Heroes - Series 3, Episode 15 - Trust and Blood

With the aircraft plummeting to earth after Claire’s attempt at freeing the Hero hostages at the end of last episode we were left with a horrible thought that this may be the end for some of our characters.

Taking a slightly different method to the usual episode Nathan relates the story of incidents down the phone to his mother. As the plane crashes and victims scurry away from the crash site Nathan’s forces are quickly sent in to clear up the huge mess that’s been created by his daughter. With Hiro, Matt and Mohinder dashing one way and Claire and Peter another it’s hard to choose who to follow.

As the trio make a break for freedom Matt once again is overcome with the desire to draw and with his eyes glazed over lumbers off in a random direction, Hiro and Mohinder unconvincingly in tow. Stumbling across a seemingly abandoned caravan Matt takes the opportunity of paper and crayons to sketch the future, only horrified to see that he’s drawn Daphne, back at the crash site, being shot. Along with Hiro’s will to do good and his own desire to save his love they convince Mohinder to go back to the plane to try and save her.

Meanwhile Claire and Peter are also trying to make a quick exit just as Noah Bennett arrives and points a gun at Petrelli’s head. Now only able to hold onto one power at a time he is pretty much defenceless against Horn rimmed glasses though he has one major advantage to himself – Claire, who quickly pulls the daughter card and allows Peter to escape.

Running into a scared Tracy in the bush the pair quickly establish that they need to try and pull Nathan in, get him to stop his crusade, get him to see sense. Using her feminine charms Tracy calls Nathan and asks him to meet her. However he turns up with backup and though Noah has Peter in clear shot he fails to shoot and Peter once again escapes capture by pulling Nathan’s power and whizzing away. An unlucky Tracy is once again caught, failing to change Nathan’s mind, and is quickly drugged and shackled.

At the crash site Daphne and Ando have arrived in a bid to save Matt and Hiro. The speedster quickly pulls a recaptured Claire to safety but as the team decide what to do she is shot and we believe killed in front of Matt. Losing control of his mind the future visionary takes power over one of the advancing troops, turning him on his colleagues and shooting them all dead. They once again escape the clutches, all apart from Claire who is now, tiresomely, captured again and sent back to her mother to live a “normal” life.

Daphne’s down as another female Hero is killed.

Meanwhile Sylar is still busy trying to track his family down and taking a mother and son hostage decides to pursued his kidnapped SAS to talk by torturing the hostages in front of him. He doesn’t get what he bargained for though as the son seems to have powers of his own and just as we think Sylar is about to kill again, the teenager miraculously saves his life as the SAS throws a bullet. Seeing himself reflected in the boy Sylar is convinced to take the new power with him on the promise that the boy can unearth where Sylar’s true father is.

With this new spin on things I’m intrigued to see what happens next. Our crew of Heroes have now become a rogue gang, out to seek justice, revenge, truth. With Nathan quickly turning into his father we wonder if any of the insiders are likely to be swayed – will Angela come good for Peter, will Claire give up always doing as her father says and turn into the slaying catsuit seductress of the future that we have glimpsed in the past and with Sylar now teamed up do we have a new, stronger force on our hands?