Back at Building 26: Danko wonders what whiz deactivated the bomb (Rebel, for you slow pokes out there), and threatens Nathan again for letting his friends and family trump national security. Nathan fires Danko, who says he answers to the president. Nathan doesn’t back down, and tells HRG he will be replacing Danko. As they walk away, Danko plays the video of Tracy yelling “Nathan! You’re one of us!” (Thank goodness that came back. We were wondering if the bald man was deaf!) Danko tries to blackmail him with this not-so-ambiguous hint that Nathan’s got a skeleton in his closet. Nathan tells him, “Let’s see who gets to the president first.”

Tracy is also in the building, and guards walk her along a hallway. She’s in chains with a tube stuck up her nose. We see from her perspective that she’s groggy, but she walks by a computer she clearly sees a message from Rebel saying, “help is coming. Have hope.”

HRG tells Nathan that showing Danko his hand putting them at risk, and he needs to keep his head like Angela would. Nathan walks into the room where Tracy is being held and pulls up a chair. She’s more than a little mad at him over all this. Nathan tells her she’s going to be questioned, he cares about her, and he’s been helping her out. “And doing a fabulous job of it,” she spits out. He reminds her that saved her from jumping off the bridge once, and he’s still the same guy. (Hmm. Really? I’m with Tracy on a big, fat, “I don’t believe you.”) Anyway, he then says he’s her last hope of staying alive. Just then Danko walks in and says he knows Nathan has a soft spot for Tracy. Nathan tells him to be as rough as he likes, and leaves. Nathan goes back and watches the interrogation unfold on video. Danko asks Tracy about Nathan. She says he was lousy in bed. “Does Nathan have an ability?” he asks. She blanks, and then says, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” He walks out.

Over in Costa Verde: Claire wonders if she should have helped Doyle. She thinks she should use her free pass to help others, and sees that Rebel thinks so. Sandra thinks Rebel shouldn’t sent psychos to the door. Claire pitches a plan to get a cover job, so she can have another place to play Heroes’ Harriet Tubman, and Sandra reluctantly agrees to let her apply to Alex’s old job at the comic book store.

Claire goes to the store, and has an amusing little exchange about her lack of experience with the nerdy (but in an awesome way) manager. He asks her a catch-22 “which power would you want?” question, aimed to find out “what kind of hero” she is. She manages a weak “I… don’t know” under the weight of her very real hero dilemma. (C’mon, Claire. We’ve all been in this situation. This is an interview! Make up something!) She starts to walk off since she’s clearly not fit for the job, but he says she got the job. Every nerdy little virgin in the place has been staring at her since she walked in, so he knows she will sell comic books. (Smart manager. I knew he was awesome.)

Back at the terrifying taxidermist’s: Sylar is upset that his father is feeble. He wanted an epic fight. Life never gives you what you want, the father replies, and asks for Sylar’s help with killing a rabbit. He opens the cage, and hold the rabbit still with a swing of his palm. Papa Gray has lots of abilities, too—because he also has that thing with taking people’s abilities (a.k.a. murdering). Sylar doesn’t think they’re so alike, but Dad reminds him that they both pick easy targets. It’s they’re nature. “Killing is who you are.” They both kill small game. Dad knows a lot: he knows that Sylar ran away from the agents when he could have killed them. He knows Sylar will find that his entire life was meaningless and disappointing because it was without challenge. He grabs the rabbit and holds it up with a knife. “Want to know more, or are you going to kill me now?” he asks. Sylar takes the knife and looks at the rabbit. “What do I do?” “Gut him.” And he does.



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