- Previously on "Heroes Reborn"...
- June 13th did not happen like they say it did.
- My daughter died on that day.
You don't just forget a day like that.
- You're starting at my girlfriend.
- I wasn't staring--unh!
- I heard about what Brad did to you. Sorry.
[gun cocks]
[air whooshing]
- Tommy! Your secret is safe with me.
- You're El Vengador? - We all have our secrets.
You can put on the mask.
You're a hero.
- Why were you trying to kill me?
- You told me to. - You wiped my memory.
[bell rings]
[horn blaring]
[water running]
- [grunts]
[panting]
- It's coming. - René!
What did I need to forget?
You wiped my memory.
No!
René! René!
What did I need to forget? What is it?
[bell ringing]
[indistinct chatter]
[pop music] - ♪ Hey ♪
- Come on, let's go! - Whoo!
- ♪ Hey ♪
- Hey, Bobby. - Bobby.
- ♪ Hey ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- ♪ "You going to the party on Saturday?" ♪
♪ She asked us and I didn't know ♪
♪ High school love ♪
- Pretty sure whatever I touch
just, like, ceases to exist.
- I think you're being a tad melodramatic.
Seriously, we should be able to figure out
how your power works.
- You don't understand how dangerous
having a power is.
It's like being a witch in Salem.
People hate us.
They want us dead.
- How long have you had it?
- Ever since I was a kid.
When I was, like, seven,
these people took me to this place because of my power.
I remember a room filled with toys and stuff.
No windows.
It was kind of hazy.
I think about it all the time.
Especially when I'm scared.
Not like I run around all day terrified or anything.
- Will you make this disappear?
I want to know what it feels like.
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[gasps]
[chuckles] So cool.
- [chuckles]
- Where the hell have you been?
I'm not exactly prison material. - Shut up.
- Sorry. Thank you for bailing me out.
Why did you bail me out?
- I went to see a friend.
To vet my memory and your claims
about Renautas on June 13.
His place was a front for some kind of an operation.
And then... he tried to kill me.
- Kill you? What did you do?
- Apparently what I forgot what worth dying to protect.
When I went back, the place was cleaned out.
So now you are going to tell me everything you know.
- Or what? You'll kill me, too?
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- You okay? You look worried.
- "Worried" is kind of my default status.
For obvious reasons.
- I told you. You can trust me.
[bell ringing]
Crap, I have trig. See you at lunch?
- Hey, freak.
I saw what you did in the shed.
Yeah, that's right. And I'm gonna turn you in.
[gunfire]
- Maybe that's not such a brilliant idea.
- I'm trying to get us out of here.
- Yeah, well, your itchy trigger fingers
aren't going to do the job.
[deep-sounding taps]
Well, that is one superior brand of drywall.
- Just our bloody luck.
Kid was a teleporter. Where the hell are we?
- I don't know. Just keep a grip on it, okay?
[mechanical roaring]
Dennis had one of these.
God, he loved it.
[roaring]
Maybe we're in hell.
- Is that where you think we belong?
- If we would have let that kid go
and focused on this El Vengador,
we wouldn't be in this predicament now, would we?
- My drive, my itchy trigger fingers,
they keep us going.
None of this would have happened
if you hadn't convinced me to take Dennis--
- Why don't your sit your ass down
on those itchy trigger fingers of yours,
and let me use my brain to get us out of here.
How's that sound, darling?
[knocking]
- [speaking Japanese]
[ominous music]
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- [speaking Japanese]
[all speaking Japanese]
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- Have you thought this through?
Because you know I could make you disappear.
I don't want to.
All I want is to be left alone.
I would never hurt anyone.
I just want to live my life like any other--
- And how do I know you're not a radical?
Part of that Suresh guy's group?
- This is crazy!
You kicked my ass yesterday at school.
I could have sent you anywhere.
I didn't.
I'm a pacifist.
- Whatever that is.
[exhales deeply]
Okay.
Maybe you do something for me,
I'll keep my mouth shut.
- Yeah. Anything.
What?
- Get in.
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- You okay, Jose?
- Yeah. I guess it was a good funeral.
A lot of people came.
- 'Cause your dad was a good man.
You hold on to that.
- Jose, your mother wants you to come back to the apartment.
Carlos, may I speak with you?
- Yeah, I should really just-- - It'll only take a moment.
Oscar told me about the rift between you two.
I hope you had a chance to reconcile.
- I don't know. Maybe we did.
- He loved you.
Had high hopes for you.
- And I disappointed him.
Abandoned the family, yeah?
Look, my grandfather ran around in a luchador costume.
He was a clown.
And maybe I wanted to be known for something else.
- We all wear masks, Carlos.
What matters is what's underneath.
Maybe you come see me-- - Yeah, I'm doing okay.
- Oscar died because he stood up for the underdog.
Never forget that.
- I'll keep that in mind.
- When I started "The Biggest Loser,"
I weighed 242 pounds, and today I'm at 177.
That is 65...
- Damn remote needs batteries.
- Uh, I don't understand.
What am I doing?
- You're gonna make my stepfather disappear.
- What? Why?
'Cause he wants you to buy batteries for him?
- No, because he's a freaking monster.
- At least you have a father.
I don't even know who mine is.
I'd do anything to meet him.
- Whoever he is, I doubt he'd do this.
- I'm sorry. That's--that's awful.
I don't know what happens when I...
He could fall into a volcano.
- The more painful, the better.
- Please don't make me do this.
- Look, this guy sits on his ass all day and drinks.
My mom works two jobs and he beats her, too.
- I'm sorry. I-I really am, but--
- What the hell you still doing here?
You don't want to poke the bear.
- He better be gone when I get back.
I'll get the batteries, Pops. Tommy's gonna hang.
[door closes]
- My family would always ask me to go do...
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[cheers and applause]
[suspenseful music]
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- What the hell are you doing?
- Uh, uh...
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- I got hired at Renautas to scan and digitize
any files concerning Primatech.
Everything was fine until I started reading the files.
Seemed ironic some tech giant like Renautas, like,
buy into some tiny paper company like Primatech.
Why'd you stop working at Primatech?
Was it because Renautas bought the company?
- No. I left after the summit. After...
- That's right. Your daughter, uh, I'm sorry.
- I was there June 13th. How did I survive?
I thought that I didn't remember because of the trauma
of the explosion, but...
[sighs] Claire was there, too.
And I didn't save her.
And I have to know why.
- No, I'm pretty sure Renautas was behind the whole slaughter.
- That's not what the world believes.
- You knew Mohinder Suresh.
Was he capable of mass murder?
- No. But why is he running?
Why is Renautas framing, disappearing,
and killing evolved humans?
- That's why I came to find you.
I figured if anybody had answers, it was you.
Do you?
What?
- Odessa.
I need my files so I can track down
an Evo named Molly Walker.
She can locate anyone just by thinking about them.
They built a whole system around her ten years ago.
I've gotta get to her before they do.
[horn honking, swords clanking]
[all speaking Japanese]
- Miko!
Miko!
[indistinct chatter]
[dance music]
- New shooter, new shooter.
[indistinct chatter]
- No more bets.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Winner.
♪ ♪
- ♪ This is where the wild things are ♪
♪ This is where the wild things are ♪
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- Why don't you give those a little wind for me, honey?
- [blows lightly]
- Winner. - Boom.
- You're incredible.
- All right, let's go again.
- Are you always this lucky?
- Only since I laid eyes on you.
You must be my good luck charm.
- [blows lightly]
- Seven! - [laughs]
- Waiter! - Uh, you know what?
We are attracting the wrong kind of attention.
Why don't we take this party somewhere else?
I'll cash out, we can grab a drink back at my hotel.
- Love to.
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[knock at door]
- Not interested.
I'm watching "The Biggest Loser."
- Ah, schadenfreude. I understand the attraction.
I'm here to discuss an opportunity
that I think you will find pretty darned attractive.
What do you say you invite me in and crack us each a tallboy?
- "The Evo vigilante, El Vengador,
"killed three police officers.
"There was an anonymous report of a women being ra--raped.
Patrolman Eugene Pakowski identified the assailant."
Eugene Pakowski.
- [speaking Japanese]
- Let's have another drink.
- Now that is a good idea, Zoe.
- To my good luck charm.
[glasses clink]
- [chuckles]
Luck.
We both know your run tonight had nothing to do with luck.
- What are you talking about?
- You were either cheating,
or you have powers.
You don't seem smart enough to have a system.
I work for the Dragon Lounge.
- Ah, come on, I beat the house, that means I'm an Evo?
- [chuckles]
I just needed to make some fast dough.
Look, I swear this will never happen again.
You turn me over and those club goons will kill me.
Or worse.
- Then give me the money and hit the road.
- [exhales deeply]
- It's your only play.
- [exhales deeply]
Or not.
[tense music]
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[screaming]
[grunting]
[choking]
- [choking]
[tense music]
[gasping]
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[gasping]
[panting]
- Send security to 601! A man just attacked a woman!
Are you okay? - Yeah.
- Let's go. - Who the hell are you?
- A good Samaritan.
Trust me, you don't want to be here.
- My money's in there.
- I saw you in the Dragon Lounge,
and so I'm betting the money is his,
and you don't look like someone
who wants to deal with cops.
Come on. We'll get a drink.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
I didn't hear anything about toxins.
- All right, did they discover that the site
was contaminated after the cleanup?
Because now this all seems like a terrible idea.
- I think it's a scarecrow to keep people out.
- You think?
Shouldn't we be certain where deadly toxins are concerned?
Oh, Jesus.
[tires screeching]
Am I turning green?
Am I turning green, man?
Man.
It's so weird to be back in Odessa.
Must be way weirder for you.
Your old job looking like this.
All your memories. - Yep. Weird.
- They would have fixed this up
if things were still going on, right?
- Nope. That'd be just like 'em.
Level five is where things happened.
[grunts]
- [grunts]
[coughs] Jesus.
What the hell are we looking for?
- I'll tell you when I find it.
- Whoa.
Who the hell are you, James Bond?
- See if you can flag anything with Molly Walker or Renautas.
This would be the jackpot if they found this.
Names, addresses, contacts...
All with powers.
- You said your daughter died here at the summit.
- That's right.
- You might need to rethink that.
- I don't remember this.
I remember arriving the morning of June 13th.
And after that...
I just knew what the rest of the world knew.
And I just assumed Claire had died here like everybody else.
- And if she didn't die here, then where did she die?
And how did she die?
And why didn't you know?
Are they doing something else with the evos?
Well, if you can't tell me, who's going to tell me?
What? What?
- Why are you so interested in her?
In me? Huh?
Little twerp like you should be holed up
in your mother's basement
trolling conspiracy boards.
- I was just trying to help.
Something terrible's gonna happen.
- [grunts]
- My sister.
They took my sister and I couldn't stop them.
Phoebe Frady.
I'm just trying to find her.
- Is this about revenge?
Did you think I did it?
- Was it you?
Her power was umbrakinesis.
She could manipulate darkness.
- No.
She wasn't one of mine.
And I'm sorry you lost her.
- I have reason to believe
that Phoebe did not die on June 13th with the rest of them.
The things that I've found, they--
they don't add up.
- Claire and I had a fight...
Right after she...
Came out.
I haven't spoken to her in over four years.
I wanted to make things right.
I would have done anything to save her.
- Maybe there's no answer for me here,
but I'd be happy to help you find out
what happened to your daughter.
It's the least I can do.
- We gotta be honest with each other.
No more secrets.
No more omissions.
Deal?
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- What happens when we've killed every last one of them?
- I don't know. Hang up our guns?
Why is there no light switch?
- Sometimes I think that you hate me, Luke.
- You're my wife, Joanne. I don't hate you.
- I know I can be a--
a taskmaster.
- Why is there no light switch?
- But I just-- I feel in my bones
that what we're doing is right.
And I think that the world is starting to recognize it.
You--you believe that, don't you?
- I don't know. Listen,
Dennis was afraid of the dark.
A lot of kids are afraid of the dark.
Monsters under the bed, in the closets,
so they keep the lights on, but why no light switch at all?
Huh?
What happens if this room goes dark?
Maybe we see something that we're not supposed to.
- I know I can be
a bloodthirsty cur,
but I just can't bear to half-ass it.
- Come here. - What?
- Come here. Stand right there.
[gunfire]
[mysterious music]
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[glass shattering]
[tense music]
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- Look, man, I-I don't know what you're thinking,
but I -I tried, but--
Dude! You are the man!
Thank you so much.
- But--wait, what?
- You know what this means for us?
It's like we're free.
- Is your stepfather-- - Gone, gone, gone.
I'll never mess with you again.
I'll never let anyone mess with you.
Your secret's safe, man, forever.
I totally got your back.
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[Latino music]
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[both grunting]
- Ahh! - Officer Pakowski,
you lied about what happened in that alley.
Who told you to set up El Vengador?
- Who are you? - Give me a name.
- You're crazy!
You don't know who you're dealing with!
- Give me a name now.
- He'll kill me!
- So will I. - [grunting]
Captain Dearing! It was Dearing.
[grunts]
[tense music]
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- For your head.
I'm Taylor.
- Zoe.
Thanks for everything.
- You're welcome.
Here's to having a life way more exciting than mine.
- [chuckles] You wouldn't like it.
I've got a lot of serious people looking for me.
The money in his room, that's all I had.
And I need it to disappear.
- I can write you a check.
- Seriously?
- I have way more money than I need.
I know what it feels like to want to disappear.
- Must be nice, not worrying about money.
- [chuckles]
Unless you earn it,
money always comes with strings attached.
- Trust fund baby?
No shame in that.
I'd trade my hustle for it in a heartbeat.
- I wish I had the balls
to live without a safety net like you.
- Hmm.
[church bell ringing]
[confessional door opening]
- I'm only on my knees 'cause there's nowhere to sit.
- I'm more concerned with your faith in yourself
than your faith in God.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you were trying
to tell me at Oscar's funeral,
did it have something to do with this?
- Yes. - What was Oscar up to?
He had a secret room in the garage.
A chart with photos of cops and--
- After June 13th, your brother started
an underground railroad for evolved humans,
to help others like him get to a safe place in Canada.
- Before Oscar died, he said he was set up.
- Oscar believed there was a shadow unit
inside the police department
set up to compromise the railroad.
- I have a name.
Captain James Dearing.
- Carlos, I have a favor to ask.
I have to put two evos, good people,
on a boat to Vancouver.
Their journey starts from your brother's secret room.
Tonight.
- Why do you care so much about them?
- My only calling is to minister
to the poor, troubled, and persecuted,
and...one more thing.
- I don't have a right to be weirded out
by you and Brad being bros, but I am.
- Yeah, me too.
He punched me the other day,
and now he's my best friend.
- The whole thing's so crazy.
I mean, Brad thinks you made his stepdad disappear,
but you swear you didn't.
- Yeah, on my mother's eyes.
You won't say anything, right?
- Tommy.
- There's something else.
You can't tell anyone.
I've been getting these texts from someone
who I think is trying to protect me.
- From what?
- I don't know.
But whoever it is they are the reason I didn't die
with Coach Lewis in that church fire.
[spooky music]
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When I touched the flower this morning,
I was thinking about the first time I saw you.
I-I ordered maple walnut.
- That's it!
Things go to whatever place you're thinking about
when you touch them.
Do you remember what you were thinking about
when you made those two creeps disappear?
- I was, uh, I was afraid I was being kidnapped again,
so I was thinking about the place they took me
when I was a kid.
[crashing]
[dramatic music]
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- Observation windows.
What kind of demented place is this?
[electronic beeping]
- How the hell do we get out of here?
[beeping]
- You...
[beeping]
[tense music]
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- Oh! [gunfire]
- Wait, damn it! [woman screaming]
[gunfire]
- Wait in the car. - All right.
[elevator dings]
- Level one.
[electronic beeping]
[elevator dings]
Level five.
[tense music]
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- [labored breathing]
- Stevens!
Who did this?
- [gasping] A man and a woman.
- What the hell is going on here?
- Figured out a way to monetize the evos.
- Monetize them to do what?
- Save the world.
- How will they find--
do they have Molly Walker?
- Epic still launches tomorrow.
That can't happen without her.
- She's the only one who could locate--
Is she in Midian?
Stevens?
[tense music]
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[dramatic music]
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- Careful. Watch your step.
- This is Sylvia and Damon.
They had to leave their home in Las Vegas because of her power.
This tunnel leads to the harbor.
There's a boat there waiting to take you to Vancouver.
- A small token of gratitude. It's 24 karat.
Thank you.
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- Oh, my God. This is all of them.
A whole list of all the freaks.
Names, addresses.
I don't believe it.
- Whose car is this?
- Who cares?
- What happened?
Where's my car?
- A couple. They shot me,
and then they took it.
What went on in there?
- Renautas is using powers to create a new technology.
They launche a product tomorrow called Epic in Midian.
And Molly Walker's power drives it.
You were right. - Thanks.
- I'll find something to sew you up.
- Like what? Like a doctor?
Some surgical equipment?
- You're gonna be fine.
We've got to get to Midian and save Molly.
[surreal music]
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- Hey, uh, I think I got a concussion
after what she did.
- Good Samaritans, what are you gonna do?
- You drugged me, you bitch.
Who are you?
- The trust fund baby that hustled you.
- We have Molly Walker.
[all speaking Japanese]
- [speaking Japanese]
[sirens blaring]
[dramatic music]
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- [speaking Japanese]
[all grunting]