After what happened last week on Heroes, aren’t you dying to see what happens to Hiro now that he’s left Ando behind and gone solo on his mission? Wondering who’s next on Sylar’s list of victims? Been holding your breath to see if Simone survived the accidental shooting from Isaac? Well, you’re out of luck with this week’s episode regarding those hot topics because none of them are addressed whatsoever. But before you stop reading and start worrying about the show, let me fill you in on this great episode.

Back to the hostage crisis, Matt tells the unaware family what happened with the abduction, the marks on his neck and how his professional life is down the drain and his marriage is on the rocks thanks to this man. But it’s when he mentions that he makes you forget that triggers something in Mrs. Bennet to ask him how he does that.

Reading Claire’s thoughts, he now knows that she’s aware of the Haitian and much more. When Bennet begins denying again, Ted ignites his hands saying that this is what he did to him and that they just want to be normal again. Claire turns to Parkman and acknowledges her cooperation by telling them that he is definitely not a paper salesman.

With Ted watching Mr. Bennet and the rest of the family, Claire and Matt are in a separate room where he tries to learn what she knows about the situation. Matt puts the idea in Claire’s head that her father was responsible for his psychic abilities and that it didn’t “just happen.”

He cites that he’s seen some weird things and that she probably has as well like the incident at her school, prompting Claire to think about Peter Petrelli. Noting this connection and that Peter can do what they can do, Matt asks what she can do and hears her thought that she can heal. Claire starts to wonder if her father made her this way.

Fourteen years in the past, Mr. Bennet and Claude are at a house where they were supposed to bag a fire starter, when they are called over by a man holding a baby. The man turns out to be Mr. Nakamura, Hiro’s father, and sure enough, a young Hiro is sitting nearby. Noting the presence of his son, Mr. Nakamura tells him that having children changes a man with Bennet saying how he could imagine how that would be.

Nakamura tells him he doesn’t have to imagine and that he is going to be adopting this baby, under orders from the company. Despite his objections and claims that he would not be a good father, he is ordered to do so and to turn her over to the company if she manifests any abilities.

Back in the present, Matt tires to tell Ted that the family has no involvement and that they can still leave before they get in too deep. Ted tells him that they didn’t get the cure they were looking for and when Matt wonders if there isn’t one, Ted thinks that he’ll kill himself along with the rest of them. Matt tries to read Bennet’s mind but is thinking in Japanese. Ted grows angrier with Bennet’s stalling when a thought comes through about a safe in a bookcase.

When Ted goes to investigate this, Bennet reaches for a concealed handgun but is subdued by Parkman before he can get a shot off. Taking it to the next level, Ted takes the gun and holds it up to Mrs. Bennet, saying how poetic it would be to kill his wife since he lost his own thanks to him. Parkman is unable to talk Ted down when Bennet tells him through his thoughts to trust him and shoot Claire since she can heal.

Parkman fires a shot into Claire’s chest before Ted can shoot the mother. Bennet plays along as the distraught father, punching Parkman in the process, but secretly tells him to gain Ted’s trust and move Claire’s body before she heals.

Upstairs, Matt tells Bennet that he didn’t know it would go this far and that Ted would have killed his wife. Claire heals on her bed, coughing up the bullet. When Matt asks if he made her this way, Bennet says that he doesn’t have his facts straight and doesn’t appreciate him confusing his daughter. Opening up to her, he tells her that the people he works for don’t know about her and that if they did they would have taken her long ago. He was protecting her and trying to give her the normal life she wanted. Parkman confirms this. Mr. Bennet tells Claire to stay put in her room as though she really is dead and tells Parkman to do what he thinks.

Downstairs, Matt tells Ted that Bennet is going to get them proof of the abductions at the paper factory in exchange for his family’s safety. Matt tries to stay at the house with Ted going to the factory but Ted insists that he stays, saying he can do more damage at the house. Before they leave, Ted gives them an hour deadline before he nukes the whole family.

Back to 14 years ago, Bennet tells his superior that his wife is growing suspicious after finding his gun and sedation kit. After asking if his wife is in danger for what she’s discovered, the man asks him if he said yes, would he take his family and run or would he turn her over.

Bennet responds that he would do what he’s told as he’s always done. The man tells him to relax since they found someone who would make her forget she saw anything: a mute Haitian boy they found. Bennet lets the boy in his house and says that his wife is upstairs.

At the paper factory, Matt says that they’re running low on time and that they need to get the evidence to Ted. Bennet tells him the only thing Ted is getting is a tranquilizer. Matt argues that he deserves to know that truth but Bennet responds that Ted only wants his wife back or revenge. When Matt asks whether he would get some answers, Bennet says that he’s the only one that he can trust and that he would be honest with him if Matt were honest in return.

After signaling the Haitian, Bennet grabs him saying that he found out he can talk and demands to know who he’s been talking to and who knows about Claire. Only the Haitian and Bennet know but he says that will change soon. When addressing why Claire’s memory wasn’t erased, the Haitian informs him that he answers to someone whose instructions supercede his, someone in his daughter’s life.

Seven years in the past, Bennet and Claude are driving somewhere when Claude asks what the mission is. They’re to investigate a security breach and that’s all Bennet was told. Claude says that’s what they told him to tell him but that he knows more. “You are the security breach.”

Bennet asks him if it’s true that he is hiding one of them. Claude admits it saying that though their work is for the greater good, he felt he was betraying his own kind. Expecting more sympathy since his friend is raising one of them as his own, Bennet says that Claire isn’t one of them and that if she were, he would turn her in saying that he knows who he works for. So does Claude, he was in the room when they told Bennet to kill him.

Surprised, he asks him why he still came, knowing this, to which Claude responds, “Evidently, I think you’re a better man than they do.”

Stopping in the middle of a bridge and getting out of the car, Bennet asks Claude to tell him who he is hiding. When he won’t tell him, Bennet draws his gun and says that Claude used to believe in what they do. Claude says that he won’t hunt his own people and when he tries to tell Bennet that he has a choice, Bennet shoots him in his side twice before he turns invisible.

Back at the factory, the Haitian and Bennet argue about what is best to do for Claire. Bennet thinks she is safer in plain sight with the Haitian claiming that she isn’t at the moment. Parkman brings them back to reality by explaining that they aren’t dealing with a patient man and that no one is safe if they don’t give Ted what he wants.

At the Bennet house, Ted investigates a noise coming from upstairs. Claire enters the living room from a back door and tries to free her mother and brother. Shocked to see that her daughter is still alive, Mrs. Bennet claims it is a miracle. Upstairs, Ted enters Claire’s room and sees a lump with a sheet over it, which is nothing more than stuffed animals. Running back downstairs, Ted grabs Claire and charges up his hand scarring her throat. Her mother witnesses her healing ability when he lets go.

After tying them up again, Mrs. Bennet tells her daughter that she always thought she was a miracle and didn’t know how much of one until now. Claire says she doesn’t know what she is, whether God made her like this or someone else. Ted chimes in saying that God didn’t make them this way.

Mrs. Bennet’s memory starts to get jogged a bit when she realizes that Claire had been dropping hints a while ago and wonders if her husband did make her forget. Claire says that she knows that it’s true and says some more harsh words about her father.

This prompts her mother to tell her that God gave her a second chance and that her father deserves one as well. Ted, meanwhile, pieces together that Parkman must have known that Claire wouldn’t have died and that he and Mr. Bennet might be up to something.

At the factory, Bennet and his boss walk down a hallway discussing how regrettable it would be to kill another partner since the Haitian was hiding Claire. There is no acknowledgement that his boss knew about Bennet’s knowledge of Claire. Looking into a holding cell, the men observe Ted sedated on a medical table saying that now they can figure out what gives him his “spark.”

Also sedated somewhere in the facility is Parkman. Bennet’s boss asks him what it would be like working with someone of Parkman’s particular gift and that he’s already proven helpful. Before leaving, Bennet is asked when they can be expecting Claire. “I’ll bring her in right now.”

In a car, Claire begins to ask questions about where she’s going and if she will ever see her family again. He has no answers for her but simply tells her that he tried to protect her and be the best dad that he could be. Flashing back 3 years, we see Claire helping her father pick out glasses, with Claire telling him with each new pair that he looks like a grandfather.

Citing that he is the same age his father was when he needed glasses, Claire wonders if she will one day need glasses herself. It is then that Mr. Bennet tells Claire that she is adopted. He comforts her by telling her that they are still her real family because family is about how much they love each other and not where they come from. After a brief pause, she hands him another pair of glasses, which are the signature horn-rimmed glasses he’s known for. When he asks how he looks, she replies “Like my Dad.”

Stopping on the same bridge as he took Claude to, they get out of the car and meet the Haitian. Bennet says that this is goodbye and the Haitian takes out a gun. Emotional, Claire says that there has to be another way but the Haitian says that there can’t be any doubt cast on her father. After Bennet tells him where to aim and tells Claire to turn around, the Haitian shoots Mr. Bennet in his left side. Struggling, he tells his shooter to take everything that would lead them to her. Claire embraces her father one last time before the Haitian puts his hands over Bennet’s eyes, wiping his memory.

Amazing to see that they had such a focused episode considering what else is going on in the show but I was thoroughly impressed with what they’ve done here in terms of back story and this puts everything in a whole new direction for some of the characters. Probably the best episode since “Six Months Ago…” but we’ll see what happens next week. Can’t wait.

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