‘Heroes Reborn’: Who is Nathan and Malina’s Biological Father?

Heroes Reborn
Season 1, Episode 13: “Project Reborn”
Air Date: January 21, 2016

 

At the end of the last episode of Heroes Reborn, we are left with a new mystery after Malina and Nathan (Tommy) save the world through the sacrifice of their grandfather, Noah Bennet. The twins are living their lives separately with Nathan back in Carbondale while Malina was in Odessa attending high school at Union Wells.

As Nathan and his girlfriend Emily are at the ice cream parlor, a trench coat wearing patron gets ups and leaves, having drunk a strawberry milkshake. When the master of time and space comes to clean the table, he sees that a tarot card had been left behind. The scene cuts to Malina going to her locker at school and she finds another tarot card there as well. Confused, the teenage girl goes outside and gets inside a Mercedes Benz that has come to pick her up. Seated in the car, her great-grandmother asks her how her first day was. Malina gives Angela the card and tells her that someone left it for her and that she felt like she was being watched.

HEROES REBORN -- "Project Reborn" Episode 113 -- Pictured: Danika Yarosh as Malina Bennet -- (Photo by: NBC)
HEROES REBORN — “Project Reborn” Episode 113 — Pictured: Danika Yarosh as Malina Bennet — (Photo by: NBC)

The older woman looks at her great-grandchild in dismay and says that her father is coming for her and Nathan and that no one will be able to protect them from him.

But who is this mysterious trench coat wearing father? Turns out he is a new character from the Heroes ebook Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World.

His name is never revealed, but Claire calls him Hammer and they first met on June 5, 2012. Her life had changed after revealing her abilities to the world on December 7, 2010, but it had only become more dangerous. Eventually Claire had to go into hiding and she would meet the future father of the twins.

Peter and Claude had rescued Hammer and several others Evos from being lynched in Monaco and had taken them to a barge that was then docked in Tarragona, Spain. Even then he was already wearing his trench coat. Hammer had been badly injured and Mohinder feared that he would never walk again. Apparently Claire had been the first person he saw after regaining consciousness and they grew close during their time on the barge. The duo had their first kiss on July 4, 2012.

Angela Petrelli and Claire Bennet
Angela Petrelli and Claire Bennet

Still, things weren’t perfect between the couple and Hammer had become moody and felt that the others needed to be more proactive. He began to fight with Peter, Claude, Mohinder and Micah. Then one day he disappeared without a word to anyone.

Sometime after on September 27, 2013 he came back into Claire’s life while she was hiding in Italy at the Abbazia di San Giovanni in Spilimbergo. He missed his “Blondie” and had explained that things in the outside were getting intense and that he wanted a break from it all by seeing the only person that could make him smile. The two consummate their relationship but the next day Hammer vanishes again. Within that week, Claire begins to feel nauseous and realizes that she’s pregnant.

On June 13, 2014 when she arrives at the summit in Odessa, Claire scratches her hand and notices that she’s not healing. Soon after her water breaks and she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. The events after that was explored in Heroes Reborn.

HEROES REBORN -- "Project Reborn" Episode 113 -- Pictured: Robbie Kay as Tommy Clark -- (Photo by: NBC)
HEROES REBORN — “Project Reborn” Episode 113 — Pictured: Robbie Kay as Tommy Clark — (Photo by: NBC)

So we don’t know what Hammer’s real name is or what kind of powers he has. Nathan (Tommy) inherited the Petrelli ability of power absorption (great grandfather Arthur possessed it, great uncle Peter had ability replication/mimicry) and Malina’s elemental control could have come from her maternal grandmother, Meredith Gordon’s line (who was pyrokinetic) or possibly from her father. Still, we do know he likes strawberry milkshakes, trench coats, tarot cards, and that likely he has some nefarious plans in mind for the twins and humanity.

While Herores Reborn was not renewed for a second season, this little nugget does leave fans of the series wanting more. And also how did Angela Petrelli get younger again?

 

Nicole C
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  1. Yep unfortunately the last of original series (season 4) would leave us all hanging for years. Even worse, the series itself was forced to be abbreviated as the writer’s strike at the time caused a rush-to-completion ending, not fully realizing what the showrunners originally had in mind….also this delay in progress was what ultimately led to the show not being renewed+several of its stars began moving on to diff projects. Its really a shame that after all these years NBC finally gave it another go only to limit it to a single season….guess now have to hope it follows in the footsteps of Community by shifting to air online w Yahoo or maybe another similar option (Amazon, Netflix, etc)

  2. Sylar never died in the original Heroes remember he got Claires regenerative powers so he could still be alive like he said to in the scene after he gained her powers.
    “Claire I couldnt kill you even if I wanted to you can never die and NOW I neither can I”
    Claire died giving birth because he son stole her power to heal but Sylar would still have his regenerative powers so he would still be alive.
    And he was always hungry for more power and those twins would be the perfect targets for his lust for more power.
    Remember when Sylar met Peter Petrelli the first time I said he wanted Peters power of powermimicry maybe because it would be a whole lot easier to just copy other peoples powers by walking past them instead of have to kill them every time.
    I know Arthur Petrelli showed Sylar how he could steal other peoples powers without killing them it still didnt stop Sylar from killing people by cutting their heads open.

    • But remember, Sylar changed his life around. Became a good guy and helped everyone save New York from ol what’s his name… The carnival guy that could control the earth around him whose powers increased when other specials were around him

  3. I think it was super cause on the last episode of reborn she made it sound like he was going to kill them but super might just want to take there powers and on the card the Pearson at the top had a dark looking hoodie and do y’all remember when super use to were the hoodie and u did not see his face

  4. As much as I hate to admit it, the father couldn’t possibly be Sylar. I know I hear the fangirls crying already, but the timing doesn’t work. The show started airing in 2006 so I’m going to assume that’s the time where the show takes place. This disproves the theory that it could be Sylar because Claire met him in season one (You know when he tried to cut open her head.) This also rules out everyone we met in Heroes because the final season aired in 2009. However, this could be wrong, although I highly doubt it. Tim Kring is the only one who truly knows everything about Heroes.

  5. But who is this mysterious trench coat wearing father? Turns out he is a new character from the Heroes ebook Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World.
    His name is never revealed, but Claire calls him Hammer and they first met on June 5, 2012. Her life had changed after revealing her abilities to the world on December 7, 2010, but it had only become more dangerous. Eventually Claire had to go into hiding and she would meet the future father of the twins.
    Peter and Claude had rescued Hammer and several others Evos from being lynched in Monaco and had taken them to a barge that was then docked in Tarragona, Spain. Even then he was already wearing his trench coat. Hammer had been badly injured and Mohinder feared that he would never walk again. Apparently Claire had been the first person he saw after regaining consciousness and they grew close during their time on the barge. The duo had their first kiss on July 4, 2012.
    Still, things weren’t perfect between the couple and Hammer had become moody and felt that the others needed to be more proactive. He began to fight with Peter, Claude, Mohinder and Micah. Then one day he disappeared without a word to anyone.
    Sometime after on September 27, 2013 he came back into Claire’s life while she was hiding in Italy at the Abbazia di San Giovanni in Spilimbergo. He missed his “Blondie” and had explained that things in the outside were getting intense and that he wanted a break from it all by seeing the only person that could make him smile. The two consummate their relationship but the next day Hammer vanishes again. Within that week, Claire begins to feel nauseous and realizes that she’s pregnant.
    On June 13, 2014 when she arrives at the summit in Odessa, Claire scratches her hand and notices that she’s not healing. Soon after her water breaks and she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. The events after that was explored in Heroes Reborn.
    So we don’t know what Hammer’s real name is or what kind of powers he has. Nathan (Tommy) inherited the Petrelli ability of power absorption (great grandfather Arthur possessed it, great uncle Peter had ability replication/mimicry) and Malina’s elemental control could have come from her maternal grandmother, Meredith Gordon’s line (who was pyrokinetic) or possibly from her father. Still, we do know he likes strawberry milkshakes, trench coats, tarot cards, and that likely he has some nefarious plans in mind for the twins and humanity.

  6. Sylar aka Hammer is the father, he was right, Sylar and Clair shared too many things to not come together. and now he will come to collect his children and no one will be able to stop him, except serie was cancelled many years ago 😛

    • Someone made a comment that Sylar called Claire, “Blondie,” but it was Doyle (the puppet control guy!), that called her blondie! I can’t see her having relations with him! 😂 Could have been Sylar, posing as someone else, as he can shape shift! Whoever he is, he must have been watching the twins their whole life, as he knew there was two of them, and where they were. Could he also be a time traveler, as he got from Chicago to Texas, pretty fast!!
      Does anyone have a link to the ebook?? Can’t find it anywhere!
      Really wished they’d do a feature length film or something, to tie it all up.
      What happened to Parkman, Suresh, Taylor, Peter, Hiro, Ando, Tracy, etc!??

      • Parkman is either dead or facing jail (him being stuck with erica would have been fitting)
        Suresh died in the parking lot explosion (Could have been time travel things)
        Hiro was killed by the clones (off-screen or not dead if was a second season)
        Taylor since Erica is dead (erased future) inherits the company ect and aims to use Renatus for what it pretended to do and bring humans and evos together.
        Peter op may have been imprisoned or time traveling ect
        Tracy – not much impact compared to other powers
        Ando -would have possibly eliminated the need for Nathan if he supercharged Melina’s powers.

        Alot of the time actors or character are not in the story is they cant get them or doesent fit/work plus many more.
        The biggest plot whole is that Nathan/Tommy hold 1 power at a time and if that is true would have lost his ability to time travel when Melina and Nathan were younger and found out a conduit would be needed as he can only hold a single power from then no power over time and space. If you want to get even more specific in episode 7 when his Grandmother is holding him doesn’t lose the ability of foresight. This is just a big gaping hole in the whole serious, unfortunately. I love Heroes but was so easily seen.

  7. I still believe that the clues leads to Samuel Sullivan: the strawberry milkshake and the clothes. Additionally, those cards reminds me to tarot cards of something related to a carnival. Of course Samuel is too old for Claire but maybe he time-travelled, i dont know.
    And I bet Angela is Sylar hahaha. Unless the elegant lady decided to dye her hair again.

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