Everyone makes a run for it, though not everyone gets away. Sylar finds a new protégé and a new lead on his father. Nathan’s still a douche, big surprise. Someone dies and someone else wants revenge! And Claire finds a new potential ally.
After the plane crash, our heroes scatter and are chased by government agents. Matt, Suresh, and Hiro all end up hiding in the same ditch and work together to avoid capture. Matt and Suresh are hopeful that Hiro can just teleport them away, but Hiro tells them that his powers are gone. Matt goes all white-eyed vision and leads the other two to a trailer where he finds crayons and the others find clothes. While Matt’s drawing, Suresh tries to convince Hiro to turn himself in and reveal that his powers are gone in the hopes that they’ll just leave him alone. Naturally, Hiro refuses and insists that his destiny is to help save the world.
Matt draws many pictures, but the most attention is paid to a drawing of Daphne being shot with the plane wreckage in the background. The boys rush back to the crash-site to save Daphne.
Ando is trying to book a flight to where he believes the flight has crashed – a city in Arkansas that the person on the other end of the phone has apparently never heard of - when Daphne shows up. She’s trying to find Matt and figured Hiro and Ando may be able to help. Daphne and Ando decide to team up to find their friends and speed off to the crash site.
Peter and Claire are escaping together when HRG pops up and holds them at gunpoint. He initially tries to force them both to come back to the camp with him, but eventually agrees to let Peter escape when he realizes that he’s not willing to shoot him.
Claire, though, is taken back to the military troops’ camp where Nathan is waiting and makes plans to send her back home. Claire is unwilling to forsake her friends, though, and rages against both of her fathers and their betrayal of the other heroes.
Daphne and Ando arrive at the crash site and, while they don’t see either Matt or Hiro, see Claire in shackles. Daphne reassures Ando that Hiro can’t be dead since Ando kills him in the future and speeds off to bust out Claire.
By the time Daphne and Claire return, the boys have shown up. Everyone has a semi-joyous reunion before the government troops show up and start shooting. Daphne is the first to take a bullet, fulfilling the prophecy of Matt’s drawing. Claire starts taking bullets to cover the others’ escape, but Matt uses the opportunity to get revenge instead of running. He gets into one of the men’s head and makes him start shooting his fellow soldiers. The Hunter shows up and kills the brainwashed man and Matt makes a run for it. Everyone but Claire (and, of course, Daphne) escapes.
The Hunter drags Claire back to the camp and threatens to shoot Claire in the back of her head, figuring that will be enough to kill her. HRG and Nathan both show up at an opportune time and tell The Hunter to stand down. Nathan and The Hunter have words that amount to the Hunter telling Nathan to watch his back because he won’t always be in touch while HRG escorts Claire to a car and warns her that the Hunter will be watching her like a hawk now. Claire gets into the car and finally goes home.
On Peter’s escape from HRG, he runs into Tracey. She initially wants to go back, figuring she can get her life back, but Peter convinces her to make a run for it. He hatches a plan to steal military uniforms and head back to the camp to stop Nathan, but Tracey figures out a way to trick Nathan, figuring they think the same and thus she can get into his head.
Tracey calls Nathan and tells him that she can give him Peter if he’ll give her life back. They set up a rendezvous with Nathan, planning to trap him and then…. I don’t think they planned any further than that, actually.
Naturally, Nathan saw the trap coming and brought some of “his team”, including the Hunter and HRG, with him. A standoff ensues in which HRG repeatedly refuses to take a kill shot on Peter while he holds a gun to Nathan’s head. In an earlier conversation with Tracey, Peter explained that he can only take one power by touch now. As soon as he picks up a new power, the last one is gone. He takes the opportunity of being in contact with Nathan to steal his power and fly away. Tracey tries to bargain, but is taken prisoner once again.
Peter, Matt, Suresh, Hiro, and Ando all regroup and plan to go underground to plan their revenge. They agree to ditch their cellphones, credit cards, and any attachment to their own lives in the realization that Nathan will be watching. Peter warns that they’ll have to do things that they never imagined and nobody seems fazed, least of all Matt who makes it clear that he’s not interested in vengeance, only revenge.
For the record, interviews and whatnot have made it clear that Daphne isn’t gone for good. Just so you know.
Forty-two hours later, Nathan is recounting all of this to someone over the phone. Before it’s explicitly stated, certain comments hint that he’s talking to his mother. At the end of the conversation, Nathan tells her that they both know Peter and both know that he’ll eventually come to her. Nathan wants to know if she’ll do the right thing and call him when it happens.
Angela basically tells Nathan to kiss her ass and clean up his own messes since he pushed her aside to work with the President and his own team. While Angela’s telling him this, she’s looking over a file with the Hunter’s file attached and a headline about a killing, though I didn’t catch the entire thing.
After Angela hangs up on him, Nathan heads to a trailer where a hooded figure is sitting. Nathan jerks off the hood to reveal that the figure is Tracey. He makes some kind of retarded speech trying to justify his actions then steps aside for his goons to hood up another one of those machines that everyone had on the plane.
Sylar has kidnapped one of the agents from last episode and is hiding a few houses down from his father’s taxidermy shop. When the tenants – a woman and her delinquent son - arrive home, his plan becomes clear. He’s gotten nowhere torturing the agent, so he plans to torture the woman and her son until the agent tells him what he needs to know. It never really gets that far, though. Sylar engages in his oh-so-excellent mental torture on everyone in the house. Eventually, the son gets pissed and uses his microwave powers on a cup Sylar is drinking from. Impressed, Sylar pulls him aside and has the kid demonstrate further. While Sylar is mocking the kid’s mom and learning more about the kid, the agent frees himself and pulls a gun. The kid, rather than letting the agent kill Sylar (though Sylar would have recovered) and free him and his mother, he uses his powers to kill the agent. With his source of information dried up, Sylar takes off, but the kid chases him and begs Sylar to take him along. As a final desperate gambit, the kid tells Sylar that he knows where his father is. Intrigued, Sylar steals the mom’s car and brings the kid with him to find his father.
Back home, Claire’s mom thinks that she’s been looking at colleges all this time. Claire feeds her some BS about wanting to go to school close to home and her mom gets excited. After her mom leaves, Claire begins getting anonymous texts telling her that she can still fight. The sender never reveals themselves beyond saying that they’re someone who hates “them” as much as Claire, but my money is on Hannah Gitelman.
