Episode:1961
| 1961 | |
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| Season: | Three |
| Episode number: | 323 |
| First aired: | April 13, 2009 |
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| Written by: | Aron Eli Coleite |
| Directed by: | Adam Kane |
| Previous episode: | Turn and Face the Strange |
| Next episode: | I Am Sylar |
Summary
- Nathan, Peter, Claire, and Noah help Angela to uncover her past.
- Mohinder struggles with the truth about his father.
- Nathan and Peter work towards forgiveness.
- Flashbacks reveal:
- Angela and her sister's discovery of their abilities.
- Charles Deveaux's ability.
- The involvement of Chandra Suresh in a government program.
- The founding of the Company.
- A relative of Angela's is revealed to be alive.
Story Development
| Coyote Sands · Alice Shaw · The Company · Chandra Suresh · Dr. Zimmerman · Shockwave emission · Mr. Shaw · Weather control · Coyote Sands Café · Project Icarus |
Synopsis
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After digging throughout the night, Peter, Nathan, Noah, and Claire continue to find shallow graves in Coyote Sands. Peter finds a baseball glove and tells the others he thinks it’s wrong to dig up the graves and wants to know why Angela has them digging up the graves. Nathan tries to tell Peter that Angela will explain it to them when she’s ready, but Peter walks off. Claire goes after him and asks him to give Nathan a chance because he’s trying to make up for what he’s done, but Peter tells her Nathan has just charmed her and he’s not willing to forgive him yet. He leaves to talk to Angela.
Peter confronts Angela about why they’re digging up graves and searching for her sister they never knew she had. He asks her what happened in Coyote Sands. Angela remembers arriving in February of 1961 on a bus with her mom, dad, and sister. When they exited the bus, they met Chandra Suresh who introduced himself and gave them a tour of the campsite. The children slept in different bunkers than their parents. Dr. Zimmerman also worked with Suresh at the camp. There was playground equipment and movie night, but there were also armed guards at the camp. Suresh assures them that the Coyote Sands is not a prison. The guards are stationed there to keep the residents safe.
As Angela and her sister, Alice, unpack, Charles Deveaux, Bobby Bishop, and Daniel Linderman come into their bunk and introduce themselves then leave. Alice doesn’t like staying in separate quarters from her parents, but Angela reassures her and starts to help her unpack. Angela sees that Alice has packed toys and books (including “Alice in Wonderland”, but no clothes. Alice wants to go home and reminds Angela she’s missing homecoming, but Angela believes that Dr. Suresh will be able to stop the bad dreams she’s been having. She reminds Alice of all the times she’s been there for her and asks Alice to be there for her. It suddenly stops raining and Angela tells Alice everything is going to be fine.
Peter interrupts Angela’s daydream of the past and Angela tells them that her sister and parents died in Coyote Sands. She’s afraid history will repeat itself if her family doesn’t come together and start supporting each other now. Someone is watching them talk from a nearby window, unbeknownst to them.
Angela and Peter have moved inside into one of the old bunkers with Claire, Nathan and Noah. Angela begins telling them about 1961; Kennedy was President and everyone was a patriot, but when the government found out that there were people with abilities, they told them they could cure them and moved them to Coyote Sands. Claire asks what happened at there and Angela tells her she doesn’t know. She was one of the lucky ones who escaped, but her family didn’t. Peter asks why they had to come to Coyote Sands to hear this and why they are digging up the bodies, and Angela reveals that she’s been dreaming about her sister, alive. She doesn’t understand why, but she thinks that maybe she needs to find her sister’s body and give her a proper burial. Peter demands to know why she never told them about Coyote Sands and the things that happened there. Angela says she only wanted to protect them and a mother’s allowed to protect her sons from the pain of the past. Nathan agrees and says she is absolutely allowed to protect them. Angela tells Peter this is her nightmare that she tried to forget and that they made everyone else forget. Claire asks her who “we” is. Angela reveals that the founders of the company met in Coyote Sands and vowed to never let what happened there happen ever again. They destroyed files, erased memories, blackmailed, killed and did anything they needed to keep their existence secret and it worked for the last fifty years. She tells them that she and Noah have been working together to fix the current situation, but that Danko has proved resourceful. Claire finally understands why her father was helping Nathan round up people with abilities. Angela continues saying, she wants to put the secret back and go back to the old methods. Claire asks her if she means erasing people’s memories and killing again and Angela replies that it is a necessary evil. Peter doesn’t like her idea. Despite what happened at Coyote Sands and what’s happening now, the way the company handled it was wrong and she’s wrong now to go back to the old methods. Angela tells him she needs him, but Peter points out that the Company tore the family apart and he refuses to be a part of the company again. Peter flies off and Nathan flies off after him.
Angela insists they are here to be treated, but Charles and the others convince Angela they have essentially become prisoners. The four soon hatch a plan to escape from the compound, though the boys convince Angela that Alice must remain behind, as it would slow them down. Angela lies to Alice, saying she has had a dream that in order for Alice to be safe, she must remain there. One day, Chandra Suresh calls Alice in for treatment, but she refuses and ends up causing a storm with raging winds and deadly lightning. The ensuing chaos results in a mass breakout, causing everyone to be killed by the armed guards, though it is implied that Angela, Bishop, Linderman, and Charles all escaped. Later, Angela meets with the three at a diner, with Angela explaining she has dreamt of their future and that they must form a company to keep people like them safe from others.
In the present, Angela begins to think that Alice may still be alive after a vicious sandstorm quickly whips up in the area. The group also finds Mohinder Suresh there, investigating what his father had been doing there. At first, Peter thinks what they are doing is wrong (i.e., digging up the graves) and flies off. Nathan tracks him down, and the two reconcile their differences to come back and help. However, they return to find Angela has disappeared. Angela was knocked out during the storm, and awakens in an old bunker nearby. She finds her sister Alice there, now old like herself, who had been living there ever since Angela had left. Angela apologizes for what she had to go through, and then reveals how she had lied to her by telling her she would be safe by staying there. Enraged, Alice begins whipping up another storm, though Peter and Mohinder come to save Angela. Angela tries to convince Alice to come back with them, to her new family, but Alice refuses and mysteriously disappears outside. The group then decide to leave, though Mohinder declines Peter's offer to go with them, saying he still hasn't found it in him to forgive himself. Later at a diner, Angela looks on at the group, implying she intends to start another company with them. Sitting at the same table the first group sat at, they decide to work together to hide evolved humans like the Company did, but the difference is they're a family not a company. Nathan plans to start by talking to the President and stopping the hunt for evolved humans, but they are surprised to see Nathan himself giving a press conference on TV, and Noah points out it must be Sylar.
Memorable Quotes
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
- - Sign at Coyote Sands
"Don't you see the benefits your abilities could have for the world?"
"I only see my nightmares."
"Welcome to Crapola Sands."
"I have socks for you."
"Eh?"
"Since that night, whenever I feel lost... whenever I don't know what to do.. I steal socks for you. To remind myself there are simple ways to protect the ones we love. You don't ever have to be cold again."
- - Angela, Alice Shaw
"Say goodnight Alice."
"Goodnight Alice."
"Who the hell is that?"
"Sylar."
"Say goodnight Alice."
"No!"
Character Appearances
Trivia
- The true reason behind Angela stealing a pair of socks in "Genesis" is revealed.
- It's revealed the Government knew about Evolved Humans several decades ago, but it was covered up and forgotten.
- This is the first episode to make a reference to a real life sports event, seen when Peter and Nathan discuss the 1986 New York Mets.
See Also
- For images from 1961, see images from 1961.
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