The Fifth Stage

11th episode of the 4th season of Heroes

"The Fifth Stage"

Heroes episode

Peter and Nathan reminisce about the last time they were together on this rooftop (Don't Look Back).

Episode no.

Season 4
Episode 11

Directed by

Kevin Dowling

Written by

Tim Kring

Production code

412

Original air date

November 30, 2009 (2009-11-30)

Guest appearances

Madeline Zima as Gretchen Berg
Jimmy Jean-Louis as the Haitian
Dawn Olivieri as Lydia
Todd Stashwick as Eli
Elisabeth Röhm as Lauren Gilmore
Carlease Burke as Nurse Hammer
Sasha Pieterse as Amanda Strazzulla

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"The Fifth Stage" is the eleventh episode and mid-season finale of the fourth season of the NBC superhero drama series Heroes and seventieth episode overall. The episode aired on November 30, 2009.^[1]

Plot

As Noah Bennet goes over what he knows already about the carnival people, he is surprised by Lauren who decided to take him out on a date to the movies instead of the other way around.

Angela Petrelli meets with Peter Petrelli, informing him he must move to the "fifth stage" and accept that Nathan Petrelli is dead.

Peter then uses the Haitian's other ability to suppress Sylar's mind deep down, allowing Nathan to resurface.

Critical reception

Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club rated this episode a C+.^[2]

Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode 7.4 out of 10.^[3]

References

^ "NBC Universal Media Village (Navigation: Networks/Programs > NBC Entertainment > Primetime > Heroes > Episodes)". NBC. Archived from the original on 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
^ Heisler, Steve (November 30, 2009). "The Fifth Stage". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^ Canning, Robert (December 1, 2009). "Heroes: "The Fifth Stage" Review". IGN. Retrieved November 19, 2013.

External links

"The Fifth Stage" at IMDb

Heroes

Episodes

Season 1	"Genesis" "Don't Look Back" "One Giant Leap" "Collision" "Hiros" "Better Halves" "Nothing to Hide" "Seven Minutes to Midnight" "Homecoming" "Six Months Ago" "Fallout" "Godsend" "The Fix" "Distractions" "Run!" "Unexpected" "Company Man" "Parasite" ".07%" "Five Years Gone" "The Hard Part" "Landslide" "How to Stop an Exploding Man"
Season 2	"Four Months Later..." "Lizards" "Kindred" "The Kindness of Strangers" "Fight or Flight" "The Line" "Out of Time" "Four Months Ago..." "Cautionary Tales" "Truth & Consequences" "Powerless"
Season 3	"The Second Coming" "The Butterfly Effect" "One of Us, One of Them" "I Am Become Death" "Angels and Monsters" "Dying of the Light" "Eris Quod Sum" "Villains" "It's Coming" "The Eclipse" "Our Father" "Dual" "A Clear and Present Danger" "Trust and Blood" "Building 26" "Cold Wars" "Exposed" "Shades of Gray" "Cold Snap" "Into Asylum" "Turn and Face the Strange" "1961" "I Am Sylar" "An Invisible Thread"
Season 4	"Orientation" "Ink" "Acceptance" "Hysterical Blindness" "Tabula Rasa" "Strange Attractors" "Once Upon a Time in Texas" "Shadowboxing" "Brother's Keeper" "Thanksgiving" "The Fifth Stage" "Upon This Rock" "Let It Bleed" "Close to You" "Pass/Fail" "The Art of Deception" "The Wall" "Brave New World"