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Worried that Peter is telling the truth about being the cause of New York City’s impending destruction, Claude begins the task of trying to teach the younger man to use his powers at will instead of by accident - even if the lesson kills him. Claire finally works up the nerve to visit her biological mother, and discovers that her mother has an unusual ability of her own, but very little to say about Claire’s real father. After locking Mr. Bennet in the cell that was meant for him, Sylar goes to Bennet’s house to lay in wait for Claire. Hiro confronts his own father, who demands that he return to Japan to assume his rightful place as the heir to the family business. But despite the pressure, Hiro instead maneuvers his sister into that position, freeing himself up to continue his quest. When Bennet escapes the cell and returns home, he shoots Sylar, but Sylar still escapes. After another incident where her destructive personality comes out, Niki Sanders is miraculously set free, though it’s made clear that she’ll be expected to repay Linderman for making it possible.

written by Michael Green
directed by Jeannot Szwarc
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Jessalyn Gilsig (Meredith Gordon), James Kyson Lee (Ando), Zachary Quinto (Sylar), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Thomas Dekker (Zach), Paula Newsome (Dr. Witherson), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian), Kevin Chamberlin (Malsky), Saemi Nakamura (Kimiko), Colby French (Hank), George Takei (Kaito Nakamura), Christopher Eccleston (Claude)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Flashback: Juliet uses her ailing sister as a test subject for a fertility project, and her ex-husband Edmund – who also happens to be her boss – finds out. He warns her that there are ethical concerns that could jeopardize her research, but if she shares credit with him, he can make sure that they are both seen as pioneers. A private research company from Portland approaches Juliet to offer her a position, but she declines, citing Edmund’s opposition as one reason. When the recruiter asks her if there’s any way that they could change Edmund’s mind, she jokes that he could die in a traffic accident. Soon after the interview, Juliet’s sister tells her that she’s pregnant. And as Juliet shares the news with Edmund the next day, a bus promptly runs over him.

The Island: Kate and Sawyer lock up their captives and begin running, but Juliet quickly sends men out to retrieve them. She tells Tom that there is no way that Jack will simply let a patient die. Alex helps Kate and Sawyer hide, and tells that she has a boat. But before they can escape, they have to rescue Alex’s boyfriend Carl. Ben regains consciousness during the surgery and asks to speak alone with Juliet for a few minutes. Jack watches the conversation, and when it’s over, Juliet tells Jack to finish the surgery – she’s going to go help his friends escape. Kate, Sawyer and Alex rescue Carl and reach the boat just as their pursuers catch up with them just as Jack reaches a critical point in the surgery – and just as Juliet arrives on the beach.

written by Carlton Cuse & Jeff Pinkner
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Robin Weigert (Rachel), M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly/Tom), William Mapother (Ethan), Blake Bashoff (Karl), Tania Raymonde (Alex), Michael Bowen (Pickett), Ariston Green (Jason), Teddy Wells (Ivan), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert), Steve Labrash (Morgue Employee), Kimberly Estrada (Sherry), Rob McElhenney (Aldo), Zeljko Ivanek (Edmund)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

An outbreak of a contagious disease, which can kill its victims in just days if left untreated, is reported among the Saggitaron refugees still living aboard Galactica. A civilian doctor is treating most of the cases, but many are turning out to be fatal despite his treatments - or, as one Sagittaron woman claims, because of his treatments. Helo, assigned to protect the doctor and keep peace among the refugees, begins to wonder if the rumor is true. But when he runs into racism directed at the Saggitarons among the very officers whose help he needs to prove the accusations, Helo wonders if anyone would care if they turn out to be true.

written by Michael Angeli
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Bruce Davison (Doctor Robert), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Ryan Robbins (Connor), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Chris Boyd (Cheadle), Colin Corringan (Nowart), Scott Little (Willie King), Gabrielle Rose (Mrs. King)

Note: The “bonus scene” aired with this episode involved Helo confessing to Adama that he had suffocated the Cylon prisoners in A Measure Of Salvation. Again, there’s no context as to where or when this scene took place relative to the rest of the episode.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Meredith Gordon, fresh from a visit with the daughter she gave up for adoption, calls the girl’s father, with whom she hasn’t spoken un 14 years: Nathan Petrelli. To make ends meet while he’s suspended from the LAPD, Matt Parkman takes a private security job, but the man he’s protecting has just swindled Linderman - and Linderman has hired Niki Sanders to kill him. Hiro and Ando are back in Vegas to try to meet Linderman, but they meet a woman whose helplessness appeals to Ando - and may tear the two friends apart. After surviving her encounter with Parkman, Niki receives instructions for her next hit job for Linderman: Nathan Petrelli.

written by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Jessalyn Gilsig (Meredith Gordon), James Kyson
Lee (Ando), Zachary Quinto (Sylar), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli), Lisa Lackey (Janice Parkman), Kevin Chamberlin (Malsky), Bill Fagerbakke (Gustavson), Ethan Cohn (Zane Taylor), Missi Pyle (Hope)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Flashback: After turning the key and imploding the hatch, Desmond wakes up in his old apartment, having just fallen from a ladder. Penelope has just moved in, and Desmond is preparing to meet her father, Mr. Widmore. Their meeting does not go well, as Whitmore tells Desmond that he will never be good enough for Penny. As he storms from the meeting, Desmond sees a street musician playing for tips – Charlie. Desmond recognizes him, and remembers more of the island. He asks a physicist friend of his if time travel is possible, and the friend disbelieves Desmond’s story.

Desmond tries to convince himself that he’s not crazy, and that he can still get his life going the way that he wants. He goes to buy an engagement ring – but at the last moment the shop clerk refuses to sell it to him. She tells Desmond that being with Penny is not his path, that he is destined to go to the island, push the button, and turn the key – that it is the one great thing that he will do, and the universe has ways of correcting its course. Desmond tries, and meets with Penny. But before he proposes, they get their picture taken together. Desmond recognizes it as the picture that he carries with him on the island. Shaken up, he breaks up with Penny and returns to the pub. A soccer result confirms for him that his visions/memories are real, which gives him a renewed determination to try and change things. But before he can, a cricket bat to the head knocks him unconscious again – and he wakes up shortly after the implosion.

The Island: Desmond brings Charlie and Hurley to meet Sayid and Locke, who tells them of Eko’s death. Desmond suddenly runs back to the beach and dives into the water to pull Claire out of the ocean. Hurley tells Charlie that he believes Desmond can see the future, so they decide to get Desmond drunk. Charlie provokes a fight, and Desmond eventually reveals that when he turned the key, his life flashed before his eyes – and he’s still getting flashes. Those flashes tell him that someone on the island is going to die. And as much as Desmond might try to stop it, the universe has a way of correcting course.

written by Damon Lindelof & Drew Goddard
directed by Jack Bender
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Sonya Walger (Penny Widmore), Alan Dale (Charles Widmore), Shishir Kurup (Donovan), Fionnula Flanagan (Ms. Hawking), Katie Doyle (Receptionist), Jeremy Colvin (delivery man), Michael Titterton (Bartender), David Cordell (Jimmy Lennon)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

For the rest of Galactica’s crew, it’s a routine day, but for Admiral Adama, it’s a day he marks, and yet dreads, every year - his anniversary. Even all these years later, it seems he can only remember the arguments. For Tyrol and Cally, the day starts with a routine argument, but when the airlock they’re assigned to work on suddenly traps them due to a slight loss of pressure, their normal day becomes a life-or-death crisis. Even with their expertise, there’s no way to just open the door and return to the ship - the only way out is to blow the outer airlock hatch and try to catch them in a raptor just outside, a last-ditch maneuver that’s as like to kill them as it is to save them.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Rod Hardy
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucinda Jenney (Caroline Adama), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Sebastian Speance (Narcho), Don Thompson (Figurski), Mike Leisen (Pvt. Stewart Jaffee)

Note: While dogs are known as daggits in the Galactica universe, apparently cats are - according to President Roslin’s “herding cats” comment - still cats in any universe. As well they should be.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In his isolated hideout in the Nevada desert, Ted Sprague gets an instant message from someone claiming to know what he’s been through - which is a pretty good trick when he doesn’t have internet access. A woman named Hana Gitelman arrives and introduces herself, demonstrating an ability to generate and receive radio, wi-fi and even satellite signals with her mind. With that ability, she’s learned that almost everyone with extraordinary abilities has two things in common - two small scratches on the back of one shoulder, and a visit to Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas…Bennet’s plant where Parkman led a futile FBI raid. Now Sprague is planning a return visit to see Bennet, and wants Parkman to go along. In Odessa, Claire reveals to Mr. Bennet that she hasn’t had her memory wiped, and blames him for her adoptive mother’s precarious health. Suresh, traveling with a man he believes to be Zane Taylor, visits a woman with extraordinary hearing, but before he can run tests on her, she’s murdered. Little does Suresh know, “Zane” is actually Sylar - and he’s systematically killing and absorbing the powers of everyone Suresh is visiting on his list. And in New York, as Peter Petrelli and Isaac Mendez argue over Simone, Mendez makes a horrible mistake.

written by Jeph Loeb
directed by Greg Beeman
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Zachary Quinto (Sylar), James Kyson Lee (Ando), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Matthew John Armstrong (Ted Sprague), Bill Fagerbakke (Gustavson), Lisa Lackey (Janice Parkman), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian), Rusty Schwimmer (Dale), Stana Katic (Hana Gitelman), Christina Haag (Dr. Lindale), Stan Lee (Bus Driver), Missi Pyle (Hope), Christopher Eccleston (Claude)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Flashback: Jack spends some time on a beach in Thailand, where he meets Achara, a woman who refuses to divulge much about herself. The secrets don’t get in the way of their attraction, but eventually Jack’s curiosity gets the better of him. He follows her to a tattoo parlor, and Achara reveals that she has a gift. She sees people for who they are, and then marks them – definition, not decoration. This is exactly what Jack’s been looking for, and he demands that Achara tell him who he is. She begs him not to – he is an outsider, and there will be consequences. But he is adamant – he demands to know. Achara tells Jack that he is a leader, but that this makes him alone and angry. This seems to resonate, and he demands that she tattoo him, no matter who else might disapprove.

The Island: Kate keeps looking for an opportunity to go back and rescue Jack, or to use Karl to find the Others’ main residence. But Sawyer takes a more cautious approach, and even suggests to Karl that he go try to find Alex. Whether this is a moment of sentimentality on Sawyer’s part, or an effort to sever Karl’s fate from their, it works, leaving Kate and Sawyer alone with their unresolved issues.

It’s musical cells day back at the Others’ camp, with Jack moved into Sawyer’s old cell and Juliet placed in Jack’s. Another member of the Others, Isabel, is investigating Juliet’s actions, and Jack decides to cover for her. Isabel is not buying his story, however. Juliet’s one chance at staying in the Others’ favor appears to be convincing Jack to help Ben with his post-operative recovery, but for the moment Jack is not interested.

In his new outdoor setting, Jack receives several visitors. Cindy, the stewardess who was in the tail section of Flight 815, appears with a group of adults and children, one of whom asks how Ana Lucia is doing. Jack asks Cindy what happened, but she ducks the question, and simply says that they are there to watch. Jack, none too pleased with this answer, shouts at them to go away. Later, Alex visits to ask why he saved Ben. He tells her that he did it because he said he would. Alex tells him that Juliet will likely be killed, which sends Jack into action. Now he’s ready to make a deal with Ben – his assistance in exchange for Juliet’s life.

written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim
directed by Paris Barclay
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly/Tom), Tania Raymonde (Alex), Blake Bashoff (Karl), Kimberly Joseph (Cindy), Bai Ling (Achara), Diana Scarwid (Isabel), Shannon Chanhthanam (Thai Boy), Siwathep Sunapo (Thai Man), James Huang (Chet)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

When a fuel impurity forces a raptor crew to ditch their ship - seconds before it slams into Colonial One - President Roslin and Admiral Adama launch an investigation, because it’s far from the only recent incident involving problems with the fleet’s fuel supply. That supply comes entirely from the fleet’s one mining ship, whose captain is tired of the working conditions and advocates an uprising against the fleet’s “ruling class” - according to the dictates of a book by Baltar, smuggled out of prison and into publication throughout the fleet. Roslin orders that captain’s arrest and Adama sends Tyrol to take over the mining ship and restore the flow of fuel. Once there, though, Tyrol finds himself more in agreement with the ship’s imprisoned captain than with Adama, and proposes a lottery system to bring fresh workers to the mining ship from elsewhere in the fleet. When that solution brings a teenage worker to the ship who is premanently maimed in the course of making an emergency repair, Tyrol brings the ship to a halt and declares a strike. There’s only one problem: what he calls a strike, Adama calls a mutiny.

written by Anne Cofell Saunders & Jane Espenson
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Don Thompson (Figurski), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Samantha Ferris (Pollux), David Patrick Green (Xeno Fenner), Wesley Salter (Redford), Jerry Wasserman (Cabott)

Original Title: Our Enemies, Ourselves

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Past: 15 years ago, Noah Bennet joined the Company and went undercover at the Primatech Paper plant in Odessa, Texas. He was assigned a partner, a Englishman named Claude who had the power to turn invisible. He was also given a baby, rescued from the burned-down home of a woman with pyrokinetic abilities, and instructions by his superior, Mr. Nakamura: if the child, the product of two parents with special abilities, manifests her own powers, the Company expects Bennet to turn her over to them for immediate study. Upon learning that Claude has been sheltering others with special powers rather than handing them over, the Company orders Bennet to execute his partner. After Claude is shot twice, he vanishes, and Bennet assumes he’s dead.

The Present: Originally setting out to comb Bennet’s home for evidence, Ted Sprague - with Parkman in tow - sees Bennet himself pull into the driveway, with his entire family. A break-in to find incriminating information becomes a hostage situation. Able to read Claire’s thoughts and discover her self-healing ability, Parkman shoots her to prove his ruthlessness. Sprague keeps Bennet’s wife and son hostage at the house while Parkman follows Bennet to the paper plant. Worried about Sprague’s ability to keep his nuclear temper down, Parkman helps Bennet, but even when they return to the house with the evidence, it may not be enough to satisfy Sprague. And if he goes nuclear, Claire may have to demonstrate her ability - with the Company watching closely - to save the day.

written by Bryan Fuller
directed by Allan Arkush
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Eric Roberts (Thompson), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Matthew John Armstrong (Ted Sprague), Missy Peregrym (Candice Wilmer), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian), George Takei (Kaito Nakamura), Christopher Eccleston (Claude)

LogBook entry by Earl Green