Angela Petrelli
| Angela Petrelli | |
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| Portrayed by | Cristine Rose |
| First appearance | Genesis |
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| Known ability | Precognitive dreaming |
| Gender | |
| Date of marriage | 1964 |
| Home | New York, NY |
| Residence | Mansion in New York City |
| Occupations | Founding member and chairwoman of the Company, Yamagato Industries major shareholder |
| Significant others | formerly Arthur Petrelli (deceased), formerly Kaito Nakamura (deceased) |
| Children | Nathan Petrelli, Peter Petrelli |
| Grandchildren | Claire Bennet, Simon Petrelli, Monty Petrelli |
Angela Petrelli is the last surviving founding member of the Company who, following the death of Bob Bishop, went on to become the head of the organization. She is the wife of Arthur, and mother of Nathan and Peter. She is an evolved human with the ability to see the future in her dreams.
About
Angela has kept the majority of her past and personal life a secret, but makes it clear that her family means everything to her, and as such suffered greatly following Arthur's "suicide", and aids her children, and grandchildren, in their respective quests to save the world. In certain episodes, however, a more darker and cold-blooded side of Angela's personality was revealed to exist, though generally she is working for the greater good.
Character History
For an episode-by-episode summary, see Angela Petrelli: Season One History.
Angela is taken in by the NYPD for shoplifting socks. In doing this, she worries her son Nathan, while Peter, her younger son, sees it as a cry for attention. The next day, she sees Peter in the hospital and confesses to him that his father died of suicide, telling him she is worried he may be developing the same condition. She tells Peter that he always was her favorite son. Later, she expresses concern for Peter when Nathan claims his jump was a suicide attempt.
A few days later, Angela plans a family brunch with Heidi to help Nathan's campaign. The brunch is interrupted by Peter who suggests that he is not good enough to attend, but eventually saves Nathan in the interview with Oliver Dennison.
During the next two weeks she spends her time worried about a comatose Peter, fearing he may die of a heart attack. When Peter awakens and leaves in a rage, she is upset that Peter would keep her worried for these two weeks and just leave. Within the next few days, she persuades Nathan not to meet his long-lost daughter and bribe Meredith to end the situation.
When Claire comes to New York City to find Peter, she is instead greeted by Angela. She reveals she is Claire's grandmother. She explains to Claire about her biological parents and the fire, urging Claire to come with her to Paris, but then Mohinder arrives with Peter's dead body. When Peter is revived, she tells Peter she has long known about his abilities. Later on, she claims to also know about Linderman's plans. When Peter dreams of his mother talking to the late Charles, she states she thinks Nathan will be who people turn to after the explosion. Angela tries to get Claire out of the city, saying the bomb is inevitable; however, Claire disagrees and flees from Angela.
For an episode-by-episode summary, see Angela Petrelli: Season Two History.
Angela regularly visits Nathan at his hospital room while he recovers from the effects of Peter's explosion. When Nathan later blames her for Peter's presumed death, she finds a death threat targeting her. She meets with Kaito Nakamura at Charles Deveaux's rooftop to discuss the threats. After Kaito is murdered by a hooded killer, Angela is interrogated by Matt Parkman, but she recognizes his interrogation techniques. She is attacked in the interrogation room when the lights mysteriously go out, and in her hospital room she falsely confesses to murdering Kaito.
While in jail, Angela is interrogated again by Matt Parkman, who manages to make her reveal information about Victoria Pratt. After her "early release" from jail, she is confronted by Matt and Nathan about Adam Monroe. She explains how the group of twelve came together, and why Adam is killing the Company's founders, while also secretly commanding Matt to kill Peter if he causes any problems. After Nathan is shot moments before revealing the truth about the Company, we see Angela talking on the phone saying it had to be done, but that Pandora's Box has been opened.
13 weeks after Echo DeMille escapes the agents in his house, Angela arrives outside his cell's window and comments,"Echo, Echo, Echo. You always were the mouthy one. I guess some things never change. Welcome home." As Echo tries to say something through his gag, she holds up a finger to her mouth and shushes him.
In an argument with Future Peter, Angela states that he absorbed his first ability from her, the ability to dream the future.
With the death of Bob Bishop, the chain of command leaves Angela in complete power and authority of the Company's actions. Her first action as "The Boss" is to relinquish Elle of any further duty (she fires Elle). After continuing to tell Future Peter he must return her son and go back where he came from, Angela goes and speaks to Sylar who is now in a Level 5 holding cell.
In the cell Angela tells Sylar that she can provide him 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, To which she replies, "but I am dear, I am..."
Angela is with Sylar in his cell and tells him that her sons have failed her, and that she is his mother, and that she will love him and guide him. She unstraps him and introduces him to Bridget Bailey, who she says is there to "feed" him. She leaves the two in the room alone and walks away to the sound of Bridget's screams.
Later, on Level 5 she speaks with Noah, who has come back with the intentions of recapturing the escapees, and intoduces him to his new partner, Sylar. Later, the three see a bank robbery on the news, and Angela tells them it is the pair's first assignment.
When Noah and Sylar return with Flint, Sylar comments to Angela that she was wrong. (because he succumbed to his killer instinct and took Jesse's power.) She tells him that she thinks there is still hope for him.
With Hiro and Ando being held captive in a Level 2 cell, Angela sits them down in her office to let Hiro know how much his father thought Hiro was going to be a great man. Now, due to his loss of his half of the formula, Angela informs them that they are being manipulated by something more powerful, and that Hiro has the key to unlocking the whole mystery.
Angela finds a newly arrived Peter in Sylar's cell and races in as Peter breaks Sylar's neck. Angela tries to stop the crazed Peter, who telekinetically binds Angela, asking her if she was ever planning on telling him that Sylar was his brother. When she doesn't reply to what other secrets she's keeping from him, Peter begins to cut open her head to find the answers himself. He is stopped by Sylar, who managed to heal himself. When Tracy and Nathan arrive to find a chemically subdued Peter, Nathan is enraged at his mother. In her office, Angela tells them of the experimentation done on Tracy, Niki, and Barbara as infants which gave them their abilities. She then reveals that the Company also gave Nathan his ability due to Arthur's disappointment in Nathan's lack of the ability-granting genetic marker. Later, as Angela dozes, she apparently awakes to the sound of a scream. She finds Tracy and Nathan dead and a bloodied Peter standing over them. Peter collapses to reveal a pipe stuck in the back of his head. Angela turns at the sound of Arthur's voice and comes face-to-face with him. He explains that she is too dangerous to keep around as she can see the future. When she says that she will stop him, he replies that she won't even be able to move. Angela awakens to find that it was one of her dreams but that she cannot move.
Angela remains in a paralyzed state following her dream-encounter with Arthur. Stuck in a bed, Sylar releases Peter from his drug-induced coma in an attempt to wake Angela. Peter attempts to read her mind to figure out what happened to her, and she gives him the image of the Pinehearst logo.
Angela remains paralyzed following her dream-encounter with Arthur. She appears in the sleeping Sylar's dreams, and states that Sylar has unknown abilities, suggesting he is initiating the contact. She tells him to rescue Peter and make her proud. When Sylar confronts Arthur, he claims that Angela had a precognitive dream of Sylar so frightening that she tried to drown him, and Arthur stopped her. The veracity of this statement is yet to be independently proven.
In Hiro's precognitive trance, Angela appears to be the dutiful wife to Arthur. She seemingly agrees to all his plans. However, when she hears Arthur and Linderman talking about an assassination attempt on Nathan, she runs to the kitchen to grab a knife. Before she can do anything, Arthur uses his ability to control her mind. Later, when Arthur is away, Linderman -- sympathetic towards Angela -- restores her memory with his power. With her mind restored, she enlists the Haitian to help her take down Arthur. She poisons his soup and is preparing to get rid of his body when Nathan discovers him.
Matt and Daphne arrive at Primatech to find Angela in paralysis. Matt gets feedback after surface probing Angela, Daphne says she'll look for a nurse but goes to warn Arthur. Daphne returns to Matt as he tries to get inside Angela's head. Matt admits he’s only done it once with his dad and asks Daphne to stay there and watch him while he disappears into Angela’s head. Inside their heads, Angela is seen cuffed to a chair at the end of an empty Pineheart hallway. She warns Matt that he shouldn't be there and that Arthur is too powerful. Matt struggles with the cuffs and tries at the locked doors. Arthur then appears as Daphne and stabs Matt in the stomach. In the real world, Daphne watches Matt groan and bleed from his stomach wound. Calling to Matt, he takes her in the dream with him and Angela. As the real Daphne explains her motives and her feelings for Matt, Angela takes the chance and asks if Arthur remembers when they were just like that. The hallway then becomes Angela's office, as Angela tells Arthur to let her go. Her bonds break and Matt comes and takes them both back to reality. As Nathan arrives after Claire and Peter, Angela informs them that Arthur now has both parts of the formula but is missing a third piece, a catalyst, and it’s hidden away in the blood of a human host. She tells them both Peter and her have dreamed the future promises it is not one any of them will want to face.
Angela is at Primatech with Claire, and tells her where Nathan and Matt are going on their separate assignments. She informs Claire that her mission is to avoid being captured by Arthur because of the catalyst in her blood. Claire objects, but Angela overrides her and takes her into Level 5 where Noah is waiting to take his daughter to safety.
Later, Angela walks in on Tracy as she is having a conversation with Arthur via cell phone. Tracy hastily covers up the nature of her call. It's not clear how much Angela overheard but she is aware of Tracy's opposition from her precognitive dream (The Butterfly Effect).
Noah tells Sylar that Angela and Arthur only pretended to be his parents to manipulate him into joining their respective sides.
Angela meets with Peter and the Haitian. She gives a gun to Peter and tells him that he can kill Arthur by shooting him in the back of the head. When Peter balks, Angela explains that Arthur would do the same to him, and tried to have Nathan killed. It was that which drove her to poison him.
Later, Sylar confirms that Arthur lied about being his father, strongly indicating that Angela isn't his mother.
Angela asks Arthur how the hunting trip went. Arthur tells Angela that the trip went how he it expected it to go. He then goes on to say that the ability is in the wrong son and that perhaps they are being punished by God. Angela tells him that they are better than God and if he thinks the wrong son got the ability, then he should use the formula on Nathan. Arthur is a wary of using the formula on their son, but Angela reassures him by saying that it is no different than getting a vaccination and that Nathan's body should be able to handle it. In the end, Arthur decides to take the chance, especially since it would be a chance "to salvage one". Angela responds by saying that she will call Dr. Zimmerman in the morning.
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In a Primatech facility in Tappen, NJ, Angela interrogates Rachel Mills about what happened to the serum that was at Pinehearst. When Rachel claims not to know, Angela says she doesn't believe her and explains that the serum was not part of the program that recruited her and is a dangerous inferior formula. Angela continues she is sorry about Rachel's injury and that she does not know just how much worse things will be if she does not get back that serum. She then places both hands on Rachel's head, and while again asking where it is, Rachel begins reliving what happened twelve hours ago at Pinehearst.
In chapter 4 of Operation Bad Blood in the iStory, Angela introduces herself to the Pinehearst contracted player, who is being kept in a bare cell in a Primatech detention center. She then offers the player a deal that she will release the player and Anna if the player can find out what Anna knows. Later, after the player does so, Angela re-enters the cell with an Asian man, having overheard the conversation. Angela leads the player to her limo and has the driver take them to the player's car.
On the way, Angela promises that Anna will be set free, but that Ricardo Silva, a.k.a. Red Eye, will find her once more. Angela adds that the player shouldn't think about that right now, 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. Angela then forces the player to leave the limo and the car leaves so she can go meet someone she needs to see soon.
In chapter 4 of Operation Splinter in the iStory, Angela stands in the observation room of a Primatech interrogation facility. She listens as the Primatech contracted player and Jeremy Woo debate Anna's interrogation, then greets Jeremy when he notices her. Angela also asks for the player contractor's thoughts on the interrogation. She then notes she thinks it is repulsive, but orders Jeremy to allow it to continue. When the player goes to leave, Angela asks if the player keeps a diary. When the player says no, she says she sees and turns away.
Angela has the ability to see the future while dreaming. While her son Peter has shown the ability multiple times, she herself has only been observed using it twice. Also she appears to be able to appear in other people's dreams and wake them up as she did this to Sylar in order to save Peter even while trapped in her own mind.
"I need you to tell me the truth."
"The truth? The truth is that our generation mortgaged our souls to protect yours. Show a little respect for that!"
- - Matt, Angela (Cautionary Tales)
"I have worked for this company my entire life. What am I supposed to do now?"
"I suppose you'll have to get yourself another life."
- - Elle, Angela (The Butterfly Effect)
Notes
- Angela speaks French: «Au moins maintenant elle sera en sécurité. Mais pas grâce à vous!», which means : "At least now she's going to be safe, no thanks to you!" (Parasite)
- In Cautionary Tales, Angela showed great resistance to Matt's telepathic abilities. This could be the result of undergoing the same mental strain before.
- A deleted scene on the Season 2 DVD shows several dead characters (including Hiro, Peter, and Matt), then shows an individual chopping Claire's head off. Several other individuals approach Angela as Sylar stands behind her. The end of the clip reveals that the entire scene is Angela's dream. The scene was later repeated in The Butterfly Effect, excluding any shots of Micah and Monica.
- She is the last living Company founder.
Trivia
- In the commentary for How to Stop an Exploding Man, Tim Kring said he wanted to name Angela's character in honor of "Mrs. Iselin" from The Manchurian Candidate. However, Tim couldn't remember the character's name (Eleanor), so he named Mrs. Petrelli after the actress who portrayed "Mrs. Iselin"--Angela Lansbury.
- In the script for the unaired pilot, Angela was named "Alice Cambell", a 76-year-old woman.
- In an interview with TV Guide, Cristine Rose said on her character, "Oh, I think she's just misunderstood and misguided! I have to play her with the intent that she's good and that she's a nurturer… yet a nurturer who's not averse to violence." On her anger towards Nathan in Four Months Later..., she said "Not only did Nathan destroy all her plans that had been building up for decades, she blames him for killing her beloved son Peter. It's all blown up in her face. They've got me doing monologue after monologue like Lear, just ranting and raving." On the older generation of heroes that Angela belongs to, Rose said "I still have no idea about the origins of this group. I like to think we all met up at Woodstock in the '60s and it was there that we found out about our powers. We sprang from that generation that wanted to save the world. And, well, just look at it now — it's all falling apart. Despite their best intentions, hell happened to Angela and her friends. She had especially wanted to save Peter from that hell, and her granddaughter Claire, too. But now she's powerless. Her friends and family are dying, she's alone and very vulnerable… and then it goes downhill from there." [1]
- Angela was the first character to appear in an episode, a graphic novel, a webisode, and an iStory chapter. Her first episodic appearance was in Genesis, her first graphic novel appearance was in War Buddies, Part 5, her first webisode appearance was in Going Postal, Part 3 and her iStory appearance is in chapter 104 of Operation Splinter.
See Also
- For Angela Petrelli's history in the "outbreak future", see Angela Petrelli (outbreak future).
- For other uses of Angela, see Angela (disambig).
- For other members of the Petrelli family, see Petrelli (disambig).
- Angela's dreams
- For images of Angela, see Images of Angela Petrelli.
Please refer to Theory:Angela Petrelli for fan-created theories and other speculation.
| Company Chairwoman | ||
| Preceded by Bob Bishop |
Angela Petrelli | Succeeded by Incumbent |