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"Company Man" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama...

"Company Man" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. It is the first Heroes episode that abandons the usual multi-story format and focuses solely on one storyline, a format that would not be repeated until season 3's "Cold Wars". As such, many regular cast members do not appear in this episode. The episode alternates between the hostage story at the Bennet house and flashbacks to Noah Bennet's time working for Primatech. The first flashback shows Bennet as he begins his cover identity at Primatech Paper Company. Bennet's mysterious boss, Thompson, informs him that each agent is paired with a person with a superhuman power. Bennet's partner is Claude, whose ability is to become invisible at will. In another flashback, a baby is handed over to Bennet atop the Deveaux building in New York. Bennet, Claude, and Kaito Nakamura converse in Japanese, and Mr. Nakamura says of the baby, "She belongs to us. If she manifests, we take her." A very young Hiro Nakamura sits nearby, absorbed in a handheld video game. Another flashback takes place outside the Bennet house, where Bennet tells Thompson that his wife is suspicious about his work.