An even better example is Noah Bennet, better known as HRG, thanks to the horn-rimmed glasses he almost always wears. HRG hunts down and occasionally works with evolved humans, but he's not someone who can fly or cause earthquakes or rapidly heal himself, unless he has help from his adopted daughter Claire.
No, HRG has no powers at all… unless you count being a ridiculously hot dad as being a power, which, actually, I do. Unbeknownst to Bennet, the Walker tracker system is later revealed to be a little girl, Molly Walker , who has the ability to mentally find anyone in the world, just by thinking about them.
He is reunited with his daughter, who has been staying with her biological father, Nathan Petrelli, and her grandmother, Angela Petrelli, at the Petrelli mansion in New York. Noah meets Claire's uncle, Peter Petrelli. Upon coming into close proximity with Ted, Peter then notices his hands beginning to glow. Bennet realizes that Peter is absorbing Ted's power, prompting Claire and Peter to become worried. After Peter controls himself, the group splits in two, with Peter, Claire, and Ted going to a remote town in Nebraska, and Matt and Bennet continuing with their mission to destroy the tracking system.
Bennet knows where they need to go, but he needs Matt's powers to allow them access. Matt confronts a security guard and convinces him that they know each other and had spoken outside of work the previous night. Upon revealing an embarrassing secret of the guard's, the man lets them in without hesitation. While waiting for the elevator, they bump into Jessica and D. The four go up in the elevator together, with Bennet telling them where to find Linderman.
Bennet and Matt then get off at the floor where the tracking system is, only to find Thompson waiting for them. Matt saves Bennet from getting shot, only to have Bennet leave him defenseless against Thompson. Thompson then comes up behind Matt, puts a gun to his head, and asks him, "What am I thinking now, Matt?
The two then proceed to find the tracking system, where both are surprised to find it's a young girl — though only Matt is completely surprised: Bennet claims he knew it was a person, just not a little girl — whom Matt had previously rescued from Sylar, and who thought of Matt as "my hero. The two continue to argue until Matt is suddenly knocked out by Mohinder from behind. The episode ends with Mohinder pointing a gun on Bennet while the latter points his gun on Molly, both men threatening to shoot.
Matt wakes up, ending the standoff. Bennet asks Molly to locate Sylar, which she does - he's nearby. He later finds Peter after he passed out from nearly exploding, thanks him for saving Claire and agrees to kill him if it comes to that.
He also reveals his first name when he tells Peter, "Call me Noah. Bennet is immediately thrown against a wall, rendering him incapable of stopping Peter if he explodes.
Despite going into hiding, he is still working to take down the Company with the help of Mohinder Suresh. In " Lizards ", Noah tells his wife about a series of eight paintings done by the late Isaac Mendez, each depicting the death of a single person.
He possesses the first, which predicts the death of Kaito Nakamura , and intends to locate the other seven. At the end of the episode, Noah is reunited with the Haitian; the accompanying graphic novel shows that Mohinder directed the Haitian to Bennet.
In " Kindred ", Mohinder finds the last of the eight paintings, this one depicting Noah's death. He is lying on the ground with a bullet hole through the left lens of his glasses.
A girl resembling Claire is in the background, apparently being held by someone. While there, he receives a call from Mohinder explaining that Molly Walker has fallen into a catatonic state and he wishes to take her to the Company for observation. Noah is unable to talk him out of it, though he warns that they'll have Mohinder as soon as he relinquishes that which he cares about.
In " The Line ", Noah tracks down his old mentor, Ivan. He has the Haitian remove precious memories marriage day, kids being born, etc. Knowing that his method of interrogation, as well as trying to use the Haitian to cover his tracks, will alert the Company, he instead opts to kill his mentor, making the affair appear to be a simple home invasion.
The one in question is a painting of Suresh holding a Company-issue gun that has just been fired. Noah takes pictures of the paintings in an effort to send them to Suresh, but Suresh refuses, stating his life may be in danger. Afterward, Noah and the Haitian burn the entire collection and Noah returns home. Claire's boyfriend, West Rosen , has dropped by without notice that same morning and made breakfast for Claire. As Noah walks into the house, West sees Noah and remembers who he is.
West runs outside and abruptly flies away without being seen by Noah. Having left behind a newspaper detailing the incident with the drunk cheerleader, it ends up in hands of Noah, who sees it as a threat to the family. He confronts Claire and tells her she is putting the lives of their family in danger. Furthermore, he tells her and the family to pack their things, and they are leaving immediately. Claire then calls her father out, stating that he was not being honest about his "trip" he took for "management training".
Claire defiantly tells her father that she is not moving anywhere else and walks out of the room. Though they are eventually successful, Noah manages to capture Elle. Noah brokers a trade with Elle's father Bob, getting his daughter Claire back in exchange for Bob's.
When Elle breaks free and tries to kill West and Claire, Noah shoots her in the arm. He then prepares to execute Bob, citing that Claire will never be free so long as the Company survives. But Mohinder shoots Noah, mimicking Isaac's painting exactly, and Noah is struck in the left eye and dies.
While his family believes him to be dead, the episode ends with Noah in a Company facility, strapped to a gurney and being given a transfusion of his daughter's blood; his destroyed eye subsequently regenerates and he returns to life.
During the episode, with Noah still in the hands of The Company, Bob visits the Bennets' home with an urn telling them that it contains Noah's ashes.
In " Powerless ", Noah returns to his family, clearly shocking them all as he is allegedly dead. He tells them that he was brought back using Claire's blood, and that he made a deal with The Company which will allow his family to lead a normal life with one condition; he must stay with the Company. Noah then leaves his family. Elle releases him from his cell so that he can help in the apprehension of Sylar during the attack on the Level 5 facility.
After Elle inadvertently knocks out Sylar and causes a breakdown of the complex security system, Noah -- fearing the worst after seeing Sylar demonstrate Claire's ability -- places Sylar in a cell and makes his own escape. Later, when Noah visits the house and sees Claire alive but traumatized, he explains that he cannot stay as he has to recapture the superhumans who escaped during Sylar's attack, stating "They're villains, Claire, and I'm one of the only people on the planet who knows how to stop them," and even showing her some info on the escapees.
Before leaving, Noah tells her that he's enlisted Claire's biological mom, the pyrokinetic Meredith Gordon , to help protect the family.
When they arrive at the bank where a group of escapees are causing trouble, Noah orders Sylar to stay out of his way and let him handle the escapees, but Sylar uses his sharp tongue to convince the police that they are FBI agents so they can get through. Noah manages to free the hostages, but is then taken hostage himself. Just as Knox and Jesse Murphy now free of Peter's influence are about to start beating him up, Sylar enters and stops them both with his telekinesis, also neutralizing Jesse's power.
Noah reminds him of the plan, and Sylar replies "You just said that to make sure I didn't. Back at Level 5 , Noah mentions to the Haitian that he only plans to be partnered with Sylar long enough to ascertain a weakness, to which then he'll kill him.
When he chastises Sylar for the death of Jesse, he merely states that "rehabilitation doesn't happen overnight. Later on, he and Sylar arrive at the home of Stephen Canfield and discover Claire there, having already attempted to capture him, only to find out that he is not truly evil. After Canfield opens up a vortex, which Claire, Noah, and Sylar barely avoid getting sucked into, and escapes, Noah orders Sylar to shut up after he attempts to apologize for what he did, and Claire tells him of Canfield's true colors.
He assures her that he would not put someone in Level 5 who didn't belong there, and Claire tells him about Canfield's whereabouts. When they find Canfield, Noah attempts to force him to kill Sylar in exchange for his freedom, clearly convinced that Sylar cannot be redeemed, but Canfield instead opens up a vortex and sucks himself in, preferring death to becoming a monster.
Noah and Sylar take Claire home, and the former assures her that he only does these things to protect her. Noah is impressed that Claire was able to help take out a very dangerous man, but Claire brushes him off, still angry with him about the Canfield incident and his partnership with Sylar.
Noah then asks Meredith to accompany him as a partner. Bewildered, Nathan and Tracy arrive and begin to free Suresh's other cocooned victims. There, they meet Tracy Strauss and Nathan. After it's explained to Tracy that Meredith is the biological mother of Nathan's illegitimate daughter, Claire, and Noah is her adoptive father, Noah asks them if Suresh injected anything into their bodies. He advises them to come to the Company to be checked out. In " The Eclipse ", when Pinehearst begins looking for the catalyst needed to perfect Mohinder's genetic modification formula, which is assumed to be Claire, Noah goes into hiding with her at the now-abandoned Canfield house and begins to teach her how to fight, but the father-daughter duo are soon attacked by Sylar and Elle.
As their and everyone else's powers are negated due to a solar eclipse, Noah is more than a match for them, even dislocating Sylar's arm, but is ultimately forced to retreat when Claire takes a bullet from Elle that was meant for her father. Angered and worried, Noah takes her home where he and Sandra treat her wound, and he decides against going to a hospital, believing it to be minor and unwilling to take the risk of her powers returning while they are there.
He then leaves to get revenge on Sylar and Elle for Claire's injury. Noah tracks Sylar and Elle down at the Canfield household and watches them have sex through the scope of a sniper rifle. Afterward, he opens fire, misses, and then breaks into the house and shoots at them with a Company handgun, hitting Elle in the left thigh and forcing them into a retreat.
While looking for them, Noah receives a call from Sandra in which she informs him that Claire is hospitalized. Instead of immediately rushing to the hospital, Noah follows a trail of Elle's blood to a local grocery store. After luring him into a back room, Sylar jumps him from behind, but he is once again outmatched without his powers against Noah's fighting skills. Ultimately, after tossing the ultimate insult "Poor Gabriel. You always wanted to be special.
Now look at you; you're nobody. When he returns home, Claire is understandably angered with him for focusing on Sylar rather than rushing to the hospital. When Claire reveals that she had died in the hospital, Noah realizes something awful: if Claire's powers are back, then so are Sylar's.
Indeed, Sylar and Elle, newly empowered, have made it to the Bennet household and are holding Sandra and Lyle hostage. Sylar telekinetically disarms Noah, pins him to the wall, and begins to strangle him with his powers.
Claire desperately swears to go with Sylar in exchange for leaving her family alone, but Sylar is unsatisfied with that and begins to cut into Noah's neck, clearly intent on decapitating him. Fortunately, Hiro Nakamura arrives, teleports Sylar and Elle away, and then time-travels with Claire back to the day when his father first assigned Noah to protect her.
When Claire is returned to the present by her grandfather, Arthur Petrelli , she, Noah, Meredith, and her grandmother, Angela, are trapped in Primatech when Sylar initiates the lockdown mode. Soon afterward, Noah is led into a trap by Sylar, who locks him in a cell with Meredith, who has been injected with adrenaline, her ability becoming increasingly uncontrollable, and leaves him with a handgun with one bullet.
Sylar tells him that he will have to choose between killing Meredith to save himself and explaining her death to Claire, or doing nothing and being burnt to death. However, Claire arrives at that moment, and Meredith, as per Noah's orders, superheats the bulletproof glass of the cell to weaken it, and then Noah shoots the glass to no avail. Claire then bodily throws herself through the window to help Noah escape, which he does. After Claire seems to kills Sylar, she escapes with Noah and Angela after Meredith urges her daughter to escape the fire.
Meredith finally loses control of her ability and unleashes a massive explosion. Outside, Noah comforts a tearful Claire as they watch Primatech burn to the ground, realizing Claire's mother Meredith died in the explosion.
They get to the exit only to discover that the hunter and his men have cut them off. Noah apologizes and then tasers Mohinder. When Peter Petrelli arrives at his apartment, Nathan is waiting for him.
After he and Peter talk, Nathan smiles and asks for a hug, and Noah tasers Peter from behind. Peter and other captives are put onto a plane. At the end of the episode, Noah is revealed to be the co-pilot of the plane. He is shocked to be found by his daughter Claire, who isn't supposed to be on the plane because she has been given a free pass by her other father Nathan, which makes Claire exempt from the government initiative to capture people with special abilities in addition to Nathan and Angela.
Nathan had just sent Claire home to keep her out of this entire round-up operation but, unseen by anyone, Claire ran away from the limo Nathan put her in and snuck onto the plane as a stowaway to help free the captives.
In " Trust and Blood ", Noah survives the crash of the plane like almost everyone else. He is retrieved by Danko and his soldiers. Bennet chases after the captured heroes and finds Claire and Peter running together. Bennet quickly grabs Claire but wants to shoot Peter. Claire manages to convince Bennet to let Peter run.
Bennet takes Claire back to Nathan and Nathan makes plans to send Claire home again. Claire, who is granted immunity and being protected by both Noah and Nathan, is angry with both her fathers for their betrayal of everyone else with special abilities. However, after her fathers try to send her home once again, they step away to discuss the situation and Claire is taken by Daphne. Though Danko's soldiers quickly find Claire and her friends and shoot Daphne. Matt then uses his powers to take over the soldiers and have them kill themselves.
Danko wants to shoot Matt, but Claire takes the bullets for him and gets arrested instead while the others flee. Danko attempts to shoot Claire but Nathan furiously stops him. Her fathers, Bennet and Nathan, finally convince their daughter to return home to Costa Verde , where her mom is revealed to think Claire just spent 2 days looking to college brochures. Bennet, in the meantime, stays, behind looking for the fugitives. When having another shot to take down both Tracy Strauss and Peter, Bennet again chooses not to shoot down Peter and allowing him to escape.
After arresting Tracy, Nathan thanks Bennet for not shooting his brother. In " Building 26 ," Claire reveals to her mother, Sandra, that Noah has been hunting down individuals with powers, and Sandra forces him to move out. He tells Claire that he will be around, and expresses a desire to be more honest with the family. Matt manages to pluck out memories at the expense of Noah being in pain, learning about the operation hunting people with abilities.
Noah is rescued by Danko's men, and tells Danko that he will henceforth cooperate with Danko's more heavy-handed approach to their job.
However, he later meets with Angela Petrelli, where it is implied that he is working with her against Danko. Their precise goals are unclear. In " Shades of Gray ", Nathan fires Danko as his second-in-command and appoints Noah to the position.
Noah takes a call from Claire, who is asking how he managed to live a two-faced life for all this time, but Noah simply tells her he is the worst person to ask, and because she doesn't know which path to take, he doesn't know either.
He later warns Angela that Danko is coming for her, but Angela says she is prepared. When Danko witnesses Nathan's ability of flight, he demands to know if Noah knew about it. The stories are all new, but there definitely was some refreshing of some things that were long-gone from my memory. It was a lot to take on, but the show is so reborn. It is so new. Movie source material used to be plays or novels and then they became reboots of movies and then they became movies made from television shows or movies made from comics.
The source material has been adjusting along the way. There always has been. But I feel a tremendous responsibility to this part, to this show, to these fans. There is a weight to bringing back something as opposed to creating something new. This has to live up to something. Someone asked if we thought this show was redemption.
Claire looms large over all these proceedings. I always thought that, when the show was at its best, it was a tale of two families: The Bennets and the Petrellis. Like please, somebody notice me.
Home TV News. Sep 24, am PT.
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