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

• Nathan is a drunk, wallowing in the loss of Peter
• 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 in his new home of New York, and passes.
• Parkman and Suresh are both taking care of Molly Walker
• Kaito Nakamura and Angela Petrelli learn of a threat upon their lives.
• Molly Walker has nightmares of a man who can see her.
• Noah deals with his new boss at Copy Kingdom.
• Maya and Alejandro are making their way to New York
• Nathan is alive in Cork, Ireland, but he has no memories.

Synopsis

Mohinder has been traveling around giving speeches about evolved humans. He is approached by a strange man named Bob after a lecture, noting that his father and Shanti would be proud. Mohinder confronts the man, asking if the Company has sent him to bag and tag him. When Mohinder tells the man he won't run this time, Bob then asks where Mohinder would run. He then offers him a job, saying that no one believes in his father's theories.

On the run, Maya and Alejandro move through the streets of San Cristobal, Honduras to evade the police. Alejandro urges Maya to keep running, but Maya argues that they've been running for eight hundred miles already. Maya tells him that if they get caught, then people will die, but Alejandro retorts that people will die if they don't run. He comments that by Tuesday, they will be in America, where they can find answers.

Claire and Noah arrive at Claire's new school. She comments that being the new student, she will be "in the shark tank" and having no friends makes her "shark bait". Her father reminds her that she's Claire Butler, but more importantly, she cannot seem special in any way to draw attention, noting that the Company is still out there, and is still looking for them. She asks her father when she can get her own car, and is told of an upcoming birthday present. Claire nearly gets run over by a boy on her way to class, who gives her a glare.

Hiro lands in a grassy meadow. As he looks around him, he spots a group of Japanese 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. After an eclipse occurs overhead, Hiro sees the arrows fired and stops time before they hit him. After moving out of the way, he sees his hero almost hit by arrows as well. He puts his hand on the horse of the rider and teleports to safety.

Matt Parkman is armed and asking to enter a door. After hearing the thoughts of those inside, he comments that he knows it sucks with NYPD showing up at the door, but that is what happens when you take someone hostage. After hearing a scuffle, he breaks the door down. He open fires on two people, coming to a room with a woman and a man. Both yell that they're the hostage and should shoot the other. Matt hears the man's thoughts and shoots the woman. Bright lights come up, and Matt's simulation for a hostage situation ends. Detective Fuller comes out and asks how Matt knew which was the hostage, and Matt tells him about the two individuals' eyes. Det. Fuller comments on Parkman's determination after being shot four times, then gives Parkman his new badge as an officer.

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 Deveaux, 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.

Memorable Quotes

"I broke history."

- Hiro

"Let's just say we have our own private Fort Knox."

- Bob (to Mohinder)

"You're evil Ma, get out!"

- Nathan (to Angela)

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".
• Sylar, Niki, DL, and Micah do not appear in the main episode (only in the introduction)

See Also

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