Episode:The Second Coming
| The Second Coming | |
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| Season: | Three |
| Episode number: | 301 |
| First aired: | September 22, 2008 |
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| Written by: | Tim Kring |
| Directed by: | Allan Arkush |
| Previous episode: | Powerless |
| Next episode: | The Butterfly Effect |
Summary
- The man who shot Nathan was revealed.
- Nathan is visited in the hospital by a familiar face.
- Hiro receives a message from his father and meets a "speedster".
- Claire is visited by Sylar.
- Matt is sent against his will to a distant location.
- Mohinder learns something amazing because of Maya.
- Hiro sees his death by an unlikely person.
Story Development
Synopsis
Four years in the future in Manhattan, NY, a different Peter is running down a rain-soaked street and runs into a building where he is confronted by a different Claire. She points a gun on Peter. Peter says he's going to go back to "the day they all found out." Claire answers back by saying its too late. Peter argues life wouldn't be the same if "they" never found out about the special powers they have. Claire said she made peace with it and that he never did. Peter wonders what happened to her. Claire says she's different and special. Peter swears he can fix everything. Claire considers this for a moment but then she says she's sorry and that she always loved him and she fires her gun at Peter's face. Peter freezes time steals the gun, and teleports away to the present.
In the present, Future Peter grabs a cap and a coat. He takes the gun and walks to the press conference where Nathan is about to announce to the world all about the heroes and their special powers. Future Peter stops this by shooting Nathan twice in the chest. He takes off with the present day Peter and Matt Parkman in pursuit. Before ducking into a bathroom, Future Peter stashes the gun in a closet. Peter and Parkman chase Future Peter into the bathroom. Peter enters first and Matt enters next. They "lose" him. Parkman wonders if Peter got a good look at him. Peter says no.
In the Bennet's home, Claire is watching the news of the shooting. She grabs a phone and calls Peter who is in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. She wants to help with her miracle blood but Peter tells her to stay put. A news reporter on the television says there are no leads to the cause of the shooting.
At St. Joseph's Hospital of Odessa, the doctors work frantically on Nathan as Peter watches from outside the room. He turns away. As time passes, a doctor emerges and tells Peter, "I'm sorry." Peter walks in and looks at Nathan's bloody body. He tries not to cry. He kisses Nathan's head. Suddenly, Nathan sits upright.
At Yamagato Industries, Hiro is staring into space. He looks at a clock and plays with time, sending it back and forth. Ando enters, calling Hiro "sir". Hiro says not to call him that. Ando says that Hiro's dad made him own fifty-one percent of the company, a fleet of planes and a pile of money so he feels like he needs to call Hiro "sir". Hiro says that money won't show him his destiny. After saving the world, twice, he's now a man without a quest. He's bored and he says it's not like destiny is going to come knocking at his door. Just after Hiro says that, there's a knock on the door. Hiro's family lawyer hands him a DVD message from his father that he recorded before he died, concerning his destiny.
Back at the Bennet's home, Claire is packing her bag. Whens she opens the door, Claire sees Sylar standing there. She's aghast. Sylar says that he spent time south of the border. Claire says she saw Hiro kill him. But Sylar points out that he's right in front of Claire, mostly recovered. He states that he's come for her power. She whacks him with a trophy and runs to the front door. She tries to open it but it shuts. The shutters close, the lights go out and the phone is dead. Claire grabs a kitchen knife and hears steps coming down the stairs. She opens a door, knife aloft, and waits. Sylar walks behind her. Claire goes into the kitchen and listens. Claire swings back to stab Sylar but he isn't there. She runs to shut herself in a closet. As Sylar rises up, she chains the doors. Sylar grabs the handle and smirks.
In Mohinder's apartment, Maya is standing next to the door, with a cricket bat in her hand. As the door opens, she whacks Mohinder. Maya apologizes and says she was worried it was Sylar coming back. Mohinder says he just dropped Molly off at the airport. Maya says she's ready for him to start his examination of her so he can cure her but Mohinder announces that he's at a dead end with his research and he's going back to India. Maya says she came all the way from South America and that it's not fair that he doesn't even try to cure her. As she gets mad, her power activates. She then calms herself down. Mohinder is intrigued about her power and starts asking her questions. He realizes his dad had it all wrong. It's not the blood of the evolved humans that give them powers, but the adrenal glands. He tells Maya to get mad and he gets ready to takes a sample of her adrenaline.
Back at Yamagato Industries, Hiro inserts the DVD that his dad had sent him. On the television screen, Hiro's dad tells him that in addition to his fortune, he's left Hiro with a sacred duty to guard a secret being kept in his safe and that he shouldn't open it. Hiro immediately wants to open the safe and Ando tries to counsel him against this course of action. Hiro says he can't go back to being a nobody and that his destiny lies in the safe. He finds a remote, clicks it and it opens a door in front of the safe. The safe has another DVD with dad saying, "I told you not open the safe." Hiro's dad says it also contains half of a formula. If it falls into the wrong hands, it could destroy the world. Hiro's dad says Hiro needs to guard it with his life. Hiro opens the envelope in the safe and pulls out a piece of paper with half the formula. The piece of paper is snatched out of Hiro's hand. Hiro quickly stops time, and, following a streak left behind, catches up to a woman called Daphne. She appears to be frozen in time, but when the wave vanishes from behind her, her eyes shift, revealing that she can in fact move, even when time has stopped. Daphne, confused, asks Hiro how he caught up to her, asking if he's also a speedster. He explains that he can stop time, and tells her that she stole something from him. Holding up the paper with half of the formula written on it, she stops him from snatching it from her and questions him about his ability. When he doesn't give an answer, she punches him, unfreezing time before she speeds away.
Peter is back in the closet where Future Peter stowed the gun, looking for something. Matt enters with the gun and wants to know how Peter knew where to find it. Peter looks shifty and Parkman starts trying to read his mind. Frustrated, Peter reveals himself morphing back into Future Peter and tells Matt now that he knows that he's Future Peter, he's got to go. He makes Matt disappear. He walks out of the closet and morphs back into Present Day Peter.
Memorable Quotes
"Are you gonna eat it?"
"Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting."
Character Appearances
Trivia
- The original airing is the first episode not to end with the words "To Be Continued...", instead it ends with two title cards, one saying: "Heroes Continues..." and the other saying "NOW!" It was replaced with "To Be Continued..." when it appeared on iTunes.
See Also
- For images from The Second Coming, see images from The Second Coming.
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