By Couch Baron
Mohinder, Matt and Peter have Bennet prisoner in a motel in Costa Verde, and they use a painful combination of phenobarbitol and Matt's mind-mojo on Bennet to learn about this sequence of events: Bennet met with Angela five weeks earlier, and Angela told him she was done with The Company and suggested he let his past go, but he wasn't really psyched about the prospect of just hanging out with his family and doing nothing else, so when Nathan showed up at his door a week later and told him about his plan, he didn't take much convincing. A week after that, Bennet met Danko and pitched the "one of us, one of them" idea, but the reception was frosty at best, especially since Danko disabused Bennet of the notion he'd be running the show. A couple weeks later, Bennet tried to hold an olive branch out to Danko, but Danko clearly still didn't have all that much use for him or his belief that the Heroes should be thought of as human beings.
Matt also discovers where Bennet keeps all the weapons he used while he was with The Company, and Peter takes the opportunity to go grab a good supply. However, Danko catches this move on a security camera, and he sends an interception team, but Peter manages to elude it. Matt then discovers that Bennet approached Mohinder about the imminent government program, but Mohinder didn't believe him and thus didn't tell anyone. This leads to a fight between Mohinder and Matt, and while that's going on, Bennet escapes -- like, nice job guys. Peter, however, cleans up their mess by catching him again, and then goes after Danko when Matt fishes his address out of Bennet's mind. Peter gets the drop on Danko and ends up shooting him in the arm, but when Nathan turns up and tells Peter that if he kills Danko, he'll be signing a death warrant for Matt and Mohinder, Peter flees the scene. Danko immediately orders his team to find and capture them, and, seeing them coming, Matt is about to kill Bennet, but Bennet tells him that Daphne's alive, and Matt goes back into his mind and confirms that. Meanwhile, Mohinder works out his guilt over not telling everyone about the government program when he had the chance by holding off the commando team and getting himself captured. Matt eventually gets taken too, but Peter's once again there to save him, and remember when Peter used to screw everything up? He obviously even made sure not to touch Matt's skin so as not to change powers in mid-flight! Mohinder, however, isn't as lucky as Matt, and is forced to listen to Nathan ask for his help. In the end, Bennet tells Danko that he's got his complete dedication, and Danko obliquely suggests they conspire against Nathan. Bennet agrees, but when Danko's gone, we see Bennet is loyal to neither Danko nor Nathan -- he's still working for Angela and has infiltrated the government operation. That was a great twist, but it's somewhat ruined when in the end, Matt paints yet another apocalypse -- this time D.C. is going up in flames. Just when it seemed like the show was learning from its mistakes.
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