"I was never there. I--"

--found Nathan in time to kill him, wearing the face of his brother; the look in his eyes was priceless, and the sound of Peter Petrelli losing the last shred of control and taking out a city with his incompetence more so--

"--heard it all from Peter. After."

Or covered it up, faked his own death and took on the face of a rising-star politician, fought his way to more kinds of power than he'd ever dreamed.