Peter, Claude, Isaac and SimoneClaude says that what Peter needs to do is learn how to consciously use his powers rather than as a reflex action. Part of this process will involve Peter using his powers without having its source around.
Previously, whenever we’ve seen Peter make use of someone else’s power, he’s always been in their presence, and while that presence may not actually be necessary, it seems like something of a big leap for Claude to make regarding how Peter’s power works. Anyway, the first lesson involves grabbing a woman’s handbag while the two of them are invisible, handing it to Peter, and then running off.
Simone goes to see Isaac and asks him to help her find Peter. Isaac says that he’s been trying, but he gets nothing. So Isaac hasn’t yet mastered the art of painting invisible people.
We don’t see it, but presumably Peter manages to smooth talk his way out of it, although the police do take his name and address. He catches up with Claude and Claude tells him that his problem is that he’s attached to too many people, and in order to use his powers effectively, he needs to cut them out.
It’s an interesting point in that it appears that it’s actually Peter’s ability to make those sorts of connections with people that allows him to make use of their powers. So Claude’s advice would then be completely wrong.
Claude tells him that people suck, to which Peter replies that there’s a girl who’s not like the rest of them. Claude decides that the two of them should take a look to see what she’s up to.
Claude and Peter follow Simone to Isaac’s apartment, where they see the two of them embracing on the rooftop. After Simone and Isaac have left, Claude and Peter argue and Claude ends up pushing Peter off the roof in a deliberate attempt to make him fly.
Peter doesn’t so much fly as plummet, and hits a taxi, impaling himself on a piece of metal. He gets up, which means that instead of channeling Nathan, he channeled Claire.
When Claude turns up, Peter tells him that he was able to make use of Claire’s power by remembering her, not by cutting her out as Claude has been suggesting. Peter’s starts to go a bit haywire, exhibiting signs of using the powers of everyone he’s met. Claude puts an end to it by knocking Peter out with a punch.
Seeing that the secret behind Peter’s power has been revealed makes me wonder if he can make use of all of Sylar’s powers. We know that Sylar was able to alter himself to copy other powers, but would Peter be able to access those ones or just Sylar’s alteration ability? I don’t know if this will ever be addressed, but I thought it was an interesting point.
Isaac finishes a painting of Peter lying against the taxi, but only with him half there. There’s a problem here in that this scene takes place after Peter has been thrown off the building. So either the scenes are out of sync, or Isaac has now gained the ability to paint images from the past as well as the future.
Isaac phones HRG and tells him that he thinks the reason he hadn’t been able to paint Peter was that he had been invisible the whole time. HRG responds that an old friend might not be as dead as he thought.
Hiro and AndoHiro’s father tells him that it’s time to come home, and offers to make Hiro an Executive Vice President rather than the cubicle worker he used to be. Hiro argues, and his father tears up the painting of Hiro and the dinosaur.
Hiro’s sister had accompanied their father, and Hiro manages to convince him that she is the right person for the job. His father agrees, and allows Hiro and Ando to go on their way.
Niki/JessicaPsychiatrist Dr Witherson sits with a handcuffed Niki, trying to get Jessica to emerge. Jessica eventually appears, and predictably attacks Dr Witherson. A while later the guards come in take Niki, who by this time has reverted to her original personality, back to her cell.
Niki is later visited by Linderman’s lawyer who tells her that she’s free to go as a prisoner on Death Row has confessed to the murders and so the charges against her are being dropped. Niki protests, but she has very little say in the matter.
It seems a bit odd that Linderman would bother setting Niki free, but he must have some need for her. Perhaps it’s something along the lines of her previous job of seducing Nathan (not that Nathan appears to need much seducing).
Later, when Niki’s back home, Micah knocks on the door of her bedroom and asks her if they can play a game of Scrabble. She agrees, but when we see her from behind, the symbol is visible on her shoulder (isn’t it convenient that virtually all her clothes leave that area bare?). Jessica closes the wardrobe door, which as a mirror on it, and we see Niki trapped inside, trying to force her way out.
Sylar, HRG and ClaireSylar sends HRG flying across the cell, and while HRG is lying on the ground, takes his wallet. In it he finds HRG’s driver’s licence, which has his address on it. Sylar leaves, leaving HRG trapped in the cell.
Claire convinces her mother to let her skip school and visit an aquarium to see a manatee, to which her mother agrees. Claire’s plan is actually to visit her real mother, and as part of the plan she has managed to get hold of some brochures from the aquarium which will prove that she and Zach were actually there.
Sylar arrives at the Bennet’s house to find no one there. He lets himself in, and when Mrs Bennet returns, he claims that he’s making a delivery from the paper factory and that he found Mr Muggles wandering outside and took the liberty of bringing him inside.
Claire reaches the trailer park where Meredith Gordon, her real mother lives. The two of them talk for a while, and then Claire decides to reveal her ability by cutting herself with a kitchen knife and then healing. Meredith responds by showing Claire that she can produce fire.
Mrs Bennet offers Sylar a drink, and goes as far as inviting him for dinner. However, when he shows a little too much interest in Claire, she gets suspicious and tries to phone HRG.
Sylar makes the phone fly out of her hand, and she tries to get away from him. She doesn’t get too far, and Sylar is in the process of deciding whether he should kill her or not when HRG bursts in, shooting Sylar.
Sylar survives the attack and leaves via the back door. The Haitian, who had accompanied HRG, follows him, but Sylar gets away. The Haitian returns and erases Mrs Bennet’s memory of the incident.
Claire says goodbye to Meredith and, as she’s about to go, asks about her father, to which Meredith replies that it’s complicated. Given the interconnectedness of the show, at this point I was thinking that Claire’s father was Linderman.
Claire returns home to discover that all the damage from Sylar’s visit has been cleared up, and also that her mother doesn’t remember giving her permission to skip school. Mrs Bennet says that she doesn’t feel well and goes to lie down. After she’s gone, Claire notices a piece of broken glass on a chair.
Meredith phones Claire’s real father to tell him that their daughter is still alive. As the episode closes, we see that the person on the other end of the phone is Nathan.
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