upon returning to his cell, elijah kills his caretaker daryl before freeing kevin. elijah then manipulates david into fighting the beast by revealing his plan to destroy a chemical company inside a new skyscraper in philadelphia that would kill thousands. david breaks free from his cell and pursues the beast. mrs. price, joseph and casey arrive at the same time just as the trio escape. while david and the beast fight, joseph reveals that kevin's father died in the train wreck caused by elijah price 19 years earlier. despite thanking him for his creation, the beast mortally wounds elijah out of distrust. casey manages to bring kevin's dormant original personality out, which allows the police to fatally shoot him. staple's men drown david in a flooded pothole while staple reveals that she is part of a clandestine organisation that has been suppressing the existence of superhumans for millennia to keep people from knowing about them and killing those with superhuman abilities as they see them as a threat to the balance of the world.