Chapter 9 - It's Coming

[Paul]

Its coming starts in the African Desert where we left Hiro, Ando and Arthur last week. Arthur drops Hiro who, with Ando, teleports away to a Japanese bowling alley, but Hiro's mind has been taken back to when he was a boy. He thinks he is 10 years old!

Peter tells Claire that he needs her to stay innocent, just as Knox and Flint come knocking at he door. Having made it into an underground drainage system, Peter runs and claire trys to protect him but it's not Peter that they're after, it's Claire. Peter hasn't gone far though. Flint tries to throw a flame at him but explodes an open gas pipe, allowing Peter and Claire to escape.

Gabriel obtains Elle's powers by using his empathy rather than killing her. At the same time he stops her from the short-circuiting problems she has been having which have been causing her so much pain.

Mohinder isn't having much luck with his tests to make a formula to give people abilities. He belies that a catalyst is the answer - something that couldn't be stored or created synthetically but would live in a human host.

Matt and Daphne arrive at Primatech to find Angela paralysed in a hospital bed. Matt enters Angela's thoughts. Arthur is in there too, masquerading as Daphne Outside, the real Daphne realises from Matt speaking aloud and bleeding that Matt is in trouble. She asks him to take her in with him. Inside she tells him that made a mistake and trusted the wrong people, but she can't lose him. She tells Matt she loves him. Angela tells Arthur that there's a part of him that still loves Angela - she tells Arthur to let her go, and her mental constraints are broken, freeing her from the paralysis.

Nathan and Tracey meet Arthur at Pinehearst. Arthur asks Nathan for a hug but Nathan doesn't immediately approach Arthur, who tells Nathan he has a destiny and was born with a talent to lead a nation. Arthur offers Nathan the chance to save the world with him.

Nathan is unsure what he to believe. He flies off back to Primatech. Unbeknowns to him, Tracey goes back to see Arthur. If Arthur agrees to look out for her, Tracey will try to push Nathan in the direction Arthur wants.

Testing his powers, Hiro teleports himself and Ando to a comic shop where they find a 9th Wonders comic. It shows Hiro and Ando's recent adventures with Arthur, and in the bowling alley, and a picture of an eclipse with the caption "It's coming".

Having woken from here paralysis, Angela tells Nathan. Peter, Matt, Daphne and Claire that although Arthur has both pieces of the formula, there's a third piece, a catalyst hidden inside a human host, whose identity only Kaito Nakamura knew. Thinking back to what Silar had said about her being special when he had examind her brain, Claire realises that she is probably the catalyst.

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I really loved the scenes with Elle and Gabriel. So much pain - shows determination to stop killing. Will they become a couple - is Elle the mother of Gabriel's son who we saw in the future?

Matt And Daphne were great too, especially when Daphne said she loved Matt. I hope Arthur isn't going to do something nasty to her now.

Why were Knox and Flint after Claire? Does Arthur already suspect she is the Catalyst?

How is giving powers to half the population going to save the world?....to me it seems like it would make it a far more dangerous place for so many people to be trusted to have abilities.

Who is drawing the 9th Wonders? Were they done by Isaac whilst he was alive or is there another future-artist out there?

The last scenes seemed to be gatherings of the two sides but Gabriel seems to be with Arthur. I really like good-Gabriel but if he's on Arthur's side I'm going to be split again....aargh!