Our Father (Heroes)

"Our Father"
Heroes episode
Hiro asks his mother to heal his memory.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 12
Directed by	Jeannot Szwarc
Written by	Adam Armus and Kay Foster
Production code	312
Original air date	December 8, 2008
Guest appearance(s)
Kristen Bell as Elle Bishop Ashley Crow as Sandra Bennet Jimmy Jean-Louis as the Haitian Brea Grant as Daphne Millbrook Jamie Hector as Knox Blake Shields as Flint Gordon, Jr. Tamlyn Tomita as Ishi Nakamura Chad Faust as Scott Edward Carnevale as Dispatcher Elizabeth Ann Bennett as Sue Landers George Takei as Kaito Nakamura Robert Forster as Arthur Petrelli Sekai Murashige as Young Hiro Nakamura Brian Skala as David Sullivan Cole Williams as Ryan Hanover Taylor Cole as Rachel Mills James Dever as Marine Ewan Chung as Office Worker #4 Clara and Melinda Handy as baby Claire
Episode chronology
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"Our Father" is the 12th episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. The episode aired on December 8, 2008.

Hiro and Claire witness Kaito's past self giving her as a baby to Noah Bennet and after hearing his mother's voice, Hiro runs inside to see her. He witnesses his mother healing a sick dove and realizes that she has the power of healing and may be able to restore his memories with it. The two witness a conversation where Kaito and Ishi converse in English so Hiro can't understand them where it's revealed that Ishi Nakamaura was the catalyst before Claire and while she wants to give it to Hiro as she's dying, Kaito thinks he's too irresponsible and plans to give it to baby Claire. Claire goes to stop her parents from allowing her to get the catalyst while Hiro goes to get his mother to heal him and give his memories back.

In the present Sylar immolates Elle's dead body and plans to use the list of evolved humans in her cell phone as a new list for him to track down and steal powers from. Sylar kills a woman named Sue Landers and steals her power of lie detection in order to find out if Arthur and Angela really are his parents after all.

At The Company Angela gives Peter a gun and tells him to go with The Haitian and kill Arthur by shooting him through the head, the only thing that can kill him. Peter is reluctant but both The Haitian and Angela tell him that killing Arthur is the only way as he's too powerful to be contained and he reluctantly agrees.

At Pinehearst Nathan arrives to take over saying he's willing to help but wants to be in charge, a clause which Arthur reluctantly agrees to. Nathan speaks with a Marine named Scott who's one of the people intended to receive the formula and learns his motivations for volunteering.

Sixteen years in the past, Claire, pretending to be "Bonnie, the neighbors' niece", helps a younger Sandra care for her past self only to be found out by Noah, who knows the neighbors have no niece. Claire tells him that she is there to protect the family and tells him enough about the future and how much he is going to care for her to convince him not to take the phone call that results in her becoming the catalyst. When Claire mentions the baby is Noah's "Claire Bear," Noah suspects that "Bonnie" is the baby Claire all grown up and, finally trusting Present Claire, hangs up the phone.

Hiro tries to make his mother tamagoyaki to eat after being mistaken for a chef, but when he doesn't know how to make what she wants, he makes her waffles. During a conversation with her he convinces her of his identity and she agrees to try to use her power to restore his memories. She is successful and Hiro gets his memories back. Hiro convinces her to give him the catalyst as well and, after she does, she dies.