Season 1: Episode 20 - "Five Years Gone"

This episode of Heroes finds us five years into the future. Hiro and Ando are visiting Isaak Mendez' apartment and find a timeline of events, newspaper clippings and photos. Hiro comes face to face with the "Future Hiro", who reveals that New
York saw the explosion because the heroes couldn't kill Sylar and stop him from exploding. Hiro tells future Hiro that the cheerleader was saved, which puts a smile on Future Hiro's face. Future Hiro tells Ando and Hiro he made the timeline to determine the precise point in time to travel back to kill Sylar and prevent the explosion. He tells Hiro he will have to get him back to this point in time using his time travel power. Just then, armed men burst into the apartment. Future Hiro and Ando manage to escape, but present/past Hiro is captured by Matt Parkman, who is now the head of Homeland Security.

Future Hiro and Ando determine they must visit Las Vegas to meet with Peter Petrelli's girlfriend in an effort to get him to help them get back to the present and save the world. The 2 meet with Jessica, who is now a stripper in a club, and Peter's girlfriend. Jessica offers a private dance, but Future Hiro says they need Peter's help. Future Hiro asks Jessica where Bennet is, and she says still roping cattle. Future Hiro mentions Sylar, who apparently took the lives of DL and Micah, causing Jessica to became angry. Jessica leaves and Peter appears near her, upset about their visit. The two then embrace.

Matt Parkman is now working for homeland security and has the Haitian working with him. Parkman attempts to interrogate Hiro to determine what he knows. Parkman also contacts the current president, Nathan Petrelli. Nathan has just finished meeting with Mohinder Suresh to discuss the extinction of the heroes, because of the problems they are causing for others, since the explosion. Mohinder discusses the notion that Nathan is just like them. HRG is now working to help keep people with special powers safe from being taken captive. He is meeting with a family and a
young boy who has special abilities. He gives him a blood test and then a special vile of solution to use as a "dummy sample" in case Homeland security or police ever try to determine if he's "one of the special people". Hiro and Ando meet with HRG, and urge him to help them get past Homeland security. Future Hiro mentions Candice and DL, and needing their help to get in. Ando tells HRG that Hiro is the reason Claire is still alive now, and this convinces HRG to help them.

Later HRG shows up at a diner in Midland, TX, where Claire is now a waitress, wearing the nametag "Sandy". Claire has a serious boyfriend and they discuss how they are getting married soon. Claire's boyfriend mentions to her the "creepy guy with glasses" is back. Claire goes over to freshen his coffee, and HRG tells her she needs to get out of this place immediately, because its not safe anymore. Claire says she just wants a normal life and is getting married, despite HRG asking her to take a bag he has for her and get out of there. Ando and Future Hiro are meeting back at an apartment, and Ando is asking about what happens to him in the future. Before Future Hiro can tell him, Matt Parkman bursts in with agents, and hits Future Hiro in the chest with a Tazer. Out of nowhere, Peter Petrelli appears and uses several powers, including the power to freeze time. Peter takes hold of Ando and Future Hiro and teleports them out of the room away from Parkman and his men.

Later, Peter is with Ando and Future Hiro, Peter tells Ando that he is supposed to be dead as a result of the bomb. Ando is shocked by this as Peter tells him he thinks that is why Future Hiro is trying to go back to save the world so badly. Niki/Jessica enters the room and sees them all there, then turns and leaves, causing Peter to go after her.

Parkman meets with HRG to discuss Hiro Nakamura escaping. Parkman mentions about keeping Claire safe as well as his own son from harm. Parkman asks HRG if he's heard from Janice recently. HRG gives him a folded up crayon drawing done by
"Matthew" who appears to be Parkman's son. Parkman thanks HRG for all he's done, but then turns on him and pushes HRG down with a gun to his throat. Parkman says he's ending their arrangement, as he attempts to read HRG's mind and find Claire.
Just then a gunshot sounds. Parkman later finds Claire at the Midland, Texas diner she is working at, shortly after Claire has told her boyfriend she wants to elope.

Suresh and Nathan are at Isaak's apartment looking at the timeline. Nathan asks what it's all about, and Suresh says Hiro has found a way to go back into a point in time and stop the explosion and all the problems it brings. Nathan tells Suresh he wants him to being using the "reversal" syringe to start extinction/putting down of heroes. Nathan asks if he can trust Suresh and Suresh says of course, just as Matt Parkman enters. Parkman informs them he has found a 2nd Hiro Nakamura, and the
younger one, who has memory gaps. Parkman also tells Nathan he has found Claire. Nathan later meets with Claire at the Petrelli Mansion. Claire is upset with her father, as he begins talking in an evil almost eery way to her. He tells her a girl named Candice allowed him to become president, and he is now just eliminating the competition. As Claire turns to leave, she is all of a sudden frozen in her tracks. Sylar appears, as he had been taking the appearance of Nathan. He begins to cut into Claire's brain, saying "I've been waiting a long time for this".

Future Hiro, Ando and Peter all go to the Homeland Security building where Hiro is being held captive. Future Hiro and Peter are able to use their powers and fighting abilites to take out guards. They realize their powers are useless with the Haitian up there to block them. Suresh enters the room where Hiro is being held with the syringe ready to put into Hiro. Hiro begins yelling for him not to do this because he needs to go back in time and save things. Suresh motions for Haitian to hold down Hiro. Just then Suresh jabs the syringe into Haitian's neck, causing him to slump over. Suresh tells Hiro he will get him to a safe spot so he can teleport back and change things. Future Hiro, Peter and Ando burst into the room, with Hiro and Ando united again. Future Hiro tells Hiro he must get him back to the correct moment in time now, but just then, 2 gunshots are heard and Future Hiro falls to the ground, dead. Parkman is there with his gun up, but before he can get any more shots off, Peter uses his power to close the bulletproof door on him.

Parkman makes a call to President Petrelli (aka Sylar) who is holding a special memorial service for the victims lost 5 years ago in the explosion. Parkman informs the President that he can't get to Hiro, because his brother, Peter is keeping the room sealed off. Parkman tells the President he needs reinforcements. Just then Nathan/Sylar ends the phone call and bursts up into into the air in a missile like flight, as the crowd gasps at this revelation. Sylar arrives at the holding cell, and is able to reach through the sealed door and pull Peter out. He uses his power to send him flying down the hallway, and informs Parkman to go in and take care of Suresh, Hiro and Ando. Nathan then walks down the hallway towards Peter and reveals he is really Sylar. Peter tells Sylar that Hiro's going to go back in time and change all this. Sylar says when Hiro returns back in time he turns on his own kind. Sylar begins to wield what appears to be Ted's radioactive powers, and Peter also starts to emit some sort of energy from his hands. The two begin to do battle in the hallway causing immenses bursts/explosions.

Suresh is trying to hold the door closed, as Ando and Hiro manage to teleport back to their present day. Hiro pulls out a 9th Wonder comic he brought back with him from the future which shows him slicing into Sylar with his sword, and Hiro says "now, the hard part".

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