Episode:An Invisible Thread
| An Invisible Thread | |
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| Season: | Three |
| Episode number: | 325 |
| First aired: | April 27, 2009 |
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| Written by: | Tim Kring |
| Directed by: | Greg Beeman |
| Previous episode: | I Am Sylar |
| There are nearly seven billion people on this planet. Each one unique. Different. What are the chances of that? And why? Is it simply biology, physiology that determines this diversity? A collections of thoughts, memories, experiences that carve out our own special place? Or is it something more than this? Perhaps there's a master plan that drives the randomness of creation. Something unknowable that dwells in the soul, and presents each one of us with a unique set of challenges that will help us discover who we really are. |
Summary
- Sylar frames Danko.
- Sylar kills Nathan but is brainwashed as a result.
- Hiro and Ando rescue Mohinder and the other captives from Building 26.
- Sylar poses as Nathan and, with an unwitting Claire, tries to get close to the President.
- Peter and Nathan team up to destroy Sylar.
- Angela and Noah beg Matt to do the unthinkable.
- Six weeks later, Tracy makes a splashy return.
Story Development
Synopsis
Beginning from where the previous episode ended, Sylar is shown to be unaffected after Emile Danko attempted to incapacitate him by stabbing Sylar in the back of the head. Sylar explains that by using his shape shifting abilities, he has moved the "off switch". Sylar then stashes Nathan Petrelli's unconscious body in the bathroom. He morphs into Danko, shooting at and supposedly killing some agents. The real Danko is framed. Sylar morphs into Agent Taub and helps apprehend the furious Danko.
Meanwhile, it is revealed that when Noah Bennet, driving his car, had been stopped at the roadblock, Claire Bennet and Angela Petrelli were not actually in the vehicle. A little while previously, Noah had realized the construction crew roadblock was a set-up, and had Claire and Angela leave the car, resulting in only Noah's capture. From there, Claire and Angela head to the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where Angela informs Claire to find her father, Nathan Petrelli. Angela says she had dreams of the future, and leaves to go find Matt Parkman; she says that Nathan will be in trouble and that Matt will be able to save him.
Sylar, meanwhile, has dressed himself in Nathan's clothes. He tries to wake Nathan up in order to "suck out" his memories, but has to resign to drawing what he needs from Nathan's cufflinks. Nathan's aide enters the room, with Sylar facing the other way, and announces that Claire is there to see him. Sylar morphs into Nathan and turns around. He tells her to send Claire in.
Claire walks into his office, but is weary about whether or not she's meeting her father or Sylar. Sylar touches her necklace to get the memories of her and Nathan in Mexico in order to convince her he's Nathan. She wishes to accompany him to warn the President of Sylar, and Sylar agrees she should come. Claire doesn't notice Nathan's body in the bathroom, even when Sylar leaves the door open. He slips on Nathan's jacket and the two head off to the Stanton hotel. Liam Samuels greets Sylar, as him and Nathan were in the airforce together. Sylar signs in with his left hand, which Claire does notice. Sylar claims to be ambidexterous, but Claire is suspicious. They get in the elevator and head up to Nathan's suite.
Danko, meanwhile, is taken to the same cell where Noah Bennet is being kept. Danko admits he made a mistake in teaming up with Sylar. The two make a pact, but before they can shake on it time freezes. Following his nosebleed, Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi break into Building 26. They open the door to Noah and Danko's cell, but it's not what they're looking for. As they search around the office, Ando pulls the pictures of him and Hiro from the Targets board. He then notices Hiro's ear bleeding, but Hiro shrugs it off. They find the prisoners hooked up to the drugs and replace them with the members of the Building 26 unit. When Hiro reverts time, he begins to feel dizzy again. Mohinder Suresh, who was amongst the first prisoners freed, informs Hiro that his body is rejecting his power, and stopping time again could result in his death.
Elsewhere in the building, Danko and Noah notice the opened door. Danko proposes they take down Sylar with a large tranquilizer dart to subdue him. However, as Noah looks into some other files, Danko turns to use it on Noah. Hiro stops time once more to take the tranquilizer from him and injects Danko with it. Hiro reverts time and then collapses. Mohinder and Ando care for Hiro as Noah calls Claire to check up on her.
Back at Nathan's suite, Claire hears her phone ringing. She checks to see who it is. Noah asks her if she's alright, and Claire tells him she's with Nathan. When Noah asks her how she's sure it's Nathan, the Claire on the phone shushes the real Claire and turns back into Sylar. Noah is shocked to learn who he is really speaking to. Sylar hangs up and proceeds to make Claire pour them some wine. He tells her about his father, and then reminds her that everybody eventually dies - except for them. He proposes that Claire might one day come to love him, and tells her that she could be his first First Lady.
Having followed Nathan, Peter Petrelli finds the now conscious Nathan, and the two head to find Sylar and Claire. They reach the room where Sylar and Claire are just as she is thrown out of the room. Nathan and Peter fly in and have a brief duel with Sylar, resulting in Sylar and Nathan flying off. Claire rushes in to rescue Peter, and they head downstairs to meet Noah. Peter confirms he has taken Sylar's power, and they can now stop Sylar. Meanwhile, back in the hotel room, Nathan is thrown by Sylar onto a piano. Sylar then slits Nathan's throat, which effectively kills him. He says that Claire will be very mad at him. He then shape-shifts into Nathan, leaving the room. Disguised as Nathan, then as Chief Aid, Sylar is able to meet up with the President. He enters the President's limo and shakes the president's extended hand. Sylar suddenly keeps shafe-shifting through different forms and finally himself. He is then injected with the tranquilizer by Peter, who absorbed Sylar's shape-shifting ability to take on the President's appearance.
Angela manages to find Matt stepping off from a bus, who was intending to head to Building 26 to stop the agency. Angela convinces him to come with her, and they head to the room where Nathan was. Angela is thus horrified to find Nathan's body in the room. Noah then brings up the body of the unconscious Sylar, who explains that they intend to use Matt to alter Sylar's mind to believe he is Nathan, with Sylar's acquired ability of reading the history of objects enabling him to fully embody Nathan's personality and gain his memories. Matt initially doesn't want to, but Noah convinces him that Nathan would be the only person that could convince the President to shut down Building 26 or any such future agency. Matt finally agrees and does so, causing Sylar to forget everything about himself and become Nathan, and changes his appearance to look like Nathan. Noah, Angela, and Matt agree to keeps Nathan's death a secret. Volume Four ends with Claire, Noah, Angela, Peter, 'Nathan,' Mohinder, Matt, Ando, and a recovered Hiro all gathered around the burning corpse of Sylar, though actually the body of the morphed James Martin. The group then proceeds their separate ways, and Nathan confirms the President has indeed shut down Building 26, and the funds transferred so that Angela and Noah can start up their own company.
| We are all connected. Joined together by an invisible thread, infinite in its potential and fragile in its design. Yet while connected, we are also merely individuals. Empty vessels to be filled with infinite possibilities. An assortment of thoughts, beliefs. A collection of disjointed memories and experiences. Can I be me without this? Can you be you? And if this invisible thread that holds us together were to sever, to cease, what then? What would become of billions of lone, disconnected souls? Therein lies the great quest of our lives. To find. To connect. To hold on. For when our hearts are pure, and our thoughts in line, we are all truly one. Capable of repairing our fragile world, and creating a universe of infinite possibilities. |
Volume 5 begins six weeks later. Kent Harper, a former Building 26 agent, arrives home and notices that water is overflowing from his sink. The water begins flowing, and it stops at his living room. Suddenly, the water rises and it morphs into Tracy Strauss. Tracy says he is number four, and then drowns him. Sylar, who now has memories of Nathan and none of himself, sits in his chair at his office and reads a newspaper article about the drowning "incidents". Angela walks in, and exclaims she hasn't heard from him in weeks and was starting to worry. "Nathan" says he hasn't felt like himself lately. Angela says that he needs to be happy and that this is "his" time. "Nathan" doesn't seem to pay attention. She asks if he heard a word she said, but "Nathan" just stares at a clock across the room. He walks over to it, removes the lid, and turns the minute hand back slightly, stating that the clock is running a minute and a half fast. Sylar as Nathan is using intuitive aptitude. "Nathan" then takes his jacket, appearing to be in a much better mood now that the clock isn't bothering him, and leaves the room asking Angela her choice of food for lunch. Angela remains still in the room, visibly shocked.
Memorable Quotes
"And then you got into bed with Sylar. That's all over now. Clearly."
"That's very zen of you."
"Everyone dies. Mama Petrelli, Papa Bennet, Mr. Muggles...what's your brother's name again? Larry?"
"Lyle."
"Right...he's gonna die too."
"Payback is very bitchy!"
- - Hiro
"You cannot freeze time again, do you understand?"
"I'll keep trying to kill you for the rest of my life."
"Well, everybody needs a hobby."
"I love you, Pete. You know that?"
"Thanks. I love you too."
- - Nathan, Peter, before challenging Sylar
"Oh, Claire is gonna be so mad at me."
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!"
- - Angela, upon seeing Nathan's dead body
"Sylar is dead."
- - Matt Parkman (When erasing Sylar's memories)
"You're number four."
"I haven't felt like myself lately."
Character Appearances
Trivia
- Nathan's last words to Peter are "I love you, Pete, you know that." To which Peter replies, "I love you too, Nathan." In How to Stop and Exploding Man, Peter says "I love you Nathan." Nathan replies "I love you too," before they seemingly die.
See Also
- For images from An Invisible Thread, see images from An Invisible Thread.
| previous: I Am Sylar | An Invisible Thread |
| See Also: Volume One Episodes • Volume Two Episodes • Volume Three Episodes • Volume Four Episodes • Volume Five Episodes • Heroes Reborn Episodes • All Episodes |
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