Chapter Three 'One of Us, One of Them' (II) (29 Sep. 2008)

Noah Bennett is stunned when Angela Petrelli assigns him a brainwashed Sylar as his new partner to track down the escapees from the notorious Level 5, as Peter, still trapped in the body of... See full summary »

Director:

Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator), Joe Pokaski

Stars:

Jack Coleman, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Tracy Strauss / Niki Sanders
James Kyson	...	Ando Masahashi (as James Kyson Lee)
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Adrian Pasdar	...	Nathan Petrelli
Zachary Quinto	...	Sylar
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh (voice)
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Noah Gray-Cabey	...	Micah Sanders
Jessalyn Gilsig	...	Meredith Gordon
Ashley Crow	...	Sandra Bennet
Jimmy Jean-Louis	...	The Haitian

Storyline

Noah Bennett is stunned when Angela Petrelli assigns him a brainwashed Sylar as his new partner to track down the escapees from the notorious Level 5, as Peter, still trapped in the body of Jesse the Sonic Man, is forced to team up with a trio of deadly super villains who are on a murderous crime spree by holding up a local bank. Future Peter eventually releases Present Peter from his body-cell and shows him his dark future. In Africa, Matt learns more about his spiritual guide, Usutu, who also has the ability to paint the future. Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando track Speedster Daphne to Berlin to recover the mysterious formula, and find out that the rouge Haitian is behind it and working for another third party. In California, Claire asks her biological mother, Meredith Gordon, to teach her how to fight. Elsewhere, Micah Sanders, mourning the death of his mother is approached by the shadowy Tracy Strauss who asks him information about her past and why she and the late Niki Sanders are very ...

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Plot Keywords:

red rose | morley cigarettes | bank robbery

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Japanese German

Release Date:

29 September 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tailwind Productions, Universal Media Studios (UMS)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Hiro and Ando arrive in the movie theater in Berlin, they are standing in front of a movie poster for a Buster Keaton film in its German version, called "Politzisten". This is supposed to be a translation of Cops, the film in question. But first, the word is misspelled (the correct spelling is "Polizisten") and second, the film did indeed have a German title, which was "Buster und die Polizei".

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Quotes

Mohinder Suresh: [voiceover] In the ongoing search for self, there are days when we learn something genuinely new. Something uncovered, hidden... that we never knew was there. Something that surprises us. And on that day of self discovery, a question remains: what kind of person are we? Does the hero or the villain inside us win the day?

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Connections

Features Cops (1922)

User Reviews

Are...You...KIDDING ME!?!??!?!?!?

Heroes: One of Us, One of Them

Okay, okay okay...this is less of a comment, more of a rant, coming from a reviewer who usually likes to carefully organize his thoughts and comments. Not this time. This episode does not garner my courtesy, or my intelligence, because it gave neither to me. Now, before I tare this pitiful excuse for story-telling apart, I want to say 2 things:

1. I enjoyed the first two episodes of season 3, despite the typical holes in logic. 2. I'm about to give new meaning to the term spoiler, so if you didn't watch (which you shouldn't), stop reading.

The writers of this show have made it clear with this episode that they do not give a *beep* about continuity, logic or most of all CHARACTER. Every character in this episode acted nothing like themselves, and their every action served plot. They didn't do what they would do, they did what the writers NEEDED THEM TO DO.

Let's start with Sylar. Noah Bennet says stay back, he does. WTF!?!?! Sylar could tare Bennet apart in a second, yet he doesn't because...the writers don't want him to. He starts to question why he kills...blames the 'hunger'...yet not so long ago, in season 1 when things made sense, he proclaimed he was doing it because he deserved the powers and others were too weak to deserve them. And of course the worst insult yet...in the preview for next weak, the show's main villain...IS IN A *BEEP* APRON, COOKING, AND BABYING MR. MUGGLES!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?!

The writers expect us to swallow that Sylar suddenly becomes 'one of the good guys' because Mama Petrelli says he's his mother? I understand the moral ambiguity that should be going on here, with villains acting like heroes and heroes like villains, but what they've done with Sylar is completely unbelievable and an insult to the audience's intelligence.

Oh and HRG. He wants to kill Sylar, the man who mind-*beep* his daughter, but he partnered up with him...just because. I don't buy it. Not for one second.

Oh wait, and let's check this out people. The whole arc of this season is supposed to be about villains. And they have already been caught. Yeah, they caused some real mayhem (NOT). These villains were stupid, 2D, useless, and stupid (I can shoot flames so I'm gonna burn these people and waste time). They weren't cunning and didn't pose a threat in the slightest.

And Hiro keeps acting like a complete moron. Opening the safe 'because I'm bored and I want an adventure!' and now running around like a childish infant, clumsily executing his plans. We are supposed to believe a man who has twice saved the world, lost the love of his life, and his father, is this immature? Give me a break...

And speaking of losing loved ones...Hiro and Peter...they just don't give a *beep* about their dead girlfriends. They're perfectly okay with it.

Only interesting part of this episode: Traci went to see Dr. Zimmerman, and he confessed that he created her. That was kinda cool.

Okay I'm done. I might be done watching this show too as a matter of fact.