Episode:I Am Sylar

I Am Sylar
Season:	Three
Episode number:	324
First aired:	April 20, 2009
Written by:	Adam Armus Kay Foster
Directed by:	Allan Arkush
Previous episode:	1961
Next episode:	An Invisible Thread
Heroes Interactive transcript

Summary

• Sylar undergoes an unexpected identity crisis.
• Hiro and Ando strengthen their relationship and take steps to take down Building 26.
• Matt and Matt, Jr. reunite with Janice.
• Faced with the threat of Danko's agents, Rebel gets help from an unlikely ally.
• Sylar and Nathan finally meet.
• Agents move across the country, capturing Mohinder, Noah, Claire, and Angela.

Synopsis

Danko tells Sylar that in order to work with them, he needs him to take over the identity and life of Agent Taub.

Answering to Claire, Nathan says that he will go to Washington, take ownership with his mistakes and talk to the president. Just then Claire notices that he already has as Nathan is giving a live press conference. Actually Sylar has taken Nathan's shape and speaking on his behalf, says that when the president agrees to shake hands with him, real change would come and nothing would ever be the same.

18 hours earlier, Sylar wakes up as Agent Taub in Washington. In front of the mirror he questions why this keeps happening, then shape shifts back to Sylar and removes an extra tooth from his mouth.

Matt, holding his son on his lap, speaks on a street phone with Janice. He tells her that little Matty is fine and that he's going to bring him as soon as he can. Janice thanks him and after hanging off the phone, Ando asks him why he seems unhappy. He says it's because Janice was attacked and his son was about to be captured. Hiro tells Matt that their baby needs both a mother and a father. Then, Hiro and Ando tries to convince Matt to take down Building 26. Matt, on the other hand, is now concerned with his son says them that Danko is a killer and that it isn't a game.

In Richmond, Virginia, an old man, Tom Miller making coffee at home when he gets a message from Rebel, telling him to leave immediately.

For every being cursed with self awareness, there remains the unanswerable question. Who am I? We struggle to find meaningful connections to one another. We are the caring friend, the loving father, the doting mother, the protective child. We fight and we love in the hope that somehow, together, we can understand our significance in the universe. But in the end, no one can share our burden. Each of us alone, must ask the question. Who am I? What does it mean to be alive? And in the vast infinity of time, how do I matter?

Memorable Quotes

"Who are you?"

- Sylar (to himself in mirror, referring to Agent Taub)

"Maybe you should just stay as Agent Taub for a while."

"Agent Taub's a nothing. I don't like being a nothing."

- Danko, Sylar

"That looks fun."

- Sylar, referring to Tom's ability.

"Are you Rebel?"

"I'm a rebel."

- Tom Miller, Sylar

"You understand how things work. Who did you kill to get that power?"

"That's the only one that was ever truly mine."

- Danko, Sylar.

"That hurt."

- Sylar (to Danko, after having been stabbed in the brain by him)

Character Appearances

Agent Taub Danko Sylar Noah Claire

Nathan Angela Peter Matt Matt, Jr.

Janice Ando Hiro Tom Miller DHS agent

Uniformed officer Virginia Micah Harper Mohinder

Trivia

• The title card of this episode has the episode name written out in blood, instead of the conventional white text. This is the third episode to not have its episode title written out in the traditional white font, the first was Villains, whose title was written in large black letters in place of the Heroes title sequence, while the second was The Eclipse, Part 1, whose title was written out in black font.

See Also

• For images from I Am Sylar, see images from I Am Sylar.
• Watch the episode on Hulu.

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