Testimonials

It's present day, and Adam and Peter head to Victoria Pratt's house. How did Adam
obtain her location without Mama Petrelli or Parkman? Peter pulls a Mohinder when
Adam offers him some guns. He makes the decision to meet her by himself, leaving
Adam by the car. They're in Maine, and Victoria appears to be weeding in her garden. He
tells her the Shanti virus will be unleashed in 24 hours (how did I miss that 24 hour
deadline?), killing billions of people, unless she helps him on his quest. He doesn't know
how it gets out, or where, but only that it does. Um, it probably wouldn't get out if you
just stopped now. Victoria replies by aiming a shotgun at him. Peter indicates he's
unarmed and casually mentions he's been to the future and has seen the destruction in
store. She loads the gun and orders him inside. Feisty.

Victoria mentions he looks like Mama Petrelli. We get a panning shot of newspaper clips,
including headlines of "Petrelli Confesses," Kaito's murder, and a piece on the African-
American woman sitting next to Deveaux in the Heroes photo. Nice framed prints of
molecular compounds, Victoria. They give me flashbacks of high school AP Chem,
where I learned absolutely nothing because none of our labs worked. That's what
happens when you go to public school, your chemicals are ancient, and the textbooks are
literally from 1969. We had a problem that started out, "You have a mixture of cocaine
diluted with C6H12O6" and also one involving Lizzie Borden buying toxic gas. So we
won't be meeting all 12 founders, it seems. Peter replies, "The last time I saw my mother,
it was a year from now." Hee. And he needs her assistance in locating the virus. Victoria
rehashes the fact that Strain 138 would kill everyone if it was released, yada yada yada.
However, Peter tries to reassure her he will destroy it, because he's doing it for Caitlin.
For love.

Leaving Victoria's house, Peter proudly tells Adam that the virus is in the Company
storage facility in New Mexico. Adam realizes Victoria suspects them, as that there is no
Company branch in NM. Bang! She nails Adam in the chest with the shotgun and
squarely shoots Peter after telling him, "You're working with him now. That's all I need
to know." I'm a fan of Victoria's efficiency and lack of qualms, even though she's
basically shooting people who can regenerate. Something tells me she would not survive
a zombie attack. She's about to blast Adam's head off (she theorizes it's the only way to
kill him) when Peter knocks her out with her own gun. Looks like Peter's healing abilities
are back.

"This was a brand new Brooks Brothers shirt!"

Back in the house, Peter confronts a tied-up Victoria about the virus and she tells Peter
the story about how Adam broke into her lab to procure the deadly strain in order to
release it. She insists that he's trying to do it again. Adam tries to turn it on her, and
Victoria says that Adam is the killer (rightly so), which makes Peter one too, just like his
parents. That hits a nerve for Peter, who blames Victoria for her actions, conveniently
forgetting what atrocities his own parents must have committed in the past. Entering the
race for most annoying/useless Hero, Peter doesn't bother double-check the veracity of
this by reading Adam's mind to see if Victoria's telling the truth. Even if he thinks Adam
is right, he could at least check. Le sigh.

Oh, but he does use his telepathic powers to figure out the location is Odessa, Texas, at
Primatech. Sigh. Adam says he's going to let her go (very out of character, but it's
probably setting her up to reach for her gun again and give him a "reason" to kill her),
loosening her restraints and she immediately reaches for her shotgun and aims for Peter.
Before she can pull the trigger, though, Adam shoots Victoria in the head. Peter's stunned
and insists it wasn't necessary to kill the poor woman. Adam conceals his glee until Peter
leaves the room.

"If anyone survives, I'll tell them I couldn't have done it without you," he murmurs to
Victoria's corpse as he smears the photograph of her with her own blood. How very goth
of him, maybe Hot Topic will start selling Heroes fan memorabilia such as
replicas of the death photos. Looks like Adam he carries pictures of all of them in his
pocket.

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