Previously on Heroes.
I think I found someone to fill Joseph's shoes.
How do I look? Like everybody else.
I've never met you before.
You pulled me from the 424 bus
after it crashed at Lexington and 53rd.
What made you become a paramedic?
I wanted to save lives instead of watching them pass.
You're exactly who I'd hoped you'd be.
Hi. I need a file.
Who're you listening to?
I'm talking to myself.
Seriously, what are you?
A vampire? An alien? Some kind of freakish government experiment?
I saw this girl on YouTube.
She was born with this gene that doesn't let her feel any pain.
I didn't tell her. She just found out.
Gretchen is not the enemy.
She's just a girl. And she's the only friend that I've made.
This is my mess. And I'm gonna clean it up.
I'm tired of keeping this secret to myself
Do you want to be my roommate?
To closure.
Had a little too much to drink?
On the ground. Hands behind your head. Down! Now!
Mind your backs. Watch your back, will you?
Mrs. Corney's unparalleled blueberry waffles.
This is my favorite part of the day.
SAMUEL it's full of possibility.
Before the inevitable monkey wrenches come looking for us.
But more than anything, it's about being with all of you.
I know grace is a supper thing,
but every morning I thank heaven and earth for our family.
Sadly, Joseph's death has left us an empty seat,
a broken circle.
But I feel like we're on the way to mend it.
There are lost lambs out there.
They're like us, but they're hiding. Alone.
Pretending to be that which they are not.
It's sad, pathetic.
These people, they desperately need what we have.
Understanding, unconditional love, family, trust.
Who are we to deny anyone that?
Today is an important day for us, our family.
And for one of them, too.
Because by day's end,
we will have a full table again.
Eat.
Okay, I gotta ask. What's with the ear-to-ear, smiley?
This... This is cool.
Drinking chocolate milk?
No. Me. In college.
In a dining hall with my new college roommate.
No snipers shooting at me. No serial killers hunting me.
It's e refreshing change of pace.
Yeah. Tedium can be such a thrill.
I have been chasing normal life forever and I finally caught it.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the chocolate milk is awesome,
but right here, right now, is full of possibilities.
I can be anyone.
Claire Bennet, you can't escape your destiny.
I'm Becky Taylor. Psi Alpha rush chair.
Your mom Sandra's sorority.
Your mom was in a sorority?
She totally was.
Hi, Becky. Hi.
So, National has you on a list of legacies,
but we haven't heard from you about rush.
I'm not really sure I'm a sorority girl.
Neither was I at first.
So, listen, open rush starts today at the house,
why don't you come by and meet the girls?
No strings. Yeah.
Why not? She's gonna have to pass.
Well, great, I'll see you there.
Thanks.
Isn't this what we've been talking about? Possibilities.
I mean, I think my mom is still friends with her sorority sisters.
Sororities are just a social crutch
for people who can't make their own friends.
She said, "No strings attached. " What's the harm?
The harm is that they get you alone
and replace you with Stepford Claire.
Well, okay. How about I don't go alone?
Yeah. No. No. No way.
Please. Pretty please. I'll be your best friend.
I'll throw in a chocolate milk.
What would Stepford Gretchen wear to one of these things?
Captain Lubbock?
I'm Dr. Gibson. Madeline.
Where's Dr. Verheiden?
Retired.
You're new?
I've been interning with Dr. Verheiden at A.U. for three years,
specializing in psychopathy, malignant narcissism disorders...
And how many actual, real-life criminal-psych consults have you done?
Including this one?
So, who is he?
We have no idea. And neither does he.
We found him last night covered in dirt, blood.
Bullet holes in his jacket.
The guy doesn't know his name, what day it is, nothing.
Amnesia can be very complicated.
Let me simplify it for you, Madeline.
Take out your rubber stamp and mark this guy insane.
They don't give us stamps.
I'm gonna need to talk to him.
Hi. My name is Dr. Gibson.
I'm hereto help you.
Can you tell me your name?
There's been a lot of that.
Starts and stops?
Mostly stops.
What are you thinking?
Could be an aphasia.
Could be what?
Any trauma to the head could result in brain damage.
He was like this when we found him.
Can you tell me what happened to you?
I was in... I was...
I was in then. In then.
In the forest.
Lost.
And then I was...
Oh, God.
Take your time.
Walking.
And now I'm here in this room.
In this tiny room and...
Captain, can you do me a favor and unlock these cuffs?
No. I don't make a habit of locking myself in with unrestrained lunatics.
Then can you leave me your keys on the way out?
Let's clean you up, get you some clothes. Maybe something to drink.
I'm gonna help you as best I can.
Help you figure out who you are, put the pieces together.
I promise.
Emma, I wanted to talk to you about yesterday.
Are you still seeing things, the colors?
I was thinking more about it.
I have another theory.
Conversion disorder. They used to call it...
I think this whole filing girl act is finally getting to you.
Only the ones who happen to be my daughter.
I think this whole focusing on work thing is getting to me.
I've been told by more than one person
that I've closed myself off from human connection.
Here, Mom. Mom, careful. It's hot. It's hot.
So this is me, trying to connect again.
Starting with you, my family.
The half that bothered to show up, at least.
You did call Nathan, right?
Yeah. A couple times, Mom. So I'm thinking, if...
You didn't just talk to that aide?
That Elizabeth woman is a phone-message black hole.
Can we just focus on me for a second, Mom?
DR. COOLIDGE; Yes. You hide in here. You're filing things.
It's the waste of a brilliant mind.
Be serious.
So I thought being a paramedic,
saving the most people possible,
that would fill that hole, but I...
Mom?
Yes. Yes. You're right.
Nathan will be fine.
Let's just... Go on with what you were saying.
Start over.
I'm not starting over.
I thought you said it was important.
I ran into Chief Kaufman.
And he said that you could re-start your residency if you want.
He always thought you'd make a wonderful doctor.
It's been six years.
It's time to stop blaming yourself for Christopher's death.
You have to stop grieving and take your life back, Emma.
I'm not grieving. I'm...
Emma.
I gotta go.
I gotta get to work.
I think I'll stay for a while.
Okay.
Maybe Nathan's just running late.
It was good seeing you. Yeah.
Hey. Hey.
Yes.
You work too much. You know that?
Yeah. I do.
Bye.
And since 1924, it has been our charge
to populate this house... We're late.
With girls of the utmost quality and integrity.
This is, of course, where you all come in.
We can't wait to get to know each and every one of you.
Which brings us to my absolute favorite part of rush,
G.T.K.P.P.S.D!
Get to know prospective pledges speed dating. Yay!
Okay. So, all the girls on my right,
to the chairs on the right.
And all the girls on my left, to the left.
Should we make a break for it?
No. This is what normal girls do, right? Really?
Scariest thing that ever happened to me? Does this count?
My mom raises professional show dogs.
Show dog. No boyfriend to speak of.
My dad works in paper. Government paper..
I mean, it's more like a series of...
No boyfriends.
Uh...
Hobbies. Um...
You used to be a cheerleader, right?
How did you know?
Gretchen told me.
Really?
So you and Gretchen both lived in Texas?
Last round, ladies! Make it count!
So, Claire, I feel like I know you already.
Let me guess. Gretchen.
She-:'s really cool.
She's very... I don't know, edgy.
Yeah.
You okay?
I mean, you almost... Are you all right?
Hey, wait up a second.
Hey. Wait. Wait. Are you okay?
You almost got hit by a bus.
I mean, that was... You almost got hit and...
You're welcome.
Oh! Come on.
Hand me that, will you?
Who is it? The new family member?
Why are you so interested?
You used my body to find them. I am understandably vested.
Is it Petrelli?
Nakamura?
The Strauss woman? The college co-ed?
Claire Bennet.
Is it her?
You don't know, do you?
I do not.
But I felt something.
In my bones. In the earth.
But the dust hasn't settled yet.
It's a gamble.
Making promises and proclamations to all of us
based on a feeling.
I understand the risks.
But the rewards of growing our family are worth it.
We've got lots of cousins out there.
Plenty of candidates. Many seeds planted.
But who will break ground first?
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Hey, have you seen my white sweater?
It's frilly and
looks kind of exactly like that.
Yeah. Can I borrow this?
Uh... No. Yeah. Go ahead.
Are you sure? 'Cause that "go ahead" sounded a little bit annoyed.
And I could just take it off.
No, don't be silly. It looks good on you.
Cool. Thanks.
So I'm just going to use the rest room and then we gotta go.
Yeah. We're heading back that way now.
Ready?
Um...
Is everything okay?
Yeah.
Why don't you go on without me and I'll catch up?
No. I can just wait.
No, don't worry about it. I mean, it's a mixer, right?
I feel like we should be mixing with people we don't know.
I know you already. You know?
Right. Oh.
Mix master me. Okay.
I'll see you.
It's amazing. What is this?
Tea.
You never had tea before?
I've never had anything.
It all feels so... It feels so new.
Like I'm feeling everything for the first time.
Hot.
This...
It's cold.
It's like I...
I know these things, these words, these feelings, but they're...
I can't put them together. They're not in my head.
They are there and then they're not. They're gone and it's...
Scary.
It's very scary.
But also somehow beautiful.
All of it is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Jamais vu.
It's the opposite of dj vu.
It's quite common in cases of seizures and dissociative amnesia.
That's good news.
How is that good news?
I think something traumatic happened to you and you've blocked it out.
It means that the you in you is still in there. Somewhere.
I'd like to try a memory exercise.
I want you to close your eyes and tell me the first thing that you see.
Um...
Nothing. It's just black.
Just relax, and be yourself.
Um... The ticking. It's distracting.
What do you mean?
That clock. Your watch.
They're off.
Somehow different ticks, different timing.
One is faster, much faster.
This watch has been running fast for years.
I keep meaning to fix it but...
What... You heard that?
Um... Uh...
So, this ticking thing.
It's good, it's your subconscious.
It's probably a clue to your past. Lat's try again.
Can I see you in the hall, Doc?
I'll just be a sec.
Okay?
AFIS just kicked back a fingerprint match.
We got an ID.
Look at what's happened to me
I can't believe it myself
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world
It should've been somebody else
Believe it or not
I'm walking on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flying away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be
Believe it or not, it's just me
Just like the light of new day
It hit me from out of the blue
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in
Makin' all of my wishes come true
The colors? You saw them, too?
You can't... You're deaf.
So you read lips.
All right. I must have gotten your ability on the street.
"Ability"?
This is new to you?
Okay. Um...
There are people like us who have abilities.
They can fly. And teleport. And read minds.
Sometimes I misunderstand. So can you...
That's crazy.
Is it?
Wow.
Pretty amazing, huh?
Why me? Why now?
That I don't know.
Maybe we can get lunch tomorrow. Figure it out.
Get you out of the file room.
I'm fine with the file room.
No, I didn't mean...
It's fine.
Claire.
Hey.
Hey. I'm so glad you came back.
I was worried you'd get cold feet.
No. My feet are actually very toasty in here.
It was nice to meet the girls.
Good to expand my social Venn diagram into more circles.
Then why stop now, right?
Kara!
Claire Bennet, Kara Hayback.
Yeah, I think we met at the G. P.P... Oh, yeah.
Did you know that you're both ex-cheerleaders?
You, too?
I had spirit, yes, I did.
What made you quit?
It sounds stupid, but I kind of hated
the cheerleading part of cheerleading.
That does not sound stupid at all.
I like the bus rides and the bake sales
and I rocked a mean poster, but football is kind of...
Pointless and boring. Exactly.
Is that why you got out of the business?
No, I just...
Watch out!
Hands on the table.
Palms down.
Where's Dr. Gibson?
I sent her home.
But... No, shew.
She was here. She'd said that she came here to...
She was here to tell us who you are.
But now we know that, Gabriel.
You're a watchmaker from Queens who murdered your own mother.
Did you say "watchmaker"?
I also said "murder. " And "mother. "
Now hands on the table.
I didn't do anything wrong.
I wouldn't... I wouldn't kill my mother. I would never...
What are you doing?
I'm gonna use this interrogation room for interrogation again.
I'm gonna get a confession from you about how you killed your mother.
No. I didn't kill anybody.
And then they're gonna throw you down a hole forever.
No!
What are you doing?
You said you'd help me. You promised.
I didn't do it.
I didn't say you did.
But you were thinking it, weren't you?
Gretchen, you were the only one there.
Why would I do something like that?
Maybe because i was making new friends.
Maybe because you want to expose my freakiness to everyone?
Do you actually realize how ridiculous that sounds?
I saw what you've been looking at on your computer.
The stuff about me.
What were you doing snooping on my computer?
I wasn't snooping. A book fell.
The computer turned on and I saw it.
A book jumped off my shelf and begged you to invade my privacy?
Yes, it did.
So I googled you, so what's the big deal?
I saw the stuff about Annie, too.
Can you honestly tell me you had nothing to do with it?
Wow, that stuff that happened to you really messed you up.
You're a crazy kind of paranoid.
Paranoid?
No, no, no. Paranoid is...
This is a pattern.
The Annie thing. The accident tonight. The computer.
The speed dating. I mean, talk about me much?
I get nervous talking about myself.
You're just more interesting.
All I wanted was a normal life, and I trusted you.
I didn't kill Annie,
and I'm not stalking you.
Okay, maybe I'm a little bit stalking you, but it's not what you think.
It's just...
I have a crush.
I'm crushing on you.
Say something.
Claire Bennet, Gretchen Berg,
please accept this bid to join the Psi Alpha Chi sisterhood.
It's getting a little late for Hail Mary passes.
Says you.
Nothing.
Hello, Rebecca.
I'm missing bid night, Uncle Samuel.
I'm sure they can carry on without you one night.
Hmm.
I wanted to check on your work with Claire Bennet.
Well, we're sisters now, so there's that.
You're doing everything you can to isolate her,
push other people away, push her in our direction?
Honestly, I feel like all I do is push.
What made you quit?
It sounds stupid, but I kind of hated
the cheerleading part of cheerleading.
That does not sound stupid at all.
I like the bus rides and the bake sales
and I rocked a mean poster, but football is kind of...
Pointless and boring. Exactly.
Is that why you got out of the business?
No, I just...
Watch out!
Hey, I didn't see you leave the party.
Guess you're still there.
And, you left the windows open.
I don't suppose she's on her way hereto us now?
No. It isn't her. Not yet.
But I think your dust has finally settled.
Get back to campus, Rebecca.
Looks like we're pulling up stakes.
I'm not a killer.
Well, you're a kidnapper and a carjacker.
And you beat up an entire city precinct. Somehow.
He was going to throw me in a hole. Hurt me... I...
Nobody believes me, except for you.
I don't even know you, Gabriel.
No. No, no. That isn't my name.
I close my eyes, but it doesn't feel like me. It's not me.
Well, it sounds an awful lot like you.
The watchmaker... Yeah, I know.
Your watch. I heard the ticking, but it can't be.
I know I'm not a killer.
You know that.
You're right.
What are you doing?
If you're not a killer, then, by definition, you won't kill me.
Take my car wherever you need to.
No. I need you. I need your help.
You don't even know me.
I don't even know myself.
Turn yourself in.
Let the police figure out what happened to your mother.
Let me figure out what happened to you.
Okay. Okay. I'll...
I want to see your hands! Now!
Do what he says.
He's turning himself in. Put the guns down, please!
Please, put the guns down.
What the hell was that?
I don't know. I don't know.
Go.
Run!
So much for human connection.
Peter Petrelli? Hiro?
It's okay, brother.
You're safe here.
Where exactly is here?
Home.