The first episode starts four years in the future, with Future Peter, still sporting those facial scars, telling Future Claire he's going back to our present to stop Nathan from telling the world about them, as he thinks doing so will stop the horrors in their present (camps, experiments and such, like we saw when Peter lost Caitlin). Future Claire is not so thrilled with that plan, as shown when she tries to kill Peter, but Peter gets to our present in time to shoot his brother (answering the question of who the assailant in the season finale was), assume his present self's identity while imprisoning him in another Hero's body, one who just happens to be a Company prisoner (as Bennet also is, now), and teleport Matt into a desert somewhere. However, after Nathan flatlines, he mysteriously recovers. When he starts spewing churchy stuff about how God saved him, Peter no longer feels the need to kill him, but that's not enough to satisfy Mama Petrelli, who tells the future version of her son that he's screwed everything up by trying to kill his brother. Also, unbeknownst to everyone except Nathan, his mysterious healer was…LINDERMAN! Awesome!
Hiro is bored with running his dad's company and all the millions he's got (boo hoo), so he defies his father's wishes (or DOES he?) and opens his secret safe, in which he finds half of a formula that apparently could destroy the world in the wrong hands. Hiro manages to hang onto said formula for approximately .4 seconds, though, before a female version of The Flash steals it from him. He's worried about the ramifications of this, of course, so after a fruitless chat and a punch in the face from Flashette, he pops into the future and sees a horrifying vision: Ando, with powers seemingly similar to Elle's, zapping Hiro's future self and stealing the formula only a minute before Tokyo (if not the whole world) is destroyed, which would seem to bear out Mama Petrelli's words. Of course, the whole thing would have a bit more impact (sorry about that) if it hadn't been done before, but at least they're repeating a Season One plotline. Hiro pops back and tells Ando they have to find the formula, so it's good that he's paying attention.
Claire starts to leave to try to help her biological father, but Sylar is waiting for her. He's not fully cured, which is why he's there, but he's got powers enough to eventually prevail in slicing open her brain. He succeeds in getting her ability (how he does this is still not exactly clear) and seems fully healed, but Claire doesn't die -- because, according to Sylar, she never can. Claire does not take this as the great news some people might, because she is not an idiot…
…unlike some people. Maya tries to get Mohinder to cure her, and Mohinder has a breakthrough -- but it's figuring out how to give anyone Hero powers, not take them away, and the explanation for his discovery seems awfully facile. Maya is rightly disgusted with Mohinder's shocking lack of judgment in being super-psyched about this development, and leaves after giving him a grim warning. Mohinder, however, doesn't heed her, and injects himself -- and immediately develops strength and fighting abilities that seem similar to Niki's. Speaking of whom, Ali Larter is now going by "Tracy," and working with the "Governor," who sees Nathan's religious talk on TV and thinks he's the candidate they need for some unstated purpose. Tracy seems not to recognize Nathan, but when she's alone, it seems possible that she does, so we'll see if this is a different character or still Niki. In the end, we see, in more than one place, a painted image of the world rent in two, before we cut to the end of Part One.
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Welcome to Season Three! As we knew from last season's finale, we're now in Volume Three, entitled "Villains." The usual shot of the earth spinning gives way to Peter running as fast as he can by a bunch of warehouses. He reaches a particular one and quickly enters and bolts the door, but when we pan back, we see a figure behind him, holding a gun. Chyrons tell us that we're in Manhattan, four years in the future, and as we switch angles to a front shot of Peter, the figure behind him raises and cocks the gun. Peter breathes, "Come on, Claire. It's me." On the one hand, I'm pretty sure she knows that, so playing on her sympathies doesn't seem too likely to work. But it's possible he intended to convey, "I have so many powers at my disposal that I need a PDA to keep track of them all, which you know, so the idea of you thinking you can stop me with a mere gun is so ridiculous that I would be cracking up if my mother had ever taught me to laugh, which she did not." Future Peter is still sporting that facial scar, and begs a now-brunette and leather-catsuited Claire to put down the gun, and says he's going to go back to "the day they all found out." She thinks it's too late for that, but he pleadingly says there would be no camps and no experiments if the humans had never found out about the mutants, to put the idea in the terminology of X-Men from whose universe the show seems to be borrowing. He adds, "They're gonna destroy everything," but Claire stalks forward and says she made peace with that a long time ago. "You never did." Well, Claire, I hate to piss off an angry twentysomething with a gun, but it's kind of hard to blame him, no? Future Peter sadly asks Claire how she got to this place, and she seethes, "I'm different, remember? Special." He begs her one last time to reconsider, and there's a moment when it seems like she's torn, but she steels herself and tells him she's sorry. "I always loved you." She moves to fire, but he closes his eyes and stops time, leaving the puff of smoke from the shot and the bullet itself to hang there in midair. He plucks the gun from her hand and vanishes, and once he's gone, the bullet ricochets against the door, and Claire looks around warily. Honey, even if you'd managed to shoot him, he would just have borrowed your regenerative powers, right? But hey, thanks for the gun! I know just where to use it!
Future Peter appears back in the Present Day, and grabs a hat from a nearby coat rack. He walks over a chyron of the episode title, which never stops looking totally cool, and we hear his brother giving the same speech from in the season finale. Future Peter sees his present self up on the dais with Nathan and Matt, but before he can really dwell on the existential oddity of the situation, he has to shoot his brother to prevent him from telling everyone about his powers. He then goes and stashes the gun in the closet in which he first materialized, and makes his escape. His present self is in pursuit, though, followed closely by Matt and some cops. When Matt reaches a men's room a few seconds after Present Peter, however, he only finds Present Peter holding Future Peter's cap and jacket. Peter tells Matt that he lost the assailant, and didn't get a good look at him. It occurred to me, especially given how shifty he's acting, that this might be Future Peter, but I wouldn't necessarily expect Matt to work that out. I would, however, expect him to wonder how the assailant made his escape from a total dead end, as the bathroom is. Does he think they're chasing someone with the ability to flush himself down the toilet? That's kind of a dud on the powers list, no?
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