AS MATT AND SURESH FACE GRAVE DANGER, THE SCANDALOUS TRUTH ABOUT CLAIRE’S REAL FATHER IS REVEALED — CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON (”DR. WHO”) AND JESSALYN GILSIG (”NIP/TUCK”) GUEST STAR — While the scandalous truth about Claire’s real father is revealed, her adoptive mother (guest star Ashley Crow) faces a crisis. Matt (Greg Grunberg) takes a job as a bodyguard for a crooked attorney (guest star Aron Malsky), which puts him in the crosshairs of Linderman’s new assassin. Hiro (Golden Globe nominee Masi Oka) and Ando (guest star James Kyson Lee) return to Las Vegas to find the sword, but get sidetracked by a damsel in distress (guest star Missi Pyle). Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) finds someone on the list and unknowingly puts himself in grave danger. Meanwhile, Simone (Tawny Cypress) turns to some unlikely help in her and Nathan’s (Adrian Pasdar) struggle to find Peter (Milo Ventimiglia). Santiago Cabrera, Noah Gray-Cabey, Ali Larter and Leonard Roberts also star. Jessalyn Gilsig, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Lisa Lackey, Zachary Quinto and Cristine Rose guest star.

TIMELINE: October 28 (11 days)

FIRST APPEARANCES: Zane Taylor and Hope (Missi Pyle).

TWISTS AND REVELATIONS:

  • Sylar meets Zane Taylor (who can liquify metal objects) posing as Mohinder. After Sylar kills Zane, he poses as Zane when Mohinder arrives. He offers to help Mohinder find more Heroes.
  • Angela Petrelli is rutheless and influences Nathan who really has a heart of gold.
  • Matt is able to hear both Jessica and Niki’s thoughts.
  • After getting his butt kicked by Jessica, Matt decides to keep the diamonds when he overhears the detectives thoughts about how he bungled a simple security job and will never amount to anything on the force.
  • Meredith is only using Claire to blackmail money from Nathan.
  • Between the numerous mind wipes and the bump on the head she took from Sylar, Claire’s adoptive mother is having serious neurological problems - to the point she doesn’t remember the family dog or Claire.
  • Jessica receives instructions for her next hit for Linderman - Nathan Petrelli.
* * * * *

“To survive in this world, we hold close to us those people on whom we depend. We trust in them our hopes, our fears. But what happens when trust is lost? Where do we run when things we believe in vanish before our eyes? When all seems lost, the future unknowable, our very existence in peril… all we can do, is run…”