User:Cockney Heroes/Characters/Elle Bishop

Elle Bishop
Portrayed by	Kristen Bell
First appearance	Fight or Flight
In-story stats
Known ability	Electrical Manipulation
Alias	Cindy
Nicknames	The Bitch, Fulgorra
Gender
Age	24
Date of birth	1983
Place of birth	New York
Date of death	2007
Occupations	Agent of the Pinehearst Company, former trainer and agent of the Company
Significant other	formerly Gabriel Gray
Parents	Bob Bishop (deceased), unnamed mother (deceased)

Elle Bishop was an evolved human with the ability to generate electricity, and was the daughter of Bob Bishop. Elle was recruited as a trainer and agent after a long time of brutal experimentation that left Elle mentally unstable and homicidal. Upon her father's death, Elle was fired by new director Angela Petrelli. After beginning a romance with newly-reformed Sylar, she thought things were beginning to look up. Sylar soon discovered she was part of a web of lies created against him and killed her after giving up on himself and deciding neither of them would ever change.

Character History

Season Two

Elle is given the task to find Peter in Ireland. She finds him, but her presence is alerted to Ricky before she can arrive. Elle meets Ricky at the Wandering Rocks and asks if he's seen Peter. He says he hasn't, but Elle is not convinced. She walks over to the door, locks it and welds it shut. She then proceeds to send a huge bolt of electricity at Ricky. Later, in her car, Elle explains to her father that she found that Peter was in Ireland, but she hasn't found him. After admitting to killing Ricky, she's ordered to come home.

Four months before, Peter has just emerged from his invisibility after dropping Nathan off at a hospital when Elle fires a large bolt of lightning at him, knocking him unconscious. When asked by Bob whether she had to use a 'full blast' on him, she smiles and replies that "he can take it". Over the next two months, Elle continues to administer Peter "Haitian pills" so he cannot use his ability, saying that they are trying to find a cure. She shows Peter strange affection by continually shocking him before she leaves. One day, she opens up to Peter by telling her life story to Peter: she burned down her grandmother's house when she was six, caused a multi-county blackout in Ohio when she was 8, spent her ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in her arm, and lived in the building for sixteen years after being diagnosed a sociopath with paranoid delusions. Peter later escapes, and Elle is sent with the Haitian to capture Peter and Adam.

After her assignment in Ireland, Elle is partnered with Mohinder to eliminate Noah and capture Claire. After Mohinder picks up Noah, he asks Mohinder who his partner is, and Elle appears from behind a van, saying 'Hey you' and begins manifesting her power while walking towards them. However, she gets tackled into a car by West, knocking her unconscious. Elle is taken to Noah's house where her hands and bare feet are chained in a bath of water. Noah says that he needs to speak with her father, and after shocking herself, Noah then goes on to tell Elle that he was there when she first arrived at the company, that she was just a normal girl; but then they started testing on her, that the human brain cannot handle the amounts of electricity they gave her. Elle says that her father would never allow such a thing, but Noah says that he was leading the charge. After Noah arranges a trade of Elle for Claire, West, Noah and Elle meet Bob, Mohinder and Claire. When they do Elle and Claire swap parties; Claire with her hands free, Elle however with her hands still bound. Nevertheless, when West starts to fly Claire away, Elle uses her power to break her binds and unloads a ball of lightning at West, hitting him dead center. Elle then turns around and begins to manifest her power again for some revenge on Noah, but is too slow and Noah shoots her in the shoulder first; she screams and then collapses.

While in her father's office, she logs into the Cisco surveillance system and and is shocked to find Sylar in Mohinder's lab with Mohinder, Molly and Maya. She sees the opportunity to impress her father and heads to stop Sylar. Elle charges into Mohinder's lab, yells Sylar's name and manifests her power, but she finds herself too slow and Sylar shoots at her first. She dodges the shot, and as Sylar runs away and she blasts at him twice, hitting him in the back. She gives chase, but returns to the lab after failing to catch Sylar. Mohinder notes that without her, Sylar would have killed them all and that they owe her their lives.

The Butterfly Effect

After Sylar takes Claire's power, Bob shows Elle a video of a failed attempt by two Company agents to take him down, during which he berates her for letting him get away. Elle later comes into her father's office to ask for her position back, only to find him with the top of his head cut off and his brain removed. She runs down to Level 5 to get help from Noah Bennet. Elle tosses Noah a gun; Noah asks "I thought Daddy didn't want me to leave my cell?" "My dad's dead", Elle explains. "Sylar killed him." Upon leaving Noah's cell, Sylar telekinetically knocks Elle face-down on the floor. Bennet fires several times at Sylar, but Sylar, having acquired Claire's rapid cell regeneration, heals almost instantly. "I got that from your Claire," Sylar says to Bennet before slamming him against the ceiling, knocking him out. Sylar takes the gun and turns it to gold to taunt Elle. Sylar then begins to cut open her skull, but Elle (perhaps involuntarily) discharges a powerful blast of electricity, rendering Sylar unconscious. Unfortunately, the power surge also disables the Level Five power grid, allowing the prisoners to escape. Later, Angela Petrelli appears, Bob's death having left her in control of The Company. Angela's first official act is to fire Elle.

Graphic Novel:Doyle

Elle has an electrical outburst when Sylar starts to cut her head open, knocking out the level's power grid and releasing the prisoners.

Graphic Novel:Sum Quod Sum, Part 1

After Sylar killed Elle's dad, and Angela fired her from the Company, Elle travels to London to experience the freedom she did not get when with the Company. Elle initially believes she is being watched but ignores the problem, as she has lost control of her ability, electrocuting herself in her own hotel room. The attention that comes with the lack of control has troubled her, and, as she sits on a train, Daphne attempts to convince her to join the Pinehearst Company. Elle doesn't want to get involved with another company, and contemplates what she should do next. Realizing approaching Noah Bennet is out of the question, she seeks help from Claude Rains. She tracks him to a capsule on top of the London Eye, where, before she can approach him, he aggressively asks why she's following him. Elle tries to explain her problem with her ability, but Claude believes she still has ties with the Company and runs off before she can tell him she is no longer with them. The rain outside allows Elle to give chase to Claude, but she loses control of her ability, and the two are knocked out.

Eris Quod Sum

When Claire comes home with her mom, there's something wrong with the lights. When they get in the house they see Lyle laying on the floor claiming "the bitch is back". That's when they see Elle, with small arcs of electricity emitting from her body. Elle tries to attack Claire, but it's uneffective as Claire can't feel anything anymore. She grabs Elle by the hair and attempts to throw her out, but Elle manages to get free and throw Claire onto the ground and shoot her with a continous beam of lightning. Lyle throws a bucket of water over Elle so that she herself conducts the electricity and is shocked. When Claire asks Elle what she is doing at the Bennet's house, Elle apologizes and claims that she needs help and she doesn't know where else to go. When Elle explains that she can't control her ability anymore, Claire reveals that she can't feel pain. Elle tells Claire that a girl found her in London and gave her a business card. Claire gets out the same card she got from Stephen Canfield and tells Elle she thinks there's something wrong with them both, and maybe Pinehearst can fix it. They team up and head out to the Pinehearst building in a plane. Elle overloads in the plane and causes it to go down, but Claire grabs Elle's hand and absorbs all the electricity into herself. When they arrive at Pinehearst they see Peter falling from a window. When he lands, Peter claims "He took my abilities". Claire asks Elle to help, but she apologizes to Claire and enters the Pinehearst building.

Graphic Novel:Sum Quod Sum, Part 2

After Elle stunned Claude and knocked herself unconscious by electrifying the air in the rain, Lee and Abigail arrive and help Claude to his feet. Claude asks them to take Elle as well. Later, Claude, Lee, and Abigail discuss Elle's presence as she begins to wake up. Claude tells Lee and Abigail to leave them alone. After Lee and Abigail exit the room, Elle tells Claude she needs him to help her control her ability. Claude tells Elle he'll teach her as long she does what she's told.

Claude takes Elle to a theatre where Elle tells him about Bob's death and that she knows what her father did to her. Claude tells her it's okay to be angry at him but it's also okay to forgive him. Elle asks, "What if I can't?" Claude replies, "Either way, you just need to let it out."

Later, Elle is resting in the jacuzzi when she sees Abigail stepping into the water. Elle tries to warn her, but to no avail: Abigail receives a electric shock that knocks her to the floor. Elle apologizes, but Abigail kicks her, calling Elle a "bitch". Elle attacks Abigail, who deflects Elle's electrical blast with her ability; the electric bolt hits Lee when he enters the room. Abigail punches Elle, who says it was an accident. and makes her leave.

Just as Elle is packing, Claude tells her he'll talk to Abigail and Lee but Elle says, "And tell them what? That even in this house I'm still a freak?" Claude tells her that's not who she is, but Elle says it is and it's better for everyone if she just accepts it.

She travels back to the U.S. and goes to the Bennet home, where she shocks Lyle into unconsciousness.

Villains

In 2006, Elle and Noah are keeping surveillance on Gabriel Gray as he struggles to control the act he considers 'sinful' and vividly remembers his first victim. He is attempting suicide by hanging himself in his watch store when Elle enters and finds him hanging and moments from death. She breaks the rope with a blast of electricity and manages to convince a confused and groggy Gabriel that the rope broke by itself and it is a sign that he is forgiven by God. With Noah monitoring her progress via hidden cameras from the back of a Primatech van across the street, Elle bonds with Gabriel over peach pie, and eventually finds herself beginning to fall for him. She also fakes amazement and ignorance when Gabriel demonstrates his secondary ability. When she objects to Noah about how they are manipulating Gabriel, he says she can quit but she'll be on her own.

Elle steals a list of individuals with abilities that Gabriel was attempting to throw out and under pressure from Noah manages to contact and bring an evolved human, Trevor Zeitlan, to Gabriel's apartment. She expresses admiration for Trevor, taunting Gabriel into using his telekinesis on Trevor. However, when Gabriel prepares to kill Trevor, she shocks Gabriel with lightning. Realizing that she's lied to him, Gabriel first telekinetically slams her into a wall and then tells her to get out. She flees to the van and is forced to listen over the surveillance cameras as Gabriel opens up Trevor's skull. Later, she objects to their mission, noting that they could have saved Gabriel rather than manipulating him into killing again. Noah insists that saving Gabriel wasn't their assignment and they have to follow orders.

It's Coming

Elle is confined in a locked room and chained to the floor. Arthur Petrelli ushers Sylar into the room and leaves them together. Seeking revenge for the death of her father, Elle fires lighting bolts at Sylar, killing him repeatedly. Each time his regeneration power heals his wounds, he tells her to take her vengeance and she keeps attacking him until she collapses, sobbing. She begs Sylar to kill her but Sylar unchains her and takes her hand. Sylar helps her to come to terms with the death of her father. As he does so, he discovers that he has duplicated her ability without having to study her brain. The two sit together and she first generates an electrical arc to match his, then shows him how to unleash bursts of lightning. During that time she is in relatively intimate contact with him.

Later, she and Sylar are released and she goes to Arthur's office to watch him sketch the eclipse.

The Eclipse, Part 1

Elle continues to teach Sylar how to use her ability. She compliments him, but he still lacks the confidence. Their conversation is interrupted by Arthur Petrelli, who instructs Sylar to go and get him Claire Bennet. Elle asks if she can go too, saying that being a company girl is all she knows. Later, at a car rental hire, Elle and Sylar wait for the car rental salesman to arrive; Elle reveals that he is probably calling the police, as she has told him that Sylar is a serial killer. The car rental salesman comes out with a gun, and Elle implores Sylar to make a choice - to be a hero, or to be a monster.

Elle and Sylar go to the house of Stephen Canfield, and come across Noah Bennet and Claire. Elle attempts to use her power, but she can't. Noah pulls a gun on her, but is stopped in his tracks by Sylar, who also attempts to use one of his abilities. Noah and Sylar fight, and Noah drops his gun, which rolls towards Elle. She picks it up, cocks, and fires -- Claire jumps in front of the shot and falls to the floor. In revenge, Noah knocks Elle unconscious.

Later, the two regain consciousness. Elle wonders what is happening the two of them, and asks Sylar whether he can stand what is happening. Elle expresses her anger that they cannot take what they want any more; Sylar's reply is to kiss her passionately. As they kiss, Noah aims a sniper rifle at the couple.

The Eclipse, Part 2

In the Canfields' home, Elle and Sylar continue to kiss passionately until Elle notices the laser sight of Noah's sniper rifle fixed on Sylar's head. They narrowly evade the bullet and attempt to escape. In the ensuing gunfight with Noah, Elle is shot in the leg. Elle and Sylar go into a drug store, but Noah is not far behind. In order to buy some time, Sylar sends Elle away, while he tries to take down Noah. Sylar proceeds to engage Noah in a fist fight but Noah eventually gets the upper hand, slitting Sylar's throat as Elle watches. After the eclipse ends, Sylar revives and travels to the Bennets' home with Elle and holds the Bennet family hostage. As Sylar is about to kill Noah, Hiro teleports in and takes Sylar and Elle to a beach. At the beach, Sylar tells Elle that she was wrong about him, that people never truly change. Sylar then begins to telekinetically cut her skull.

Our Father

Elle is cremated by a remorseful Sylar.

Dual

As Sylar contemplates his past and informs Claire of her options, he remarks that Elle helped create him into a monster, and that she is dead, soon to be joined by Noah.

Shades of Gray

Elle is mentioned by Danko along with Hiro and Matt as examples of ability heredity when he questions Angela.

Heroes Evolutions

Cranial imaging

primatechpaper.com has an Assignment Tracker profile for Elle (file: C023; password: EBhnu07bh). Her personal history reads:

Elle Bishop is a former Company Agent and daughter of deceased Company Chairperson, Bob Bishop. Elle has been raised within the walls of the Company, as her father was one of its 12 founding members. She was brought in to the company at age nine after a string of unfortunate events all revolving around her inability to effectively control her ability. She was tested thoroughly by a team of Company professionals and the determination was made to hold her at the Company so that she might gain sufficient command of her ability.

At a time of sufficient maturation, and after a course of preparatory mini-missions (word choice), Elle was given agent status and tasked with her first mission of surveilling[sic] Agent Noah Bennet's daughter Claire. This and a string of subsequent missions she participated in were, under the stringent regulation of her father, all considered failures. These failures ultimately resulted in a suspension from Company activity.

[Paragraph Omitted: confidential]

Recently, Bishop has been identified as being directly responsible for the electrical failure of Level 5's security measures system-wide, which resulted in the escape of a number of high-profile captives. Since this incident Elle has exhibited a lack of control of her ability, proving her to be a danger to civilians.

The case file also includes a psychological profile:

Heavy dependency issues are evident in Ms. Bishop, likely stemming from a fractured relationship with her father. This may make her susceptible to infiltration by an agent posing as a confidant or father figure. Her socio-behavioral skills are underdeveloped, to say the least, as she was been raised in a captive and isolated environment from age nine. Concepts of personal space and a tendency towards expulsive behavior are hallmarks of this, both of which she exhibits profoundly. Elle also displays mild/moderate sociopathic tendencies; a trait that manifests itself in the joy she receives from delivering mild electric shocks to other captives within the Company. Note that animosity towards our operation may be a factor when dealing with Bishop as she was fired by new Chairwoman, Angella Petrelli[sic], shortly after Bob Bishop's passing.

Operation Bad Blood

In chapter 1 of Operation Bad Blood in the iStory, Professor Priscilla Van Cleef informs the Pinehearst contracted player that Pinehearst recently made contact with Elle. A small group of heavily armed individuals was planning to murder her with a van full of explosives, and one of their RARU tactical teams was able to divert her mysterious attackers before she was even aware of them. Later, the player uses the story of the attempt on Elle's life as a way to infiltrate the Kill Squad.

Evolved Human Abilities

Elle had the ability to generate electricity. She seemed to have excellent control over her ability, allowing her to generate electric arcs of varying intensity and target them precisely.

She had demonstrated skill ranging from welding a lock shut to sending a powerful burst that struck a running Peter Petrelli in the back and knocked him over, lighting his shirt on fire. One of her favorite things to do was send small, stinging bursts of electricity into another person.

When her life was threatened by Sylar, Elle let out an incredibly powerful blast of electricity that knocks out Sylar and the grid supporting Level 5. After this event, Elle's power went out of her control, tending to overload whenever she became stressed or angry, causing her to shock herself and things she came into contact with. On the way to Pinehearst with Claire, Elle caused the plane's navigational systems to malfunction, nearly causing the plane to crash. Upon meeting Sylar once more, despite her lack of control, Elle was able to unleash her pent-up rage and power upon Sylar, generating incredibly powerful lightning bolts. By forgiving herself, Elle regained control of her powers.

According to her assignment tracker profile at primatechpaper.com, Elle's control index was 46%. Her data analysis shows her biological level at 40, cerebral at 15, elemental at 80, and temporal/spatial at 30.

Memorable Quotes

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it... and then you'll start to like it."

- Elle (to Peter) (Four Months Ago...)

"I accidentally set my grandmother's house on fire when I was six. Caused a blackout in four counties in Ohio when I was eight. I spent my ninth birthday in a glass room with an IV of lithium in my arm. I've lived in this building for sixteen years, ever since the shrinks diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me, 'cause I threatened to kill them. I'm twenty-four years old and I've never gone on a date. Never been on a roller-coaster. Never been swimming. And now you know everything there is to know about me. I don't have the luxury of being more interesting than that."

- Elle (to Peter) (Four Months Ago...)

"What's your superpower...punching bag?"

- Elle (to Mohinder) (Cautionary Tales)

"I was there when your father first brought you in. You were a normal girl - unicorns and rainbows - and then they started the testing. The human brain isn't built to take that much electricity; you poor girl."

- Noah (to Elle) (Cautionary Tales)

"It itches like a mother f—!"

- Elle (to Bob) (Truth & Consequences)

"I've been nothing but a bitch and you've been nothing but nice, which just really makes me hate you more"

- Elle to Claire (Eris Quod Sum)

"Hi! Do you like pie? Ugh, that rhymed, didn't it?"

- Elle (to Gabriel) (Villains)

Notes

• Elle says she has been diagnosed as a sociopath, and Peter aptly describes her as a sadist. (Four Months Ago...)
• Noah states that the Company experimented extensively on Elle, which may have played a role in causing her unstable personality. Elle claims she doesn't remember this, but it is strongly hinted that her memories were removed by the Haitian. (Cautionary Tales)
• Elle was originally meant to be Meredith Gordon's daughter, and thus Claire's sister. However, the writers dropped the idea due to plot holes and "lack of storyline." [1]
• In The Butterfly Effect, Sylar tells Elle that she is especially to blame for what he has become. This is likely a reference to the fact that she helped manipulate him into killing more people after he'd acquired his first power and was trying to stop (Villains).
• According to her AT profile, Elle is 5'5" and weights 115 pounds.
• According to a blog post by Greg Beeman, the scene from Our Father in which Sylar burns Elle's body was originally written a little differently. "There was a final shot Jeannot designed for this scene that ended up being cut out. It was a huge crane shot that swooped away as Sylar stood over Elle's burning body. I remember the script read: 'Sylar stands on her burning body. A tinge of remorse. Giving Elle far more respect than any of his previous victims.' Anyway, the shot was very dramatic and I found it very haunting, almost beautiful. But the network standards and practices people and even Tim Kring thought it was too disturbing. So we cut it--and ended up playing the scene on a simple close up Sylar. This works too. I don't know, maybe America's not ready for full-on immolation."
• When Elle appears at the Bennet household in Eris Quod Sum, Lyle says, "Bitch is back". This is a reference to the series finale of Veronica Mars, in which Kristen Bell played the lead role.

See Also

• For other uses of Elle, see Elle (disambig).
• For other uses of Bishop, see Bishop (disambig).
• For articles related to Elle, see Related Articles:Elle.
• For images of Elle, see Images of Elle Bishop.