LYDIA: We have a problem. Sylar, he's gone. Nathan, what are you...? Hey. I think I'm in trouble, Pete. Ever think that we can just live, Noah, out in the open? No. I'm a friend, Tracy. What is this place? Home. Please take this. To find your way back here. MATT: I pushed Nathan's memories into your mind. I made your body think that it was him. I've gotta go find Nathan. Get my body back. Then I kill every single person even remotely involved. Police, freeze! What the hell are you doing? Crossing that line. You idiot, you'll die with me. I know. POLICE SIREN WAILS Where is Charlie? I'm the only one who knows exactly where your sweet Charlie is. And you can save her, but only if you do exactly what I ask you to do. I made a mistake about eight weeks ago. This green Earth has given us so much. Feels good to give back what we can. Then why don't you give back Charlie? You're an evil man, butterfly man. You must release Charlie from wherever you're holding her. I have a way for you to earn her freedom. I met a man eight weeks ago. He had something I wanted. A film from 1961. His name was Mohinder Suresh. I know Dr Suresh. I don't need to time travel. I can find him right now. Dr Suresh is dead. You killed Dr Suresh. I need you to go back eight weeks, Hiro, to a motel room in Texas. To save his life? No, to save that film before he destroyed it. Once you return, deliver it to me, your sweet Charlie will be set free. I don't know if I can even time travel any more. Then you're gonna have to try very, very hard. Your sweet Charlie's life depends on it. Samuel. Yeah. We're done here. Let's go. So India was connected to Australia? Mmhmm. As well as Madagascar and most of southern Africa. Now together, they made a supercontinent called Pangaea. That is until India broke off and began to migrate north. Everything keeps changing, doesn't it? Indeed. Come on. One of the great lessons of plate tectonics is that all things are subject to evolution, even the earth beneath our feet. Remember to read chapter six before class. Thank you, Dr Suresh. Your students adore you, Mohinder. Teaching is what you were born to do. It does feel good to be back in the classroom again. Listen, I was thinking of making lamb biryani for dinner tonight. You promised you were going to throw this away. I am. It was delivered over a month ago. I assumed you meant immediately. Look, it's all of my father's work from Coyote Sands in the '60s. And I didn't mean to lie to you. It's just hard to let go. We have a good life, Mohinder. A good, simple life here. Every time you dig into your father's research, you disappear into a rabbit hole. It only leads you to a dark place. Perhaps you're right. BACKGROUND HUBBUB You doing OK? You've been sitting here staring at that poster for two hours. You ever wonder what it would be like, running off and joining a carnival? Oh, yeah. That'd be a dream come true. Living with a bunch of firebreathing freaks. Just because they're different doesn't make them freaks. Well, seriously, can you imagine spending your life in some trailer, moving from town to town? And you spend your life where, in some crappy diner? I'm sorry. Are you sure you're OK? Yeah. I'm great. I'm fantastic. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. If something's going on, we'll figure it out. It's not like I lost my car keys. I lost a week of my life. Yeah, and you woke up in a carnival. You sure you wanna remember that? Mm. Senator Petrelli, welcome back. It's good to be back. Elizabeth, do me a favour. Will you get my schedule out of the front office, please? Sure. That was awfully casual. Yeah. I'm telling you, Pete. It doesn't make any sense. What's that? Even if my lost weekend was just some crazy bender under the Big Top, a senator going off the grid. That ought to raise one or two alarms, don't you think? Mom say anything when you talked to her? She's in Washington, wants to meet us here. What are you thinking? Talk to me. I thought I had a handle on this, Pete. But these last few weeks, it's just been like I don't know who I am any more. You're the last guy I figured for an identity crisis, Nathan. KNOCK AT DOOR Senator? Go ahead. The good news is your day's wide open. We cleared your calendar when you went on vacation. Vacation? Sir, your mother said you weren't sure how long you'd be gone, so... My mother. Right. Thank you. Deja vu. Oh! So sorry, you startled me. Uh, can I help you? Rene? It's OK. Did my mother send you? Don't come any closer. I've come here to speak with Peter. OK. It's OK. Come on. What are you doing here? I came to warn you, Peter. You need to know the truth. Freeze! Claire. Claire. It's me, Tracy Strauss. And you are breaking and entering in my dad's apartment because? I really need to see him. (SIGHS) Yeah, well, that's why God invented doorbells. I didn't mean to. I put my hand on the doorknob and it just... Look, do you know where he is? Something is going wrong with my power. I can't control it. I didn't know where else to go. Tracy, you're freezing. So this was my mother's idea to clean up Nathan's mess. She sends you to wipe out our memories. It's what she wants me to do, but I cannot do it. OK, and why is that? Your mother is blinded by her emotions. There are some lines that should never be crossed. Why do you keep looking at him? It is not up to me to reveal this thing. The decision must be yours. The answer you seek is here. If you go, Peter, go alone. What you discover may be more terrible than you can bear. This is Dr Chandra Suresh. And this is entry number four, Coyote Sands Relocation Center, March 5, 1961. I've been trying to alert the authorities here to the potential danger of gathering so many persons with abilities in one location. My concern centres around an apparent force - small, but measurable - that emanates from all such individuals. When two or more of these forces are proximate, they amplify, exponentially, like a kind of gravity or magnetism. An abnormal spike in seismic activity as of late appears to be emanating from one of the individuals being held here. A pregnant woman by the name of... VIOLENT TREMORS This is entry number 21. It is my intention to document the birth of the child. There has been an enormous release of seismic activity all day. Doctor, he's crowning! I fear that this child may indeed... TREMORS RESUME I'm coming! It's OK! It's OK. BABY CRYING It's OK, don't worry. Nurse! SHIVERING You OK? SHIVERING SLOWS DOWN That's better. Why is this happening to me? TEAPOT WHISTLING I thought it would be a good idea to make you some tea. You sure you're OK? Thanks, Claire. WHISTLING CONTINUES (SIGHS) What happened? The water started to freeze. It is happening over and over again, and I can't stop it. Tracy, just calm down. Try to take a deep breath. Oh, no. Claire. Can you hear me? Oh, my god. I really thought we were done with this cloak-and-dagger stuff. I still can't figure out why the Haitian didn't want me in the loop. Well, does it matter now? This just gets better and better. METAL BANGS Check it out. Yeah. Are we good? Good. What do you got? It's a body. What is it? It's me. That's not you. Could be, uh... That's not you. Could be, uh... A shapeshifter or something, it's not... There's got to be a reason the Haitian wanted you to see this. This is just weird. Don't. It's all right. You're now Nathan Petrelli. What did you see? Bits and pieces of things. A hotel room. Sylar. Sylar, that's old news. That guy's been dead for weeks. I know. I know. I heard...Parkman. Matt? His voice, he was angry. Whatever's going on, we won't get straight answers out of Mom or the Haitian. OK, so we gotta find Matt. Where is he? LA. Let's go find him. You sure? I'm not sure of anything. I gotta get you in the bath. Gotta get you in. SHE SCREAMS CRYING Tracy. (GASPS) No, I heal. I heal. It's, like, what I do. (CHUCKLES SHEEPISHLY) OK? (BOTH LAUGHING) You think you ever really know somebody? God, are you hearing yourself? Yeah. OK, you know what I see when I look at all this? I see the big brother that would let me win by a nose when we would race. I see the naval officer who would rearrange his leave so that I could have a good birthday. And the past couple years, I've seen the guy that's saved my ass more than a few times. I made a lot of mistakes. So have I. Don't beat yourself up over it. Senator Petrelli. Yeah? I found something. I just hope this isn't the Matt Parkman you're looking for. He's in a hospital in Texas under guard. They're saying he tried to commit suicide by cop. Thank you, Elizabeth. Multiple gunshot wounds. Yeah. He's in critical condition. You know, Nathan, I can heal people now. If we could get in, I think I can save him. Hiro. Tick tock, tick tock. I'm trying! You can do this, Hiro. I have faith in you. Mohinder? Mira. I've made a remarkable discovery. There's a power, an actual quantifiable force. You promised me, Mohinder. No, Mira, this is important. Using my father's equations, I built a device, a sort of compass that I can use to... Will you listen to yourself? You're possessed again by these voices in your head. Mira, you don't understand. By following this compass... If the child on that film is still alive and surrounds himself with a large enough number of specials, he can become the most... Stop. I'm begging you, Mohinder. Please think very carefully about what you have, about what you have to lose. I love you. But if you disappear again, I will not wait for you to return. Can you help him? I can try. (GASPING) Matt. You're OK. (COUGHING) You're OK. It's me, Peter. What happened? You're OK. Good things do come to those who wait. Son of a bitch, get out of my head! You're in the hospital, I brought you back. No, you don't understand. This is exactly what he wants. What's he talking about? Bring him closer, Parkman. One touch is all I need. Then you can have your miserable life back. I can have my body back. Shut up! You guys, run. Get away from me before he comes back! Before who comes back? Sylar. Sylar's dead, Matt. No, he's in my head. He's trying to con... control my mind. I know this sounds crazy, but if he controls me, if he gets my power, he's gonna jump back into his body. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, Matt. What do you mean, "his body"? This should be good. Nathan, you're, you're dead. Sylar murdered you, he cut your throat. I used my power to purge his mind from his body and put your thoughts in. You're weakening, Parkman. I'm not gonna let you do this. I don't have time for all the five stages of grief. Let's go right from denial to acceptance. (GRUNTING) (GAGGING) Oh, my... Oh, my god, you son of a bitch. Nathan. It's true. No, no, no. I'm so sorry. Stay back. You're saying I'm Sylar? Yes. But I can make it all right. All you need to do is take my hand. All you need to do is take my hand. Don't take his hand! It all makes sense, Pete. Nathan, get away from him. Stop! It all adds up. These new powers aren't mine. Stop. They're Sylar's. I don't exist. Doesn't make sense. I don't buy that. Take my hand, Nathan. He's controlling you! Take my hand now. No! No! Do it, take my hand. I'll kill you first. Nathan, no! It's OK, Pete. Matt's right. It's time to end it. One touch, Nathan, and it's over. No, don't touch him. You touch him, he's got my power. His mind'll go back into his body. Stop. Stop! You! Back away from the prisoner. Take my hand, do it now. I said, get away. Back away! No! No. Nathan, where is he? Pete, come here. We gotta get out of here. No! Nathan! Nathan, is he in you? You son of a bitch, is he in you?! POLICEMAN: They're in here! Can I help you with something? I hope so. I'm looking for someone who may or may not even exist. If he does, his name would be Samuel Sullivan. I'm Joseph Sullivan, proprietor. The man you are looking for is my brother. Come with me. If my evidence is correct, your brother may be capable of magnifying his powers simply by being near others with abilities. Powers, abilities. I'd like to help you, doctor. But I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about. I thought you were going to build a fire. Figured, uh, Edgar and Damian could handle that. I'm Samuel. Samuel Sullivan? Dr Suresh here has a few questions for me. He's writing a book on the life of travelling carnies. People wanna read a thing like that? It's a colourful and exotic world. Why don't you join the others at the fire pit? I'm sure they could use your help. Yeah, of course. I've just travelled 8,000 miles to speak with your brother. If you try and stop me, you'd better have a damn good reason. Please. Come inside. (CATCHING BREATH) Oh, uh, when you came in the room, I was already dead. You don't remember seeing anyone else in that room. You took me to the morgue. And that's all you remember. Oh, and do me a favour. Take off all your clothes. Oh, let me give you my clothes. Yeah, good idea. Hurry up, let's go, let's go. Come on. (GRUNTS) Why are we here, Nathan? I shouldn't be around people right now. Something happened to me out there, Pete. What? I nearly put you through a wall with a flick of my hand. If Sylar gets into my head the way he got into Parkman's... I can't risk that with you. There's a road around here somewhere. You'll find your way home. What are you doing? What are you doing? Go ahead. I'll be right behind you. The images on that film leave little doubt. The destruction your brother is capable of cannot be... I am well aware of what he's capable of. But Samuel himself has no idea. And it's been my life's work to keep it that way, to keep him in the dark about the true nature of his power. Soon after our release from internment at Coyote Sands, my mother told me the truth about Samuel. You saw it on film. My mother lived it. She knew exactly how dangerous he could become. I've kept our community small in number to ensure Samuel's power remains subdued. I love my brother. But he's become a man of great ambition. Somewhere inside, he can taste it, the immense potential he was born with. Under the right circumstances, your brother's powers could increase a thousandfold. The information on that film... Burn the film! Go back to India. We must do everything possible to keep this genie in a bottle. How do I know I can trust you? I have watched over him for 40 years, and everything's been just fine. You're no longer welcome here. DOOR SLAMS Mira, it's me. You were right. This was all a mistake. I should have left that film in the trash. I should've left that box unopened. I miss you. I'll be on the next plane home. Be careful, Dr Suresh. Evil butterfly man will be coming for you. You know, you have not lost control of your abilities in over an hour. Whatever's happening with you, I don't think it's physical. It's psychological. Great. I panic attack with powers. (LAUGHS) When did it start? Just this morning. I was sitting in this diner thinking about... About what? About changing everything. My entire life. I've been so lost, Claire. I tried so hard to put my old life back together, but once I did, nothing fit any more. Then I met this strange man named Samuel. He lives with a group of people... Who all have abilities. Yeah, I met him too. He invited me to join them, to move to this place where we're all accepted. I think I might do it. Give up everything. Just start a new life. Maybe you should. Maybe that's what your body is telling you it wants. It's great to have someone to talk to about all this. It's hard to find a friend out there in the normal world. Someone you can trust. Yeah. I had something like that, but I'm pretty sure that's over. Oh, it just sounded so good on paper, college. Now I'm starting to wonder if... It's hard out there for girls like us. DOOR CREAKING OPEN Ladies. How was your day? Oh, you know. Same old, same old. (EXHALES FORCEFULLY) I need to know what was on that film. It's about my ability, isn't it? A way for me to increase my power a thousandfold. (CHUCKLES) Tell me! Your brother warned me about you. After all these years, he's been betraying me?! Holding me back so that he could keep playing the king. This is your last chance. Tell me what's on that film. Never. I will learn the truth. And I will do everything I can to stop you. I'm sorry. (GASPING, COUGHING) Hiro?! Hello, old friend. I am not the Hiro Nakamura you know. I have come eight weeks from the future. To save my life? No. To save this film. In the future I come from, you were dead. I was murdered right here in this room. How did you know I would need that Kevlar vest? My time travel is not so good lately. The first time I tried, I arrived ten minutes from now. Wasn't pretty. If I hadn't gone right to Samuel, he would have never known the secrets of his power. My investigation has corrupted him. We have to stop him, Hiro. And we will. But first, you have to disappear for eight more weeks until he releases Charlie. Charlie? Yes. Samuel is holding captive the woman I love until I deliver this film. Hiro, this man is extremely dangerous. I can't just go away for eight weeks while he consolidates his power. Please. If he knew I spared your life, he will never release Charlie. I understand your concern, and I appreciate all that you've done for me. But our primary focus must be stopping Samuel. I will not risk Charlie's life. Well then, we'll have to agree to disagree, Hiro. If you will not disappear until Charlie is safe, then I will have to make you disappear. What do you mean? Sorry. He used to say, "Put your finger in a bucket of water, pull it out, "and see how fast that hole fills up." LAUGHTER Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. (CHUCKLES) You have your film. Now I want Charlie. Soon. Sorry your friend had to die. Mr Ahmadi, time for your medication. My name is Mohinder Suresh. My name is Mohinder... Yes. Janice, honey, it's me. This is tough to explain into a machine. Remember I told you there was a guy inside my head taking control of my mind, a monster named Sylar? Well, I just want to let you know the craziness over the last few weeks is finally over. And, uh, Sylar's gone. He's gone back into his own body. I think he got what he wanted. I'm not really sure what I'm doing here. Not even sure I hope to find... I just know that I can't go on living my old life any more. I'm glad you called, Tracy. I'd hoped you would. I felt a real connection between us. There's something I'm gonna ask of you. A way for you to use your gifts to help make this a better world for all people of abilities. Together, we can accomplish great things. You have unique talents, Tracy. Nathan, this, uh...this idea, this thought that you're... Sylar. Yeah. Change the voice, chance the face, still him underneath. These hands have killed dozens of people, Pete. Friends of ours. Whoever Nathan Petrelli was, he's gone now. Just some random thoughts in a mass murderer's head. OK, look, assuming that I believe any of that, what would it matter? I mean, didn't Matt say that he forced Sylar out? You really think Matt could purge every sick thought from that head? To the rest of the world, I'm Nathan Petrelli, Pete. But every time you look at me, the way you're looking at me right now, you're gonna see Sylar. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong, Pete. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air.