By Couch Baron
At Coyote Sands, the team continues to dig and unearth the bones of those killed, but Peter finally asks Angela what happened, which sends us into a flashback to 1961, when Coyote Sands was a "relocation center." We see a young Chandra Suresh greet "Angela and Alice Shaw," and he tells them and everyone else that he's there to help them. We also meet a bunch of the ElderHeroes' younger selves -- Charles Deveaux, Linderman, Bob Bishop -- but while Angela is charmed by them and excited for the adventure of being on their own, Alice is not. Angela, however, tells her that the place will make her nightmares go away, and I try to shy away from superlatives, but that could very well be the worst prediction ever. Back in the present, Angela tells Peter that her sister and many others died there, and they all need to settle their differences so history doesn't repeat itself. She goes on that when the government found out about them, they rounded them up, claiming they could cure them. When that turned out to be a lie, the ElderHeroes formed Primatech with the idea never to let something like Coyote Sands happen again. She also informs them that she's been dreaming that her sister is alive, and they need to get to the bottom of that.
In the past, Angela's dreams get worse, and Deveaux tries to make her see that the government doesn't have their best interests at heart. She confesses that her dreams are telling her not to trust Suresh, and then gets a jolt when Alice tells her she can control the weather. Said jolt carries back to the present, as a dust storm mysteriously kicks up, during which Mohinder appears, having followed his dad's notes to Coyote Sands. He and Bennet get each other up to speed, but what they don't know is that in the past, Angela warned Chandra that he was going to unwittingly kill everyone there, but he didn't believe her. In the present, Angela goes out into the storm alone to confront Alice, which causes the dust to abate but Angela to vanish, and the rest of them split up to look for her. As time goes on in the past, Angela and the ElderHeroes hatch a plan to escape and tell the cops what's going on, but they leave Alice behind, thinking she'll slow them down. We see Angela totally lie that she had a dream that it would be safe for Alice at Coyote Sands, so when Angela finds Alice in a bomb shelter, it's no surprise that Alice doles out a heaping helping of guilt for her sister. Angela gets Alice to admit what happened -- Chandra came for her and she got scared and resistant, so she summoned a storm, and chaos ensued, with the guards killing a bunch of the people with abilities. Angela apologizes to her sister and promises to keep her safe, but when she admits the lie she told, Alice freaks and starts shooting lightning bolts until Angela talks her down. However, Alice ends up disappearing, leaving us only with an explanation for Angela's penchant for stealing socks that could just make you cry. In the end, everyone leaves except Mohinder, who stays to come to terms with the sins of both his father and himself, while the extended Petrellis resolve to forgive each other and rectify their mistakes. Unfortunately, that may be even harder than it sounds, as Sylar is now imitating Nathan. We'll just have to see if he's willing to commit to brother-touching to make it really convincing.
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