.
[wings fluttering]
[line trilling]
- Hey, this is Claire.
Leave me a message and I'll call you back.
[phone beeps]
- Hey, it's your dad.
I know it's been a few years since we've talked,
and... I don't know if you're still mad or...
I don't really know anything.
I just know...
I miss you.
I'm sure there's plenty of apologies to go around,
but to be honest with you, I'm not interested
in who was right or wrong anymore.
So much has changed since I saw you last.
I don't know whether those changes are good or bad,
but I really think
it has a chance to all work out.
And knowing how important you've been to all of this,
to so many people out there,
it's made me proud.
And I just wanted to call and tell you how excited I am
that we might be seeing each other.
When you look back at the things you've done,
the decisions you've made...
- Whoa.
- The last thing you want to feel
is regret, am I right?
I'll see you soon, Claire-bear.
- on little Odessa, Texas.
- Headquarters of Primatech,
the global leaders of evo research.
- [speaking Spanish]
- [speaking foreign language]
[indistinct chatter]
[high-pitched whine]
[explosion]
- The dream for peace between humans and evos
has shattered in seconds. - Massive evidence...
[droning high-pitched tone]
- Odessa... - [speaking foreign language]
- A once thriving city in central Texas...
- Why did this have to happen?
- It was a despicable and cowardly act...
- Reduced to a wasteland... - These are the seeds of hate
that we cannot let take root in our heart.
- This horrific attacks are a grim reminder...
- Tyrants and terrorists with strength.
- And so we are newly reminded that serious threats
to our way of life remain.
- Make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this...
- Claire!
- To bring those who committed this vicious attack
to justice.
- June 13th will certainly go down in history
as one of the worst terrorist attacks...
- Will hunt down and punish... - Claire!
- Those responsible. - Will be brought to justice.
- Hunt them down and kill them. Kill 'em all!
- Claire!
[engine revving]
- [panting]
♪ ♪
[car engine revving]
- [panting] [tires screech]
[tires screech, water splashes]
[yelling in French, dogs barking]
- Don't see him, huh?
[tense exotic music]
♪ ♪
[engines revving]
- [screaming]
[screaming continues]
[whooshing]
[sonic boom]
[distant sirens wailing]
- Coach Lewis?
- Aw, jeez. You got to be kidding me.
- Odessa, a once-thriving city in central Texas,
reduced to a desolate wasteland by a cowardly act...
- Password. - Of evil terrorism.
- Cockroach?
- Why Odessa?
It was the headquarters of Primatech,
a company steeped in secrecy.
Primatech opened its doors on June 13th
for what was to be a three-day summit.
People gathered from all around the world,
hoping to build a better future where humans and evos
could coexist in peace.
Within hours, an evil supremacist
named Mohinder Suresh claimed full responsibility
for the attacks.
- Lies. All of it.
- This is pathetic.
How the hell are we supposed to fight back
if we can't even organize?
- We just got to get creative.
There's a guy in Los Angeles fighting back,
calls himself "El Vengador."
- That dude in the Mexican wrestler costume...
That's a joke, right?
- Is it? At least he's doing something.
- I hear he's got a whole underground railroad out there,
fake IDs, fake blood samples...
It's a way to disappear.
- One guy, so what?
Pretty soon, they'll send drones after us.
- June 13th changed everything.
The public's scared to death of us.
- Most of these incidents are isolated...
Tulsa, Cedar Rapids...
The vigilantes, a few bad apples... that's all.
- If it was just vigilantes,
the government wouldn't be forcing us to register.
- People don't get it.
It's not the government or the vigilantes
we should be worried about.
The ones really hunting us, they're in the shadows.
There's something else going on here.
And they're everywhere.
- Oh, that's just great.
So what are we supposed to do with that,
chase ghosts?
- My mom sleeps with a gun under her pillow,
when she sleeps at all.
And we use fake names most of the time.
I'm calling myself "Tommy" now.
- No names, for God's sakes.
- Now we're wanted in three states,
all because I can't control my power.
I came here tonight because I thought maybe
someone could give me a few tips,
help me out a little.
- You came to the wrong place, my friend.
[cell phone chimes]
- I-I got to go.
My mom...
Sorry.
- Hey, look out!
[grunts]
- I'm so sorry. - Come on.
- I'm really sorry.
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- It's lies, just lies. - You believe everything.
- You can't have a revolution without casualties.
Resistance is our only answer,
by any means possible. - Exactly.
We need to stop acting like victims here.
We're the ones with powers.
- Suresh was right.
We are the future.
- [chuckling]
The future...
That's a good one.
On June 13th, my wife and I,
we brought our nine-year-old son Dennis to Odessa
to watch history being made.
It was a beautiful day. Sun was shining.
Summer heat was rising up off the ground.
Like everyone there, we believed in the cause.
We believed that the change
could come from that spot right then and there.
And then when I watched my... my boy die in my arms,
I realized that that just wasn't gonna happen.
You all seem like really nice folks.
You can't change who you are, what you are.
But these powers...
They're not natural.
They're not safe, and they cannot be trusted.
So as far as I'm concerned,
there's only one solution for that.
- And what solution is that?
- Run! They found us!
[gunshot]
[gunshots]
- [grunts]
- [screams]
[groans]
- [groans]
[grunts]
[light fixture creaking]
- One of 'em got away.
Dropped this.
- Moe's Ice Cream Parlor.
Carbondale, Illinois.
One more, and we got free ice cream.
- For Dennis.
[tense exotic music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic exotic music]
♪ ♪
The good ones fill your life with meaning,
with context,
with clarity,
while other memories can deceive.
The ones that make you believe you know the truth,
they're the dangerous ones,
the ones that hold you hostage.
When you look back on all the decisions
you've made in your life,
the one thing you don't want to feel...
is regret.
Am I right?
It's why this car makes so much sense.
Gas mileage, style, safety...
It's got it all,
not to mention that new-car smell.
- [chuckles]
- What do you think, young lady?
[chuckles]
Okay.
- Let's head back into my office.
- Leasing office, pick up line 3, please.
Leasing office, line 3.
- So can I get started on the paperwork?
- I'd like to check the safety stats on the car first.
You've probably got kids, right, Mr. Barnes?
[indistinct chatter]
[both breathing heavily]
- Linda, you're amazing.
- Oh, it's Lisa. - Lisa, yeah, right.
[school bell rings]
- We got to stop.
- Why? Why? What's wrong?
- Lunchtime, you're on in five.
[door opening]
- All I know about being a hero
is it's not something you're born with.
And if you had told me when I was your age
that I'd be getting a Medal of Valor
for saving three soldiers from an ambush in Afghanistan,
I'd have said you were nuts.
Uh...
Here I am.
I'd like to thank Principal Marks
and Miss... Miss, uh...
- Carpenter. - Right.
Uh, for giving me such a warm welcome today.
I'll leave you with this last thought.
It doesn't matter how ordinary you think you are
or how much of a screwup you think you've been.
We all have the potential to be heroes.
Thank you.
[applause]
[laughter]
- You want to? - Yes.
- Okay.
- Hey! Brad...
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
- You like my girlfriend? - What?
- You're staring at my girlfriend.
- No, I wasn't staring. [grunts]
[whirs]
- Wuss.
- [crying]
- They said his wife didn't even know he was in Chicago.
- Did something happen?
- Coach Lewis died in a fire last night
with six other people.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- I've been here an hour now.
The other guy told me to wait.
- Mm.
Waiting.
Too many people go through life
waiting for things to happen
instead of making them happen.
Ah.
Now,
let's talk about what you saw.
- I'm riding my bike down H Street with my delivery
when this little prick runs right into me.
28 bucks worth of food on the ground.
He came running out of that church
right before it caught fire,
so I'm guessing he killed all those people.
- Could you identify this "prick"
if you saw him again?
- Is there a reward?
[soft foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- Go ahead.
♪ ♪
[curious music]
- I don't understand. What's this for?
- Penny for your thoughts.
♪ ♪
- All right.
So let's see if we can get a description
of that kid you saw.
- Kid?
Sorry, I don't remember anything about a kid.
[tense foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[elevator bell dings]
♪ ♪
[music playing distantly]
[door creaks]
- [speaking Japanese]
♪ ♪
[upbeat pop music]
♪ ♪
[rock music plays louder]
♪ ♪
- [speaking Japanese]
[gentle foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
You're the ice cream junkie, right?
- What?
- Well, you're at Moe's all the time.
- Oh, yeah, I guess I like ice cream.
- [laughs] So it's not because of me.
I'm just messing with you.
I'm the one who drew the happy face on your punch card.
- Oh, I know.
- Hey, we need a new scooper.
You should come in.
They're letting me do the interviews.
- Okay.
Yeah. Maybe.
- Um, hey, I heard about what Brad did to you.
I'm sorry.
Brad acts like a tough guy, but he's not.
He's just...
- A total narcissistic jerk? - [laughs]
Sometimes. Yeah.
Hey, did you hear what they're saying about Coach Lewis,
that he might have been an evo?
- Uh... An evo?
- Evolved, had powers. [school bell rings]
- Really?
- Well, I got to get to a French Club meeting.
But seriously, you should come in for that job.
Brad.
- Hi. - Hey.
[cell phone buzzes, pings]
- Want me to pick you up? - Sure.
- Come on. Hurry up. Let's go.
- Why don't you ever stay with us when you're in town?
- It's complicated.
- If you came back, you could work at the shop.
- I don't know.
I think your dad's still pretty sore at me.
- He's probably over it now that you're a hero.
- Hero.
[speaking Spanish]
- But you're like El Vengador.
- What, the guy in the Mexican wrestling mask?
Ah...
You comparing me to an evo?
- They say anyone could turn out to be an evo.
They were just born that way.
There's this website called "HeroTruther."
And they're tracking how all these evos
are starting to disappear.
Someone's taking them,
maybe even killing them.
[power tools whirring]
El Vengador's the only one taking care
of this neighborhood,
the only one the gangbangers are scared of.
- All right, I've heard enough about El Vengador.
I've seen enough too. Is that yours, Jose?
- Yes.
But people need to know he's not in hiding like the rest of them.
- No, people need to come to a garage
without graffiti on the wall.
Now clean it up.
- So the kid's got a hero, someone to look up to.
What's the problem?
- El Vengador isn't everybody's hero.
The tag is bad for business.
And what's Jose need a caped crusader to idolize
when he's got Tío Carlos?
- Hey, Oscar!
- I think she's a lost cause.
Transmission's shot.
[engine revving]
- I don't know. You hear that?
- What?
- I can hear an air lift there.
Just need to replace the vacuum lines to the modulator valve.
She should be good to go.
- [speaking Spanish]
- Hey, I told Pop to paint the "S" off the word "sons"
years ago.
- Yeah, he figured after you came back from the army,
you'd change your mind.
Look, war hero or not,
you broke his heart.
I hope you know that.
[car engine rumbling]
- Like it was ever gonna be 50/50 anyway.
- That's it. Walk away.
You're real good at that, hero man!
- See you later, okay?
- I don't know.
If this thing gets to be over 75 people,
we might need to rent a tent.
- Sure it's not too late to elope?
- Sorry.
You have been roped and tied, my friend.
- You hold that thought.
- What?
- I'll be right back.
- What is it?
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[clattering]
- [grunts]
- First rule of tailing somebody:
know how to tail someone.
Who are you? What do you want?
- Answers.
- Answers to what?
- To what really happened on June 13th.
- What the hell does that have to do with me?
- You're Noah Bennet, right?
[groans]
- Who do you work for?
- Renautas. - Renautas.
- Well, I-I-I worked at Renautas,
but not for Renautas.
And I know that you worked for Primatech.
[coughs]
[gags]
[coughs]
- I sold paper.
- Sure,
along with bagging and tagging
and keeping powers under wraps.
- And you know this how?
- Because Renautas secretly owned Primatech.
- Primatech is dead.
It's a hole in the ground.
- Unless it's not.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
June 13th is just the beginning.
I just... I don't know of what.
And your name is on hundreds of memos
and shredded documents.
You know something about June 13th
that nobody else does.
- Let me guess.
You're a truther,
an apologist for Mohinder Suresh.
- Man...
Suresh had nothing to do with Odessa.
He was a patsy.
How do you not know that, man?
What did they do to you?
- Get a life,
and stay out of mine.
- Wait, I have the manuscript
Suresh was just about to publish.
- How the hell do you have that?
- It's all in here... How the number of evos
is higher on the planet than ever before.
These powers...
Their numbers are increasing,
escalating.
Why? Is it evolutionary?
Is it because they want to take over,
like, the media, like, the government,
like, wants us to think?
No.
They're here to save us... - Save us?
- From whatever it is that Renautas is planning.
- If that's true, then where are they?
Huh? You see any people with powers around here?
They are all gone.
They are hiding or dead.
Believe me.
If they were here to save us,
I would know.
- Listen to me, man.
[police siren wailing]
Aw, you called the cops?
- That's him. That's the guy.
- On the ground! Hands above your head!
- Oh, you got... Man!
- I said down now!
- June 13th did not happen like they say it did.
- You listen to me.
I have been over that day a thousand times.
My daughter died on that day.
You don't just forget a day like that.
- You do, if someone doesn't want you to remember it.
That's what I'm trying to tell you, man.
Something big's coming.
Something big's coming!
How do you not know that, man?
- Come on, sir, move!
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, he's...
He's just some nut.
Let's go inside.
[soft foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[gentle exotic music]
♪ ♪
[quiet foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- "Ophthalmology."
♪ ♪
[keyboard clacking]
Relocated from Odessa to Dallas.
- The masked vigilante known as El Vengador
has been spotted again, this time coming to the rescue
of a man who passed by a gang member
from the 700 block of San Gabriel Boulevard.
- Killed a lot of people in Odessa last year.
We all know that.
All I know is, he saved me.
Powers or not, the guy's a hero in my book.
- Although many believe El Vengador is in fact an evo,
authorities are still debating
whether or not he's broken any laws.
- [panting]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[glass shattering]
[blows landing, men grunting]
[gunshot]
- [grunting]
[blows landing, men grunting]
[gunshots]
- [groans]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
- [exhaling]
[police sirens wailing]
[steam hissing]
- Oscar?
I don't understand.
You're El Vengador.
- Since June 13th,
all the world's gone crazy.
Just trying to make a difference.
- So you're telling me you have powers.
- We all have our secrets.
- [grunts]
What's going on? What happened?
Oh, my God.
- It was a trap.
They knew I was coming.
- Who?
Who?
- It's all there.
Carlos, listen to me.
Jose really looks up to you.
He's gonna need a strong hand.
You got to...
- What are you even talking about, hey?
We're gonna get you an ambulance.
- It's not just Jose.
There's others.
- What others?
- Someone like you...
You can put on the mask.
You're a hero.
- I'm not...
Everything they say about me... The medal... all...
No.
[crying]
No.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- This really is unbelievable.
We do all the hard work,
and this son-of-a-bitch terrorist gets all the credit.
- That's the second time now.
I mean, once, that's a coincidence,
but not twice.
- I'm gonna die of boredom here.
I need to pee.
- Have fun.
- You've really moved around a lot.
What are you, like, from some weird, nomadic tribe?
- Uh, I am, as a matter of fact.
Is that a problem?
- Okay, let's start this interview for real.
[sighs]
Can you scoop ice cream?
- Uh... Yeah.
- Congratulations. You're hired.
- Wow, uh, all right. Thanks so much.
- [laughs]
- My mom's gonna be really excited.
- Well, I will get your uniform,
and you can start tomorrow.
Okay, so I've got three sizes,
and you can try them in the men's room.
Okay, sure.
Give me a second.
I'll be right back.
[tense foreboding music]
♪ ♪
I can't believe we made it out alive.
So what happened in there?
♪ ♪
All I heard is the place burned down.
- What do you think happened?
♪ ♪
- I think we shouldn't talk about it in public.
- Good idea.
♪ ♪
- Hey, you forgot to try on your uniforms.
♪ ♪
- Well, it looks like both of you are going
for a little ride.
- No need. We'll take them both now.
[tense dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Hey!
Where are you going?
- Where do you think?
Home,
to pack and leave like we always do.
Oh, my God, I am such an idiot,
thinking I could have a normal life here.
I'm just...
I'm sorry.
- Those people... Where did they go?
- I don't know.
I don't know where any of it goes.
How's that for the worst power ever?
- You saved my life.
Tommy!
Your secret...
It's safe with me.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Why didn't El Vengador stop them?
What good is a hero
if he doesn't help people who need him most?
You would have.
I never even got a chance to tell him,
to show him.
- Show him what?
- I kind of want to be alone.
- Can I help you?
- Yes, um,
I have an odd question.
Have I ever been here before?
- I don't believe so, no.
- Do you mind checking your records?
The name is Ted B...
Bennet. Noah Bennet.
- I'm sorry. There's nothing here under Bennet.
Perhaps if you remembered the doctor's name?
- Yeah, you know, I wish I did.
"See more clearly."
- Sorry.
We have no doctor here named Seymour.
- [chuckles]
No.
That's just what's written on the card.
You know, I really think I have been here before.
I knew there was something off about this place.
[safety clicks]
- It's okay. He's a friend.
- René?
[exotic vocalizing]
- There's a bench across the street.
Wait for me there.
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[sword humming]
- [gasps]
[percussive music]
- [shouting in Japanese]
- [shouting]
[both grunting]
[swords clinking]
[grunting, swords clinking]
- [screams]
[swords clinking]
- [grunts] - [yelling]
[swords clinking]
- [speaking Japanese]
- [grunts]
[grunting, whooshing]
♪ ♪
- You left these the last time I saw you.
[gentle piano music]
♪ ♪
- Didn't know what I was missing.
[grunts]
[gagging]
[both grunting]
René, what the...
[both grunting]
[gunshot]
[yelps]
Oh, my God.
No.
Not René.
Why were you trying to kill me?
- You told me to.
- What?
- You made the perfect plan.
- You wiped my memory.
- You needed to forget.
- What did I need to forget?
What?
- It's coming.
It's coming.
- No, René. René, no, no!
What did I need to forget?
What is it?
René!
[grunts]
[groans]
[grunts]
[exotic vocalizing]
♪ ♪
[exotic vocalizing]
- Where does it come from,
this fear,
this quest...
[exotic vocalizing]
This need to hide in a simpler past...
when the future cannot be avoided?
[exotic vocalizing]
It's coming.
And when it does...
[exotic vocalizing]
Everything will change.
If there are those who can stop it...
Do we know how?
- It's happening faster than we thought.
I don't think I can control it much longer.