Heroes episode 3.17  Cold Wars
Airdate: February 23, 2009

So, what did you think of episode 17? Did “Cold Wars” meet your expectations of the man behind the horn-rimmed-glasses?

Monday’s episode focused on unraveling the plans of Nathan Petrelli and making sense of the enigmatic Noah Bennet. Matt Parkman forced his way into Bennet’s memories to find out why people with abilities were being hunted, and how the fugitives can fight back. But there was more to the episode than just answering questions, and we found out that HRG was behind the scenes all along.

It all started five weeks ago (read: flashback) , when Angela Petrelli gave Noah Bennet his “separation pay and pension”, and a Rolex watch for being a faithful Primatech employee for 20 years. The Company Man never looked so lost as in that scene. What’s he going to do with his life, now that he’s unemployed out of his life’s work? “There is only so much cross-word puzzle I can do” was Bennet’s woeful response.

And then Nathan Petrelli comes in and asks for Noah’s help to do what he was so good at – bagging and tagging people. Nathan has set certain things in motion, and he needs Bennet’s expertise. I think in Bennet’s mind, this was too good to pass up, this chance to be useful again. Besides Bennet is leading the operation this time around, or at least that’s what he was made to think.

Noah Bennet found out too late that Nathan changed gears, and brought in The Hunter, a single-minded government agent bent on winning the “war” against the new breed of domestic terrorists. Bennet tried to explain that most of those people are harmless and innocent, but he learned the hard way never to trust a politician, even if he’s your boss’ son. Bennet also had to earn The Hunter’s trust, who thinks HRG has become soft and “split” in his vision. As the Hunter told Nathan, HRG’s (and Nathan’s) decisions are tarnished because of their relationship with Claire.

Matt found out that Bennet has a storage facility in Costa Verde where he kept Primatech information and weapons. Peter went to the facility to get supplies for themselves, but did not see a hidden camera that fed into Building 26. Nathan explicitly told the agents to catch Peter alive and unhurt, and of course the Hunter grudgingly obliged. Peter barely escaped capture by dropping a gas bomb and flying out of there as fast as he can!

As Matt continues to get into Bennet’s mind, Mohinder expressed reservations about the mind-reader’s abilities. But when Matt found out that Mohinder knew ahead of everyone that the government had been planning something big and dangerous, Matt snapped and attacked Mohinder, blaming the doctor for Daphne’s death. Bennet untied himself while the two men were fighting, and he almost would have escaped had not Peter caught him again. And I love how Peter jumped (or flew down) on top of Bennet’s escape car! Classic superman!

Matt also learned from Bennet that someone else is running the show – the Hunter. He supplied Peter the address of the Hunter’s apartment. And as always thinking with his heart rather than his head, Peter went to the apartment even when Bennet warned them not to. Bennet’s warning – “You’re making a big mistake. You’re unraveling things you don’t understand!” was so cryptic you immediately ask what HRG really knows.

Peter goes to the apartment and holds The Hunter at gunpoint. Older brother Nathan comes flies to the rescue. He warns Peter that killing Danko would just feed into their fear of posthumans, and convince the world that these are very dangerous fugitives. That wasn’t about to get Peter to stop until Nathan told him Matt and Mohinder were in danger.

SWAT teams were closing in on Mohinder and Matt, and Bennet tells them to escape. Mohinder holds the agents back as Matt probes Bennet’s memories again. Daphne is alive! Peter comes just in time to fly away with Matt!

When the dust settled, HRG tells the Hunter that he’s learned his lesson, about how dangerous the fugitives really are, and he is fully on board. Unknown to the Hunter, HRG meets with Angela. “All things considered, everything is working according to plan.”

At Isaac’s abandoned loft, Matt is in frantically painting in a trace. A distraught Matt pictures of himself strapped with explosives around his body, and a gigantic painting on the floor shows Washington DC exploding! That’s certainly more than he bargained for!

Next week, Heroes continues with episode 3.18 “Exposed”. Matt and Peter will attempt to rescue Daphne and find more information about Nathan’s plans. Also, Claire gets kissed underwater!

Images: NBC / Trae Patton

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What will it take to get into the mind of H.R.G., one of Heroes’ most enigmatic characters? Hint number one – take off the glasses.

One of the most interesting characters of Heroes takes center stage in tonight’s episode. It’s all about the man in the horn-rimmed glasses – Noah Bennet aka H.R.G.. And tonight, we get the rare chance of seeing what makes him tick, what makes his mind work and all the crazy stuff he’s hiding behind those glasses.

Tonight, the fugitive gang MPM (Matt, Peter and Mohinder) take Noah Bennet captive and “mentally interrogate” him, to find out his involvement with Nathan, the Hunter and Angela Petrelli.

Since season 1, Noah Bennet has been the man all heroes are afraid of. Well, there’s Sylar, but then he has powers. Bennet is as mortal as the next person in the bus, but he is so fearless that his taser is enough weapon to get post-humans hiding from him. In fact, all the Level 5 villains (of volume 3) wanted only one thing – to kill Bennet. That’s how much they hated him.

But is Bennet really all evil? Jack Coleman himself said that’s not true. Really? We’ll soon find out more about the man behind the horn-rimmed glasses!

Next on Heroes – episode 3.17 “Cold Wars”, at NBC 9pm. Meantime, check out the sneak peeks below and chat awhile as we wait for the hours to pass.

[Promo Trailer]
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[Sneak Peek – Hunter gets suspicious of Nathan]

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In last week’s goodbye scene, HRG was drugged and dragged by new renegade gang MPM (for Mohinder, Peter, and Matt). Coleman revealed that the trio will “mentally interrogate” Bennet to find out his involvement with the government. And since Matt’s doing all the prying, the love-struck mind reader will want to know about Daphne (who was shot two episodes back).

Apparently, Matt won’t cross-examine their pawn like a good cop should. He is going to pry the information out of Bennet’s memories!

[Matt] processes my memories, and we flash back to see how all these events came to be. It’s a really good use of Parkman’s abilities. He’s not going in and telling me what to think, he’s going in and prying loose this information.

And what does Matt find out?

How about what’s up with Noah, Nathan and the Hunter. And a couple of “very cool scenes” with Angela Petrelli showing what the Company Girl and the Company Man are hatching together. Word according to Coleman – “They may be up to something.”

Whatever those two are up to may or may not be good, but at least according to Coleman, Bennet is not as “evil” as we all think he is. I don’t think HRG is evil at all, but he’s one of those Heroes characters that you can’t wrap your fingers around. He is not easy to figure out. Sometimes I just want to shake the man and say “quit being so mysterious, man! Tell us already! We’re dying to get into your head!” But of course, that’s what makes HRG one of the most interesting characters in Heroes, and Coleman is good with that.

I think HRG has always fancied himself as someone who can discern between those who are truly dangerous and those who are just different, and he just tries to be that guy in the middle.

He likes to be judge and jury, and I think you’ll definitely see him more and more in a protective role. He’s also Ahab trying to get his Moby Dick — he’s trying to get Sylar.

Aha! Would the day come when HRG gets to kill Sylar (again) for good? TV Guide failed to ask that question… but Coleman did let out a spoiler worth telling the world about.

You will see a picture that Parkman draws, which involves him and is very disconcerting as to how it may end up. And what it might mean to the Capitol.

Connecting the other dot from Kristin’s blog, the Capitol is in danger of exploding at the hands of one of the heroes!

YIKES! You won’t want to miss Heroes tonight!

Images: NBC / Trae Patton

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You do not want Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) to get into your head! Ever. If Matt has learned to use his mind-powers like his dad’s, then he will twist your reality and get you trapped into your own mind.

(spoilers alert!)

We may know soon enough what Matt Parkman is capable of, when he interrogates H.R.G. (Jack Coleman). Where is the Haitian when he needs him now? HRG is not so invincible now, is he?

Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) drugs Bennet while Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) looks on. An argument seems to erupt between Parkman and the fugitives. What’s eating the mind-reader?

(More pictures after the jump).

NBC Photos credit: Trae Patton

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  Jack Coleman

It’s good to read of snippets and trivia about the show, behind the scenes and the actors. Who knew that Kristen Belle is running an empire out of her Blackberry. As Jack tells it, she is "surgically attached to that thing." Or that Jack was home this week, with a cold he got from sharing a burrito with dear on-screen daughter Hayden. Hope you get well soon, Mr. Bennet.

But we’re here for the spoilers… So here they are. According to Jack Coleman, they start filming episode 17, titled "Cold War", and it’s along the lines of "Company Man"!

I can’t tell you a lot about it other than there’s a kidnapping and mental interrogation. It will be a really cool episode, a psychological thriller. If you miss it, you will be hunted down and… rehabilitated.

Aha. Fugitives, eh…

Greg Grunberg also spills that pretty much everyone will be fugitives in volume 4, except for some villains.

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Jack Coleman’s character, H.R.G./Noah Bennet, has become quite central to the story of Heroes. As the Company Man who turned against his employers for the sake of his daughter Claire, Noah Bennet is one of the favorite villains in the first two seasons. Now, with season 3 approaching, we will certainly find out if H.R.G is villain through and through.

More pictures of Jack, after the jump, partying with the other “Heroes” members.

“Heroes Volume 3: Villains” returns on September 22, starting at 8 p.m. with the Countdown, and a two-hour premiere at 9 p.m.

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Heroes

Then we read spoilers that Nathan and Peter have another brother, which until confirmed, will be called Sylar. Mama Petrelli even warns her beloved son to prepare himself for the future.

Now, another revelation shows just how messed up this family is.

Future Sylar has a son named Noah. Even more shocking would be the mother’s identity.

Kristin dos Santos confirms: Yes, it’s true. In the future, Sylar has a four-year-old named Noah (which has to be in memory or honor of our Noah Bennet, aka H.R.G.), and according to Zachary Quinto, Sylar’s baby mama is “silver-tongued and alive”.

Who might the mama be? Kristin guesses it’s Kristen Bell’s Elle. My guess? The son is named in honor of the grandfather.

Is the son hero or villain?

Get the scoop on the rest of Heroes volume 3 “Villains” episodes here.

image used with permission from NBC/Mitchell Haaseth

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