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.
In March 1961, Angela wakes up from another nightmare. She puts on a robe and walks outside. Charles Deveoux is there waiting with Linderman and Bishop. Charles knows she has had a nightmare and tells her he heard her tell her sister her nightmares come true. He tells her she’s not the only one who has strange things happening to her. Angela starts to walk away when Linderman asks her how she got the scar on her leg. Angela tells him it’s an old bicycle accident and Linderman touches her scar and heals her. Charles tells her the camp is one big science experiment and they’re the rats, but Angela disagrees. She believes that the doctors can help them and Bobby agrees saying they’re freaks and the doctors will make them normal. Charles says they’re blind and points out if there was no ill will, there’d be no need for armed guards. Angela argues that there is nothing to worry about, they’re not communists and her dad said they could trust them. Charles points out that this isn’t the first time people were shipped off to camps: the Nazis to the Jews and the Americans with the Japanese. Angela insists that this camp is different. Charles asks her what her nightmare was about, and she tells him her dreams are confusing and not always right. Charles tells her to believe in herself and she tells him not to trust Dr. Chandra Suresh. Alice comes out of the bunk and asks what they’re talking about. Angela says it is nothing and they’re all going back to bed.
Angela tucks Alice back into bed and Alice tells Angela her feet are cold. Angela tells her she’ll find some socks and tells her goodnight. Alice asks her about Dr. Suresh and Angela downplays the conversation to over-active imaginations. Alice reveals to Angela that she can control the weather and proves it to Angela by making it snow outside their window. She asks if Dr. Suresh will come for her.
Back in the present day, Claire asks Angela why she didn’t tell Peter and Nathan about her sister. Angela doesn’t answer, but asks Claire where her father is. Claire asked him to let her have some alone time with Angela. Angela tells Claire she was almost Claire’s age when she first arrived at the camp. She wishes she had half of the courage and self-confidence Claire has. Modest, Claire says she might have those attributes sometimes, but she’s still figuring it out. Angela points out that Claire was able to dig up the graves without batting an eye, she believes that if she had Claire’s spirit and self-confidence things may have turned out differently. Claire redirects her back to her original question, why she never told Nathan and Peter about their aunt. Angela asks her if she ever did something so bad that she’s afraid that if she ever mentioned it she may never stop crying. All of a sudden, the wind starts blowing fiercely and the door to the bunker starts slamming against the door jam. Claire asks where the wind came from, and Angela says this is what she’s been dreaming about. It seems impossible, but Alice must be behind the weather changes. Angela goes outside to find her sister, running and calling her name. Claire pulls her back into the bunker.
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.
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.
| previous: Turn and Face the Strange | 1961 | next: I Am Sylar |
| See Also: Volume One Episodes • Volume Two Episodes • Volume Three Episodes • Volume Four Episodes • Volume Five Episodes • Heroes Reborn Episodes • All Episodes |
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