Season 2: Episode 4: "Kindness of Strangers"

Episode 204: Kindness of Strangers

Claire, HRG, West

Episode opens with HRG looking at the picture of the painting of himself #8 in the series Isaac Mendez drew. It shows HRG laying on the ground after being shot in the eye. Claire is seen looking down at him with a dark figure seeming to hold her. HRG discusses if Claire might be seeing someone with Mrs. Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett confront Claire about seeing any boys at school. HRG said if there's a boy, he'd like to meet him to help her decide if he's trustworthy.

West talks to Claire about hanging out and Claire says her dad is overprotective. West asks to meet him and Claire says it's a bad idea. West asks for just one night to see Claire and Claire agrees. Later that night, Claire tells her family she has to head out for a project at the library. She leaves the house saying she'll walk there. HRG follows outside, but West flies off with Claire before any of them see each other.

West takes Claire up on top of the big Hollywood sign at night so they can sit and look out. Claire discusses being uanble to open up about what happened to her in her "past life". West says she will need to trust him and asks Claire to take a jump off the Hollywood sign. Claire eventually does, and West swoops in to catch her, then flies straight up in the air. Claire and West embrace in the air.

Claire returns home from her date and tells HRG she made the cheerleading squad at the new school. HRG is upset about it and says he specifically told her not to. Claire says she's given up everything else and needs one thing that's normal. HRG says it's fine if she cheerleads then she won't date for now. The Haitian shows up to talk to HRG saying they need to travel to Ukraine to find out about the missing paintings.

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Nathan & Angela Petrelli, Matt Parkman

Nathan is in Washington, DC and visits his two sons at their private school to tell them their grandmother is in the hospital. Nathan apologizes for not being around for them, but says he promises to come home. A teacher comes up and reminds Nathan he's not allowed to be there.

Matt Parkman and his police chief are interviewing Angela Petrelli in a hospital room. She tells them she was the one who pushed Kaito Nakamura off the rooftop and killed him. Parkman says they brought her to the hospital with self-inflicted wounds and she says it was due to the fact she was distrought. Matt's boss says he'll go file the paperwork and Angela thinks to Matt "let this go or they will find us all and kill us".

Nathan gets angry with Parkman for coercing a confession from his mother. Matt tells Nathan he knows Angela is innocent and reveals his power to Nathan that he can read minds. Matt says he knows Nathan can fly too. Nathan says he recognizes the red symbol and photos that were left for Angela and Kaito. Parkman says he needs Nathan help to find the killer and Nathan agrees. Nathan confronts his mother saying he knows shes innocent, but she continues to put up a front and is wheeled away in cuffs.

Parkman is with Nathan Petrelli at an apartment. Parkman tells Nathan about his wife cheating on him and becoming pregnant with the guy's baby. Parkman says he lost his job out in LA due to all the mental problems he had. Nathan finds a copy of the picture of all the people being "picked off" by the killer. It shows Mr. Linderman, Mr. and Mrs. Petrelli, Charles Deveaux, Kaito Nakamura, Bob (who is Suresh' boss at the Company) and several others. Nathan says he doesn't know the rest of them and Parkman recognizes that one man in the picture is his father.

Later on, alone at his apartment, Nathan looks through pictures of his brother Peter. He looks a picture and tells him "I'm gonna make things right Pete". Nathan looks up into a mirror and sees a reflection of a burnt up man. Nathan punches the mirror enraged screaming "get away from me!" Nathan's fist is covered in blood.

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Maya, Alejandro & Sylar

Maya and Alejandro are fleeing in Mexico with the inmate they met, Derek who's driving the car. He discusses getting them to the border. Just then he screeches to a halt as there is a man lying face down in the dirt road ahead of them. They get out and check on the man, turning him face up to reveal it's Sylar, saying "help me".

Sylar travels with Maya, Alejandro and Derek and tells Maya he's heading to New York. Maya tells Sylar they are also headed there and shows Sylar the Suresh book. Sylar says it's a coincidence because he knows Suresh too. He introduces himself as Gabriel Gray and Maya says "just like the angel".

Maya, Alejandro, Derek and Sylar stop in a small village area to get food and other items. Derek finds a newspaer and front page shows Maya and Alejandro with the headline "Homicidio". Derek shows the paper to Sylar. Sylar tells Derek to go call the police. Sylar then follows him with a brick and kills Derek with it. Sylar gets into the car with Maya and Alejandro and confronts them with the newspaper. Maya becomes upset and Sylar starts to get sick from her plague she unleashes. Alejandro grabs her hands and stops it from killing Sylar. Sylar agrees to bring them to New York saying he's helped other people with Suresh.

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Micah and Monica

Micah is staying with relatives, one of which is a young boy who gives attitude to Micah repeatedly. The young boy keeps asking everyone for $65 for a wrestling Pay Per View and everyone refuses it saying it's not worth the money. A young woman, Micah's cousin, Monica comes downstairs dressed for her job at a restaurant saying she finds out tonight about her management test and how she did. Micah tells the young boy he might know a way to get the Pay Per View on TV.

Monica is working at the fast food restaurant telling her co-worker friend that she took the management test and wants to make money to help her family. Monica's coworker notices that Monica has carved a tomato up in an intricate way, similar to what Monica saw her grandmother watching on a cooking show earlier. The boss comes by and tells her that she isn't right for the management position because of her home life. Monica continues to have visions of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Monica tells her coworker that maybe God is punishing her for being selfish and that she's praying for a way out of her current situation.

Micah uses his power with electronics and makes the Pay Per View work on the television, impressing the other young boy. Monica comes in and chastises them for the Pay Per View. Monica explains to Micah she agreed to watch after him but he needs to follow rules there. Micah hugs Monica and puts his hand on her back thinking he can fix her. Micah goes to watch the Pay Per View and Monica's eye does some interesting trick almost absorbing the TV picture into her mind.

Later at work as Monica is trying to lock up for the night, a young man forces his way in with a gun to rob the restaurant. Monica gets up and does a wrestling move she saw on the TV earlier, swinging around on a pole and kicking the man. He takes off running. Monica's manager sees what she's done and asks where she learned it, she says "on TV".

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Molly Walker, Suresh, Parkman

Molly Walker continues to have nightmares about the man who's able to see her. After Matt's meeting with Nathan, he tells Suresh and Molly he needs to find his father, saying he left him at age 13 and never saw him after. He shows Molly the picture and Molly screams for him to get the picture away. Molly asks Matt not to make her find his father because "he's the nightmare man".

Later on Suresh argues with Matt about making Molly find his father. Molly finally comes out and tells Matt she will help. Molly sits with Matt and Suresh and tries to locate "the nigtmare man". She finds him at a Philadelphia apartment, 3rd floor, #9. Just then Molly's visions show a door opening and she says the man sees her and is going to get her. Suresh and Parkman tell Molly to get out, but it's too late. Molly falls into a comatose state but Parkman can hear her thinking "help me Matt!" in desperation.