Recap: 2:03 Kindred

In Heroes Season 2 Episode 2, Peter agrees to help the guys who found him in order to get his identity back, and Claire gets caught cutting her toe off and watching it grow back by West.

Peter’s informed of the plan. They want to rob an armored car. Peter finds out he can read minds like Parkman. He hears one of the guys planning to doublecross the others.

Maya and Alejandro try to steal a car but aren’t very subtle about it. A cop sees it and chases them down, catching Alejandro.

Micah and Niki are finally back. They’re at the graveyard visiting their father/husband.

Speaking of finally being back, here’s Sylar. He’s in Maui with a woman he doesn’t recognize, or so he thinks. She says she rescued him. He figures out nothing’s actually real and that he’s really on a table bandaged up.

When she sees West at school, Claire claims she was just giving herself a pedicure, an excuse he doesn’t even pretend to believe.

Takezo Kensei finds out he’s a hero, and he thinks it’s a curse, blaming Hiro. Not quite the reaction Hiro was hoping for. Kensei hops on his horse and flees.

Caitlin tells Peter she’s got his back. He’s not sure he can trust her, but she makes a convincing argument.

In class, West pushes the issue, coming up with a hypothetical situation in which a lizard mates with a human and asking the teacher whether a cut off appendage would reattach itself. Claire walks out of the room.

Hiro manages to convince Kensei it’s not quite a curse, but he just views it as a chance to get rich. Hiro teleports him to get the fire scroll against an army of men sworn to protect it and leaves him there, with the hope that it’ll turn him into a hero.

West pushes Claire to admit she’s different, and she does so angrily, saying she’s tired of pretending to be someone she’s not. He then shows her he’s also different, picking her up and taking her flying.

Peter and his new friends proceed to rob the armored car as planned.

Bob and Suresh show up at Isaac’s loft, which has been converted into a lab, one built for Suresh so they could watch his every move.

Kensei returns with the scroll, and the swordsmith’s daughter is now in love with him. Hiro may have fixed history after all.

Niki relocates Micah to New Orleans, where she makes him not use his powers, in an effort for him to be a normal person with a normal life. She’s leaving him with family (who he doesn’t know) and going off to do something on her own.

Maya goes to prison to get her brother out. She attempts to pay the bail, but they don’t let her. She tells them they have to get to the US, and one of the guards asks if she has papers, threatening to call the border police on her. She sees a wanted poster of both of them on the wall and warns the guards they’re murderers. She then kills them as they try to lock her up. Dumb guards. As before, Alejandro reverses the damage she did.

Peter’s mind reading comes true. One of the guys turns traitor and tries to take all the money for himself. He then shoots Peter, who obviously doesn’t die, and then Peter starts choking him until Caitlin stops him.

Hiro prepares to head back to the present. Kensei’s worried that he’ll go back to his old ways when he leaves, but Hiro must go because he’s got a life to get back to and almost broke history as it is. Just as he’s about to leave, though, Hiro decides not to return home, not yet anyway.

Sylar’s lost most of his powers due to his injuries. The woman who thinks she’s going to help him is in for a rude awakening. The first powers he wants to gain are hers. His plan doesn’t quite work out as he hoped, though, as he’s unable to actually use her power.

Now it’s time for Peter to get his box back. He’s afraid of what he’ll find out if he opens the box. Caitlin tells him to just leave it be for now and kisses him.

Claire and West are sitting on a beach, talking about their abilities. After they also kiss, he tells his story about the guy with the horn-rimmed glasses, who he hates.

Niki calls Bob from his office. She says she needs him to cure her.

Suresh says he’s in over his head but does find painting 8 of 8. He takes a picture of it with his phone and sends it to Claire’s father, just as Claire walks in. The picture’s not good news either, not that any of them will be. Claire’s father finds out he’s going to be the one dying.