Stepping Through.. :: Heroes Season 3 Episode 1 Summary :: October

We open four years in the future, with the oft-talked about scene where Future Claire aims a gun at Future Peter and pulls the trigger. Well of course you can’t kill a guy who can stop time. Future Peter does just that and disappears into the past, where …

Future Peter shoots Nathan at the press conference, as seen at the end of “Powerless” in Season 2. His reasons: to stop Nathan from revealing the existence of super-powered people. After shooting Nathan, Future Peter assumes the identity of Present Peter. [We later find out where Present Peter has been keeping himself throughout all this.] Future Peter’s ploy doesn’t fool Matt Parkman, who can read his mind. Unfortunately for Matt, Future Peter teleports him to the desert seen in the promos. As it turns out, it’s more a question of when then where Matt has been teleported. [It is hinted at, I believe, that Matt has been transported back in time. Way, way back in time.] Mama Petrelli later shows up at the hospital where Nathan is being kept, and presumably through the use of her powers, knows that Peter is not Peter.

Where is HRG? In a Company prison cell. Also, that fat guy who claims to be Peter Petrelli that we’ve previously talked about, in the cell next to HRG’s? I think he might just be Peter after all. After all, where has Present Peter been kept while Future Peter is out there assuming his identity?

Maya goes to Mohinder for help. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and can in fact be transferred from person to person, basically power on demand, in a syringe. At the end of the premiere, Mohinder injects himself with the power, and becomes super strong. [The Comic Con episode ends here, with a "To be Continued…"] [Newsarama clears this part up a bit: Mohinder discovers that the powers come from the adrenal glands, and are activated by bursts of adrenaline.]

So what’s up with Nathan? Well, he was shot, then he survived. How? Who knows. He just wakes up in the hospital and heads to a church, where he claims to have been given a sign from God. It appears Nathan now believes he is an angel, sent to do good things. Is this why Future Peter shot him? How was Nathan revived? Later, Linderman, alive and well, shows up at the hospital and tells the Petrelli Brothers that they are destined for great things.

As for Claire and Sylar, it’s “When a Stranger Calls” remake, apparently, as Sylar goes to Claire’s house for her powers. They fight. She stabs him. He of course doesn’t die. Eventually, Sylar captures her, and slices her head open. LITERALLY. He then steals her powers by studying her brain. LITERALLY AGAIN! After taking her invulnerability power, he tells her that she can’t die, and indeed, when he replaces the top of her skull (Holy crap!), she heals. (Sylar tells Claire, “You can never die, Claire, and now neither can I.”)

So what’s Ando and Hiro been up to? Apparently becoming boss of his father’s empire has made Hiro’s life very dull. He longs to be a hero again. He’s in luck. A lawyer arrives with a videotape from his deceased father telling him that he must safeguard a piece of paper containing some formula that holds the lives of half the world’s population at stake. The paper is inside a safe, where Hiro, unable to stop himself, takes a peek at it. Oops! Daphne, the speedster, shows up and steals the paper! Instead of using his time powers to go back in time to stop her, he decides to go into the future to see the damage losing the paper has cause. Here, Hiro witnesses an argument between Future Ando and Future Hiro, apparently over the missing formula. And get this — Ando apparently uses a superpower (described as bolts of electricity!) to blast Hiro!

Some notes: Nikki (now going by Tracy Strauss, perhaps?) is alive and well, and is mistress to the New York Governor. Is this Bruce Boxleitner’s character? Possibly. [Newsrama confirms that the Governor is indeed Bruce Boxleitner, but it’s not made clear if Nikki/Tracy is married to him, or his mistress.]

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