Episode:One of Us, One of Them
| One of Us, One of Them | |
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| Season: | Three |
| Episode number: | 303 |
| First aired: | September 29, 2008 |
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| Written by: | Joe Pokaski |
| Directed by: | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan |
| Previous episode: | The Butterfly Effect |
| 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.
Story Development
Synopsis
Angela Petrelli speaks affectionately with Sylar, who has just learned that she is his birth mother. She presents him with a girl named Bridget, with the ability to see an object's entire past, and allows Sylar to kill her to take her ability.
Noah shows up at the Company facility for the sole purpose of recapturing the Level 5 escapees. Angela can't let him be partners with the Haitian because he's on an assignment for her, so she introduces HRG to his new powered partner: Sylar. HRG 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 HRG gives in to working with him.
The escapees from Level 5 decide to rob a bank. Knox, who feeds off people's fear, is the leader, while Flint (who generates fire) and the German (who manipulates metal) are the muscle. That leaves Jesse, the villain Peter is stuck inside.
After obtaining the money, the police show up and surround the bank. Knox then admits he called for the police, and that it was part of his plan to get the Company to arrive so he can exact revenge on the man with the horn-rimmed glasses. However, the German wants to take his share of the money and leave, so Knox kills him with a punch through his stomach and into a wall.
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.
Inside 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.
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 threater, 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.
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, Claire's two mothers 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.
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."
"Nemesis."
"Stop calling me that! My name is 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."
"Can I get popcorn?"
"No."
Character Appearances
See Also
- For images from One of Us, One of Them, see images from One of Us, One of Them.
| previous: The Butterfly Effect | One of Us, One of Them |
| 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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