Season 3: Episode 9: "It's Coming"

Episode 309: "It's Coming"

Heroes opens with scenes from the characters' pasts during an eclipse, with Suresh, Claire, Hiro, Peter, Nikki/Jessica/Tracy all amongst those witnessing it. Things shift to present day Africa where Arthur Petrelli has killed the precog by beheading him, and now has his hands on Hiro's head to wipe out Hiro's memory of the future. He tells Hiro he should never have sent a boy to do a man's job. Ando tries to jump and punch Arthur, but Arthur suspends him in mid-air, then flings him out of the way. Arthur finishes his work, then notices a painting of an eclipse on a nearby rock. As Arthur studies the painting, Ando tackles Hiro to the ground and tells him to teleport them away. Hiro acts puzzled, but Arthur walks up to them, puts his hands on them and teleports them to a Chicken & Waffle bowling alley restaraunt. Hiro asks Ando why he looks and acts so old. Hiro looks into a mirror nearby and notices his older looking face. He tells Ando he believes he's 10 years old.

Back at Pinehearst, Sylar is watching men repair the window he threw Peter out of. Arthur Petrelli teleports in and says it's still hard to believe Peter survived the fall without powers. He tells Sylar he wants to show him how to gain all the powers he wants to without killing. Arthur tells Sylar all he needs to do is access the part of his heart containing empathy. Sylar asks how he knows he can do that, and Arthur tells him he knows Sylar saved Peter from the deadly fall. Arthur brings Sylar to a dark, empty looking room and shuts the door. At the end of the room is Elle in chains. She looks up and sees Sylar there and blasts him with electricity.

Peter is at his apartment, where he prepares to take off so the villains can't find him. Despite Peter's protests, Claire says she's going along so she can protect him. Just then, the door begins to get pounded in. Claire tells Peter to take off out the window, down the fire escape, while she holds them off. Knox and Flint enter, and Claire says they'll never find Peter. Flint prepares to blast Claire, and Knox tries to sense her fear. Claire tells them she's the "defensive player of the year", then bolts across the room and jumps out the window. Claire plummets to the pavement below in the alley, and pulls the fire escape ladder down to help Peter get down. The two find a sewer hole cover, remove it and continue fleeing down in the sewer.

Arthur Petrelli goes to check on Suresh's work in the lab with a test patient. Suresh reports thing aren't working, as it seems impossible to give someone abilities without an adverse reaction. Arthur notices on a computer monitor that Suresh has images and calculations from an eclipse. Suresh says it appears that many of those who gained abilities did so during the last annular eclipse, but he's still hypothesizing. Suresh also reveals that the formula needs some sort of catalyst to make the proteins bond with the enzymes successfully, without an adverse reaction. Suresh remarks that the catalyst would be living inside a human host. Petrelli sees a lightbulb go off and remarks that his old colleague, Kaito Nakamura, hid the catalyst somewhere, but not well enough. The test patient is shown strapped down, grossly mutated, deformed, and in agony.

Back in the darkened room where Elle is chained, she confronts Sylar. She screams at him for killing her father, and Sylar tells her to gain revenge and give him all she's got. Elle shoots a blast of lightning at Sylar, which throws him up against the back wall.

Matt and Daphne arrive at Primatech, which they remark looks like a ghost town. Matt sees the precog Usutu and follows the direction he went to a room. In the room, Matt finds Angela Petrelli. He tries to get into her thoughts but struggles with it as the mindwaves snap him back, then tells Daphne he needs to help her. Daphne rushes off to get a nurse to help, but really speeds her way back to Arthur Petrelli who is looking over Claire's picture/file folder. Daphne informs Mr. Petrelli what Parkman is up to. Daphne asks if he did that to his wife and Arthur says she'll be fine. Daphne asks that he leave Matt out of this, but Arthur reminds her she can go back to her previous arrangement if she wants.

Claire and Peter continue to flee from Knox & Flint. Peter tells Claire she becomes his killer in the future and he doesn't want that happening. He urges Claire to leave now and stop accompanying him. Claire refuses saying it's his fault for ever saving her and being her friend. Down in the dark sewer they hear footsteps coming down the ladder. Claire tells Peter to run. Flint and Knox arrive down the steps. Claire says to get Peter they have to go through her, but they tell her it's her they came for. Knox grabs Claire, restraining her and they take off as Peter overhears it all.

Hiro continues to act like a young child, shooting spitballs at a girl at another table in the bowling alley. Ando tries to tell him of his abilities as a superhero. Hiro is amazed at hearing this. Ando tells him to try his ability. Hiro is able to momentarily slow down people in the bowling alley and a spitball slowly approaches him as he moves aside Matrix-style. Ando tells him to try again and this time Hiro freezes time and everyone around. Hiro sets up all sorts of practical jokes involving the people in the bowling alley, including Ando, then unfreezes time to watch them unfold.

Daphne loses Parkman as he goes inside Angela Petrelli's mind in what appears to be a coma.

Sylar continues to receive the full effect of Elle's anger over him killing her father. Sylar says that she tried to save him at one point, and that he never wanted to kill any of them. Sylar reveals he feels pain over this, but continues to let Elle blast him with lightning to get all her anger out. Finally, Elle blasts Sylar with all she's got and he's full of electricity. Both fall to the floor, and Elle begs Sylar to just kill her.

Nathan and Tracy arrive at Pinehearst so Nathan can confront his father. Tracy asks if he's sure he wants to do this, and Nathan says he needs to. They enter and Nathan's amazed to see his father standing there. Arthur asks for a hug but Nathan confronts him asking if he realizes what he did to the family. Tracy leaves the room. Arthur says he should have told Nathan his role in all of this sooner, the assassination, his Senate seat, all part of his destiny. Nathan remarked that Linderman fed him the same lies. Arthur urged his son to join him in "saving the world" saying he has the formula to do so.

Sylar uses his power to unlock Elle's cuffs and chains. She continues to ask that he kill her and Sylar says he wants to be a good person. Elle tells Sylar she just wanted to capture Sylar so they could use him like a lab rat. She tells Sylar he's a monster, but Sylar remarks they were both made that way. Sylar says he forgives Elle then says she needs to forgive herself. As she does, she remarks the pain is gone. Both Elle and Sylar notice something is different, and then Sylar realizes he has electricity in his hand, symbolizing he acquired Elle's power.

As Knox and Flint try to take off with Claire, Peter steps in and gets their attention. Peter notices an open gas valve hanging above. He baits Flint, saying he doesn't need his powers to take him out. Flint gets angry and shoots plasma/flames at Peter. The open valve shoots flames back at Knox and Flint and Claire & Peter take off running.

Elle and Sylar reconnect as Sylar remarks they're all at war with themselves, just need to find the winning side. Elle shows Sylar some of the secrets of using her power to direct lightning shots. Elle thanks Sylar for saving her and two share a passionate moment, as Arthur Petrelli watches on a TV monitor.

Hiro continues to toy around with his re-discovered ability and begins to teleport. Ando asks him to teleport them to Odessa, TX or Primatech where he might remember more of what he forgot. Hiro teleports them to Sam's Comic shop in Japan and exclaims "I did it!" as Ando shakes his head.

Nathan tells Tracy that Arthur wants to give half the planet super powers in order to save the world. Tracy tells Nathan to get himself together and they should tell the Justice department. Nathan tells Tracy he needs to fly back to Primatech and see what else his mother knows. He tells Tracy to go to Washington and cover for him, then propels himself up into the air, flying away.

Instead of listening to Nathan, Tracy goes back and meets with Arthur. She tells him he needs better PR, and that Nathan could be the face of his cause, since everyone thinks Arthur's dead. Tracy says since Nathan's on the fence she can get him on their side, if Arthur scratches her back.

Parkman continues on his journey to rescue Angela from her coma state. As he sits next to her, he enters her mind and sees her chained in a chair down an abandoned hallway. Angela tells Parkman he shouldn't have come because "he's too strong to stop" and there's no escape. Parkman finds double doors that are open, but just then Daphne is there. Daphne says she's there to help and goes up for a hug. As they hug, Daphne draws a knife out and stabs Parkman in the gut. Matt continues in his nightmare state saying "Daphne No". Meanwhile in Angela's room, Daphne yells for Parkman to wake up.

Daphne grabs Matt's hand and he brings her into his mindstate where Angela is. In what becomes a warped dream state, Daphne sees another version of herself holding a bloody knife, and Matt bleeding. She tells Matt it was all a trick. Arthur Petrelli appears, trying to convince Matt women can't be trusted. Daphne tells Matt she was scared of Arthur and didn't want to return to what she used to be. Finally, the two embrace as Daphne reveals she cares about Parkman. Angela remarks to Arthur that they used to be that way, and with enough of her suggestive power she convinces Arthur to free her binds. Matt and Daphne awaken back in the room. Daphne tells Matt he brought her into his mind and that all she said was true. The two hug in real life, and Angela is awake. Parkman and Daphne rush out to get a doctor.

Just then, Claire and Peter show up down the hallway as Parkman and Daphne are coming out. Peter and Parkman spot each other. Peter yells that Daphne can't be trusted. Parkman pushes Peter up against the wall saying he murdered his own brother then teleported Parkman miles away. Peter tells him it wasn't really him who shot Nathan. Parkman gets inside Peter's head to read his thoughts with Peter saying he has to trust him. Claire gets in between them to stop a fight and asks where Angela is. Parkman tells her she's awake.

Suresh records the results of his trials with the test subject, who has become deformed and in serious suffering. Suresh remarks that the patient's heart rate rose to 164 beats a minute and stayed there for 2 hours. Suresh tells the patient he's sorry. The test subject begs Suresh to just kill him. Suresh contemplates his request then takes out a syringe and injects the patient again in the neck.

Ando begs Hiro to leave the comic store, while Hiro is shocked to see Captain America died in the comic book. All of a sudden, Hiro spots a 9th Wonder comic book on the rack. Ando tells him it will prove what is going to happen in the future. Ando flips it open and it shows them at the Bowling alley. He tells Hiro it's real, despite Hiro thinking it's a trick. They flip to the back of the comic book and the last page shows an eclipse with the words "It's coming" printed below.

Peter rushes in with Claire to check on Angela. Parkman and Daphne go in with them. Angela tells Peter she's fine and that his father's alive. Peter says he knows, just as Nathan shows up and remarks how he spoke with him today. Angela talks about how Arthur is trying to assemble the formula, and it requires not 2 parts, but 3. The third is hidden away in a human host, a catalyst, that only Kaito Nakamura knew of. Claire remembers that Sylar told her she was special when he acquired her powers. It dawns on Claire that she is the catalyst.

The show ends with Suresh narrating about the upcoming eclipse, with the "good guys" and "bad guys" each assembled at their different locations. At Pinehearst are Knox, Flint, Elle, Sylar & Arthur Petrelli. At Primatech are Angela Petrelli, Matt Parkman, Daphne, Nathan & Peter Petrelli and Claire. Suresh is narrating how an eclipse starts with light, ends with light, with darkness in between. The villains are gathered around Mr. Petrelli who is using his powers to draw on a sketchpad. He reveals a sketch of an eclipse and tells everyone "It's coming".

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