Level 5

Level 5
Level 5 holds the more dangerous individuals.
Location:	Primatech Research Hartsdale, NY
Purpose:	To imprison the most dangerous individuals

Level 5 was the detention jail cell prison facility inside Primatech Research designed and built by the Company to contain more dangerous individuals, including evolved humans. Many of the cells were specially programmed to neutralize their captives' abilities. Level 5 was destroyed during the Primatech explosion.

Notable Locations

• Brendan's cell
• A cell used for holding clones
• Gael Cruz's office
• Eric's cell
• Echo's cell
• Noah's cell

Notable Occupants

• Ando Masahashi (moved, released)
• Antarctica clone (deceased)
• Australia clone (deceased)
• Noah Bennet (escaped, released)
• Stephen Canfield (escaped, deceased)
• Other clones (deceased)
• Echo DeMille (escaped, recaptured, deceased)
• Dennis (escaped, deceased)
• Eric Doyle (escaped, recaptured, escaped)
• Michael Fitzgerald (escaped, recaptured)
• The German (escaped, deceased)
• Flint Gordon Jr. (escaped, deceased)
• Meredith Gordon (released, deceased)
• Howard Grigsby (escaped)
• Brendan Lewis (deceased)
• Jesse Murphy (escaped, deceased)
• Hiro Nakamura (moved, released)
• Maury Parkman (escaped, deceased)
• Peter Petrelli (escaped)
• Baron Samedi (escaped, recaptured)
• Danny Pine (escaped, recaptured, deceased)
• Tina Ramierez (escaped, recaptured)
• Ricardo Silva (escaped)
• Sylar (escaped, recaptured, escaped)
• Benjamin "Knox" Washington (escaped, deceased)

Notable Employees

• Gael Cruz (deceased)
• Level 5 agent
• Michael (deceased)

Notable Visitors

• Bridget Bailey
• Claire Bennet
• Bob Bishop
• Elle Bishop
• Donna Dunlap
• Sean Fallon
• Hartsdale clone
• Sabine Hazel
• Connie Logan
• Daphne Millbrook
• Angela Petrelli
• Nathan Petrelli
• Future Peter
• Tracy Strauss
• Sylar
• Eric Thompson

About

Graphic Novel:Blindsided

As Noah regains his now-weakened eyesight, an optometrist tells him the that Howard Grigsby is being held in a Level-Five detention cell.

Graphic Novel:Trust Issues, Part 2

From the hallway, Donna and Thompson, Jr. glance at Noah through the window of his cell. Thompson, Jr. tells Donna that Noah is a traitor and killed his father; Thompson then steps away. Noah looks at Donna and tells her she made a bad move not listening to his warning, but Donna pretends not to know him.

Graphic Novel:Root and Branch, Part 1

Sabine looks at the clones outside of their cell.

Graphic Novel:Root and Branch, Part 2

On her way to Julien's cell, Sabine Hazel walks past Noah and the various clones in their cell.

Graphic Novel:Root and Branch, Part 3

Sabine talks to Noah from outside his cell about the Dumont System. Later, Sabine helps Julien leave from Level 5 before being fired upon by an agent.

Graphic Novel:The Kill Squad, Part 3

Gael Cruz shows Sean Fallon that the Company is currently holding Brendan Lewis after he was successfully captured.

Webisode:Going Postal, Part 3

Angela Petrelli watches Echo DeMille through the window of his cell.

The Second Coming

Flint creates flames against the glass in his cell as Knox stands in his cell. Jesse Murphy yells at the top of his lungs that he is Peter Petrelli, and Noah bounces a ball against the glass in his cell.

The Butterfly Effect

Elle releases Noah and the two encounter Sylar, who survives due to his newly acquired ability. Sylar attempts to take Elle's power, but she unleashes an electrical burst that knocks him out, as well as the power. Twelve prisoners (including Jesse Murphy, Flint, Knox, The German, Eric Doyle, and Noah) escape. Angela tells Elle she is fired and that Angela now controls the Company. Future Peter comes back to find that the cells are empty, and he reveals to Angela that he had placed Peter in the body of Jesse. Back in his cell, Angela tells Sylar that she is his mother.

One of Us, One of Them

Angela brings Bridget Bailey into Sylar's cell, stating that she is there to feed Sylar. She leaves the two alone, trapped in the cell. Bridget is heard screaming as Angela walks away. Noah returns to help recapture the escapees. Angela makes Sylar his partner. When the two return with Flint, Angela states that she still thinks there is hope for Sylar.

I Am Become Death

Peter teleports to Sylar's cell and confronts him about his ability. Sylar tells Peter that he now has the hunger, and the two scuffle.

Angels and Monsters

Peter and Sylar are fighting, Sylar reveals that the two are brothers. Peter snaps his neck, and Angela enters. He telekinetically grabs her and demands she tell all her secrets. Peter begins to cut open her head, but Sylar, after healing from his neck wound, telekinetically throws him against the wall, knocking him out. Noah arrives and gets Sylar, they leave to find another escapee.

Dying of the Light

Daphne uses her super speed and asks Sylar to join her employers. He refuses, saying he is not a killer anymore. She hands him a business card, grabs Flint from another cell and speeds away. Sylar goes to Peter's cell and removes his drug shunt. The two discuss controlling the hunger that comes with Sylar's ability.

Eris Quod Sum

While in a medically induced coma, Sylar receives a vision from his mother, telling him to go save Peter. He is able to use telekinesis to break open the door of his cell and he leaves Level 5 to save his brother.

Villains

Flint is seen in a cell on Level 5.

The Eclipse, Part 1

In Level 5, some newly recaptured escapees are seen in their cells, notably Danny Pine and Eric Doyle.

Dual

After Sylar puts Primatech in lockdown, Noah frees the only criminals in Level 5: Echo DeMille, Danny Pine, and Eric Doyle. They are told that whoever kills Sylar earns their freedom, but that he is also the one preventing them from simply escaping. Eric Doyle apparently survives, but the other two are killed by Sylar. Meredith is later injected with adrenaline, causing her ability to go out of control, and locked in a cell with Noah. Claire is able to help rescue them, but Meredith remains in the cell while the others take care of Sylar and escape. Meredith eventually explodes, causing the Primatech facility to collapse.

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Project Reborn

While in the Eternal Fortress, Tommy Clark views part of his erased memory of what had happened to him seven years before on Level 5. Tommy witnesses Angela Petrelli testing his and his sister's ability to combine powers before something goes wrong and then an energy bolt shoots up into the sky before the memory ends.

Needing to know what happened and how to safely combine his and Malina's powers to stop the H.E.L.E., Tommy teleports outside of his old cell seven years in the past and watches as the test happens. Tommy witnesses the fact that he and Malina are unable to safely combine their powers before a lab worker pulls them apart resulting in the energy channeling through their body and into the sky. Angela realizes that Tommy and Malina need a conduit for their powers to work and Tommy teleports away, having gotten the answers he needed.

Tommy rescues Noah Bennet from death two days before the present and takes him back to Level 5 seven years in the past. Noah watches the experiment and how Angela then explains that in her dreams there was a third faceless figure with the twins which she now knows is their conduit, someone willing to sacrifice themselves so Tommy and Malina can save the world. Rene asks Angela who the conduit will be and Angela seems to look straight through the window at Noah as she tells Rene she's sure she knows who it is. Tommy teleports in and explains that after failing to stop the H.E.L.E. with Malina "a thousand times", he realized that Noah was the key to stopping it and needed him to see the test to understand what Tommy needs him to do. Noah agrees to be Tommy and Malina's conduit and has Tommy teleport them back to the Odessa Clock Tower in Gateway where Malina is struggling to hold back the H.E.L.E.

Heroes Evolutions

Operation Splinter

In chapter 2 of Operation Splinter, Tim Pope mentions that Ricardo Silva was kept in Level 5.

Operation Bad Blood

In chapter 1 of Operation Bad Blood, the Pinehearst contractor finds a video of Ricardo Silva in Level 5.

Reasons for Confinement

Name	Ability	Location	Crimes Committed
Bennet, Noah	None	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Going rogue, murders of high-level Company agents Mr. Thompson and Ivan Spektor
Canfield, Stephen (deceased)	Gravitational manipulation	Unknown	Accidental murder of his neighbor
DeMille, Echo (deceased)	Sound manipulation	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Murder of several Company agents
Doyle, Eric	Puppet master	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Torture and murder of several people
The German (deceased)	Magnetism	Unknown	Multiple bank robberies, the murder of Devin Patterson
Gordon, Flint Jr. (deceased)	Pyrokinesis	Pinehearst, Fort Lee, NJ	Multiple robberies and arsons, and at least two murders
Gordon, Meredith (deceased)	Pyrokinesis	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Multiple robberies and arsons
Gray, Gabriel, a.k.a. Sylar	Intuitive aptitude	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Serial killer
Grigsby, Howard	Luminescence	Unknown	Kidnapping the Butler family and injuring Company agent Noah Bennet
Lewis, Brendan (deceased)	Plant manipulation	Unknown	Murder of Company agent Sean Fallon's support team
Murphy, Jesse (deceased)	Sound manipulation	Unknown	Murders of several gang members
Parkman, Maury (deceased)	Telepathy	Unknown	Conspiring to murder Company Chairman Bob Bishop and Angela Petrelli, assisting fugitive Adam Monroe
Pine, Danny (deceased)	Metal mimicry	Primatech, Hartsdale, NY	Murder of his ex-wife, attack against Company agents Meredith Gordon and Noah Bennet
Samedi, Baron	Impenetrable skin	Haiti	Drug trafficking, slavery, kidnapping
Silva, Ricardo, a.k.a. Red Eye	Primal rage	Primatech facility, Alaska	Several murders
Washington, Benjamin, a.k.a. Knox (deceased)	Enhanced strength	Pinehearst, Fort Lee, NJ	Murders of several gang members

Notes

• In an interview, writers Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite said that Maury Parkman was imprisoned in Level 5. They also said, "Now everyone is out." Assuming Howard Grigsby was still in jailed in the facility at the time of the escape, he would have escaped with the other escapees.
• During the same time that Ricardo Silva's video was featured in the iStory, Operation: Bad Blood - Chapter 1, four videos were released on NBC's site under "Evolutions". They were titled Glow, Echo, Wind, and Clone.

Trivia

• Noah nicknamed Level 5 "the dungeons". (Root and Branch, Part 3)
• During the Countdown to the Premiere event, Zachary Quinto said that Sylar was originally held in a Level 2 facility, noting that Level 5 is far more dangerous.
• Knox called Level 5 "Super guantanamo", referencing to Guantanamo bay detention center. (One of Us, One of Them)

Gallery

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  Adam sits in his cell...
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  ...next to Peter's cell.
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  Peter and Adam escape from Level 5.
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  Noah continues to sit in his cell.
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  The clones are rounded into a cell.
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  Brendan is held under control.
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  The hallway of level 5.
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  Echo is contained...
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  ...while Angela talks to him.
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  Peter is stuck in Jesse's body in Jesse's cell.
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  Flint uses his ability against the glass of his cell.
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  Elle blasts Sylar into a wall.
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  Sylar is held in a cell after others escape.
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  Several clones in a cell.
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  A woman manipulate wind in her cell.
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  Ricardo Silva uses his power in his cell.
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  Baron Samedi escape from Level 5.
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  Soon followed by Eric Doyle...
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  and The German.
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  Knox is restrained in a straightjacket.

See Also

• Level 5 escapees