One Of Us, One Of Them Recap

Angela Petrelli speaks affectionately with Sylar, who has just learned that she is his mother. She presents him with a girl named Bridget with the ability to see a person’s entire past and allows Sylar to kill her to take her ability.

HRG shows up at the Company facility for the sole purpose of recapturing the Level 5 escapees. Angela can’t let him be partners with the Haitian because he’s on an assignment for her, so she introduces HRG to his new powered partner: Sylar. HRG is obviously opposed to working with Sylar, especially since Sylar's recent attack on Claire, though Sylar rationalizes that since Claire can’t die, she was never in any danger. Angela says Sylar is just misunderstood and needs some structure. HRG has no real choice but to team up with the devil he knows.

The escapees from Level 5 decide to rob a bank. Knox, who feeds off people’s fear, is the leader, while Flint (who generates fire) and the German (whose ability is similar to that of the Marvel Comics villain, Magneto) are the muscle. That leaves Jesse, the villain Peter is stuck inside.

The police show up, which is Knox’s plan because he wants the Company to arrive so he can exact revenge on HRG, aided by the power he’s getting from the scared hostages. The plan works, as HRG and his new partner see the robbery on the news. Sylar and HRG, both in suits, arrive, but HRG tells Sylar to stand back and do nothing. Instead, Sylar takes charge by posing as an FBI agent.

Peter tries to talk Knox out of it, but Knox uses simple trickery to uncover that this guy isn’t the real Jesse. HRG enters and the hostages leave. Knox has him pinned down, but Peter gets upset and yells, revealing Jesse’s power is a super sonic scream.

Emboldened, he yells and knocks everyone down, but time freezes because Future Peter has arrived. He walks up to Jesse and pushes regular Peter out. Future Peter teleports Regular Peter away, leaving HRG stuck with the real Jesse. Sylar arrives just in time for the new partners to neutralize the Level 5 Four. Sylar locks HRG out of the bank and, though HRG tries to talk him down, Sylar can’t fight his killer hunger, so he performs some quick brain surgery on Jesse. They return to the Company, and while Angela still thinks there’s hope for Sylar, HRG tells the Haitian he’s sticking around just long enough to learn Sylar's weakness, then kill him.

Hiro tracks Daphne to Berlin. She tells him the first half of the Formula has already been delivered, and she’s at the theater to intercept the second half. Hiro wonders how his nemesis can be so overly confident that she’ll tell him her plan. “You’re 0 for 2 against me, Pikachu” Daphne explains. “That’s just regular confidence.” Suddenly she slows down, but Hiro’s powers are also gone. Hiro sees the Haitian holding a briefcase and recognizes him from the future, giving him an advantage over Daphne.

Inside the theater where the exchange is supposed to take place, Daphne interrupts and tries to turn Ando against Hiro, which Hiro describes as “Villainy 101.” She tells them she’s just doing this because some guy is paying her. The Haitian meets up with a woman and explains Angela wants her half of the Formula closer to home due to the recent events.

Hiro and Ando hatch a plan where Ando is supposed to play an usher, but instead Ando hits the Haitian over the head and knocks him out. Ando expresses a reluctance to continue playing the "sidekick" to Hiro, reflecting the doubts Daphne had just been trying to exploit. While the Haitian is knocked out, Daphne speeds by and takes the briefcase. Hiro tries to stop time, but the Haitian is awake again, and upset. By the end of the episode, Hiro and Ando are incarcerated in Level 5.

Matt Parkman is still in Africa, getting a lesson in spirit journeys from his guide, Usutu, who paints the future like Isaac Mendez. Parkman sees many paintings showing scenes from his life that have already happened, as well as one that has not yet come to pass: a happy scene in which Matt and a blonde woman are holding a baby. However, Usutu begins painting over this and replacing it with a new picture, telling Parkman his future has been changed. In the new picture, Matt is crying and holding the blonde woman's dead body.

At the Bennet house, Claire’s two mothers Sandra and Meredith face off on how best to raise their mutual daughter. Biological mom Meredith agrees to let Claire skip school that day in order to train her to fight. Meredith drags her daughter into an empty storage container and the lesson begins by setting it all on fire, sucking the oxygen out of the room. Claire begs her to stop, but Meredith persists until Claire confesses she wants to learn to fight not to help people, but to hurt Sylar.

Nathan shows up at Tracy’s place wondering why she missed his swearing-in ceremony as the junior senator from New York. She’s still disturbed by her newly discovered icy powers and her connection to Niki Sanders. Tracy has an address in New Orleans, so she goes to figure it out. Once there, Tracy visits a funeral home and opens a casket to see a dead Niki inside.

She runs into Micah, who instantly recognizes that Tracy is not his mother. Micah and Tracy talk about their powers, and Micah uses his ability to talk to machines to search the Internet and learn that Tracy and Niki were born on the same day in the same hospital, both delivered by the same man, Dr. Zimmerman. She tracks him down in California, and learns that not only does he know her, but he created her.