Mohinder Suresh has been traveling around giving speeches about genetically abnormal individuals whom he believes are susceptible to an impending plague, the Shanti virus.

Claire nearly gets run over by a boy named West, who later interacts with her in a science lab and in the school gymnasium.

Claire climbs the tower, then, remembering her father's words against "standing out," tells everyone that she can't do it.

Matt Parkman is divorced from his wife and is taking care of Molly at Mohinder Suresh's apartment in Brooklyn.

Later that day, Parkman is confronted at Molly's school by her teacher because she is falling asleep in class (due to her nightmares) and drawing some rather disturbing pictures.

As he looks around him, he spots a group of samurai archers raising their bows towards him — he turns to run, but sees the warrior that they are about to attack, poised behind Hiro.

Hiro stops time as the archers release their arrows, then realizes the man being attacked is Takezo Kensei.

Upon catching up to the truck, Alejandro finds his sister distraught, and the driver and all of the passengers dead, with a dark liquid flowing from their eyes; her power has apparently killed them.

[1]) Nathan Petrelli, distraught over the assumed death of his brother, Peter, has been left by his wife and children, and has become an alcoholic.

He looks in the mirror and sees a vision of a disfigured Nathan, apparently suffering from burns all over his face, presumably due to the nuclear explosion in the first season.

Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura separately each find a picture of themselves with a red helix scrawled thereon, which they both understand to indicate that they are to be murdered within 24 hours.

They meet on top of the Deveaux building and compare their pictures, which appear to be two separate pieces of a photograph that included them both.

When they break into container 9109, they find Peter Petrelli, chained to one of the sides, wearing only pants and a helix necklace.