Episode:Four Months Later...

Four Months Later
Season:	Two
Episode number:	201
First aired:	September 24, 2007
Written by:	Tim Kring
Directed by:	Greg Beeman
Previous episode:	How to Stop an Exploding Man
Next episode:	Lizards

The sun rises on a new dawn. Yet few of us realize the debt we owe to those responsible for this. To those who dwell among us, anonymous, seemingly ordinary. Whom destiny brought together to repair, to heal, to save us from ourselves. And they're still out there among us. In the shadows. In the light. We pass them on the street without a glance. Never suspecting, never knowing. Do they even know yet? That they are bound together by a common purpose? A glaring reality to be extraordinary. And when destiny does unite them, how do they hide from it? How long can they dwell in the shadows before either fate, or their own flawed humanity draws them out in to the light again? And how will they know what awaits them when it finally does?

Summary

• A man from the Company offers Mohinder Suresh a job.
• Claire tries to adapt to her new life, and meets a boy.
• In feudal Japan, Hiro Nakamura meets Takezo Kensei.
• Matt Parkman takes his detective exam.
• Kaito Nakamura and Angela Petrelli learn of a threat upon their lives.
• Molly Walker has nightmares.
• Noah deals with his new boss.

Synopsis

Mohinder has been traveling around giving speeches about the gentically abnormal individuals. He is approached by a strange man named Bob, who offers him a job with a mysterious company. Bob is shown to have the ability of aurification, providing funds for the Company. Afterwards Mohinder is shown calling Noah, revealing that Mohinder's speeches were a ruse to gain the attention of "the Company" that Bennet used to work for, and bring it down.

Claire and Noah are under the assumed name of Butler and she goes to a new school. Claire nearly gets run over by a boy named West (played by Nicholas D'Agosto), who we later learn can fly. She stands up to head cheerleader Debbie, who was picking on another girl. Debbie challenges her to perform a backflip off of "the tower". Claire climbs the tower, then remembers her father's words against "standing out" and tells everyone that she can't do it. After everyone has gone, she attempts the feat, and fails the landing. West walks in immediately after her wounds have healed.

Hiro lands in a grassy meadow. As he looks around him, he spots a group of samurai archers raising their bows towards him — he turns to run, but realizes that it is Takezo Kensei, poised behind Hiro, that they are about to attack. The subtitles then note that Hiro is outside Kyoto, Japan, in the year 1671. After a series of misunderstandings, Hiro learns that Kensei is actually a British man who uses dirty tricks to win, and that all the stories Hiro had learned are false.

In Honduras, two runaways Maya and Alejandro are trying to cross the border to escape homicide charges. When Alejandro is seperated from his sister, she releases her power that kills all traveling with her. Alejandro catches up with her and they continue to the border.

Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura both find out they are to be murdered in 24 hours by a marked photo of them that fit together. Kaito reveals that along with Charles Devaueux, Linderman, and Mr. Petrelli, he and Angela were part of a group of twelve people (now reduced to nine) that tried to find evolved humans. After sending Ando to get a sword, a member of this group appears and falls over a roof with Kaito. However only Kaito's body is seen.

At the end of the episode, three thieves are looking for a cargo carrier in an Irish shipyard. When they break into the container that they were looking for they find Peter Petrelli, chained to one of the sides, and wearing a necklace with the symbol on it. Expecting to find something else there, they angrily threaten him. He defends himself with a bolt of unknown light blue energy. He then reveals that he doesn't know where the contents of the shipping container are, and that he does not remember who he is.

Trivia

• The "Heroes Interactive" 2-screen experience did not run for this episode. All new episodes of Season One had been accompanied by this feature since Jan. 22, 2007.
• The episode runs 10 minutes longer than regular Heroes episodes: 53 minutes vs. the usual 43 minutes.
• Director Greg Beeman said he felt inspired by the film A Mighty Heart and its "captured-in-the-moment documentary style".

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