Angela's dreams

Angela's dreams
Angela Petrelli has prophetic dreams.
First mentioned:	The Butterfly Effect
Date of event:	Recurring

Angela Petrelli has dreams that foretell future events. According to her, Peter absorbed this power from her, resulting in his own strange dreams.

About

The Butterfly Effect

Angela has a dream in which Hiro, Peter, Noah and Matt appear to have been slain in various ways. In this dream, she sees Knox choking Claire against a wall, then throwing her to the floor and beheading her. After he drags Claire's body away from her head, Knox is joined by Maury Parkman, a woman appearing to be Tracy Strauss, and Adam Monroe. They stand facing Angela, and as they stare at her Sylar appears behind her, placing his hands on her shoulders, at which point she awakes from the dream with a jolt. Angela tells Future Peter that by stopping the press conference he has let Sylar take Claire's ability. A chain of events happens because of this and eventually lets twelve evolved humans from Level 5 escape. Angela has a dream about things to come, in which:

• Hiro is sitting on the floor, impaled by a sword.
  
• Matt is in a chair with a slit throat.
  
• Peter is unconscious and has a deep wound across his entire chest.
  
• Noah is lying dead on the floor.
  
• Claire is decapitated by Knox.
  
• Knox, Adam, a woman that looks like Tracy, and Maury stand together, facing Angela.
  
• Sylar steps up behind Angela, appearing to side with her.

Angels and Monsters

Angela has a dream where she is in her office and hears a woman's scream. She walks down the hall and opens a double door and behind it she sees Tracy with her throat cut, Nathan with a gash in his forehead, and Peter with a pipe through the back of his head and blood all over his hands. Suddenly, Arthur Petrelli appears out of nowhere and says that her ability to see the future is too dangerous, and that he can't have that. Angela insists she'll stop him but he touches his right hand, covered with blood, to her shoulder and tells her that she won't even be able to move.

Exposed

Angela reveals that she has had another dream of something that she whispers to Nathan that only he can hear but causes him not to chase Peter.

Cold Snap

Angela has a dream of a traffic stop and being captured. She wakes up seconds before it happens in reality and the dream allows her to see it coming and escape.

Into Asylum

Unable to sleep, Angela can't have any of the prophetic dreams she hopes will point her and Peter in the right direction. Ultimately, after confessing to Peter, she is able to sleep and has a dream that she believes reveals what to do. She tells Peter that they need to find and unite with Nathan and Claire, and they need to visit her sister, who Peter had not even known existed. She also reveals that her power changed her life: she was going to become a teacher until her ability manifested, and she dreamed of an apocalypse. When no one would listen to her warnings, those dreams caused her to turn to manipulation to save the world.

Heroes Evolutions

Friend or Foe

In chapter 4 of Operation Bad Blood, Angela tells the Pinehearst contractor that Red Eye will find Anna again, and that the player will be faced soon with a decision for which thousands of lives will rest on the player's answer. She adds that the lives will include people they both know as well as strangers. The Pinehearst contractor sees a photo of Red Eye and Anna rushing towards a dam in chapter 5 of Operation Bad Blood. The contractor must then decide how to save Anna and the thousands of lives in the nearby town.

In chapter 4 of Operation Splinter, Angela asks the Pinehearst contractor whether he keeps a diary. The contractor says no; but later finds and hides Red Eye's diary while searching through his apartment.

The Agent

The introduction for chapter 6 of The Agent confirms that Angela Petrelli was the person discussing several dreams she had involving Rachel Mills in the previous chapter.

Jason's death scene is very similar what happens in one of the dreams:

In the dream:

Jason's death:

It hurts more than I ever imagined. I look down. My hands are on my chest, even though I don't remember lowering them. I lift my fingers. The bleeding is starting, slowly. It hurts ... so much. Yet I'm suddenly, vividly aware of the dirt digging into my knees, the cold night air, the fresh smell. I feel so alive. "You did it," I hear myself say. "You really did it." "I told you that I would," I hear a voice say, a woman. I look up at her. I'm trying to say something important to me, but then everything fades at last.

It hurts more than I ever imagined. I look down. My hands are on my chest, even though I don't remember lowering them. I lift my fingers. The bleeding is starting, slowly. "You did it, I hear myself say. "You really did it." "I told you that I would," she says. I look up at her. Her icy expression hasn't changed, but she's crying. I want to tell her what I really think. I need her to know. But I can't remember what it was. Everything goes black...

Rachel's detonation of the fire escape bomb also matches what happens in one of the dreams:

In the dream:

Rachel's detonation:

"I can see faces, a dozen people or more, looking up at me. Men, women, a child. I'm standing slightly above them and at a distance. Maybe a hundred feet. They're waiting for me to do something. They look terrified. There's that symbol again, on a nearby crate: the hammer, with four smaller symbols around it. "I look at my raised hand. There's a device there: a bomb detonator. I look back at the cluster of people. I feel a moment of deep sadness. But then something else: peace, at last. "Then I press the button."

We're hanging in the air, not falling yet... The fire escape is twenty feet below us. Agents are leaning off the top platforms and out nearby windows. Muzzle flashes reflect off the grimy alley walls. Helmets face away, down into the hellish scene below. ...we're falling now... At the end of the alley, I can see the fugitives' pale faces, a dozen or more. Men, women, a child. They are already looking up at their attackers, so they alone see us flash out of the sky, almost as if they expected me to be there. ...passing the fire escape... I look at the bomb detonator in my hand. Then at the agents passing around us: loyal, human, patriots, willing to kill for what they believe in. Willing to die. I feel a moment of deep sadness. But something else: peace, at last. I let go of Klassen. I close my eyes. And I push the button...

Rachel's running through Building 26 is very similar to what happens in one of those dreeams:

In the dream:

Rachel running:

"I'm armed, and I'm in a hallway. It's a government building. Nighttime, but this building never sleeps. People move unseen in the rooms around me. There is a strained, hushed feeling. This place is at war. "I'm running, but lightly, so I make no noise. I'm like an animal, a predator. I'm in my element. "A man steps out of a glowing room. I shoot him without hesitation. The gun is silenced. I keep moving without even looking down at the body. I have a purpose, so powerful that I feel like it would carry me even if it was me who had just been shot. "A light at the end of the hallway is flickering strangely: a pattern. I move toward it. There is a door there, massive and metal. I don't have the passcode. But I keep walking toward it, confidently."

I screw the silencer on as I run down the hallway. It's evening outside, but this building never truly sleeps. People move unseen in the rooms around me. There is a strained, hushed feeling of a place at war. I'm in combat mode now. Running lightly, gun swinging in front of me. An agent steps out of a hot room, backlighted by the orange glow. I shoot him in the head and keep moving without looking down. Get Doyle. Get out. Move on. A light at the end of the hallway flickers: a pattern. Rebel. I move toward it. There is a door there, massive and metal. Danko has made some changes since the last time Rebel tried to break someone out of here. That's where I come from.

Danko's conversation with a semi-conscious Rachel is very similar to what happens in one of the dreams:

In the dream:

Danko's conversation:

"The light is behind his shaven head, but I can still see those piercing eyes. He is showing me something in his hand, and I'm terrified of it. I'm trying to hide the fear, but I see from his face that he knows. "'Look at it, agent!' he says. "'I did,' I say. "'That's the only reaction you have?' "'What are you going to do, sir?' I say. "'Well, as it happens, I do have a plan.' He puts his other hand on my shoulder and looks into my face until I meet his eyes. 'Listen closely, and you can save us all.'

"Glad you could join us, Mills," Danko says. "It's time for your next mission." The light is behind his shaven head, but I can still see those piercing eyes. He is holding a picture in my face. A woman too old to be alive, her face the color of burned bark. I close my eyes, freaked out. The drugs are making me feel hysterical. "'Look at it, Agent!' he says. "I did," I slur. "That's all you've got to say?" "What are you going to do to me?" I say. "Well, as it happens, I do have a plan. Listen closely, and you can save us all. That's what you signed up for, right, Mills? Save the world from the monsters?" "Give me a gun," I mumble, trying to stare him down. "I'll take one out right now."

Notes

• Angela's dream in which many people are killed on Level Five (The Butterfly Effect) was originally filmed to include the deaths of Micah Sanders and Monica Dawson. This version of the scene was included in the special features of the Season Two DVD, but Micah and Monica's deaths were cut when the scene was used in the show.

Gallery

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  Angela dreams of Hiro Nakamura...
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  ...Matt Parkman...
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  ...Peter Petrelli...
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  ...Noah Bennet...
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  ...Knox...
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  ...Claire Bennet...
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  ...Adam Monroe, the woman appearing to be Tracy Strauss, Maury Parkman, Knox...
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  ...and Sylar.
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  In another dream, she sees the bodies of Tracy,...
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  ...Nathan,...
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  ...and Peter,...
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  ...before meeting someone unexpected.

See Also

• Precognitive dreaming