Episode:One of Us, One of Them

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One of Us, One of Them
Season:	Three
Episode number:	303
First aired:	September 29, 2008
Written by:	Joe Pokaski
Directed by:	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Previous episode:	The Butterfly Effect
Next episode:	I Am Become Death
Heroes Interactive transcript

In the ongoing search for self, there are days when we learn something genuinely new. Something uncovered, hidden, that we never knew was there. Something that surprises us. And on that day of self-discovery, the question remains: What kind of person are we? Does the hero, or the villain inside us, win the day?

Summary

• Noah is given a new partner.
• Nathan is sworn into office.
• Meredith teaches Claire a hard lesson.
• Peter is forced to help rob a bank.
• Hiro and Ando track down Daphne and the formula.
• Tracy learns more about herself from a stranger.

Synopsis

In a Level 5 cell, Sylar is strapped to a metal table. Angela Petrelli then enters Sylar's cell. As Angela removes the arm restraints, Angela tells Sylar that her sons have failed her, but she can provide Sylar with the love and guidance a mother should provide her son, to which Sylar gets a bit upset stating that she is not his mother. Angela, however, insists that she is his mother, much to Sylar's shock. Angela says she should have never given Sylar up for adoption but now she tells Sylar that she will take good care of him, like a good mother. Angela tells Sylar that he is very special and he needs to be strong for what's to come. Angela calls in a girl named Bridget Bailey. She explains to Sylar that Bridget can see an object's entire past. She states that Bridget is there to feed Sylar. Angela leaves the cell, leaving Bridget and Sylar alone, and Bridget's screams can be heard from the cell along with the sound of grinding bone.

[image:Powers Tracy broken flower petals.jpg|thumb|left|Tracy's frozen rose.]] Alone in her apartment, Tracy freezes a rose.

In Washington, DC, Nathan Petrelli asks a staffer if Tracy has arrived yet, to which he replies that she isn't answering her phone. Nathan closes the doors of his office. Future Peter teleports into Nathan's office. Nathan asks Future Peter where Peter is. Future Peter answers back by saying he doesn't know and that he is looking for Peter too. He also says that Nathan called him. Nathan says that Peter called him last night and says that it wasn't Peter's voice. Nathan plays the message on his phone. Peter, in Jesse Murphy's body, says that he is trapped in a body of a guy. He says that he just broke out of Level 5 with criminals. Peter says that he's trying to get back and says that he's afraid the Level 5 escapees will hurt somebody.

At the First Federal Bank of New York in Poughkeepsie, Peter (who is still in Jesse Murphy's body), Flint, The German, and Knox start walking towards the bank. As they are walking, Peter says that they should come out at night, where it would be empty. Knox replies by saying that's not part of the plan. Knox states that Peter is terrified and Knox says he can feel it. When they enter the bank, The German shuts all the windows and Flint uses fire to scare the customers.

In Level 5, Noah walks to Angela. Angela tells Noah that she expected him back earlier. Angela says that most of the prisoners escaped that Noah captured. Noah says he's not here to re-enlist but to help put the psychopaths where they belong, and then return to his family. Noah asks for his partner but Angela says The Haitian is on a pick up assignment for her. Noah reminds Angela on how the company partnering works: one of us, one of them. Angela says she has the perfect "one of them". Angela and Noah stop at a cell. Angela introduces Noah to his new partner, Sylar, who wipes Bridget's blood off his hand.

Back at the bank, Peter tells the hostages to keep their heads down. As The German uses his ability to unlock a code to open a safe, Flint collects money and puts them in a sack. A female teller reaches to press an alarm but Flint stops her and threatens to rape her. Peter tells Flint to stop. The German tells the escapees that the safe is now open.

Noah is opposed to working with Sylar, especially since Sylar's recent attack on Claire, though Sylar rationalizes that since Claire can't die, she was never in any danger. Angela says Sylar is just misunderstood and needs some structure, and Noah gives in to working with him.

Back at Primatech Research, Angela, Noah and his new partner see the robbery on the news and it becomes Noah and Sylar's first Company assignment. Sylar and Noah, both in suits, proceed to the police barricade outside the bank, and Noah tells Sylar to stand back and do nothing. Instead, Sylar takes charge by posing as FBI agent Andrew Hanson, and orders the cops to move back and fetch them some coffee.

Back at the bank, Peter tries to talk Knox out of it, but Knox uses his knowledge of Jesse to uncover that he is an impostor, beats up Peter with Flint's help, and then throws him across the room. Noah then enters the bank and the hostages leave behind him. Knox pins down Noah, but then Peter gets upset and yells, crashing Knox and Flint into the wall with his ability.

Sylar wants Jesse's abilities.

Just then, time freezes as Future Peter has arrived. He walks up behind Jesse and pushes present day Peter out of Jesse's body. Future Peter then teleports away with the present day self, allowing time to resume. The real Jesse then takes control of his body and prepares to attack Noah. However, Sylar arrives just in time to stop him and Knox in their tracks with telekinesis. Flint tries to attack Sylar but Noah pulls out his gun and shoots him. Noah then takes Flint outside for medical attention and arrange transport, expecting Sylar to keep the other two in check. But Sylar locks Noah out of the bank as soon as he and Flint exit the building. Noah tries to talk him down, but Sylar can't fight his killer hunger, so he focuses on taking Jesse's ability. Knox seizes this opportunity to escape and flees out the back of the bank.

Hiro and Ando teleport to outside a movie theater in Berlin, Germany, where they expect Daphne to show up based on their tracking. She arrives and tells him she has delivered the first half of the formula, and that she's at the theater to intercept the second half. Daphne then tries to run super fast into the theater, but ends up just jogging. Hiro finds out that his powers are also gone when he can't stop time. Hiro sees the Haitian holding a briefcase and recognizes him from the future, giving him and Ando an advantage over Daphne.

Hiro and Ando follow the Haitian into the theater, where the exchange is supposed to take place, and take seats behind him while they work out a scheme. Daphne interrupts their plotting, and tells them she's just doing this because some guy is paying her. She tries to turn Ando against Hiro, but fails to do so and appears to leave. After the film is finished, the Haitian meets up with a woman and explains that Angela wants her half of the formula closer to home due to recent events. He takes the formula, places it in his briefcase, and prepares to leave.

Hiro and Ando hatch a plan where Ando is supposed to play an usher, but instead Ando hits the Haitian over the head and knocks him out. Ando expresses a reluctance to continue playing the "sidekick" to Hiro, reflecting the doubts Daphne had just been trying to exploit. While the Haitian is knocked out, Hiro grabs the briefcase but Daphne speeds by and swaps it out of his hands for a bag of popcorn. Hiro tries to stop time, but the Haitian is awake again, upset, and standing right behind them.

Noah and Sylar return to Primatech Research only with Flint. As they lead Flint to a Level 5 cell next to one containing Hiro and Ando, Sylar comments to Angela that it looks like he proved her wrong. But Angela says she still thinks there's hope for Sylar. Later, Noah tells the Haitian he's sticking around just long enough to learn Sylar's weakness, then kill him.

Usutu's picture shows Matts new future.

Matt Parkman is still in Africa, getting a lesson in spirit journeys from his guide, Usutu, who paints the future. Parkman sees many paintings showing scenes from his life that have already happened, as well as one that has not yet come to pass: a happy scene in which Matt and a blonde woman are holding a baby. However, Usutu says that painting no longer depicts the future and replaces it with a new picture in which Matt is crying and holding the blonde woman's dead body. Later, Matt has entered Usutu's desert dwelling, and obtained tribal markings on his face. He eats a bowl of unknown contents, and claims that nothing's happening. Usutu then gives Matt his music to listen to, and Matt seems to fall asleep. However, his eyes suddenly jolt open and they are white.

At the Bennet house, Sandra and Meredith face off on how best to raise their mutual daughter. Meredith agrees to let Claire skip school that day in order to train her to fight. Meredith brings her daughter into an empty storage container and the lesson begins by setting it all on fire, to teach Claire about survival. Claire says she has mastered survival and needs to learn how to fight, to which Meredith replies that there are some things you can't fight. Meredith suggests the air must be getting thin in the container, which causes Claire to seemingly begin to suffocate. Claire begs her to stop, but Meredith persists until Claire confesses she wants to learn to fight not to help people, but to hurt villains such as Sylar.

[[Bild:Powers_Micah_Search.jpg|thumb|Micah uses technopathy.]] Nathan shows up at Tracy's place wondering why she missed his swearing-in ceremony as the junior senator from New York. She asks him about Niki and the sex video she obtained, but Nathan claims that she should already know about that since she is Niki. Tracy tells Nathan again that she isn't Niki, but needs to find her. Tracy continues that she has an address for Niki in New Orleans, and is going there. Once there, Tracy visits a funeral home and opens a casket to see a dead Niki inside.

After viewing Niki in the casket, Tracy turns to leave and runs into Micah. Micah realizes that Tracy is not his mother, and tells her that both he and his mother had powers. He explains Niki's ability and his own ability to talk to machines. Afterwards, Micah uses his ability to search the internet and learns that Tracy and Niki were both born on the same day, in the same hospital, and both delivered by the same man, Dr. Zimmerman. Tracy tracks him down in California, and learns that not only does he know her, but he created her.

And as the search for self continues, we look for answers everywhere. In nature, in God, in tiny tragedies that may never be understood. But still, we are driven to it, single-minded on one goal: to find our purpose on this earth. No matter what the ramifications, the friendships that may be hurt, or the deals with the devil we need to make.

Memorable Quotes

"He's a murderer!"

"Then you and Gabriel have more in common than you care to admit."

- Noah Bennet, Angela Petrelli

"Nemesis."

"Stop calling me that! My name is Daphne."

- Hiro, Daphne

"You drink decaf, right, Noah?"

- Sylar

"Why did you come? You must have had a dozen chances to get away."

"You were going to hurt people. I couldn't let that happen."

"Now I know you're full of it. No one's that heroic."

- Knox, Peter

"Can I get popcorn?"

"No."

- Ando, Hiro

Character Appearances

Sylar Angela Bridget Bailey Tracy Nathan John Wellner Future Peter Peter

Jesse Flint The German Knox Noah Holly Sandra Meredith

Lyle Claire Hiro Ando Daphne The Haitian Usutu Matt

Moviehaus patron Lieutenant Chory Angela's aide Niki Micah May Jonas Zimmerman Turtle

See Also

• For images from One of Us, One of Them, see images from One of Us, One of Them.

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