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Homeland Security send Moira Kelly to oversee Nathan’s operation. Moira nearly shuts the project down, but changes her mind after Tracy breaks loose and ices an agent. Sylar and Nuke’s roadtrip continues (only briefly delayed by another failed attempt to capture Sylar), and Hiro and Ando visit New Delhi to fulfill one of Matt’s drawings. Finally, after rescuing Noah’s latest target from capture, Claire reveals her father’s deception to Sandra. Sandra promptly kicks Noah out of the house, and it’s hard not to feel for the guy when he can’t even have a few drinks at a hotel bar before Peter, Matt and Mohinder show up to abduct him.

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Nathan phones Angela and describes how his plane of captive superheroes crashlanded. We learn that only Claire and Tracy were recaptured, and that Claire was later released and sent a cryptic message from someone named Rebel, urging her not to lose hope. We also learn that Matt painted several prophetic paintings near the crash site, that one of them — involving Daphne getting shot — came tragically true, and that the remaining fugitives have banded together to survive. Meanwhile, Sylar terrorizes a dysfunctional family, discovers a fledgling Sylarette who can emit microwave rays, and takes his new protégé on a roadtrip to find Papa Gray.

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With the help of Angela, Noah and Željko Ivanek, Nathan begins rounding up the superpowered population. He starts with everyone he knows: Tracy (caught in her dressing gown), Mohinder (while driving his cab), Hiro (while playing sidekick) and Peter (after giving his brother a hug). He also apprehends Matt, although Matt’s life was already turning bizarre after Spirit-Usutu told him he was a prophet. After fending off Nathan’s commandos, Sylar continues searching for his biological father. If he knew that the military plane carrying most of the main characters ends up crashlanding, he’d probably be thankful he wasn’t involved in that storyline.

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Sylar locks down Primatech and traps Claire, Noah, Angela and Meredith inside. Before Claire can stab him in the head, Sylar pumps Meredith with adrenaline and triggers a pyro-overload that sends Primatech up in flames. Meanwhile, Ando gets the Force lightning, which acts as an amplifier to other abilities and enables Daphne to speedyzip through time. (Don’t ask. Long story short: she gets Hiro back to the present.) Finally, Peter gets back his empathic mimicry, Mohinder gets rid of his scales, Pinehearst explodes, and Nathan takes all information on the superpowered population to the president.

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Sixteen years in the past, we learn that Mama Sulu was the host for The Catalyst and that Papa Sulu selected Claire as her successor. Claire changes her own diapers (!) while Hiro bonds with Mama Sulu, gets his memories back and persuades her to put The Catalyst in him. Having robbed Hiro of both his abilities and The Catalyst, Arthur combines The Catalyst with The Formula. He doesn’t get to see his superpowered army take shape, however, because Peter and the Haitian show up to shoot him. After establishing that Arthur definitely isn’t his father, Sylar helps the bullet along its trajectory.

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The eclipse ends. Peter and the Haitian rescue Nathan, the Haitian overpowers Samedi, and Nathan defects to Team Pinehearst. Claire dies from her gunshot wound and Sylar gets his throat slit by Noah, but both of them regenerate. Daphne gets her ability back and makes amends with Papa Millbrook. Hiro reads lots of 9th Wonders comics, decides heroism sucks, then gets a pep talk from Seth Green and teleports Claire to the day Noah adopted her. Hiro also interrupts Sylar’s rampage (and Noah’s revelation that Sylar is NOT a Petrelli) by teleporting Sylar to a beach and letting him scalp Elle.

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An eclipse temporarily removes everyone’s abilities. This strands Nathan and Peter in Haiti while they try to find the Haitian, and Matt, Hiro and Ando in Kansas while they try to track down Daphne, the last of whom turns out to need leg braces without her superspeed. Nathan and Peter find the Haitian, but Nathan gets captured by the Haitian’s brother, Baron Samedi. Meanwhile, Angela assigns Noah to protect The Catalyst. Noah brings Claire to Vortex-Stephen’s empty house and trains her to fight, but her prowess doesn’t help when Sylar and Elle show up and Claire ends up getting shot.

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Sylar gets locked in a room and fried by Elle before discovering he can acquire abilities without a traditional scalping. Nathan learns of Arthur’s crackpot scheme to bring superpowers to the masses, which is a work in progress because it turns out The Formula needs a catalyst that seems to be Claire. Meanwhile, Matt climbs into Angela’s head, only to be joined by Daphne and Arthur, the last of whom eventually lets everyone wake up. And Hiro becomes a 10 year old, teleports to a bowling alley and plays spitball with a couple of schoolgirls. No, I’m not making that last part up.

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While under the influence of Usutu’s magic goop, Hiro witnesses events that led up to the pilot episode: Arthur ordered Nathan’s death, Linderman betrayed Arthur, and Angela tried to kill Arthur to protect her family; Meredith was captured, recruited and released by The Company, inbetween helping her incarcerated idiot brother escape; and it turns out Chandra wasn’t solely responsible for Sylar’s killing spree, because apparently Noah and Elle were under Company orders to trigger and document an instance of Sylar’s serial-killing rampage. In the present, Arthur shows up in the Desert of Clairvoyance, Usutu gets beheaded, and Hiro has reason to say AAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!

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Elle visits Canine Central, hoping Noah can explain why her ability’s gone haywire. She and Claire hop on a plane to go check out Pinehearst, and find Peter in the middle of getting TK’d out of a window and falling seven stories … although it seems that Sylar TK-cushioned the fall, and that this stunt was to get in Papa Petrelli’s good graces in order to betray him later. In other news, Mohinder joins Team Pinehearst, Daphne hooks up with Matt (although it looks like she’s double-crossing him), Hiro goes clairvoyant from Usutu’s goop, and — get ready for this, folks — Maya leaves.

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