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'''Rachel Mills''' is the daughter of [[Leona Mills]]. She is an [[evolved human]] with the [[ability]] to [[Teleportation|teleport]].
'''Rachel Mills''' is the daughter of [[Leona Mills]] and a former Marine. She worked with [[Building 26]], capturing [[Evolved humans|people like her]] until she eventually came to accept herself and her ability. She is an [[evolved human]] with the [[ability]] to [[Teleportation|teleport]].


==About==
==About==
Rachel was a soldier in the United States Marine Corps whose career came to an abrupt end following [[The Private|a disturbing experience]] while serving in Iraq. Initially, Rachel retained her place in the USMC, at a lower rank, and accepted recruitment into [[Pinehearst]] as part of their super soldier program. Ultimately, Rachel's career in the USMC ended when Pinehearst was destroyed; which proved a traumatic event for her as, not only was she discharged from the service, but she unintentionally discovered her ability. Since then, Rachel found work by joining [[Building 26]]; a task force agency set up by the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to hunt down and imprison evolved humans, at the behest of Senator [[Nathan Petrelli]]. Rachel, hiding her ability, served as one of [[Emile Danko]]'s agents.
Rachel was in the United States Marine Corps whose career came to an abrupt end following [[The Private|a disturbing experience]] while serving in Iraq. Initially, Rachel retained her place in the USMC, at a lower rank, and accepted recruitment into [[Pinehearst]] as part of their super soldier program. Ultimately, Rachel's career in the USMC ended when Pinehearst was destroyed; which proved a traumatic event for her as, not only was she discharged from the service, but she unintentionally discovered her ability. Since then, Rachel found work by joining [[Building 26]]; a task force agency set up by the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to hunt down and imprison evolved humans, at the behest of Senator [[Nathan Petrelli]]. Rachel, hiding her ability, served as one of [[Emile Danko]]'s agents.


Initially, Rachel was uncertain of her abilities and her very identity, but experiences while a prisoner of [[Angela Petrelli]]; an old friend of her mother, ultimately convinced Rachel to accept who she was. To this end, Rachel ultimately began working undercover inside the agency as [[LAWR]]'s mole. This lasted until Rachel was forced to shoot and kill her partner and friend - Agent [[Jason Pierce]] - when he discovered her power; an act that set off a chain of events that led to her exposure and exile from Building 26. Rachel has since joined the fight of evolved humans against the U.S. Government.
Initially, Rachel was uncertain of her abilities and her very identity, but experiences while a prisoner of [[Angela Petrelli]] (an old friend of her mother) ultimately convinced Rachel to accept who she was. To this end, Rachel joined [[LAWR]] and began working undercover inside the agency as LAWR's mole. This lasted until Rachel was forced to shoot and kill her partner and friend - Agent [[Jason Pierce]] - when he discovered her power; an act that set off a chain of events that led to her exposure and exile from Building 26. Rachel joined the fight against the U.S. Government until Building 26 was formally shut-down by [[The President]]; putting an end to the hunt for evolved humans. After defeating Jason's psychotic sister, [[Janey Pierce]], in a pitched battle, Rachel finally gained peace when she reunited with her mother.


==Character History==
==Character History==
===[[Our Father]]===
===[[Episode:Our Father|Our Father]]===
Rachel [[:Image:Marines David Rachel and Ryan.jpg|trains]] with the [[Arthur's soldiers|other recruits]] at [[Pinehearst Headquarters]] in [[Fort Lee]].
Rachel [[:Image:Marines David Rachel and Ryan.jpg|trains]] with the [[Arthur's soldiers|other recruits]] at [[Pinehearst Headquarters]] in [[Fort Lee]].


===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 1]]===
===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 1]]===
[[Image:Rachel Angela.JPG|thumb|right|Rachel is interrogated by [[Angela]].]]
Rachel is interrogated by [[Angela]] in an unknown [[Primatech]] facility in [[Tappen, NJ]] about the whereabouts of the [[genetic modification formula|formula]] and claims not to know about it. Twelve hours before, Rachel is talking with [[Ryan Hanover]] and [[David Sullivan]] when an explosion at Pinehearst causes the building to start collapsing. Rachel tries to help David move a beam that has fallen on top of him, but is unable to do so. She then walks over to search for something to pry the beam off David and winds up [[teleportation|teleporting]] back to him when an air duct begins to fall on top of her. Rachel pleads with David to ignore what happened and that it was nothing.
Rachel is interrogated by [[Angela]] in an unknown [[Primatech]] facility in [[Tappen, NJ]] about the whereabouts of the [[genetic modification formula|formula]] and claims not to know about it. Twelve hours before, Rachel is talking with [[Ryan Hanover]] and [[David Sullivan]] when an explosion at Pinehearst causes the building to start collapsing. Rachel tries to help David move a beam that has fallen on top of him, but is unable to do so. She then walks over to search for something to pry the beam off David and winds up [[teleportation|teleporting]] back to him when an air duct begins to fall on top of her. Rachel pleads with David to ignore what happened and that it was nothing.


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===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 4]]===
===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 4]]===
Still in the interrogation room, Rachel sees [[Carlos]] and [[Angela]] coming towards her. Angela continues to question Rachel about the [[serum]] and [[Teleportation|her abilities]], mentioning Rachel's mother, [[Leona]]. Rachel denies that she is [[Special (theme)|special]], but then has a flashback about how she got out of the Pinehearst lab - she used her ability. Even after the flashback, she denies her abilities, only for Angela to tell her that she doesn't believe her.
Still in the interrogation room, Rachel sees [[Carlos (guard)|Carlos]] and [[Angela]] coming towards her. Angela continues to question Rachel about the [[serum]] and [[Teleportation|her abilities]], mentioning Rachel's mother, [[Leona]]. Rachel denies that she is [[Special (theme)|special]], but then has a flashback about how she got out of the Pinehearst lab - she used her ability. Even after the flashback, she denies her abilities, only for Angela to tell her that she doesn't believe her.


===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 5]]===
===[[Webisode:The Recruit, Part 5]]===
[[Carlos]] and [[Angela]] approach Rachel, who is still tied down to a chair next to a conference table in the [[Tappen]] facility. Angela tells Rachel that she underestimated her and is letting her go; and Carlos removes her IV, saying that the effects should wear off in a few hours. Angela then commends Rachel for being a fighter like her, but Rachel replies that she's nothing like her and just wants to leave. Angela says that there's a car waiting for her outside.
[[Carlos (guard)|Carlos]] and [[Angela]] approach Rachel, who is still tied down to a chair next to a conference table in the [[Tappen]] facility. Angela tells Rachel that she underestimated her and is letting her go; and Carlos removes her IV, saying that the effects should wear off in a few hours. Angela then commends Rachel for being a fighter like her, but Rachel replies that she's nothing like her and just wants to leave. Angela says that there's a car waiting for her outside.


Later, Rachel parks next to a [[gas station (II)|gas station]] restroom and heads inside. While staring at the mirror, Rachel recalls how at [[Pinehearst Headquarters|Pinehearst]], she had taken the vial of [[serum]] out of the syringe she broke and hid it inside her shoulder wound. Back in the present, Rachel removes the serum from her wound and redresses the bandage using her shirt to tie it up.
Later, Rachel parks next to a [[gas station (II)|gas station]] restroom and heads inside. While staring at the mirror, Rachel recalls how at [[Pinehearst Headquarters|Pinehearst]], she had taken the vial of [[serum]] out of the syringe she broke and hid it inside her shoulder wound. Back in the present, Rachel removes the serum from her wound and redresses the bandage using her shirt to tie it up.
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===[[Episode:Trust and Blood|Trust and Blood]]===
===[[Episode:Trust and Blood|Trust and Blood]]===
Rachel is one of the Marines working for [[Nathan Petrelli]] at [[Building 26]]. She guards [[Tracy Strauss]] in the back of a truck when Nathan arrives to talk to Tracy.
Rachel is one of the Marines working for [[Nathan Petrelli]] at [[Building 26]]. She guards a hooded [[Tracy Strauss]] in the back of a truck when Nathan arrives to talk to Tracy.


===[[Episode:Exposed|Exposed]]===
===[[Episode:Exposed|Exposed]]===
Rachel and [[Jason|her partner]] watch the [[the Bennets' home (Costa Verde)|Bennets' house]] from a pool-cleaning van. The two eventually search the house, and Claire reminds Rachel that she's off limits. Rachel replies that a guy like [[Alex]] is just her type and that she's sure Claire is hiding him, but the two agents find nothing and [[Sandra]] tells them to leave. Later, Rachel and her partner take action when a car comes out of the Bennets' garage: they stop it, but find only Sandra and [[Lyle]] inside. They hear a loud noise from behind the house and pursue Claire and Alex. Rachel and Jason split up and Rachel checks a pool area, failing to spot that Alex and Claire are hiding [[Underwater breathing|under the water]]. Her partner then calls her on the radio, telling her he believes he has a lead.
Rachel and [[Jason Pierce|her partner]] watch the [[the Bennets' home (Costa Verde)|Bennets' house]] from a pool-cleaning van. The two eventually search the house, and [[Claire]] reminds Rachel that she's off limits. Rachel replies that a guy like [[Alex]] is just her type and that she's sure Claire is hiding him, but the two agents find nothing and [[Sandra]] tells them to leave. Later, Rachel and her partner take action when a car comes out of the Bennets' garage: they stop it, but find only Sandra and [[Lyle]] inside. They hear a loud noise from behind the house and pursue Claire and Alex. Rachel and Jason split up and Rachel checks a pool area, failing to spot that Alex and Claire are hiding [[Underwater breathing|under the water]]. Her partner then calls her on the radio, telling her he believes he has a lead.


===[[Shades of Gray]]===
===[[Episode:Shades of Gray|Shades of Gray]]===

She and [[Jason|her partner]] visibly follow Claire around until they get a tip on [[Eric Doyle]]'s location. Rachel manages to corner him, but he uses [[puppet master|his ability]] to force her to point her gun in the air. Rachel offers him a chance to surrender, but he just forces her to point her own gun at her own head. She is visibly scared and crying, but Eric, who claims to just want to go back to having a normal life, knocks her out and doesn't kill her.
[[Image:Puppetmaster rachel.jpg|thumb|right|Rachel is [[puppet master|controlled]] by [[Eric Doyle|Doyle]].]]

She and [[Jason Pierce|her partner]] visibly follow Claire around until they get a tip on [[Eric Doyle]]'s location. Rachel manages to corner him, but he uses [[puppet master|his ability]] to force her to point her gun in the air. Rachel offers him a chance to surrender, but he just forces her to point her own gun at her own head. She is visibly scared and crying, but Eric, who claims to just want to go back to having a normal life, knocks her out and doesn't kill her.


===[[Graphic Novel:Puppet with No Strings]]===
===[[Graphic Novel:Puppet with No Strings]]===
Prior to meeting [[Claire]], [[Danko]] interrogates [[Eric Doyle|Doyle]] inside his [[Doyle's Marionette Theatre|theatre]]. [[Rachel]] and [[Jason]] stand with him, watching Danko's brutal form of questioning. After he receives the information he was looking for, Danko sets the theatre ablaze, trapping Doyle inside. On the way out, Rachel gets a message from [[Rebel]], telling her to go rescue Doyle. Stealthily, she [[teleports]] inside and frees Doyle from his bindings, before returning outside and meeting up with her fellow agents.
Prior to meeting [[Claire]], [[Danko]] interrogates [[Eric Doyle|Doyle]] inside his [[Doyle's Marionette Theatre|theatre]]. [[Rachel]] and [[Jason Pierce]] stand with him, watching Danko's brutal form of questioning. After he receives the information he was looking for, Danko sets the theatre ablaze, trapping Doyle inside. On the way out, Rachel gets a message from [[Rebel]], telling her to go rescue Doyle. Stealthily, she [[teleports]] inside and frees Doyle from his bindings, before returning outside and meeting up with her fellow agents.


===[[Graphic Novel:Hanging By a Thread]]===
===[[Graphic Novel:Hanging By a Thread]]===
Rachel Mills runs across a rooftop, chasing [[Howie Kaplan]], a target of [[Building 26]]. When they get to an opening, Howie uses his [[ability]] to [[Oil secretion|throw oil at Rachel's feet]], causing Rachel to slip and begin to fall towards the ground. Rachel, with no other choice, [[teleports]] back onto the rooftop and whacks Howie, but accidentally knocks him over the edge of the roof. She grabs onto his wrist, and starts interrogating Howie while he holds onto her for dear life. Suddenly, [[Rebel]] sends her a [[text message]] telling her that she's starting to act like [[Angela Petrelli]]. Rachel realizes that Rebel is right, and then has a flashback.
Rachel Mills runs across a rooftop, chasing [[Howie Kaplan]], a target of [[Building 26]]. When they get to an opening, Howie uses his [[ability]] to [[Oil secretion|throw oil at Rachel's feet]], causing Rachel to slip and begin to fall towards the ground. Rachel, with no other choice, [[teleports]] back onto the rooftop and whacks Howie, but accidentally knocks him over the edge of the roof. She grabs onto his wrist, and starts interrogating Howie while he holds onto her for dear life. Suddenly, [[Rebel]] sends her a [[text message]] telling her that she's starting to act like [[Angela Petrelli]]. Rachel realizes that Rebel is right, and then has a flashback.


Rachel recalls that Angela had forced her to embrace her ability, not letting her deny it and driving her to the brink. Eventually, when Rachel used her ability to escape Angela's grasp, she had let her go. Influenced by this, Rachel decides to let Howie go as well. [[Jason]] and a [[masked agent]] come running, and Rachel realizes that she must not let them witness what she is about to do. She deliberately throws herself over the edge, and then teleports [[Ability extension|both her and Howie]] to the ground. Howie realizes that Rachel is "[[evolved|special]]" too, and Rachel tells him that he should get away fast. Howie thanks her, and Rebel instructs Rachel to go back and make up an excuse.
Rachel recalls that Angela had forced her to embrace her ability, not letting her deny it and driving her to the brink. Eventually, when Rachel used her ability to escape Angela's grasp, she had let her go. Influenced by this, Rachel decides to let Howie go as well. [[Jason Pierce]] and a [[masked agent]] come running, and Rachel realizes that she must not let them witness what she is about to do. She deliberately throws herself over the edge, and then teleports [[Ability extension|both her and Howie]] to the ground. Howie realizes that Rachel is "[[evolved|special]]" too, and Rachel tells him that he should get away fast. Howie thanks her, and Rebel instructs Rachel to go back and make up an excuse.


===[[Graphic Novel:Exodus]]===
===[[Graphic Novel:Exodus]]===
Rachel is at a [[shooting range]] in [[Building 26]] when [[Danko]] enters with agents that hold her. Danko shows her a message sent to [[Janey]] from her brother [[Jason]] explaining that if anything happened to him to report Rachel. As the agents prepare to take her away she [[Teleportation|teleports]] into the hallway and runs to the room filled with [[evolved human]] prisoners. She searches for [[Eric Doyle]] and when she finds him releases two more evolved humans that were in the next beds before the agents return. [[Mary Krause]] is shot dead straight away while the bullets [[Gordon's ability|turn to sand]] when they touch [[Gordon Hovey]]. Gordon then touches an agent and turns him into sand. Rachel then teleports herself, Gordon and Eric through Building 26 to the roof where a helicopter is waiting. As the shooter shoot at them Eric hides behind Gordon and Rachel teleports onto the helicopter pushing the shooters off and then holding a gun to the [[Helicopter pilot|pilot]] to take them away. When they land in a field Rachel walks with Eric and mentions her life with Building 26 is over.
Rachel is at a [[shooting range]] in [[Building 26]] when [[Danko]] enters with agents that hold her. Danko shows her a message sent to [[Janey]] from her brother [[Jason Pierce]] explaining that if anything happened to him to report Rachel. As the agents prepare to take her away she [[Teleportation|teleports]] into the hallway and runs to the room filled with [[evolved human]] prisoners. She searches for [[Eric Doyle]] and when she finds him releases two more evolved humans that were in the next beds before the agents return. [[Mary Krause]] is shot dead straight away while the bullets [[Granulation|turn to sand]] when they touch [[Gordon Hovey]]. Gordon then touches an agent and turns him into sand. Rachel then teleports herself, Gordon and Eric through Building 26 to the roof where a helicopter is waiting. As the shooter shoots at them Eric hides behind Gordon and Rachel teleports onto the helicopter pushing the shooters off and then holding a gun to the [[Helicopter pilot|pilot]], forcing him to take them away. When they land in a field Rachel walks with Eric and mentions her life with Building 26 is over.


==[[Heroes Evolutions]]==
==[[Heroes Evolutions]]==
''For a complete summary of Rachel's history in the iStory and Heroes Evolutions, see '''[[Rachel Mills/Heroes Evolutions|Rachel Mills: Heroes Evolutions History]]'''.''

According to NBC.com's [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/The-Recruit/Rachel-Mills/ character reference] for Rachel Mills, Rachel was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but grew up in Calabasas, California. She was raised solely by her mother, [[Leona]], until Rachel was twelve and Leona committed [[suicide]]. Rachel's grandparents then took her in, but they struggled with little money and Rachel wasn't able to gain many friends. After graduating from high school, Rachel joined the Marines following her grandfather's footsteps. After spending four years abroad between [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]], [[Pinehearst]] recruited Rachel for their top-secret operation.
According to NBC.com's [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/The-Recruit/Rachel-Mills/ character reference] for Rachel Mills, Rachel was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but grew up in Calabasas, California. She was raised solely by her mother, [[Leona]], until Rachel was twelve and Leona committed [[suicide]]. Rachel's grandparents then took her in, but they struggled with little money and Rachel wasn't able to gain many friends. After graduating from high school, Rachel joined the Marines following her grandfather's footsteps. After spending four years abroad between [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]], [[Pinehearst]] recruited Rachel for their top-secret operation.


In [[Operation Bad Blood]], a message from Rachel is available to view. In it, she leaves a message for her friend Amy and tells her about her life at [[Pinehearst]].
[[Image:The Recruit Rachel.jpg|thumb|right|Rachel appears in [http://www.hulu.com/watch/47827/heroes-the-recruit-rachel ''The&nbsp;Recruit:&nbsp;Rachel'']]]
An intercepted mobile message [http://www.hulu.com/watch/47827/heroes-the-recruit-rachel posted] on Hulu.com is a video message Rachel left for her friend, Amy, before she left for [[Pinehearst]]:
{{message|Hey, Amy! I'll be MIA for a couple weeks and I just wanted to give you the heads up before I'm off. I've been selected for this program. But after being [[Iraq War|stationed in Iraq]] for the past 16 months, it should be a breeze. Heck, the weather's nicer, pay's better, there's a lot of cute boys here. Anyway, I love you. Bye.|percent=70}}

===[[Operation Bad Blood]]===
The above Hulu.com message was later included amongst other video mail messages in chapter 5 of [[Operation Bad Blood]]. They are part of a video feed being reviewed for security messages by a technician in Pinehearst that the Pinehearst contracted player spots. Rachel's message to her friend, Amy, is viewable by clicking the "video feeds" link on the page.

[[Image:Rachel Mills in Operation Bad Blood.jpg|thumb|right|Rachel appears in ''{{nbl|Operation Bad Blood}}'']]
A second and final message from Rachel to her friend Amy is viewable by again clicking the "video feeds" link on the [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/iStory/chapters/205/UEgxNTAwMjAtZA== iStory page]:
{{message|Okay, this is it--my last message. Twelve hours to go and it's... it's really starting to sink in. It's a lot of pressure. But anyway, um, you're my best friend, Aimes, and don't forget that... unless you tell somebody about that thing. And if you tell somebody about that thing, then I will have to come hunt you down and take you out. Well, anyway, um, I love you and I'll call you when I get back.|percent=70}}

===[[The Private chapter summaries|The Private]]===
In [[The Private chapter summaries#Chapter 301|chapter 1 of The Private]], Rachel visits the remnants of the destroyed [[Pinehearst Headquarters]]. Later, when in a job interview, her [[interviewer|potential employer]] reviews her personnel file and mentions her many combat decorations she accumulated in her four years of service and excellent shooting accuracy even under the pressure of combat situations. To explain why she was discharged as a private, Rachel begins recalling her experiences from her last tour of duty in [[Iraq]] the previous summer. In Rachel's recollection, she is called Corporal Mills by her commanding officer, [[Barton]]. She begins to follow his orders to leave her Humvee and search a woman's car at a checkpoint in [[Ghanaf, Iraq]], when she hears an erratic beeping noise that she follows and finds a coded message. When she grabs the message, Rachel hears loud bangs coming from the checkpoint and sees that the rest of her unit has been disabled by gas canisters.

Rachel turns and flees into an alley, where she runs into [[Ammar]], her unit's Iraqi translator. Together, Rachel and Ammar continue running away and find a hiding spot in a side alley down a side street. Rachel then spots two of their hazard suit-wearing pursuers pass by. One starts to tug off his gas mask, but the other gives him an order and the first man pulls it back on. However, before he does so, she sees that the man isn't Middle Eastern. Rachel also notes to herself that the order sounded very much like English. Rachel begins to analyze the message and her situation. She realizes that the message is in Morse code and the translation means she was bugged by Ammar. However, Rachel's realization comes too late and Ammar forces her out onto the street at gunpoint. They are quickly surrounded by men in hazard suits and one of the men places a smelly hood over her head.

In [[The Private chapter summaries#Chapter 302|chapter 2 of The Private]], Rachel takes a break from her story when the interviewer leaves temporarily to fetch some coffee. When he returns with his cup and asks Rachel if she wants some, she declines and continues her story when prompted to. Rachel notes that next, her captors dump her in a muddy pit and she realizes her captors had taken some of her blood some time before then. She then waits by herself there for about 12 hours until a rope ladder is lowered to her and she climbs up. Rachel follows two men and a women to a mess hall where she is interrogated by an Arabic man who introduces himself as [[Harry]]. She tells Harry that her people will come for her, and learns from him that she is in [[Iran]] and that there is an Iranian army medical facility in the nearby village. When Harry then asks her about her mother, Rachel just stays silent and learns that she has been under surveillance from an unknown party for some time. She is then taken back to her pit and finds she now has company inside it.

The man sharing Rachel's pit, [[Jim]], and Rachel introduce themselves to each other. Jim asks if they said why they brought her there, and Rachel must decide how to respond. She chooses to comment on Jim's appearance and gets Jim to open up about how he came to be there. Rachel's conversation with Jim is interrupted when [[Ammar]] arrives above their pit. When Ammar informs her that her captors plan to kill her, she asks for his help.

Rachel pauses telling the story when the interviewer makes a note, and she asks him what interested him. When the interviewer replies that Rachel seems to have a Type E personality based on her responses, Rachel asks if that is the best type and why she gets the feeling that how she tells the story is more important than the story itself. The interviewer doesn't answer Rachel, but instead notes that Ammar has a proposal for Rachel and asks Rachel to continue the story, which she does.

In Rachel's continued recollection, Rachel listens to Ammar's proposal for them to use his motorcycle and make a one to two days drive on a road that the U.S. military is watching. She replies that it sounds like his plan is to get them blown up by a Predator drone, but Ammar says that she will signal to her people that they are escaped prisoners when they get close. Rachel then asks Ammar about bringing Jim. She learns that Ammar does not think he should come and that Jim thinks they should jump Ammar and take his motorcycle.

After Ammar comes back that night and helps them get out, Rachel knocks Ammar out with her fist and whispers to Jim that she thought that would feel more satisfying. Looking back, Rachel spots their pit in a fenced-off clearing behind them and sees other pits half-dug nearby. Jim and Rachel spot Ammar's motorcycle between two low storage buildings and hop on. Rachel holds to Jim as he drives them away from the camp. They drive for a couple minutes, then pull off and climb to the top of a nearby hill to check for pursuit. Reaching the top of the hill, Rachel says that she's thirsty and they've got quite a drive ahead of them, noting that it felt like their captors had taken her hundreds of miles. She then turns around to find four desert fighters have suddenly materialized behind them. Rachel tells them not to shoot in Arabic, raising her hands; but discovers that they are U.S. Special Forces that have been monitoring the facility Rachel and Jim escaped from. Two hours later, Rachel is briefed with Jim by the Special Forces lieutenant. She learns that the Special Forces squad has received orders to destroy the prison camp, and that they will claim that they are rescuing Rachel and Jim if there is any political fallout.

In [[The Private chapter summaries#Chapter 303|chapter 3 of The Private]], Rachel pauses her story to note that what she is going to say next is not what the official account says, and affirms to her interviewer that she is giving him the truth. Rachel then continues his story, saying she talks more with [[Sam (The Private)|Sam]], the Special Forces lieutenant, who warns Rachel and Jim that the Iranian forces will likely come quickly when the charges go off so to be prepared to run.

Rachel then watches with Jim from a rocky hill as the Special Forces squad sneaks down to the compound. Rachel spots someone leaving a hidden door around the corner from the front entrance, and asks Jim to warn the squad. However, it is too late and Rachel watches as the squad disappears in a white flash and chest-rattling boom. Rachel takes off running toward the facility, reaching Sam's body. Rachel refuses to leave without finishing the mission, and instructs Jim to return to their came and try to radio for help. Rachel spots the guy in the lab coat that had left the building earlier and runs after him. She finds that the door is just an outline in the building's metal siding, so she pulls it open and steps through it into a small, dark room.

Once inside, Rachel spots the man trying to use the inside door, and takes his pistol from him. In order to find where the files are stored, Rachel takes the man hostage. She points the gun to the man's head and learns that he can speak English. Rachel then asks him what the place is, but doesn't get a straight answer from him so she asks him to show her around, pressing him through the inner door.

Once inside, they find the next room also dark, as though the power is out. Even though she is wearing a mask, Rachel smells an overpowering odor of rot and chemicals. Rachel gets her hostage to take her inside the main office. She finds it has a small desk, low ceiling and dozens of filing cabinets. Files are open on the desk, along with piles of photographs, and Rachel studies them to make sense of things. Rachel notes that the images show what used to be people, but all of them had either been been deformed, contorted, enlarged, reduced, or discolored. To Rachel, some of them appear blackened and torn by some kind of internal explosion. Rachel asks what happened, but only learns that they had problems. She asks him if there are people alive in the building, and he notes that they are not people.

In order to find out more about the facilities records, Rachel orders her hostage to find her file. Rachel tells him her name and he produces a file folder with her name on it from the last filing cabinet. However, Rachel finds that the folder is empty. Rachel tells her hostage that they will see about the facility taking many women, and then she feels the rumbling of trucks getting close outside.

In [[The Private chapter summaries#Chapter 304|chapter 4 of The Private]], Rachel chooses to investigate weird moaning she hears coming from the medical ward so that she can rescue a girl that sounds like she is in distress. On a far table, under a dim construction light, Rachel spots her laying in a tangle of wires and tubes. As Rachel gets closer, she can see that her "table" was a tray, half-full of a blue-ish chemical that is being pumped in through a tube like a garden hose. Her arms and legs were swollen, bulging, as if full of liquid. The girl has IVs in both arms with her eyes half-open. Rachel notes that she seems unconscious, and then pauses her story to calm herself from the fresh memories.

When Rachel is asked to again continue her story, she does so intermittently, pausing after recalling each next segment, as it is painful to her. Continuing, Rachel explains that she freed the girl, but the girl attacked her and was very powerful. Rachel agrees with the interviewer that the girl's reaction is not what she expected, and speculates that whatever the facility was doing had changed her in addition to making her afraid. When the interviewer points out that Rachel did survive, Rachel replies that the girl would have killed her, but the men outside came in and the girl turned on them. When that happened, Rachel took the opportunity to run away.

When the interviewer then stops Rachel from saying more, she asks why he wants to stop when she hasn't said how she escaped. Rachel then listens as the interviewer completes her story for her. He says Rachel found Jim on the hill, and then they made their way toward the border. However, on the way, they were met by a helicopter hired by Jim's employer.

Rachel questions how the interviewer knows that, noting that information wasn't in the official account. She then listens as the interview details the official account: that they crossed the Iraq-Iran border, attacked an Iranian army convoy and were captured. This caused a stir in the local media, and the U.S. government demoted Rachel to Private, punishing her to hush the situation. Rachel responds that the real story is crazy, but they have to believe her, and learns from the interviewer that they do. She then sees Jim walk into the office and join them.

As the memories of what happened in Iran come flooding back to Rachel, she asks Jim if he was working for these guys. Rachel learns from Jim that he wasn't working for them when he was in Iran, and that he just started. Jim continues that he told his new employers their story, and they were very interested.

When the interviewer leaves the room temporarily, Rachel asks Jim if he isn't still working for Jeremy Woo, noting that Jim had said Jeremy was pretty persuasive. She learns from Jim that Jeremy is dead and some of the details related to his death.

Rachel then asks if Jim said he worked for a paper company, but isn't able to get anything out of him about that company. She then recalls the empty file with her name on it she found in the facility in Iran, and tells Jim she only needs to know from him what he knows about it. She adds she feels like she might have been singled out. However, she only gets a warning from Jim not to ever bring up the file again, and especially not in the place they are now. Rachel then presses him again for what he knows, but Jim refuses to tell her and says it is for her own good that she doesn't know.

When the interviewer returns and Jim leaves, Rachel thanks the interviewer for recognizing that her experience in the Middle East may prove valuable and notes that most people just call her a liar. When he then asks Rachel how she explains what she found in the facility in Iran, Rachel admits she can't explain it and all she has gained is questions. She is then told by the interviewer that they are going to help her and they would like her to to join their team.

Rachel congratulates herself on making the team, not realizing how much she needed that. She is then surprised to learn from him that training begins in twenty minutes, and that she needs to make any desired calls now as she will be unreachable until after her first mission. She asks when that mission will begin, and learns from him it will start in a number of days. Rachel is then instructed by the interviewer to stand in front of the camera and repeat after him.

Rachel thinks now that this is when her new war began.

===[[The Agent]]===
In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 401|chapter 1 of The Agent]], Rachel believes she has been hired by a professional paramilitary organization, but soon finds herself in the middle of a secret war between the government and not-so-ordinary citizens. Rachel continues to encounter [[Jim]], who is now a fellow agent, while working for this organization. She thinks Jim seems protective of her, but knows that Jim knows much more than he will admit to her.

It is now the end of the day, and Rachel feels empty and drained. She wishes to herself that [[Gibson]] was with her, then looks at the [[Tracy Strauss|woman]] they captured. She notices that the woman is scared, and thinks that she should be. Rachel then recalls to herself how the day began.

Rachel's recollection begins with Rachel participating in a training exercise in a gutted office building surrounded by woods. As Rachel gets close to her target, she holds her breath. Rachel then moves into the shadows of a hallway.

While following her target, Rachel notes to herself that the agent training is brutal, intense, and bizarre. Rachel recalls being in shape in the Marines, but being part of this organization is a different experience. The trainees are taught a thousand ways to take down a target, wearing all sorts of protective gear and in odd conditions, often with various handicaps.

When target stops briefly and scans the area, Rachel hides again before he can spot her. He kneels down and pulls a grill from the wall, and Rachel realizes they had found his stash. She then steps out from hiding and shoots him twice in the head.

The agents screams in pain, and says that one shot in the shoulder would have been fine. Rachel replies that doing that wouldn't be good practice, and then the other trainees start coming out of the woods. Rachel is then congratulated by her trainer, [[Moore]], and the other trainees for breaking the course record.

Rachel notes to herself that most of her fellow recruits were very competitive and hated her as of a few days ago, but that she has been turning around their opinions by being better than them. Rachel offers to give one fellow trainee, [[Gibson]], him some tips to help him on the course, but he declines in favor of hearing about Iran again.

Pausing her recollection, Rachel notes that Gibson's eyes told her that he had never been out in the field. However, his eyes also made him the best shot in their training group. She guesses he thought he was just playing a video game and feels sorry for him. Rachel also notes that he should be standing next to her right now as she promised him, but that things didn't go as planned.

Continuing, Rachel recalls that they get a call about the [[Flight 195 crash|plane crash]]. They are briefed that the plane carried federal detainees, and their instructions are to recon and contain them. The recruits then all pile into black-painted helicopters that immediately take off. Everyone is given live ammunition, and the trainees appear happy to get a reprieve from the deep-assessment training they had been getting for the last forty-eight hours.

When they land, Rachel is told to report to [[Danko]] for orders. She recognizes Danko's name--she had been compared to him in training. Rachel locates Danko when he is talking with [[Nathan Petrelli|Senator Petrelli]] and listens to their conversation. While the arguing continues, Rachel turns her attention on a girl, the senator's daughter, that Danko points to. She notes her blond hair and that she appears to be a teenager. Rachel also notes the girl is scratched up and very upset. Several agents stand around her, and her hands are tied behind her back. Then Rachel looks at the crater where the plane had been, and ponders what she is capable of.

Suddenly, Rachel feels a burst of air and another [[Daphne|blond girl]] appears, and then both the new girl and the senator's daughter disappear. Next, Rachel hears people say that Claire has disappeared, and pieces together that Claire is the senator's daughter's name.

Shortly thereafter, Rachel receives orders from Danko to pick three men and follow the main search party. He adds that if that party gets into trouble, her squad is to ignore everything else and capture Claire by any means possible. Rachel asks what if they can't capture her, and he instructs her to shoot her in the back of the skull.

When Danko leaves, Rachel allows Gibson to join her and tells him to stay close to her, and that he should keep his head down to stay okay. Following the main search party, they find a group of the escaped detainees including the senator's daughter next to the smashed tail of the plane. Rachel watches as agent in charge of the main search party prepares an ambush and then the [[Daphne|fast girl]] stands up. She next sees Gibson open fire, taking down the fast girl and Claire, and then pause his firing. Then, before Rachel can realize it, Gibson turns and shoots everyone else in their party except for Rachel and points his gun at her. Rachel just watches as Danko saves her by shooting Gibson dead and then pulls out a tie and takes Claire prisoner.

Rachel pauses her recollection again, and looks down at the blond woman's face. The woman appears dirty, tired and terrified to Rachel, and Rachel notes to herself that now they just need to stop the rest before more good men die.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 402|chapter 2 of The Agent]], Rachel has become an accepted and respected member of a [[Danko's team|secret new government unit]]. After the [[Flight 195|plane crash]], Rachel promised fellow trainee, [[Gibson]], that she would protect him, but fugitives that [[Claire]] released killed him. Now, Rachel's deepest secret begins to haunt her.

Rachel wakes up and finds herself sitting in a metal chair in a [[Pinehearst Headquarters|Pinehearst lab]]. She has taken a bullet and blood runs down her arm. A spotlight is pointed in her face, and she can only make out the outline of her interrogator's body. Then, Rachel sees a blue IV dripping into her arm and the interrogator shuffles forward. Rachel addresses the interrogator as [[Angela Petrelli|Petrelli]], but realizes it is the girl that almost killed her in the [[Biological warfare compound|desert lab]]. Rachel notices the girl's stained skin, swollen arms and legs, and unfocused eyes, and that fluid is dripping from the girl's veins onto the floor.

Rachel dodges the girl's blue hands, rolls over the table in front of her, and rushes out the door. As she reaches the exit, Rachel hears behind her the girl's bare feet slapping the tile, snapping her limbs inhumanly fast.

Suddenly, Rachel arrives in a funeral home. She notices lots of chairs in the room, and everyone there is tall and wearing black. Thinking the girl is still after her and that the casket will protect her, Rachel starts walking up the aisle. As Rachel approaches the casket, no one seems to notice her. When she reaches the casket, Rachel finds it closed and tries to open it. She succeeds in raising it an inch a few times, but it always drops back shut as if something is holding it closed. Rachel then whispers, "Please, Mom", and a blue arm snakes out and grabs her wrist.

Rachel screams no and wakes up on the floor of her room, realizing she is back to the nightmare that is her life and that she has [[teleportation|teleported]] out of bed. She also notices that it looks like dawn, that her body is soaked with sweat, and that she is shivering uncontrollably. She then lowers her head into her arms and groans, when she hears someone call for her from the doorway.

After quickly snatching her gun from her desk drawer, Rachel a man enter her room she guesses is one of [[Danko]]'s men. He claims to be her new partner, but she keeps her gun pointed at him. When he mentions she he didn't knock because he heard yelling, Rachel explains that she just had a dream and asks him to come back later. However, he says he can't leave, and notes Danko sent him with another file for Rachel about the "special project". Rachel then lowers her gun.

Two hours after Rachel's partner leaves, Rachel reflects on not asking for his name. She thinks that it was too soon, and recalls the recent deaths she has experienced: [[Gibson]]; [[David Sullivan|David]], at Pinehearst; Eric, the young Special Forces officer; and tough old [[Barton]], in [[Ghanaf, Iraq|Ghanaf]]. Rachel also adds her mother to that list, since it has only been weeks since she learned why she killed herself, and notes they all died because of powers.

Rachel then turns her attention to Danko's file. She notes to herself that Danko has had her searching through some old websites, stuff that used to be run by people with abilities. They were just trying to understand more about how they think when Rachel found the first message. When Rachel reported it, Danko instructed Rachel to keep the project off the grid as he thinks there might be a security breach. Rachel was also informed that when Danko's analysts started looking at the websites, bursts transmissions began leaving the government firewall.

After turning on her computer, Rachel begins going through a new target list of about a dozen websites Danko has given her to look at. She finds that the first website is a kind of message board, and spots a few images with bar codes or something that she wants to check out. Rachel copies them to her computer and attaches them to an email to a [[Volts|hacker buddy]] who can sort those things out and let her know about anything interesting. After a while, Rachel narrows the list down to three other websites that give her a weird feeling.

Rachel opens Site 1, [[votepetrelli.com|Senator Petrelli's website]], and finds a hidden message looking her in the face after some searching. She wonders aloud who "[[Rebel]]" is.

Site 2 is "[[lasvegasniki.com|Las Vegas Niki]]", which Rachel notes to herself is like a creepy tomb since [[Niki Sanders|Niki]] is dead. Rachel searches this second website for a while, but finds another hidden message in plain sight just when she is about to push on. She writes "ALEX" in the file and underlines it twice, thinking that it is something she has to tell Danko about.

Site 3 is "[[Hana's website|HG]]", which Rachel notes to herself is a very intense website. Rachel learns from the website that the woman, "HG", waged an ability-related campaign for a while, coordinating with a number of others through the website. Rachel has trouble parsing the sheer wall of information at first, and takes a break after a few minutes of writing down names and places. A minute later, Rachel walks back to her computer with drink in hand and from a distance, far enough back that she can't read text, sees that she has been thinking too hard. She whispers aloud that she is going to shut down the messenger.

Just as Rachel finishes looking at the websites, her phone buzzes. Rachel checks the caller ID, sees that it says "UNKNOWN", and figures it must be her hacker buddy, Volts. She rolls her eyes and answers the phone while writing another note on the file for Danko.

Rachel asks Volts "what's up", and comments that it is practically lunch time. She tells him that she loves him too, and threatens to break his legs if he forces her to drive over there to find out what the bar code said. She then listens as Volts tells her. Rachel realizes from the message that they know who she is. When the power suddenly goes out, she tells Volts she will call him back, but finds that her cell phone connection has been cut off. Rachel tries to call Danko's office, but gets an "All circuits are busy" message. She then grabs her gun off the bed, tucks Danko's file under her arms and prepares to leave her room when her phone buzzes with a text message from [[Rebel]]. A video file sent along with the message shows Rachel using her [[teleportation|ability]] at [[Pinehearst Headquarters|Pinehearst]]. In additional text messages, Rebel warns Rachel not to tell Danko what she just found out. Rachel thinks of how she is now in another horrible situation, and how she hates Rebel almost as much as she hates herself. She then gets another text that Rebel needs her to do something, and thinks that her situation just got much worse.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 403|chapter 3 of The Agent]], Rachel Mills is now in a situation where a shotgun is being pointed at her head from five feet away. She guesses that two seconds has transpired and that the man holding the shotgun plans to pull the trigger. Rachel also notes that REBEL has been trying to kill Rachel all day, and begins recalling prior events, starting with what occurred about a week earlier.

In Rachel's recollection, she jumps into the passenger seat of a van [[Danko]] is driving, and tells Danko she was delayed because her boot lace snapped and she had to fix it. As Danko drives them away, Rachel makes eye contact with Jason, her new partner, in the van's rear seat, and wonders if either Danko or Jason suspected what she had been up to.

A couple days later, Rachel is practicing firing her weapon at the shooting range with Jason. She notes to herself having been there a long time--that Jason was starting to look tired, but she was used to the practice having practiced shooting holes in stuff as therapy since the day in Pinehearst when she found out about her condition.

Rachel watches Jason shoot, placing his elbow low in a way she recalls a lot of Navy SEALs do. She watches the intensity on his face, under the ear protectors and goggles, and figures he wants to beat her bad. When Jason challenges her to try to beat his latest score, Rachel says that she is done for day, and is tired. Danko then arrives, and Rachel recalls that yesterday one of the fugitives made it into his apartment, almost killing him. Unlike some other agents, Rachel didn't look at Danko any differently for what happened, and he rewarded that loyalty with an assignment.

In the firing range, Rachel learns from Danko that she and Jason need to depart to [[Costa Verde, CA|Costa Verde]] by plane in fifteen minutes. Their orders are to pursue and capture the target, [[Alex Woolsly]], and to inform Danko and wait for further orders if they get evidence that the [[Claire Bennet|cheerleader]] is involved.

When Danko leaves, Rachel turns around to get her beeping cell phone, but Jason is already holding it. She asks for it back, snatching it from him. Rachel confirms to Jason she just got a text, but ignores his inquiry about her reading it. She presses the shooting range button and begins firing, imagining the targets are fugitives and impresses Jason with her precision. Rachel notes that she comes there a lot, then watches as Jason leaves. She then drops her cell phone in a trash can, thinking that would be the end of Rebel's interference on her mission.

Upon reaching Costa Verde, Rachel and Jason meet the lead agent at a command truck. Rachel asks for the latest intel, and then agrees with Jason that they need to get moving since it is already after lunch time.

Rachel decides for them to proceed to Alex's abandoned car, and they meet two agents there. She notes to herself that the agents look bored, but are taking it in stride as professionals. Rachel and Jason agree that Alex is unlikely to return to the vehicle, so they take a look around the street. While they are looking around, Rachel notes to herself that ditching the vehicle does not seem like something Alex would do on his own, and suspects the [[Claire Bennet|Claire]] was involved in helping him escape.

When Jason spots a security camera on the corner of a nearby self-storage facility, Rachel notes to him that there isn't an office in the storage building, so the camera must be remotely operated. She then instructs Jason to call back to base and find out if they can hack the archives for the camera footage. While he calls, Rachel wanders the street, trying to place herself in their shoes to figure out where they would head next. A couple minutes later, Rachel explains what she is trying to do to Jason, and then asks what base found. She learns from Jason that the related footage will be streamed to Jason's phone

When Jason suddenly gets a text message, Rachel decides to snatch the phone from Jason. She then turns her back on him and ignores him while examining the phone. She deletes messages from REBEL and opens the video file when it comes in. In the video, Rachel sees Alex's car and a blonde, female, Caucasian passenger, but then the file gets deleted and a new text message appears from REBEL. Rachel then hits delete again just as Jason reaches and grabs the phone back. Rachel tells Jason that the video was blank and convinces him to get it resent. Rachel then learns that the tech can no longer find the video, but swears it existed.

Rachel says to forget the video and decides they should head to the beach. They arrive near a local sand-side restaurant, and Rachel spots a clump of young men and women in swimsuits draped over the wooden seats outside the restaurant. Rachel begins to head toward them, but Jason stops her from proceeding. Jason tells Rachel to compare their attire with those she plans to question. Rachel then notes that Jason and herself are in dark suits and glasses, while the surfer crowd is dressed in rags. She also notes that she wasn't much of a surfer girl while growing up, southern California or not, and often got into fights at school with this crowd.

After considering, Rachel responds that they will put the fear of God into them, but Jason notes they are most likely to get ignored as in the film ''[[Wikipedia:Point Break|Point Break]]''. Rachel replies that she hasn't seen that film, and Jason directs her to a nearby surf shop, where a rack of women's swimsuits are in front. At first, Rachel refuses to get into a swimsuit disguise, but Jason finally convinces her to do so.

After purchasing and getting into a swimsuit, Rachel approaches the surfer crowd on her own. As she says hello, she thinks the plan isn't going to work. Rachel notes the girls sizing her up like a circling shark and the guys smiling like she is long-lost family. Rachel talks with a blond-haired guy that greets her back, telling him she is there to meet her cousin Alex, and asks if he had seen him. Rachel then learns from one of the girl that Alex hasn't been around that day. Rachel tells the girl they were supposed to meet, but she tried calling his place and he's not there. Rachel then ignores the guy offering to get her a drink and asks if they have any idea where Alex might be. The girl then informs Rachel of Alex's friend, [[Liliane]], who also hasn't been around, and provides Rachel with her address.

Rachel returns to Jason at the car, and tells him to keep his eyes up and what she learned. When Jason realizes his plan worked and begins to gloat, Rachel instructs him to keep quiet and drive. Upon arriving outside Liliane's house, Rachel is dressed in standard gear again and instructs Jason to watch the back side of the house.

After exiting the car, Rachel walks up to Liliane's front door. Noting the toys in the front yard, she suspects Liliane lives with her family. After knocking on the door, Rachel overhears Liliane's mother talking in the next room. A moment later, Liliane appears at the door, and Rachel picks up that Liliane is more afraid than surprised. Rachel asks Liliane's father, who had answered the door, to speak with Liliane alone, and Liliane convinces him to leave the room.

Rachel talks with Liliane and learns that Liliane is a government informant, and had a drug charge or something from a party at her community college. [[Danko's team|Danko's men]] had called and given her a way out in exchange for her help. They told her Alex was taking some special steroids or something, and she was supposed to report if she noticed him do anything weird. She had called in some tips right before he had disappeared, and now she is afraid to leave the house.

While Rachel continues talking with Liliane, Rachel spots a scrolling text bar appear across the bottom of a big-screen TV in the living room. She sees that the scrolling text is showing her name in caps, but ignores it. Rachel asks if Liliane knows where Alex might go, and Liliane asks Rachel if she knows about "the girl". Rachel asks what girl, and Liliane explains that one of her friends at the [[Sam's Comics|comics store]] said a girl came in before Alex ran off. Rachel notes that he didn't tell her people about any girl, and Liliane replies that her buddies had scared him so he didn't mention it. Liliane adds that he didn't know her name, and just saw some blond hair.

Rachel figures it is Claire, but doesn't think it is any kind of proof that she could offer Danko. The TV continues to scroll text, even quicker now, and Rachel realizes she cannot ignores it much longer. Liliane tells Rachel she will sue the government if Alex comes after her, and Rachel replies that sounds like a plan. Rachel then says goodbye and leaves.

Jason meets Rachel back in the car and Rachel begins explaining what happened as they drive off. Rachel notes that her proof is real thin, but it sounds like Claire Bennet was there. She also tells Jason that they should check the apartment first, before contacting Danko.

Upon entering Alex's apartment, Rachel is shocked by how cluttered it is. They both set about searching through the place for half an hour and then meet up to trade notes. Jason and Rachel agree that the place is a dump, and Jason notes he didn't find any evidence that Alex had been contacted. Rachel says that she found one pay-as-you-go cell phone with a long-dead battery and a laptop she thought looked like it was used occasionally. Rachel watches as Jason boots up the laptop, and it starts downloading messages and, afterwards, deleting them. She then spots a small LED glowing on the edge of the laptop cover and realizes it's a webcam. Rachel says hello to REBEL, and a new e-mail arrives with the subject telling Rachel to leave now. Rachel tells Jason to turn off the laptop, explaining that someone is hacking and deleting the files, and watches as he does so.

Rachel then tells Jason she is going to go call Danko, and leaves the apartment. She goes to the alley behind the apartment building to use a pay phone that is there. While approaching the pay phone, she notes to herself not using a pay phone in years, recalling the closest thing being large public comm. units at her base in [[Iraq]]. Rachel had used one to call her grandfather once after she got deployed, hoping to trade Marine Corps stories.

While authenticating herself to Building 26, she feels someone close behind her. Rachel says for Jason to give her a minute, but then feels something pressed hard to her back. Someone tells Rachel to hang up the phone or he'll kill her, so she does so. A minute later, he allows Rachel to turn around and talk with him.

Rachel could tell the man likely served in the military in his past, but is now balding and gray-mustached. He tells her his name is Dave and wants to know what she did with his son, Alex. Rachel notices he is holding something under his coat, but doesn't know what. She spots a car she guesses is Dave's parked in the shadows, and suspects he was watching the building to find Alex and found her instead.

Rachel tells Dave that she doesn't know why he thinks she knows anything, adding that his son is probably just hanging out somewhere. When Dave informs Rachel of his findings and asks who her people are, Rachel replies that she isn't at liberty to say and tries to escape. She knocks Dave aside and gets about five feet from him when she hears him clock a 12-gauge shotgun and stops still.

As she turns around, she sees Dave point his shotgun at her face. Rachel fears he is about to kill her. She then feels a now familiar strange tingle start, her adrenalin pumping as she closes her eyes and prepares for something. But then Jason arrives and tells Rachel to look out. Then, all the lights on the block simultaneously turn off, and Rachel notices nearby air conditioners are also winding down.

Rachel, Jason, and Dave stand in the darkness while their eyes adjust, and then Rachel or someone moves, and Rachel [[teleportation|teleports]] onto the roof of Alex's apartment building just avoiding getting hit by the blast of Dave's shotgun. From the roof, Rachel watches Jason force Dave to drop his weapon, kick it away, and lay with his face to the ground. Rachel then looks up and around the city, noticing that the whole city's power grid has been knocked out. She assumes that REBEL has saved her life; and guesses that when she finds out the cost for doing so, she will wish she was dead.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#Chapter 404|chapter 4 of The Agent]], Rachel and Jason search sectors of Costa Verde with spotty video and satellite surveillance until the still-dark hours of early morning. They then head to a motel and Rachel falls asleep on her bed. After the sun has come up, Rachel is awakened by Jason screaming at her from the doorway of their adjoining rooms. Rachel asks Jason what his problem is and realizes she is soaked with sweat, must have been dreaming again, and must have yelled.

Later, Rachel and Jason have bagels for breakfast at a table outside a small bakery. Rachel begins to say how they think they should proceed, but Jason interrupts her and says she said something in her sleep. Rachel asks what she said, and learns that Jason thinks she has PTSD. She receives from Jason a business card of a woman who treats the disorder and learns that in her sleep, she mentioned a blue girl, her grandfather and mother, and a bald guy. Rachel asks about the bald guy, but Jason can only say that he thinks he is another of the "freaks" she went after. He continues that Rachel keeps yelling at him to do something; but Rachel is offended at hearing him call them "freaks". She cuts him off before he can finish his sentence, says for them to go, and that they can continue the conversation later. They then leave the bakery and begin driving in their car.

After Rachel directs Jason drive them about ten minutes through Costa Verde, instructs Jason to park the car on the corner a half-block away from [[the Bennets' home]]. The approach a pool-cleaning van parked across the street from the Bennets' house and Rachel slaps her ID onto the van's window bringing to attention the two agents inside. Rachel says that they will take the current shift, and they take watch for two agents who leave.

While watching the Bennets' home from inside the van, Rachel tells Jason she thinks Claire is hiding [[Alex Woolsly|Alex]] by process of elimination. Rachel then agrees to Jason's suggestion that they "rattle the cage". As Rachel and Jason cross the street towards the Bennet house, they both see a curtain move inside and comment that the Bennets see them coming. After Rachel bangs on the front door, she is let inside and allows Jason to enter from the back as planned. Rachel then turns around in the kitchen and stares at Claire, thinking that she looks fearful. She tells Claire that she knows Alex is there, but refers to him only as "he". Rachel spots Claire glance at her adopted mother, Sandra, and reads their faces. She then turns around and sees that a door leading to the pantry was behind her during the glance.

Rachel chooses to enter the pantry and finds a pantry full of dark shelves and cans. The Bennets in the other room remain quiet as Rachel searches, but she doesn't find anyone inside. Rachel then steps out of the pantry and says that she knows Alex is there somewhere. Claire then comments to Rachel something sarcastic and Sandra asks Rachel and Jason to leave, and they do so.

A couple hours later, the sun has gone down and Rachel and Jason are again watching the Bennet house in the pool-cleaning van. Rachel spots Claire's car pull out into the street and sees blonde hair in the driver's seat and a hooded, slumped figure in the passenger's. Jason and Rachel then rush out of their van and jump in front of the car before it can leave. Then, the driver's window comes down and Rachel realizes she is aiming a flashlight at Sandra Bennet. Beside Sandra, Rachel sees that Claire's brother, [[Lyle Bennet|Lyle]], is the hooded figure and realizes she is being played. Jason and Rachel race around the Bennet house in the direction of barking dogs. Arriving at the backyard fence, Rachel curses herself out loud for being fooled. She then instructs Jason to split off from her and make sure they don't cross the street beyond the houses. Rachel then turns the safety off on her pistol and continues the pursuit by herself.

Rachel arrives and searches around a blue-glowing pool. The area around the pool is very quiet until Jason radios Rachel that he thinks he sees them at the end of the street. Rachel and Jason rush to the end of the street, but don't find anyone. After retracing their steps for an hour, they head back to the van. On the mission laptop they have in the van, Rachel sees another message from REBEL asking for help and warning Rachel that a man might give away her secret. After temporarily examining the laptop, Jason turns it back towards Rachel and she sees that REBEL's message is now showing as a bunch of garbled text. Rachel tells Jason to contact headquarters and tell them to resend the data. When Jason turns away to do so, a new message appears at the bottom of the screen, "HERE'S HOW TO READ IT".

Rachel reads REBEL's instructions to "BREAK EACH LINE AT 60 CHARACTERS" and when she does so the line wrap she notices the text is an ASCII photo of [[Eric Doyle]]. She whispers aloud Eric Doyle's name and that it's unbelievable, but Jason doesn't understand what she says. Jason tells Rachel that headquarters is resending, that a new tip came in a few minutes ago, and now they have direct orders to move out. Rachel is surprised that headquarters actually was trying to send a message, but says only "okay" and stares back at the laptop screen.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#Chapter 405|chapter 5 of The Agent]], Rachel experiences several dreams in succession. In the first, Rachel finds herself covered with blood having killed someone. She falls on her knees by the body and begins crying, but can't bring herself to touch it. On the wall, she can make out a crudely drawn symbol that looks like a hammer surrounded by four dots. A moment later, Rachel senses a quiet noise, and turns but cannot see the source. Then, she sees something bright and things change.

Next, in her second dream, Rachel finds herself armed and in the hallway of a government building at night. She rushes silently down the hall and shoots a man that exits a glowing room with her. She notes that the gun is silenced and keeps moving without examining the body. Rachel notes a light flickering strangely at the end of the hallway where there is a massive metal door. She keeps walking towards the door though she doesn't have the passcode, and then things change again.

In the third dream, Rachel is in another building where she says hello to her mother. Rachel then thinks to herself that the only thing that matters is what happens next and braces herself for something when everything suddenly disappears.

Then, in the fourth dream, Rachel is hurting more than she ever imagined and finds her hands are on her chest. She lifts her fingers and realizes she is slowly bleeding. Then, Rachel falls on her knees into some dirt and says aloud that someone "really did it". A woman then replies that she told her she would and Rachel's vision fades.

In the fifth dream, Rachel is somewhere bright where she can see a dozen people or more looking up at her including men, women, and a child. On a nearby crate, she sees the same symbol again that has a hammer and four smaller symbols around it. Rachel then raises her hand and is holding a bomb detonator. She looks back at the crowd before her and presses the button.

Next, in the sixth dream, Rachel sees a man with a shaven head and piecing eyes. Rachel is terrified of what he holds in his hand. She tells him that she looked at it and listens to him.

Finally, Rachel has another dream where she sees a woman talking on the phone with her mother.

Before Rachel experienced these dreams, Rachel is on assignment with [[Jason]] to capture [[Eric Doyle]], Rachel recalls how saving Eric was the first and worst thing [[Rebel|REBEL]] has asked her to do and thinks that saving him again is the last thing she wants to do. However, Rachel realizes she needs to do so if the situation is going to end without ruining her life and ending his. She then notes to herself that Eric is a poster child for everything she is fighting against in defense of her country; but since Eric could mention that Rachel helped him before in interrogation, she needs to get to him first like [[Rebel]] said.

Rachel is listening to the SWAT team leader talk on her radio while reading new text messages from Rebel. She then tells Jason she suspects Eric Doyle will try to pass through some alleys ahead of them, and instructs him to watch for Eric out front while she flushes him out. Rachel answers Jason that she will careful, and then enters the alleyway from behind and shouts at Eric Doyle to stop. Then, Rachel radios Jason she is going in, chases Eric Doyle up another alley, and shouts again. She tells Eric that she is giving him a chance to surrender, then tells him to look at her face in a lower voice after making sure Jason isn't around.

Then, Rachel cannot speak and becomes frozen. She realizes the sun is behind her and Eric must not recognize her since she becomes [[puppet master|forced]] to point her own gun to her head. She also notices Eric saying something, but cannot hear him over the blood roaring into her head. A moment later, Rachel becomes forced to slam her head into a brick wall on the side of the alley. She hears a dull thud and then blacks out. For the next moment, she thinks she sees a dark shape waiting for her there, at the edge of onrushing dreams.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 406|chapter 6 of The Agent]], Rachel is driving with Jason back to headquarters, shortly after [[Howie Kaplan]]'s escape. She sees Jason take notice of a motorcycle that has been pacing them for a while, and asks if he noticed that the rider has been following them. When Jason says that he hasn't and asks if she is hungry, she stops the car at a restaurant.

After getting seating, Rachel glances at her menu and comments that the place is not very good. Jason replies that it is perfect and Rachel asks what for. Then, the restaurant door opens again and Rachel and Jason notice a tall, dark, and pretty woman enter wearing motorcycle leathers.

Rachel tells Jason she will not promise not to freak out at what he has to tell her, and puts her hands under the table. Then, she listens as Jason tells her he saw her save [[Howie Kaplan]], and that if she tries to [[teleportation|what she did]] there in the restaurant, everyone will see her. Rachel replies that Jason set her up, but notes that he hasn't told [[Danko]] like he claims. She adds that if Danko had been told he would have come himself with a SWAT team and hope she tried to make a break for it so he could kill her. When Jason then asks Rachel to turn herself in, Rachel tells him she thinks Danko will kill her and refuses despite Jason's pleas. Next, she asks who he has told, but Jason doesn't give her a straight answer so she turns towards the door.

However, before Rachel can walk out, Jason grabs Rachel's hand. In response, Rachel shoves him into the burger and fries of a family of four next to them. Rachel calls Jason a bastard and says that she trusted him. When the woman in motorcycle leathers then gets up off a stool at the counter and begins to approach them with a military-grade taser in her hands, Rachel asks whom she is. After Jason explains that the woman is his sister, [[Janey]], Rachel asks what she knows. She listens as Jason explains she only knows that Rachel will come along peacefully.

Rachel and Jason then notice everyone in the room suddenly appear like they are asleep on their feet, and Janey's taser hit the floor with a thud. Rachel notices a blonde teenage girl standing behind Jason takes credit for what is happening. The girl says she is a friend and asks her to come with her, but Rachel seems to ignore her. However, when Jason calls the girl a freak and threatens to harm her if his sister is hurt, Rachel takes aim and shoots Jason dead. Rachel and the girl then clean up the scene.

The next morning, Rachel awakens in an abandoned hunting cabin where she has spent the night with the girl she met. Jason's death is on Rachel's mind as she sits down at the cabin's dusty table. She recalls shooting Jason, and how he was so confident she wouldn't shoot even when she told him she would. She tries to rationalize the death since he tried to take her in, but begins wondering how could she be this way and him not see it.

The girl then interrupts Rachel's thoughts, and causes Rachel to lower her face into her hands and begin crying. As the girl tries to comfort Rachel, she thinks that the U.S. government must want her for killing her partner, and realizes the only reason she is alive is because of this teenager she just met. Feeling relieved, she thanks the girl for being there to help her. When the girl replies, commenting about a time when [[Claire Bennet|Claire]] told her something, Rachel notes also knowing Claire Bennet. The girl informs Rachel that she knows Rachel's history with Claire. Rachel then responds that the girl knows a lot, but she doesn't even know the girl's name.

When the girl asks Rachel if she has heard about [[LAWR]], Rachel replies that the government picked up some chatter about it, and the girl explains that she is the A in LAWR and that her name is [[Anna]]. The girl adds that she helps [[Ellen]], but can't talk about that part. She then tells Rachel that Rachel has to go back to her organization, and Rachel says that they could kill her on sight. When Anna says it should be safe since Rebel is asking for her to do it, Rachel thinks Anna's comment sounded almost like a question, but doesn't reply. Then, Anna says that she has a big test tonight she has to get to and Rachel agrees to leave with her.

Before they leave, Anna informs Rachel that REBEL is worried Janey might go hunting for her brother's killer. Rachel replies that it will be okay, and jokes that she hasn't met an Army girl that could arm-wrestle. Then, Rachel says for them to get Anna to her test.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 407|chapter 7 of The Agent]], Rachel tells agents that come to [[Rachel's room|her room]] that she and Jason made it back to the city okay, and that she last saw him when she dropped him off. Rachel recalls then to herself that what actually happened, that Rachel had brought Jason to his home in the trunk of the rental car and dropped him off. Rachel had felt sick at the time, having shot her friend, Jason, to cover up her secret when he was just doing what he thought was best for Rachel.

After the agents leave, Rachel sits by herself in the dark and falls asleep. She has a repeated nightmare of being in the Pinehearst lab, killing [[David Sullivan|David]] with scissors again, but this time David wasn't a monster. Rachel was chasing him and he begged her to stop, and sometimes David had Jason's face.

One morning, Rachel reads the daily intel briefing, which contains tips about possible fugitive activity around the world, and she finds her fight with Jason page two. She reads that a dozen diners at the restaurant have reported blacking out during their dinner, and one woman was still in a coma. Rachel thinks to herself that the woman would be [[Janey|Jason's sister]], and recalls that Anna told her that the coma wasn't permanent. She also recalls having the impression that permanent was possible, but that Anna would rather die than do that to someone.

Continuing to read the briefing, Rachel notes to herself that witnesses mentioned a man and woman arguing beforehand, and that their descriptions of Jason and herself were very accurate. However, no one had said anything to her about it because the report claimed the incident occurred in Oregon. Rachel guesses that [[Micah|Rebel]] is likely responsible for that, and for the first time begins thinking she might get away with what she is doing. Her thoughts then become suicidal, but she is interrupted by orders to report immediately to an address in [[New York City]].

Rachel proceeds to a dark alley near the designated address, and is frightened to see the SWAT team. Two members of the team approach Rachel and offer their sympathies for Jason's death, then the [[New York commander|site commander]] calls for her. Rachel proceeds to the commander, and answers him that [[Danko]] did not tell her anything about this operation. She learns from him that Danko has gone off the grid and gets assigned to B Squad. The commander also offers his sympathies, and then Rachel heads over to the next alley to gain her composure.

Anna interrupts Rachel's thoughts; and Rachel, worried that others might see, reacts by pulling Anna to the ground. She then walks with Anna to the front of the [[abandoned office building|target building]], and listens as Anna explains her story to convince Rachel that what Rachel did to Jason was necessary.

Arriving at the target building, Rachel decides they should both head inside to help the fugitives. She accepts Anna's hand, responding to her that the line is "Beam us up, Scotty". Then, Rachel focuses on a window high up in the building and [[teleportation|teleports]] herself and Anna inside.

Rachel materializes with Anna in one of the building's empty hallways and draws her gun. Rachel senses a draft that smells like wet dirt and motions for Anna to follow. Rachel notes that she doesn't like calling her ability a power, and that she sees it more like a curse she would give anything to be cut out of her. Rachel then relents to Anna and teleports them into the next room.

Once inside, Rachel and Anna learn that the fugitives have been living there for a while. They find that the plant nursery has been converted to a kind of jungle, and watch as a gathering of twenty people assemble around them. Rachel and Anna are introduced to their leader, [[Abe]], and Rachel notices he appears to be glowing and has what sounds like a smoker's wheeze. She also notes to herself that Abe also looks to be blind, with cataracts that have turned his eyes opaque. Rachel guesses that if the army outside knew this was what they were facing, they would have already stormed the place and captured everyone.

Next, Rachel spots Abe reach out a hand towards them and everything becomes black. A moment later, the light comes back and Abe glows a shade brighter. Rachel notices the glow is coming directly from his skin. She comments that Abe is sick and warns that if he is radioactive, everyone there could be in trouble. However, Anna then notes the more immediate threat outside and Rachel tells the group that they need to leave.

After the group gathers its belonging, Rachel learns from a skinny kid that no one is guarding the back exit so she checks it out. She then returns to the group and tells them that the agents will attack from the north, and that it will be really loud and flashy but they will not charge in. Rachel explains that the fire escape has been rigged to blow, and that the agents likely plan to flush them out that way, and then blow everyone off the side of the building. She adds that she should have known the agents wouldn't plan a straight-up fight with so many unknowns.

Rachel continues that they should still use the fire escape and confirms that she is going after the detonator. She notes that in three minutes, they need to proceed down the fire escape no matter what is going on outside. Rachel adds that getting away will be the hardest part and they need to go even if she hasn't given them the all clear.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 408|chapter 8 of The Agent]], Rachel gets pulled aside by Anna and then tells Anna that agents have spotted them. Rachel notes that it is easy for [[Rebel|REBEL]] to make Anna's records disappear; but if Rachel disappears, it will raise eyebrows as they are currently running the description of a [[Agent Jenkins|double agent]].

Rachel reads Anna's expression, and tells Anna that she is likely wondering if Rachel is going to kill the fugitives. She continues that she killed her own partner to hide her ability, and it would be easy to just wait three minutes and warn her [[Commander Klassen|commander]] so that he blows them up and preserves her secret. Rachel adds that no one would think to blame her for [[Jason Pierce|Jason]]'s death after that, and asks again if that is what Anna is thinking. However, Anna just asks Rachel to come back to them so Rachel [[teleportation|teleports]] away.

With two minutes left before the fugitives move out, Rachel materializes herself down outside the building and finds herself standing around the corner from the SWAT teams. She hears people talking, loading their guns, and applying their body armor, and realizes they are ready to proceed. Rachel walks around the corner and searches for the site commander, [[Commander Klassen]]. She notes to herself that Klassen is one of Danko's most trusted lieutenants, and recalls how he has been trying not to act smug since they arrived. Rachel thinks his act is strange since a lot of agents have been getting killed in operations like this, then realizes he knows he is going to kill the fugitives.

Rachel confirms to an agent that she is ready for some payback, then watches Klassen. When the SWAT teams head towards the target building, Rachel stays in one place, waiting for Commander Klassen to move out.

At the one minute mark, Rachel spots the commander bringing up the rear with two aides carrying laptops and radios. She notes to herself that they should be in a field ops van, but Klassen decided he wants to go on foot. Rachel also thinks that though the troops think what is doing is for show, he actually wants to be on the ground so he can slip away and observe the supposedly "non-functional" fire escape.

When the commander spots Rachel, she joins her squad as the SWAT teams are making their way to their pre-marked paths, passing over trash and street bums until they reach the [[abandoned office building|target building]]. Rachel checks her watch and figures that Anna and the fugitives should be heading down the fire escape now. She figures it will be close and doesn't know how to stop this. Then, Rachel hears the last status reports in her earpiece noting that everyone is in position, and the commander radios to proceed in thirty seconds. She notes to herself that it sounds like the commander is moving fast, but he has already moved out of view.

Rachel breaks from her team and rushes toward the direction Commander Klassen was heading. She guesses he is near the fire escape, and can hear his voice, even without the radio. Then, Rachel hears Klassen yell, noting that it is a kind of [[Wikipedia:FUBAR|FUBAR]] yell, and that he has spotted the fugitives. Rachel starts running and, after turning another corner, spots Klassen a block ahead of her. She also sees figures heading off the bottom of the fire escape, and Klassen turning around with the detonator box out. Rachel guesses that it is too late, and the fugitives are too low to be affected by the blast.

Then, they both look towards the mystery truck as it screeches its tires. Rachel notices a symbol of a hammer and some dots is traced in the dust on the side of the truck, the same symbol she saw in the nursery overhead. Rachel aims her gun at Klassen's back, but can't pull the trigger. She then notes getting a rush of adrenalin and time seems to slow for her. Rachel then teleports in front of the commander and says hello, just as he has begun running towards the battle. However, Commander Klassen cannot stop quick enough and his face winds up in Rachel's fist. Rachel grabs the detonator that gets flung up into the air. As the commander sits up off the ground, Rachel takes hold of his collar. She tells him that she is a monster, then closes her eyes and teleports them both into the sky.

They materialize twenty feet in the air above the fire escape. As they hang in the air, she notices agent leaning off the top platforms and out nearby windows. Rachel sees bullets flashing off the grimy alley walls, and that the agents' helmets are all facing away from them. They then begin falling, and she can make out a dozen or more of the fugitives' pale faces at the end of the alley. She notes to herself that there are men, women, and a child among them, and they alone see Rachel and the command flash into the middle of the sky.

As the commander and Rachel fall next to the fire escape, Rachel looks at the bomb detonator in her hand, then at the agents around them. Then, in a moment where she feels sad and peaceful; Rachel lets go of Klassen, closes her eyes, and presses the button.

Sometime later, Rachel recalls something happened to her in the air, and notes that it feels like she left part of herself up in the sky. She remembers feeling the concussion of the explosion, even as the ground materialized under her feet. For a moment, it felt to her as if she had a foot in both spots, and she landed a different person with a new life. Rachel also notes that it hurt a lot, and that she screamed over and over. Then, hands grabbed her and a diesel engine roared.

Now, as Rachel still recovers from the shock of the explosion, she finds herself in the back of the truck. She is standing, holding herself up and watching the highway slip past. The faces of dead agents, some license plates, and road signs flash into Rachel's head as she focuses and turns around. Rachel sees the fugitives she helped rescue staring at her, and finds it a bit creepy. She asks them if she left part of her face on the side of the building, getting most of them to break their stare.

Rachel then reflects on what happened again, and asks Anna who is driving the truck. After Anna gets a long message from [[Rebel|REBEL]], Rachel receives Anna's phone from her and finds the message contains cries for help from fugitives in trouble. The message also contains status reports, e-mail addresses, and links to websites. Rachel asks what is happening, and asks Anna to introduce her to Ellen someday.

Then, Rachel's cell phone buzzes with a text from [[Danko]]. Rachel reads the message, which asks her to report to him immediately. When Anna comments that REBEL says a person at a circus should be their next priority, Rachel absently replies that she hates circuses. She also notes that there is something she needs to take care of first.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 409|chapter 9 of The Agent]], Rachel heads to [[Building 26]] to meet with [[Danko]]. On her way, she drives past [[Wikipedia:Arlington Cemetery|Arlington Cemetery]] and recalls always picturing herself ending up there, and wonders if that will still happen. She soon arrives in front of Building 26.

Once inside, Rachel finds Danko's assistant, [[Bob (Danko's assistant)|Bob]], at his desk in front of Danko's office. Rachel asks Bob if he knows what her meeting is about, and learns that it was called by [[Dan]] from Internal Affairs. She then guesses [[Rebel]] must have missed something and considers staying to find out, but then changes her mind. However, just then, Danko walks past. After Bob reminds Danko about the meeting, Danko approaches Rachel and asks if she is Agent Mills. After acknowledging that she is, Rachel begins to follow Danko inside, a bit shaken from Danko's demeanor such that she trips over the edge of the office's rug. When she takes a seat, she answers Danko that she just wanted to serve her country. Rachel then asks Danko if she can call for [[Dan]] to join them. When he agrees for Rachel to do so, she tells Bob to call Dan and he arrives with two security guys that stare continuously at her.

Rachel figures that she will find out what they know and then [[teleportation|port out]]. Dan asks Rachel to tell them what really happened when [[Howie Kaplan]] escaped from her custody. Rachel thinks to herself about telling them what really happened, but instead says that she was knocked off the building during the fight and landed on a fire escape. She continues that when she got back to her feet, the suspect had disappeared, and notes that what she is saying is in her report. Dan then thumbs through a thick file, saying that Rachel's report left a few things out, like a witness that reported seeing Howie talk with a female agent after the escape. Hearing this, Rachel begins reaching for her pistol that is tucked behind her back. However, Danko then orders Dan to stop picking on Rachel and asks both of them out of his office, noting that the supposed evidence in Dan's folder is actually a bunch of old requisition forms.

Rachel watches silently as Danko leaves ahead of them, then ignores a comment from Dan and leaves. Back on the highway, Rachel receives a new text message from Rebel asking for help with rescuing a Building 26 prisoner and noting that the government will soon learn her secret. She decides to tell him that she needs to cut and run for a bit, but Rebel responds before she can finish typing in a message and offers to tell her the truth about [[Leona|her mother]] if she helps him.

In [[The Agent chapter summaries#chapter 410|chapter 10 of The Agent]], Rachel goes to the [[shooting range]] in [[Building 26]] right after agreeing to help [[Rebel]] free a prisoner from the facility. While she shoots at targets in the range, she recalls how the range has been a simple aspect of her life that helped her center it during her rough times. She then notes to herself that as soon as the day shift leaves, she plans to attach a silencer to her gun, free a prisoner being held upstairs, and leave it behind forever. Rachel continues that despite this, she is happy because she has found her place in using her ability to help save lives. She notes that Rebel is right that she is doing this last mission to find out more information about [[Leona|her mother]], but only so she can tie up that loose end and get on with her life.

At that moment, Rachel is grabbed by several hands. She fights back, but is shoved off the ground and head first into a wall. Rachel is then able to stand up, and she sees [[Danko]] there, She watches a video message from [[Jason Pierce|Jason]] that Danko plays on a cell phone. In the message, Jason tells his [[Janey Pierce|sister]] that Rachel is his new partner, and that if he has a suspicious death while with Rachel, Janey needs to give Jason's superiors this message. He says that he observed in Rachel what might be symptoms of a psychotic break, probably combat-stress-related, and that she could pose a severe threat. Danko tells Rachel that ballistics matched the bullets in Jason's body to Rachel's gun.

Rachel notes to herself that she has spent months using her abilities under Danko's nose, and he is just arresting her for murder. She guesses Danko still thinks she is on his side, but that she is damaged goods. Rachel looks through the cracked shooting range door and at Danko, and then [[teleportation|teleports]] into the hallway. Rachel hears Danko shout that she is one of them, and begins running down the hallway while adding a silencer to her gun.

When a man steps out into the hallway in front of her, Rachel shoots him in the head and keeps moving without looking down. The light at the end of the hallway flickers and Rachel guesses Rebel is telling her where to go. As she approaches, she spots a massive metal door and continues toward it.

Finally, Rachel reaches her destination, a room she sees has rows of bodies that stretch into the dark. She notes that their chests rise slowly and faces are tight, that some have their eyes open, but none of them look at her as she passes by them. She hears someone groan, and turns and spots Eric Doyle. Next, Rachel pulls out the tube that is in his nose, and then pulls out the tubes of the [[Gordon Hovey|man]] and [[Mary Krause|woman]] next to him. An alarm then goes off, and Rachel gets out of the way to avoid getting shot by two agents that end the room. Rachel teleports behind the closest agent, whom she recognizes to be [[Agent Harper]]. He turns toward Rachel, but she disables him with a jump kick. Before landing back on the ground from her kick, Rachel teleports behind the other agent, but he is [[sand transmutation|taken out]] before she can get to him.

Rachel wonders why she is freeing these people, and tells herself that she was [[destiny|destined]] to do so. She then grabs Eric Doyle and the other man by the arms and tells them it is time to leave. Rachel tells Eric Doyle that she is saving his life again, and explains she can only save them because other agents are on the way. She then begins teleporting them through the building. Along the way, she learns the man who can change things into sand is called Gordon.


After the fall of Pinehearst, Rachel tries to get another job. She remembers her time as a [[The Private|Private]] and recalls how she was betrayed by [[Ammar]]. After learning that she has been monitored for some time, Rachel managed to escape with the help of [[Jim]] and [[Sam]]. When Sam was killed, Rachel vowed to finish the mission and infiltrated the medical facility that Ammar talked about. She took a hostage and learned that the medical facility had been experimenting on people. Upon finding a [[Compound prisoner|prisoner]], Rachel decided to free everyone in the facility. She started by trying to free the trappped prisoner but she was instead attacked by the girl. When officers came to capture the girl, Rachel fled. In her current job interview, Rachel learns that she has gotten the job.
Rachel takes them to the roof, but when she pushes open the roof door, she sees that the helicopter she was planning to flee in has already lifted off. She also spots two agents sitting in an open doorway of the helicopter. A spotlight then centers on Rachel and her two friends, and Rachel shoves Eric behind Gordon to protect him. She then teleports herself up into the helicopter seconds before the two agents in the chopper begin firing machine guns at them. Seconds later, Rachel forces the shooters out the still airborne helicopter and they stop shooting. She then points her gun on the pilot. Rachel instructs him to pick up her two friends and take them out of there.


In [[The Agent]], Rachel begins her job as an agent for [[Building 26]]. One of her first missions is to monitor [[Claire Bennet]] following the fall of [[Flight 195]]. When Claire escapes, Rachel witnesses first hand how dangerous [[Evolved humans|people]] with [[abilities]] can be when [[Matt Parkman]] [[Telepathy|gets inside the head]] of her friend. One night, Rachel is contacted by [[Rebel]], who claims that he knows about her [[Teleportation|power]]. He blackmails her into working for him, which causes Rachel a lot of stress. She and [[Jason Pierce]], her new partner, are sent to capture [[Alex Woolsly]], but encounter some difficulties with the locals. They fail in this mission and are then sent after [[Eric Doyle]], who also manages to slip away to them thanks to Claire. After another failed mission, Rachel and Jason eat at a diner and Jason reveals that he knows about Rachel's power. When [[Janey Pierce]] comes in and they try to capture Rachel, everyone in the diner suddenly goes [[Neurocognitive deficit|brain dead]] and a [[Anna Korolenko|teenage girl]] enters. Rachel kills Jason and then allies herself with Rebel and [[LAWR]].
They touch down in a dew-covered field at sunrise, and the helicopter becomes silent. Eric and Rachel go for a walk together while Gordon prays. Rachel confirms to Eric that she can never go back to [[Building 26]]. After Rachel checks her phone again, she notes that there isn't yet any word from [[Anna Korolenko|her friend]] or Rebel. But just then, she gets a text from Rebel. She learns that Anna got herself into a jam at the circus, and then begins racing back to the helicopter. As Rachel rushes back, she shouts for Gordon to untie the pilot.


Rachel meets up with Anna at a fugitive hideout and together they meet [[Abe]]. When a large squad of agents shows up, Rachel makes her decision and teleports outside. She then single-handedly takes down most of the agents and she exposes herself as an evolved human. Rachel's sacrifice provides the others with enough time to escape, which they do. Rachel then returns to Building 26 and against all odds she manages to temporarily avoid [[Danko]]'s wrath. This doesn't last, and Danko tries to capture her, prompting Rachel to escape with [[Gordon Hovey]] and Eric Doyle. Rachel tries to find Anna at the circus but is unable to, only finding zombified and old people. Rachel is captured by Janey and given the mission to kill [[Linda Niles]] by Danko, a mission that she accepts in exchange for Anna's safety. Upon learning that Linda is in fact her mother, Rachel is attacked by Janey and the two women have a show down. Rachel does not kill Janey, but instead teleports her to an unknown location. After returning, Rebel reunites Rachel with Leona.
Rachel arrives at the location of the [[circus]] Anna was sent to and finds that it looks like a battle had been waged there. She passes many people who sit and moan with eyes that wander blankly, and a row of corpses in body bags, some of which appear to have been aged beyond their years. While wondering what went wrong, she spots a bunch of grim-faced agents huddled around something and talking loudly. She guesses they are questioning the prisoner Rebel told her about. Rachel then lowers her cap over her face and proceeds to get closer. When she hears the agents beating the person up, Rachel begins walking faster, and pushes her way through other men and woman in SWAT gear and suits. When she is close enough, she sees the knee, shoe, and face of a young man. Rachel notices that is face is blank similar to one of Anna's zombies, but doesn't think Anna would hurt a friend.


In [[The Civilian]], Rachel tries to lead a quiet life in [[Lyneboro]]. When her mother shows up and begins living with her, strange things begin happening in the town. After failing to recover [[Toby|a missing boy]], Rachel begins helping some of Leona's old fugitives track down lost family members. Rachel then uncovers a dangerous gang war that is going on and vows to stop it before innocent people get hurt. As her investigation deepens, Rachel's nightmares become more and more vivid, causing her much grief. On the night of the gang war, Rachel reunites with Claire and apologizes for her mistakes as an agent. Together, Rachel, Claire and [[Store]] stop [[Kelly]] and save the town.
Rachel then turns to look for the rest of the friends, but the prisoner shouts out the name Linda. In response, she glances over her shoulder back at the young man, and sees that he is staring at her. The other agents see that he is looking at her, and Rachel winds up face to face with [[Janey Pierce]]. Rachel tries to teleport away, but Janey stuns her with a taser before she can do so.


In [[Faction Zero]], Rachel arrives at [[Costa Verde]] with the belief that Claire is in danger. Claire helps her find [[Mensen]] but he is killed before he can tell them anything important. More former agents show up with revenge on their minds and Rachel helps Claire protect former fugitives from them. After gaining some more information on the new faction, Rachel heads to their base and discovers that it is a group full of people with abilities. When [[Micah]] arrives to help them, Rachel and Claire go to investigate a family of [[Fire breathing|fire breathers]]. Rachel becomes increasingly distant and after [[Eric Thompson, Jr.]] and [[Wildman]] escape, she leaves Costa Verde and follows the fire breathers to a carnival. After witnessing [[Sabine]] have her child, Rachel leaves.
In Chapter 11 of [[The Agent]],
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==[[Evolved Human]] [[Teleportation|Abilities]]==
==[[Evolved Human]] [[Teleportation|Abilities]]==
Rachel discovers she possesses the ability to [[teleportation|teleport herself across certain distances]]. It is unknown what her range is, but apparently she can activate her ability subconsciously (as it first manifested when she was in danger of being crushed; and her ability sent her to safety).
Rachel discovers she possesses the ability to [[teleportation|teleport herself across certain distances]]. It is unknown what her range is, but apparently she can activate her ability subconsciously (as it first manifested when she was in danger of being crushed; and her ability sent her to safety). However, her range doesn't seem to allow her to travel everywhere like the teleportation aspect of [[space-time manipulation]] as she needed [[Ando]] to [[supercharging|supercharge]] her to travel from [[Costa Verde]] to Florida.


==Notes==
==Notes==
* According to the [http://spoilertv-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/09/webisode-4-8-casting-call.html casting call], Rachel is in her 20s. She is described as "ex-military, beautiful, athletic build, and mysteriously troubled."
* According to the [http://spoilertv-heroes.blogspot.com/2008/09/webisode-4-8-casting-call.html casting call], Rachel is in her 20s. She is described as "ex-military, beautiful, athletic build, and mysteriously troubled."
* The [http://www.hulu.com/watch/47827/heroes-the-recruit-rachel video message] of Rachel on Hulu.com was posted on December 9, 2008, and entitled ''The Recruit: Rachel''. It was later added to a [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/iStory/chapters/205/UEgxNTAwMjAtZA== video feed] included in chapter 5 of [[Operation Bad Blood]]. Chapter 5 was released on December 10, 2008, but the video feed was not posted until December 17, 2008.
* The [http://www.hulu.com/watch/47827/heroes-the-recruit-rachel video message] of Rachel on Hulu.com was posted on December 9, 2008, and entitled ''The Recruit: Rachel''. It was later added to a [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/iStory/chapters/205/UEgxNTAwMjAtZA== video feed] included in chapter 5 of [[Operation Bad Blood]]. Chapter 5 was released on December 10, 2008, but the video feed was not posted until December 17, 2008.
* Rachel currently holds the rank of Private in the U.S. Marines. In the iStory, [[The Private]], Rachel was called Corporal Mills during her last tour in [[Iraq]] during the [[2006|previous summer]]. Whether Rachel was a Lance Corporal or Corporal at that time is unknown. (Note: U.S. Marines ranks proceed from Private to Private First Class, Lance Corporal and then Corporal.)
* Rachel currently holds the rank of Private in the U.S. Marines. In the iStory, [[The Private]], Rachel was called Corporal Mills during her last tour in [[Iraq]] during the [[2006|previous summer]]. Whether Rachel was a Lance Corporal or Corporal at that time is unknown, however Marines normally do not refer to a Lance Corporal as a Corporal. This reduction in rank would have had to come from disciplinary actions towards her either way. (U.S. Marines ranks proceed from Private to Private First Class, Lance Corporal and then Corporal.)
* Although the episodes indicate the Pinehearst program Rachel was part of began and ended in 2007, Rachel's character reference at NBC.com refers to the year as 2008.
* Although the episodes indicate the Pinehearst program Rachel was part of began and ended in 2007, Rachel's character reference at NBC.com refers to the year as 2008.
* In [[Interview:The Recruit|an interview]], writers [[Jim Martin]] and [[Timm Keppler]] confirmed that Rachel's power is, indeed, natural. It was [[ability heredity|inherited]] from [[Leona|her mother]].
* In [[Interview:The Recruit|an interview]], writers [[Jim Martin]] and [[Timm Keppler]] confirmed that Rachel's power is, indeed, natural. It was [[ability heredity|inherited]] from [[Leona|her mother]].
* At the time of the Pinehearst explosion in [[2007]], Rachel was at least 23 years old. In an [[Interview:The Recruit|an interview]], writers [[Jim Martin]] and [[Timm Keppler]] said that Rachel's father died in 1983. Rachel was obviously conceived some time before that, and born in 1984 or prior.
* At the time of the Pinehearst explosion in [[2007]], Rachel was at least 23 years old. In [[Interview:The Recruit|an interview]], writers [[Jim Martin]] and [[Timm Keppler]] said that Rachel's father died in 1983. Rachel was obviously conceived some time before that, and born in 1984 or prior.


==See Also==
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Rachel Mills
Portrayed by Taylor Cole
First appearance Our Father
In-story stats
Known ability Teleportation
Nickname Rach
Gender
Place of birth Newport, RI
Home Lyneboro, CT
formerly Calabasas, CA
Residence Rachel's home
Occupations Police officer,
Member of LAWR,
former Agent of Homeland Security,
former U.S. Marine Private,
former U.S. Marine Corporal
Significant others David Sullivan (deceased),
Volts
Parents Leona Mills,
Unnamed father (deceased)

Rachel Mills is the daughter of Leona Mills and a former Marine. She worked with Building 26, capturing people like her until she eventually came to accept herself and her ability. She is an evolved human with the ability to teleport.

About

Rachel was in the United States Marine Corps whose career came to an abrupt end following a disturbing experience while serving in Iraq. Initially, Rachel retained her place in the USMC, at a lower rank, and accepted recruitment into Pinehearst as part of their super soldier program. Ultimately, Rachel's career in the USMC ended when Pinehearst was destroyed; which proved a traumatic event for her as, not only was she discharged from the service, but she unintentionally discovered her ability. Since then, Rachel found work by joining Building 26; a task force agency set up by the Department of Homeland Security to hunt down and imprison evolved humans, at the behest of Senator Nathan Petrelli. Rachel, hiding her ability, served as one of Emile Danko's agents.

Initially, Rachel was uncertain of her abilities and her very identity, but experiences while a prisoner of Angela Petrelli (an old friend of her mother) ultimately convinced Rachel to accept who she was. To this end, Rachel joined LAWR and began working undercover inside the agency as LAWR's mole. This lasted until Rachel was forced to shoot and kill her partner and friend - Agent Jason Pierce - when he discovered her power; an act that set off a chain of events that led to her exposure and exile from Building 26. Rachel joined the fight against the U.S. Government until Building 26 was formally shut-down by The President; putting an end to the hunt for evolved humans. After defeating Jason's psychotic sister, Janey Pierce, in a pitched battle, Rachel finally gained peace when she reunited with her mother.

Character History

Our Father

Rachel trains with the other recruits at Pinehearst Headquarters in Fort Lee.

Webisode:The Recruit, Part 1

Rachel is interrogated by Angela.

Rachel is interrogated by Angela in an unknown Primatech facility in Tappen, NJ about the whereabouts of the formula and claims not to know about it. Twelve hours before, Rachel is talking with Ryan Hanover and David Sullivan when an explosion at Pinehearst causes the building to start collapsing. Rachel tries to help David move a beam that has fallen on top of him, but is unable to do so. She then walks over to search for something to pry the beam off David and winds up teleporting back to him when an air duct begins to fall on top of her. Rachel pleads with David to ignore what happened and that it was nothing.

Graphic Novel:Stuck in the Middle

Rachel takes a shower at Pinehearst, and remains unaware that Ryan Hanover has stumbled upon a miniature peep-hole, and is watching her, leering at her naked body while thinking about what kind of a person she is (privately, he considers her "a bitch"). Suddenly, Rachel hears a crashing sound, and leaves the shower wrapped in a towel. Rachel spots Ryan walking by, and asks him about the noise, saying that it sounded like someone fell or something. Ryan denies he heard anything.

Webisode:The Recruit, Part 2

Rachel helps David Sullivan to his feet as Ryan Hanover approaches, holding two doses of the synthetic formula. When she asks him where the third is, he tells her he injected himself in hopes of surviving a large wound he suffered during the explosion. When David starts to collapse, she steals a dose from Ryan, who draws a gun and orders her to give it back. She injects David and is shot in the shoulder by Ryan. They both look up as David's synthetic ability begins to manifest.

Webisode:The Recruit, Part 3

Rachel is still being interrogated by Angela. Rachel continues to flash back, this time she recounts what happened when David was injected with the serum. In Rachel's recollection, David keels over and leans on both hands while growling. Meanwhile, Rachel sits against the wall bracing her shoulder wound and Ryan continues to point his gun at them. David's ability manifests and he attacks Ryan and then tries to attack Rachel. She teleports out of his path to the other side of the room. David turns and again charges at her super fast, but Rachel has grabbed a pair of scissors and uses them to stab David in the chest.

After Angela asks what she did with the remaining serum Rachel says she destroyed it, then she flashes back to finding a remaining syringe on the ground then cracking it in half. Angela says she gave the wrong answer and leaves, Rachel then recalls that after destroying the syringe, she still had the vial of serum in her hands that had been inside the syringe.

Webisode:The Recruit, Part 4

Still in the interrogation room, Rachel sees Carlos and Angela coming towards her. Angela continues to question Rachel about the serum and her abilities, mentioning Rachel's mother, Leona. Rachel denies that she is special, but then has a flashback about how she got out of the Pinehearst lab - she used her ability. Even after the flashback, she denies her abilities, only for Angela to tell her that she doesn't believe her.

Webisode:The Recruit, Part 5

Carlos and Angela approach Rachel, who is still tied down to a chair next to a conference table in the Tappen facility. Angela tells Rachel that she underestimated her and is letting her go; and Carlos removes her IV, saying that the effects should wear off in a few hours. Angela then commends Rachel for being a fighter like her, but Rachel replies that she's nothing like her and just wants to leave. Angela says that there's a car waiting for her outside.

Later, Rachel parks next to a gas station restroom and heads inside. While staring at the mirror, Rachel recalls how at Pinehearst, she had taken the vial of serum out of the syringe she broke and hid it inside her shoulder wound. Back in the present, Rachel removes the serum from her wound and redresses the bandage using her shirt to tie it up.

Rachel then leaves the restroom and finds Angela and Carlos waiting for her on opposite sides of her car, blocking her escape. Rachel asks why Angela let her go if she knew Rachel had it all along, and Angela replies she wanted to give Rachel the opportunity to face herself and learn if she could be trusted. Rachel then says that she just wanted to find a cure, but Angela says that her ability is an integral part of her, like the loss of her mother. Rachel says that she hopes to see her again one day, and Angela says that will be up to God.

After giving Angela the serum, Rachel asks them what else they want and she says that they want to help her and Carlos places a covering over her head and drags her around the corner into the gas station's garage.

Trust and Blood

Rachel is one of the Marines working for Nathan Petrelli at Building 26. She guards a hooded Tracy Strauss in the back of a truck when Nathan arrives to talk to Tracy.

Exposed

Rachel and her partner watch the Bennets' house from a pool-cleaning van. The two eventually search the house, and Claire reminds Rachel that she's off limits. Rachel replies that a guy like Alex is just her type and that she's sure Claire is hiding him, but the two agents find nothing and Sandra tells them to leave. Later, Rachel and her partner take action when a car comes out of the Bennets' garage: they stop it, but find only Sandra and Lyle inside. They hear a loud noise from behind the house and pursue Claire and Alex. Rachel and Jason split up and Rachel checks a pool area, failing to spot that Alex and Claire are hiding under the water. Her partner then calls her on the radio, telling her he believes he has a lead.

Shades of Gray

Rachel is controlled by Doyle.

She and her partner visibly follow Claire around until they get a tip on Eric Doyle's location. Rachel manages to corner him, but he uses his ability to force her to point her gun in the air. Rachel offers him a chance to surrender, but he just forces her to point her own gun at her own head. She is visibly scared and crying, but Eric, who claims to just want to go back to having a normal life, knocks her out and doesn't kill her.

Graphic Novel:Puppet with No Strings

Prior to meeting Claire, Danko interrogates Doyle inside his theatre. Rachel and Jason Pierce stand with him, watching Danko's brutal form of questioning. After he receives the information he was looking for, Danko sets the theatre ablaze, trapping Doyle inside. On the way out, Rachel gets a message from Rebel, telling her to go rescue Doyle. Stealthily, she teleports inside and frees Doyle from his bindings, before returning outside and meeting up with her fellow agents.

Graphic Novel:Hanging By a Thread

Rachel Mills runs across a rooftop, chasing Howie Kaplan, a target of Building 26. When they get to an opening, Howie uses his ability to throw oil at Rachel's feet, causing Rachel to slip and begin to fall towards the ground. Rachel, with no other choice, teleports back onto the rooftop and whacks Howie, but accidentally knocks him over the edge of the roof. She grabs onto his wrist, and starts interrogating Howie while he holds onto her for dear life. Suddenly, Rebel sends her a text message telling her that she's starting to act like Angela Petrelli. Rachel realizes that Rebel is right, and then has a flashback.

Rachel recalls that Angela had forced her to embrace her ability, not letting her deny it and driving her to the brink. Eventually, when Rachel used her ability to escape Angela's grasp, she had let her go. Influenced by this, Rachel decides to let Howie go as well. Jason Pierce and a masked agent come running, and Rachel realizes that she must not let them witness what she is about to do. She deliberately throws herself over the edge, and then teleports both her and Howie to the ground. Howie realizes that Rachel is "special" too, and Rachel tells him that he should get away fast. Howie thanks her, and Rebel instructs Rachel to go back and make up an excuse.

Graphic Novel:Exodus

Rachel is at a shooting range in Building 26 when Danko enters with agents that hold her. Danko shows her a message sent to Janey from her brother Jason Pierce explaining that if anything happened to him to report Rachel. As the agents prepare to take her away she teleports into the hallway and runs to the room filled with evolved human prisoners. She searches for Eric Doyle and when she finds him releases two more evolved humans that were in the next beds before the agents return. Mary Krause is shot dead straight away while the bullets turn to sand when they touch Gordon Hovey. Gordon then touches an agent and turns him into sand. Rachel then teleports herself, Gordon and Eric through Building 26 to the roof where a helicopter is waiting. As the shooter shoots at them Eric hides behind Gordon and Rachel teleports onto the helicopter pushing the shooters off and then holding a gun to the pilot, forcing him to take them away. When they land in a field Rachel walks with Eric and mentions her life with Building 26 is over.

Heroes Evolutions

For a complete summary of Rachel's history in the iStory and Heroes Evolutions, see Rachel Mills: Heroes Evolutions History.

According to NBC.com's character reference for Rachel Mills, Rachel was born in Newport, Rhode Island, but grew up in Calabasas, California. She was raised solely by her mother, Leona, until Rachel was twelve and Leona committed suicide. Rachel's grandparents then took her in, but they struggled with little money and Rachel wasn't able to gain many friends. After graduating from high school, Rachel joined the Marines following her grandfather's footsteps. After spending four years abroad between Iraq and Afghanistan, Pinehearst recruited Rachel for their top-secret operation.

In Operation Bad Blood, a message from Rachel is available to view. In it, she leaves a message for her friend Amy and tells her about her life at Pinehearst.

After the fall of Pinehearst, Rachel tries to get another job. She remembers her time as a Private and recalls how she was betrayed by Ammar. After learning that she has been monitored for some time, Rachel managed to escape with the help of Jim and Sam. When Sam was killed, Rachel vowed to finish the mission and infiltrated the medical facility that Ammar talked about. She took a hostage and learned that the medical facility had been experimenting on people. Upon finding a prisoner, Rachel decided to free everyone in the facility. She started by trying to free the trappped prisoner but she was instead attacked by the girl. When officers came to capture the girl, Rachel fled. In her current job interview, Rachel learns that she has gotten the job.

In The Agent, Rachel begins her job as an agent for Building 26. One of her first missions is to monitor Claire Bennet following the fall of Flight 195. When Claire escapes, Rachel witnesses first hand how dangerous people with abilities can be when Matt Parkman gets inside the head of her friend. One night, Rachel is contacted by Rebel, who claims that he knows about her power. He blackmails her into working for him, which causes Rachel a lot of stress. She and Jason Pierce, her new partner, are sent to capture Alex Woolsly, but encounter some difficulties with the locals. They fail in this mission and are then sent after Eric Doyle, who also manages to slip away to them thanks to Claire. After another failed mission, Rachel and Jason eat at a diner and Jason reveals that he knows about Rachel's power. When Janey Pierce comes in and they try to capture Rachel, everyone in the diner suddenly goes brain dead and a teenage girl enters. Rachel kills Jason and then allies herself with Rebel and LAWR.

Rachel meets up with Anna at a fugitive hideout and together they meet Abe. When a large squad of agents shows up, Rachel makes her decision and teleports outside. She then single-handedly takes down most of the agents and she exposes herself as an evolved human. Rachel's sacrifice provides the others with enough time to escape, which they do. Rachel then returns to Building 26 and against all odds she manages to temporarily avoid Danko's wrath. This doesn't last, and Danko tries to capture her, prompting Rachel to escape with Gordon Hovey and Eric Doyle. Rachel tries to find Anna at the circus but is unable to, only finding zombified and old people. Rachel is captured by Janey and given the mission to kill Linda Niles by Danko, a mission that she accepts in exchange for Anna's safety. Upon learning that Linda is in fact her mother, Rachel is attacked by Janey and the two women have a show down. Rachel does not kill Janey, but instead teleports her to an unknown location. After returning, Rebel reunites Rachel with Leona.

In The Civilian, Rachel tries to lead a quiet life in Lyneboro. When her mother shows up and begins living with her, strange things begin happening in the town. After failing to recover a missing boy, Rachel begins helping some of Leona's old fugitives track down lost family members. Rachel then uncovers a dangerous gang war that is going on and vows to stop it before innocent people get hurt. As her investigation deepens, Rachel's nightmares become more and more vivid, causing her much grief. On the night of the gang war, Rachel reunites with Claire and apologizes for her mistakes as an agent. Together, Rachel, Claire and Store stop Kelly and save the town.

In Faction Zero, Rachel arrives at Costa Verde with the belief that Claire is in danger. Claire helps her find Mensen but he is killed before he can tell them anything important. More former agents show up with revenge on their minds and Rachel helps Claire protect former fugitives from them. After gaining some more information on the new faction, Rachel heads to their base and discovers that it is a group full of people with abilities. When Micah arrives to help them, Rachel and Claire go to investigate a family of fire breathers. Rachel becomes increasingly distant and after Eric Thompson, Jr. and Wildman escape, she leaves Costa Verde and follows the fire breathers to a carnival. After witnessing Sabine have her child, Rachel leaves.

Evolved Human Abilities

Rachel discovers she possesses the ability to teleport herself across certain distances. It is unknown what her range is, but apparently she can activate her ability subconsciously (as it first manifested when she was in danger of being crushed; and her ability sent her to safety). However, her range doesn't seem to allow her to travel everywhere like the teleportation aspect of space-time manipulation as she needed Ando to supercharge her to travel from Costa Verde to Florida.

Notes

  • According to the casting call, Rachel is in her 20s. She is described as "ex-military, beautiful, athletic build, and mysteriously troubled."
  • The video message of Rachel on Hulu.com was posted on December 9, 2008, and entitled The Recruit: Rachel. It was later added to a video feed included in chapter 5 of Operation Bad Blood. Chapter 5 was released on December 10, 2008, but the video feed was not posted until December 17, 2008.
  • Rachel currently holds the rank of Private in the U.S. Marines. In the iStory, The Private, Rachel was called Corporal Mills during her last tour in Iraq during the previous summer. Whether Rachel was a Lance Corporal or Corporal at that time is unknown, however Marines normally do not refer to a Lance Corporal as a Corporal. This reduction in rank would have had to come from disciplinary actions towards her either way. (U.S. Marines ranks proceed from Private to Private First Class, Lance Corporal and then Corporal.)
  • Although the episodes indicate the Pinehearst program Rachel was part of began and ended in 2007, Rachel's character reference at NBC.com refers to the year as 2008.
  • In an interview, writers Jim Martin and Timm Keppler confirmed that Rachel's power is, indeed, natural. It was inherited from her mother.
  • At the time of the Pinehearst explosion in 2007, Rachel was at least 23 years old. In an interview, writers Jim Martin and Timm Keppler said that Rachel's father died in 1983. Rachel was obviously conceived some time before that, and born in 1984 or prior.

See Also


  Season Three Characters edit
Main

Claire Bennet • Noah Bennet • Maya Herrera • Ando Masahashi • Hiro Nakamura • Matt Parkman • Angela Petrelli • Nathan Petrelli • Peter Petrelli • Tracy Strauss • Mohinder Suresh • Sylar

Recurring

Analyst • Lyle Bennet • Sandra Bennet • Elle Bishop • Emile Danko • Eric Doyle • Flint Gordon, Jr. • Future Peter • Meredith Gordon • The Haitian • Knox • Daniel Linderman • Dr. Livitz • Daphne Millbrook • Rachel Mills • Adam Monroe • Mr. Muggles • Kaito Nakamura • Matt Parkman, Jr. • Maury Parkman • Arthur Petrelli • Mark Spatney • SWAT agent • Turtle • Usutu

See Also: Minor Characters • Season One Characters • Season Two Characters • Season Four Characters • Heroes Reborn Characters • Future Characters • Animals • Webisodes Characters •
Graphic Novel Characters • iStory Characters • Evolutions Characters • Book Characters • Unaired Characters • Cast
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