Upon arriving, though, Erica soon realizes she’s been played when Noah and Quentin emerge from another room.
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It’s a looming threat that’s been hanging overhead all season long on Heroes Reborn with nearly no answer as to what is about to happen.
Erica’s daughter Taylor (who is the father, do you think we’ll find out?) calls her from their multi-million-dollar tech-CEO house “crying”, apologizing profusely for acting out, and asking her to come home so they can talk about it. She obliges… and walks right into an armed-Bennet-and-Quentin shaped trap. “Humanity has one last hope for survival” and the teen is going to help save the world.
Wrapping everything up for this week we finally get a glimpse at what exactly is driving Erica to such extremes that she would be willing to use Evos as tools for the rest of the human race. But theeeeeennnn Tommy gets bested – he doesn’t know his real last name, and biologically speaking, he can’t be his mom’s kid: Her blood type is O-negative, his is AB-positive. After Tommy makes a startling discovery, he and Emily will go on an unexpected journey. Erica sees through Ren’s plan to use the crowd as a distraction and tells Harris to take Hiro’s sword back to her house. Erica tells Noah that she used to consider him one of her greatest assets.
“It seems before the disaster in Odessa, Noah was one of Renautas” top agents, but he had to forget whatever happened on that day a year ago. Just when it looks like Erica is about to reveal what’s really been happening and why Noah chose to forget, Harris shows up with a gun in hand and he foils the home invasion and the interrogation of his boss.
As for other events, the Malina/Farah story also takes an interesting turn after weeks of not doing much thanks to the two getting separated after an encounter with the Harris clones and the mysterious new Evo introduced at the end of the previous episode. It’s possible Renautas wanted Claire like they did Molly (Francesa Eastwood) to create a weapon, which could be what Bennet can’t remember. The doctor explains that the device will alert authorities if he leaves a predetermined area, and that he doesn’t want to meet who they’ll send to bring him back.
Mike gets the sword, pulls it from the sheath and disappears into her video game world. Appearing before Ren, she says she has to go back into the game to save her father. He believes that he kidnapped both his nephew and father Jose.
He goes to the police station to deal with Detective Derring – the guy responsible for killing his brother and kidnapping evos who are trying to escape America. Two officers put him in the back of a van and drive way. Carlos busts him out of custody in order to find out where his friends are.
It turns the people trailing her are Harris and his goons plus Phoebe Frady aka The Shadow and they’ve been sent to retrieve the girl. But, you never know. They try to run, but only make it as far as a storage room before she collapses, unable to go any further. After Harris shoots her in the back, Farah forces Malina to flee without her, but not before giving her a sealed envelope. Malina escapes on a semi-truck hauling trees out of Quebec as Harris and the others continue their pursuit.
After being captured, Tommy’s registered as an Evo and tagged so he can be found. The cop wants to know Tommy’s birth name because he was adopted and they want to search for his birth parents. Tommy gets interrogated by a smarmy G-man (evo-Nazi, basically) who sets up the flawless expositional conversation about how laws protect norms from evos, and keep evos like Tommy (and his norm mom) on the run and living in fear. His mother also calls him “Nathan” (a Petrelli perhaps?) and Tommy freaks out, zaps himself out of the hospital to parts unknown.
Last but certainly not least, Luke returns to the home he shared with Joanne in Rochester, New York and proceeds to go down a rabbit hole of heartache, revisiting old photos and home movies from the years when his son was alive. Luke, who’s apparently a dentist, calls his old partner up and sells him his half of the business, saying that he needs to atone for his past mistakes. The group also manages to capture one of the Harris clones before Erica makes her escape and while Noah convinces Quentin to resist the urge to kill him, it’s likely things are going to get pretty chaotic on that front come next week.
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Erica is called into Renautas where the same scientist who invented the teleporting machine tells his boss that the “event” is coming much sooner than they expected and impact could happen in the next week. Pointing to a computer simulation, it seems a red-hot ball of solar radiation is headed right toward Earth, and according to Erica’s minion, 96 percent of all species will be wiped out when it hits the planet. This is the reason why Erica is preparing for an extinction level event and looking to use the powers of the evos to help her do it. Last night, NBC served up the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming “Heroes: Reborn” episode 6 of season 1, and it looks quite interesting and dramatic as Noah is spotted meeting our new set of heroes.
