Building 26

Building 26
Nathan walks through Building 26.
Location:	Washington, DC
Purpose:	Nathan's operations' headquarters

Nathan Petrelli leads his operation of hunting down evolved humans at Building 26.

Notable Employees

• Analyst
• Noah Bennet
• Building 26 employee
• Central commander
• Emile Danko
• Homeland Security agent
• Homeland Security agent
• Janitor
• Mark Leggett (deceased)
• Med tech
• Rachel Mills
• Nathan Petrelli
• Tech

Notable Occupants

• Elizabeth Axelson
• Eric Doyle
• Curtis Hovsepian
• Daphne Millbrook (formerly)
• Cyril Sharp
• Tracy Strauss (formerly)
• Mohinder Suresh (formerly)

Notable Visitors

• Abby Collins
• James Martin
• Matt Parkman
• Peter Petrelli

About

Trust and Blood

Forty-three hours after the Flight 195 crash, Nathan Petrelli sits in his office at Building 26, talking to Angela on the phone. He recounts what happened at the crash site to Angela. After finishing the phone call, an analyst comes into the office to tell Nathan that someone is ready for him. Nathan nods and heads out of his office, walking down a corridor before walking into the back of a truck. Rachel Mills and another guard unmask a battered Tracy, who, after trying to persuade Nathan to let her go and ultimately failing, yells desperately that Nathan is one of them.

Building 26

Danko is briefing his team in the control center of Building 26. He tells them about surveillance efforts and the status of their operation. He points out that Claire is "on probation". Nathan enters the room and points out that the evolved humans are still human, and are now scared. Because of the difficulty in capturing the fugitives and keeping their prisoner, Nathan has requested extra funding from The President.

Thinking her a representative of the president, Nathan and Danko meet Abby Collins in Building 26. She states the president is worried about their operation and that the Department of Homeland Security is now overseeing their team. Danko doesn't like another politician getting involved, but Nathan leads Abby on a tour. They discuss why Nathan's requested the funding, leading Abby to admit she thinks his ideas of people who can time travel and read minds is absurd. Nathan asks who she works for, and Abby informs him she's his new boss. Nathan lets it slip they're holding a prisoner and Abby demands to see her.

Tracy Strauss is chained to a chair in a room full of heaters. When Nathan shows this to Abby, she's horrified. She tells Nathan that she will file a complaint against him at the Justice department for humans rights violations.

While Nathan and Abby argue over whether or not his operation will be shut down, Tracy discovers a loose bracket on her shackles and pulls herself free. The alarms sound and Nathan and Abby both head towards the prison. They get stopped in the hallway outside, where Tracy is holding Mark Leggett hostage. When Tracy sees Nathan, she freezes Leggett and shatters him against the wall. Abby is speechless as Tracy is sedated and recaptured. Nathan apologizes, admitting that he wished Abby didn't have to see that. Abby has changed her mind about the funding, however, and gives Nathan the promise that he'll have all he needs.

Once Tracy is reshackled in her prison, Nathan visits her and tells she won't be escaping again. Tracy then tells him that she knows it was he who released her, and that she will escape next time.

Nathan confronts Danko about Tracy's accusations, revealing that it was Danko who orchestrated the event. Danko says he did it to protect the agency, and Nathan sadly informs him of Mark Leggett's name.

Cold Wars

Matt searches through Noah's memory and finds the day when Noah and Danko first met. They disagreed over how to run the operation. Noah suggested the "one of us, one of them" principle, but Danko preferred to use units of agents instead.

Later, Matt finds in Noah's memory of Daphne being brought into Building 26. Noah had sedated Daphne to keep her from going into shock.

Exposed

Danko yells to the analysts that Matt and Peter are their top priorities. He orders for them to be captured by any means necessary, but Nathan disagrees on using lethal force.

Matt and Peter infiltrate Building 26 after receiving a message from Rebel that tells them that Daphne is there. Peter replicates Matt's telepathy and the two use it to get past the guards without anyone stopping them. While Matt mentally controls two guards to hold off Danko, Peter hacks into the building's computers to try to find Daphne. Ultimately, he learns that Daphne is no longer there: she has been moved to a medical facility, but Rebel brings up a video file that was in the computer system that shows all of the captured evolved humans being put on Flight 195. Peter copies the file to a flash drive, but Noah Bennet activates Building 26's fire alarm system disrupting their telepathy. Rebel knocks out the building's power, shutting down the alarm and allowing Peter to escape while Matt is captured by Danko and his men.

Later, Nathan tells Danko and Noah that Peter made a deal with him. Nathan tells Danko to prepare the trade-off but Danko has his own plans: he leaves the building, ready to kill Peter on the spot.

Shades of Gray

Nathan walks through Building 26 and meets Danko; he asks what Matt Parkman is doing out in Washington, DC with a bomb strapped to him. When Danko says he doesn't know, Nathan heads to the roof via stairs, leading Danko to be suspicious.

An analyst preps the detonation of the bomb that is attached to Mat's body. Danko comes by and hurries the analyst up. Noah tells Danko to slow down, and they find that someone has jammed their operation. By the time they get the detonator working again, Nathan has defused the bomb already. Later, the analyst says that they couldn't track down whoever jammed their system.

When Nathan returns, he tells Danko that he's fired. Danko begins looking for evidence that could implicate Nathan as an evolved human, and tries to get the truth out of Tracy Strauss, who does not tell Danko anything since Nathan had previously stated that he was her only hope. But Danko does not give up, and eventually pushes Nathan out of a window, only to watch him fly away. He turns to Noah and says that Noah had better not known about this.

Cold Snap

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Into Asylum

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Turn and Face the Stranger

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Trivia

• According to Greg Beeman's blog, the design concept for Building 26 is that it should be "a very anonymous space that this organization moved into quickly and could move out of quickly. Almost like a boiler room where shady phone solicitations could be made from." Greg calls the design of the building the "no aesthetic-aesthetic." Ruth Ammon countered the very plain design by "creating windowed offices at the perimeters of the set... She brought in lots of practical light sources on the desks and mixed and matched them. Ruth also added "tubes of computer wiring and electrical wiring coming down from the ceiling, being twist-tied together as the lines dispersed to the various desks."
• According to an instant message sent by "Rebel", Building 26 is located at 283 E Street S.W. in Washington, DC.
• The name of the building is pronounced "Two-Six" instead of "Twenty-six". Usually this would be indicated by a dash between the 2 and 6, but this has never been shown when the headquarter's name is displayed on screen.

See Also

• For other uses of Building 26, see Building 26 (disambig).