Company Man (Heroes)

"Company Man"
Heroes episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 17
Directed by	Allan Arkush
Written by	Bryan Fuller
Production code	117
Original air date	February 25, 2007
Guest appearance(s)
Eric Roberts as Thompson Ashley Crow as Sandra Bennet Randall Bentley as Lyle Bennet Matthew John Armstrong as Ted Sprague Missy Peregrym as Candice Wilmer Jimmy Jean-Louis as the Haitian George Takei as Kaito Nakamura Christopher Eccleston as Claude Garrett Masuda as Young Hiro Nakamura Sheku Fofana as Young Haitian
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"Company Man" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. It is the first Heroes episode that abandons the usual multi-story format and focuses solely on one storyline, a format that would not be repeated until season 3's "1961". As such, many regular cast members do not appear in this episode.

The episode alternates between the hostage story at the Bennet house and flashbacks to Noah Bennet's time working for Primatech.

The first flashback shows Bennet as he begins his cover identity at Primatech Paper Company. Bennet's mysterious boss, Thompson, informs him that each agent is paired with a person with a superhuman power. Bennet's partner is Claude, whose ability is to become invisible at will.

In another flashback, a baby is handed over to Bennet atop the Deveaux building in New York. Bennet, Claude, and Kaito Nakamura converse in Japanese, and Mr. Nakamura says of the baby, "She belongs to us. If she manifests, we take her." A very young Hiro Nakamura sits nearby, absorbed in a handheld video game.

Another flashback takes place outside the Bennet house, where Bennet tells Thompson that his wife is suspicious about his work. Thompson tells Bennet of a child discovered in Haiti who can wipe memories. For the first of many times, Bennet lets the Haitian into his house to erase his wife's suspicions.

In another flashback, Bennet is under orders to kill Claude for breaching security by hiding someone with a power. Claude is unsurprised, as he was in Bennet's office, invisible, when the order was given. As the two men pull over on a bridge, Claude points out that Bennet is doing the same thing by protecting Claire. Bennet shoots Claude, who becomes invisible and Bennet concludes that his body has fallen off the bridge.

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