I Am Become Death

"I Am Become Death"
Heroes episode
Peter and Sylar are confronted by Future Claire, Daphne and Knox.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 4
Directed by	David Von Ancken
Written by	Aron Eli Coleite
Production code	304
Original air date	October 6, 2008
Guest appearance(s)
David Anders as Adam Monroe Jimmy Jean-Louis as the Haitian Jamie Hector as Knox Brea Grant as Daphne Millbrook Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Usutu Adair Tishler as Molly Walker Ronald Guttman as Dr. Zimmerman Malcolm McDowell as Daniel Linderman Thomas Robinson as Noah
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"I Am Become Death" is the fourth episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and thirty-eighth episode overall. It was written by Aron Coleite and directed by David Von Ancken. The episode aired on October 6, 2008. The title is a reference to a phrase from the Bhagavad Gita and was famously quoted by Robert Oppenheimer; "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Peter travels four years into the future with his future self, in order to learn what he can. To the horror of both Peters, Kaito's formula is now being used to administer adrenal power enhancements to ordinary people, some of whom are unable or unwilling to control their abilities. Future Peter tells Present Peter that people are coming after him because they believe he is a terrorist, and that they need to find Sylar because his ability of intuitive aptitude can help to understand the cause and effect of time travel, thereby enabling Present Peter to fix the problematic future. Not long after arriving in the future, the Claire of this future assassinates Future Peter. Because the Haitian is present, Future Peter cannot regenerate and dies. Present Peter flees, avoiding Claire's partner, The Haitian, and begins searching for Mohinder.

Mohinder, whose mutation has progressed much further and is hiding alone in shadows, tries in vain to stop himself from informing Present Peter that Sylar is living in Costa Verde, as Peter reads his mind. Teleporting to Costa Verde and expecting a fight, Peter finds that a friendly Sylar has reassumed his former identity of Gabriel Gray, and is now raising his young son, Noah, in Claire's former home. A desperate Peter tries to steal Gabriel's ability, but is resisted, arguing that his power comes at the dangerous risk of a predatory appetite for 'understanding', which Gabriel himself now barely controls for the sake of his son. He reveals to Peter that they are brothers.

In the present, Hiro and Ando are imprisoned in the Company's cell, arguing over their hurt feelings from Daphne's tactics. Matt Parkman, still on his "spirit walk," has a vision of the same future Peter is visiting in which he and Daphne are raising Molly and an infant together.