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
• Peter is alive in Cork, Ireland.

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.

Claire is sitting in science class when she is confronted by the boy who almost ran her over in the morning. He introduces himself as West, and asks if she is a robot or an alien. The teacher asks who said, "In the struggle for survival, it is the fittest who wins out at the expense of their rivals." Claire writes down Charles Darwin while the teacher gives hints about evolution. Claire does not answer the question, but does not answer.

Alejandro and Maya slip through the night and come upon a truck. The driver and another man come out to talk to the siblings. Alejandro asks the driver how much, and finds for ten thousand Lempiras, he can take the two to Sonora, 600 miles from the American border. The driver comments that Maya should sit up front with him, but Alejandro insists that she sit in the back with him.

Molly Walker tells Matt that he is late to come get her. As the two walk away, Molly's teacher pulls Matt to the side and asks him questions about Molly. She notes that Molly is sleeping in class and that she is having nightmares. Matt explains that he's doing his best, but the teacher questions his injuries and divorce's role in raising her. She then shows Matt some of Molly's drawings of disturbing pictures of eyes with the symbol.

Kaito and Ando sit outside Kirby Plaza waiting for Hiro to return. Ando notes that maybe Hiro isn't coming back, but Kaito tells Ando that for almost thirty years, he has watched his son in disappointment, but with his quest, he saw strength, courage and wisdom, and Kaito must hand down his legacy to Hiro. He opens his paper, and a picture of Kaito falls out with the symbol drawn across his face in red ink. Kaito asks Ando where he got the paper, and Ando tells him it was from Kaito's office. Kaito tells Ando he has twenty-four hours to live.

Angela is found in Peter's apartment by her son, Nathan, who now has a beard. Angela remarks that Peter is dead and they must move on, but Nathan believes that Peter is alive. He asks her to leave Peter's belongings alone, and the two struggle with a photo of the two brothers. When it falls to the ground and shatters, Angela notes that Nathan is drunk, and that he killed his brother and drove his wife and kids away, and if he followed her plan, Peter would be alive. Nathan wonders aloud that he almost did what she asked him to do, and calls her evil. He tells her to leave, and on her way out, she finds a photo similar to the one Kaito found with the symbol drawn on her face.

Hiro and Kensei teleport to a field, where the horse bucks and throws Kensei to the ground. After exclaiming, Hiro finds a sword drawn on him. Kensei asks how it happened, and remarks that fifty ryo is not worth dying for. As he runs away, he tells Hiro that he can tell Takezo Kensei that he can keep is money, dropping his sword. As Hiro wonders who the real Kensei is since the fake Kensei is running away, a man in armor with a crossbow comes around Hiro's back and asks how he made the Japanese soldiers scatter. He remarks that if he put an arrow through the leader's heart, he would have been very rich. The armored man asks Hiro if he is a monk since he is dressed strange and wears glasses like a doctor. Hiro takes his glasses off, and proclaims that he is Kensei's biggest fan and how he stole his sword. When Kensei takes his mask off to reveal he is Caucasian, Hiro puts his glasses back on and asks if he is really the hero Kensei. Kensei replies that he is known in Japan as Kensei, but no one has ever called him a hero before.

At Copy Kingdom, Noah is being chastized by his boss about being late and not doing work from the previous night. He asks if Noah wants to be excellent, to which Noah simply replies, "Yes, sir."

In Cairo, Bob and Mohinder are sharing drinks. Bob tells Mohinder of the Company's forming thirty years ago by a group of evolved humans who wanted to help their own, find them and protect them, even if it meant "eliminating" them. Mohinder questions their right to judge who lives and dies, but is reminded by Bob of Mohinder's encounter with Sylar, but Mohinder claims he is not a threat now that he is dead. Bob then shifts the conversation to Molly, and how she is being protected by Mohinder and Matt Parkman. Bob remarks that the Company is not looking to change that arrangement, but rather they want to help fund Mohinder's research in fighting the virus that Mohinder considers a plague. Bob asks Mohinder to imagine if the virus mutated and affected the general population, but Mohinder reminds Bob that kind of research is extremely expensive, but Bob demonstrates that the Company has nearly unlimited funds, as he turns a spoon into gold, claiming the Company has their own Fort Knox.

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.

In County Cook, Ireland, 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 iPods, they angrily threaten him. He defends himself with a bolt of unknown light blue energy at Tuko. When asked by Ricky who he is, Peters replies that he can't remember.

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)

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