyone and mentioned it in front of Mohinder like three scenes ago, Mohinder is only now absorbing the idea that Hiro no longer has his powers. I will give him points for not mentioning anything about an eclipse, though. Mohinder suggests Hiro turn himself in, and maybe he won't be harmed, given that he no longer has powers. I don't think I'd trust them to be that reasonable, given that they INVADED FOREIGN SOIL to get him in the first place. Can't really drop him back in Japan all "Oops, our bad!" Hiro, however, elects to give a tiresome speech about his duty and warriors and blah, and thankfully Matt decides to come out of his trance at this moment. Everyone inspects his artwork, and they discover that Daphne's going to get shot near the crash site, and what is the point of this power anyway? I mean, no one has even been able to avoid the outcomes of the paintings or drawings or whatever, so what is the point, seriously? Sometimes they act like the drawings are so important for guidance, but they always come true anyway, so it's just stupid. Anyway, they all head back.
New characters Mary and Luke Campbell, a mother and teenaged son, walk down the street as the mother uses the fact of the cops around Taxidermist Gray's house to make an amazingly tortured segue into the fact that Luke apparently has been getting into fights at school. She asks why he hit the particular kid in question, and the disgust is seeping out of her voice to the degree that I'm afraid my TV's going to start leaking, so Luke responds, "He called you a whore." Well, you did ask. They go inside, and Mary hears the TV. Thinking she left it on, she heads into the living room, but is startled to see a man sitting in the chair in front of it. She stage-whispers to Luke to call the police, and then sidles forth, grabs a fireplace poker, and whirls to bash the guy over the head with it, because that's preferable to merely GOING BACK OUT THE DOOR UNTIL THE POLICE ARRIVE, MY GOD. But all this is so we can get the reveal that the man in the chair is actually the commando that Sylar menaced last week. I thought he was dead, but it turns out he's gagged and covered in blood, with a screwdriver jammed through each hand to the chair arm below. I'd imagine if she whacked him in the head, it would actually be a welcome change in the pain at this point. Sylar appears and amusingly uses the remote to turn off the TV, and Mary spins and swings the poker at him, but he merely waves it away and sends the both of them into chairs with matching ugly upholstery. Sylar tells the Campbells he and "Special Agent Simmons" have been waiting for them, as he rips the duct tape off the guy's mouth and lauds him for being well-trained. "He hardly flinched at all when he lost a finger or two." Simmons asks if Sylar's going to torture him in front of them, and that line receives a very obvious response, which Sylar tries to inject with more import by dragging it out for a thousand years: "No. I'm gonna torture them in front of you." Mary and Luke cower in fear, and Sylar's Theme Ticking sends us into a commercial break.
Crash site. Daphne and Ando superzip up to the wreckage of the plane, or perhaps I should say "wreckage" considering it doesn't look any different post-missile, and Ando thanks Daphne for what she's doing. Daphne: "Don't thank me yet." Well, not to spoil anyone, but he's running out of time. They observe Claire, and Ando worries about Hiro, but Daphne points out that Ando's supposed to kill Hiro in the future, so he can't be dead. Okay, first off, Hiro saw that back in the first episode of the last chapter, so chances are it's no longer the case. I mean, the world Peter saw in the future changed, so why not the one Hiro saw? But that aside, isn't it kind of twisted that they're using what they see as the inevitability of that event for solace now? But rather than ponder questions of timeline and existence, Daphne superzips away, and I can't say I blame her.
In the woods, Tracy stares darkly as a commando approaches and sees one of his comrades lying face down on the ground. Tracy then makes some noise to get his attention and starts running away, but when the guy aims his weapon at her, Peter appears and knocks him out. Tracy then teleports back (seriously, she was a hundred feet away one second and by his side the ) and as Peter starts disrobing his commando (not like that; to wear his clothes as a disguise) he lets us know that he can indeed only hold one power at a time. Peter thinks Nathan must be nearby, and wants to go back and confront him, but Tracy says she has a better plan, as she and Nathan think the same way. That statement is belied by the fact that she hasn't touched Peter once this scene.
Bennet and Claire pedechat as he leads her into a tent, and it's more retread of the same argument, although Bennet does try to tell her that the initiative is bigger than she can possibly know. In the two months since Nathan presented it to the President? Anyway, Claire in no uncertain terms tells Bennet she's one of them, and then looks contemptuously over at Nathan. "And so is he." Nathan joins them and says Claire's headed back to Costa Verde, and tries lamely to justify his actions, but Claire laughs in his face before practically spitting that she doesn't know who he is anymore. She turns to look pointedly at Bennet: "Either one of you." Other than the fact that Bennet has almost always hunted Heroes and Nathan's been a backstabbing political opportunist for much of the show's run, she makes a great point. Bennet pulls Nathan aside for a confab in which he tells Nathan he's got to put a leash on Danko. I think Danko already made his position on leashes pretty clear, but Nathan tells Bennet not to worry about him. "He's useful... until he's not." Just then, Daphne superzips in with a funny, matter-of-fact "Hi," and whisks Claire away, and Nathan snarls, "Daughter or not, she's running out of favors," like she had any choice in what just happened there. It would be funny if Bennet were like, "Oh, suddenly when a speedster grabs her, she's my daughter?" But he gets his back up in a less amusing way: "What would your hunter do if he knew you were one of them, too?" I certainly look forward to finding out the answer to that question.
Matt and Mohinder reach the crash site and run into Ando, and then Daphne appears with Claire. Matt and Daphne have a joyous reunion (in which he fails to tell her to GET AWAY FROM THE CRASH SITE AT ALL COSTS), but then Hiro appears in plain view of like, the entire state of Arkansas, so you know something's going to go down even without Nathan Forty-Three Hours Hence giving us foreboding statements to that effect. Claire again shows that she's become one of the more sensible people on the show by suggesting they all get the hell out of there, and Daphne agrees but says she can't carry everyone present, so she's just going to do a quick recon, but then the drawing comes to pass, as a nearby commando shoots her three times, although it's not clear that any of the shots are in potentially mortal spots. Claire sends Hiro toward safe ground before basically volunteering as a human shield, taking several bullets in front of Matt and Daphne until Matt loses it and mentally compels the three commandos now on the scene to shoot each other. Big power progression for him to have, but I could buy it in the face of the extreme emotion he must be feeling. Mohinder pulls Matt away, leaving Daphne there, although it's a pretty decent bet she's not dead. Danko then appears, seemingly the only survivor of the commandos present, and takes a defiant Claire back into custody.
You know, I don't care about Sylar's Daddy Issues at all in the first place, and on top of that, his scenes are ruining the flow of an otherwise fairly tense and enjoyable episode, so you'll forgive me for going bare-bones here: Sylar is about to torture Mary when Luke erupts forth with his own power, which is the ability to manipulate microwaves. Mary is horrified, and Sylar is intrigued. !
Danko marches Claire into a tent, bitching about all his good men and saying the whole mess is her fault. Claire's unbowed until Danko draws a gun and looks very serious about shooting her in the back of the head, but Nathan steps out from offscreen and intercedes, and then Bennet appears and calls Claire's name while surveying the scene with eyes dark with suspicion. Nathan tells Bennet to get Claire out of there, and when they're gone, Nathan and Danko regard each other warily, and then Danko moves off, leaving Nathan to look like things are getting out of hand...
...and he pops out and calls Bennet's name, but Bennet isn't interested, instead leading Claire away as she somewhat shakily notes that Danko really would have shot her, an assertion with which Bennet agrees. He tells her to go home and lead the normal life she's always wanted, and when she asks what will happen to Peter and the others, Bennet looks back at Nathan before promising, "I'll do what I can." He puts Claire into a waiting car, and I'm surprised the driver wasn't instructed to wear a helmet. Across the way, Danko asks Nathan how many more casualties they'll take before he gets it, pointing out that just as Nathan will be a hero if the initiative works out, he'll be the political goat if it falls apart. Nathan calmly turns this right around: "We're all replaceable. Some of us more than others." Before the flies actually get unzipped, though, Nathan's phone rings, and it's Tracy, using one of the commando's phones to tell Nathan, after he shoos Danko away, that she's got Peter, and she'll turn him over in exchange for her old life back. Nathan agrees, and they set a meeting place to which Nathan promises to come alone. "You can trust me, Tracy." Now, given that Tracy made a big point of saying she thinks like Nathan, I was sure that she would know not to trust him, and her seeming betrayal of Peter would actually be the bait in a double-cross of Nathan. I think it's boring and predictable that that turned out not to be the case, but maybe Tracy's so desperate to get her life back that she'd convince herself Nathan's being straight with her here. Eh, I don't really buy it, I have to say. Anyway, Tracy tells Peter that Nathan's on his way, and Peter practically drools at the news.
Luke demonstrates his power for Sylar, and after Sylar casts a look at the loudly-ticking grandfather clock behind him that's far more amusing than it has any right to be, he returns to boring me by trying to psychoanalyze Luke and Mary, and this is so mind-numbing that Simmons actually favors pulling up on the screwdrivers through his hands to listening to one minute more. I don't know that I'd be that brave in his position, but I'd certainly want to be. Sylar's so focused on the crap coming out of his mouth that he doesn't notice the blatantly obvious sounds behind him of Simmons freeing himself, but when Simmons draws his gun and goes to shoot Sylar (I doubt he'd actually be able to operate his weapon with his hands in their current condition) Luke pushes Sylar out of the way and melts Simmons into a large puddle of goo. That is one tough character arc for Agent Simmons here. Mary barks that Simmons was going to save them, although in Luke's defense, he surely would have taken Luke at least into custody once he found out about his ability. That doesn't stop Mary from asking, "What are you?" so I can only hope for Luke's sake that he doesn't turn out to be gay as well...
...but I wouldn't count on heterosexuality, especially since his first words after following Sylar out the door like a puppy are, "Take me with you." He'll drop the last two words soon enough, I'm sure. Sylar is not quite ready to make Luke his new boyfriend, though, as Luke killed his best lead on his father, but after Luke tells Sylar that "you're the only one who understands what it's like," a statement I trust stands on its own, he offers that he knows where Sylar's father is, and Sylar confirms via that power of his that Luke at least thinks he's telling the truth, and after Luke gives a God-awful speech about his own Daddy Issues, Sylar, um, recruits the boy to his side, and they steal Mary's car and head off. Even if these two have sex, it's going to be boring.
Tracy and Peter are waiting for Nathan at the rendezvous point, Tracy looking actually nervous when you'd think she'd only be faux-nervous, and as Nathan arrives, Peter instructs Tracy to use her power to incapacitate him so they can kidnap and use him as leverage against the government. She agrees, and then appears from the tree behind which she and Peter were hiding. Nathan says he came alone, but he's sitting on the hood of his car far too casually, so you can guess this isn't going to be as easy as it seems. Tracy says she told Peter Nathan offered them amnesty. "He'll come out when he knows he's safe." As Nathan tells her he'll keep the deal they made, she surreptitiously freezes up a hand, and I see now I read this wrong the first time around -- it seems like she actually was going to go through with Peter's plan, but let herself get talked out of it, which is both more believable and more interesting. Good, I feel better. Seeing that Tracy's starting to believe him, Nathan walks toward her and presses his advantage, parroting her earlier statement about how they think alike, and suggesting Peter's not in possession of all his marbles. By the way, I think Tracy's supposed to have a cut above her eye, but the makeup just makes it seem that she's got a Sylar-sized right eyebrow. Hope you can find a spare day to tweeze that, honey. Anyway, Tracy lets her hand go back to normal, at which point Peter, catching on to the fact that Nathan's casting a verbal spell, appears with his gun trained on his brother. He gets close just as red dots appear on both Tracy and him, and we see Danko and Bennet have appeared and have guns trained on them. Tracy's beaten and knows it, having no cover and no weapon, but Peter pulls Nathan to him and wraps his arm around his neck to use him as a shield. The following exchange ensues: "How many times are we gonna do this?" "As many times as it takes." I'm thinking lines like this are in homage to Bryan Fuller's imminent return. Anyway, Danko tries to get Bennet to take a shot at Peter, but Bennet insists he doesn't have it. Meanwhile, Peter orders Nathan to get his guys to back off, but Nathan won't do it, and insists that this is the end. Peter hisses, "This is the beginning," and, in front of everyone, absorbs Nathan's power and flies off into the night. I'm surprised he didn't take Nathan with him if he was so bent on kidnapping him, but maybe he wanted to get back to the others without that distraction. Anyway, Tracy's left holding the bag, and she's taken away as she begs Nathan not to do this. You'd think she might out him, but that would probably gain her nothing and would lose her the one person who might help her if he only were to have a change of heart. When Bennet and Nathan are alone, Nathan tells Bennet he had the shot at Peter, and Bennet admits that's true. Nathan: "Thank you." Please, Nathan. Don't be so ridiculous. But in more interesting news, Danko turns to look back at Nathan appraisingly, and if he's wondering from whom Peter suddenly took the ability to fly, it won't be long before he comes to a very interesting revelation.
Near a church, Hiro and Ando meet back up with Mohinder and Matt, and Peter then swoops in to join them and tells them to get rid of their cell phones -- this meeting will be the last they arrange using them. After Peter gets filled in on Matt's possession of "Isaac's ability" (NeoIsaac: "What am I, chopped liver?" Ooh, bad expression.), they all look at the drawings, and it seems Hiro needs to go to India, or will go to India, or has heard of India, or something. He also says he's going to regain his powers. Matt then says he wants payment for Daphne, and tells them they need to take the fight to the enemy. Peter cautions them that their lives as they knew them are over, and they can't use anything traceable like credit cards or bank accounts from here on out. Sounds like there's going to be plenty of turning tricks for cash, and there's where I think Peter, Mohinder and Ando need to step up for the good of the team. Peter concludes that the enemy will come for them. "And when that day comes, we'll have to be ready."
Cut to Sylar and Luke on the road, leading their mostly unfabulous social life, or something.
In Costa Verde, Claire is sitting pensively in her bedroom, and then Sandra enters and notes she's been quiet before babbling about the college visit Claire was supposedly on. From how little she's tuned in to her daughter's mood, I'm wondering if The Haitian paid her a recent visit for old times' sake. When Sandra's gone, Claire gets a text from "Rebel," who basically tells her he or she is a friend, and she should hold out hope, as they can still fight back. Claire texts back that she's scared, and the response comes back: "Me too. Can't give up. Be ready." Well, it's actually that in all caps, but you know I don't play that unless the show gets me very, very angry.
So of course Nathan's been on the phone with Angela, and he asks for her support when Peter inevitably comes to her, but she tells him to stuff it, saying he pushed her aside in putting together this crusade, and now, basically, he's reaping what he sowed. She looks at a picture of Danko as she tells him to handle the situation himself, and hangs up. Nathan looks bummed, but then an assistant enters and says "they're" ready for him...
...and then he's entering the back of a darkened armored truck, in which there's a seated hooded prisoner. Nathan has the lights turned on and removes the mask to reveal Tracy. She's panicked, and asks him to let her go, but he tells her that "these powers" lead to chaos and disaster. This from the man who wanted to give them to more people than own an iPhone. She scores points by speculating that that's what he tells himself so he can sleep at night, but this is really all about him and his ambition. "It's all you are, Nathan. It's all you ever were." He gets up to go, but she yells that he's one of "us," and I should mention they made a point of quickly showing us that this conversation is being recorded on a security camera, so I'm thinking that's another piece that will help Danko put together the Nathan puzzle. Tracy keeps yelling until they stick a drug shunt in her nose, and Nathan marches resolutely away. It's not perfect, but I have to tell you, it's refreshing when this show actually tells a story. See you time.
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