Klaus Hargreeves, originally designated as Number Four, is one of the forty-three children who were all born on the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989 to mothers without any previous signs of pregnancy. The baby was one of seven adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves with the intention of training them to save the world. Ranked by their individual usefulness, Klaus was Hargreeves' Number Four with the ability to speak to the dead.
Klaus found himself transported to Dallas, February 11, 1960, when five failed to avert the apocalypse. Klaus became the leader of a spiritual cult and despite the fame associated, he struggled more and more with his inner demons. He and Ben struggled with their relationship but began experimenting more with their combined abilities.
Klaus Hargreeves was born at noon on October 1, 1989, in Pennsylvania, to Rachel Herschberger, an Amish woman,[9] who had not been pregnant when the day began. He was adopted by the eccentric (yet reclusive) billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves.[1]
At the beginning of the series, Klaus was released from rehab. He immediately bought drugs upon his release and learned of his adoptive father's death after being resuscitated in an ambulance. He arrived at the Umbrella Academy and immediately raided his father's office for anything of value. He was caught by his sister Allison, although she did not force him to put anything back. Luther, however, did. He took a box which contained papers belonging to his late father. He thew the papers into a dumpster and took the box to a pawn shop. Using the money, he bought more drugs.
Later on, during the family meeting, Klaus has stolen Allison's skirt. He wasn't happy with Luther's assumption that perhaps he or another sibling killed their father. He was asked by Luther to contact the spirit of Sir Reginald. While he tried, Klaus was unsuccessful. During the funeral of Sir Reginald, Klaus smoked, and agreed with Diego that their father was a monster. When Number Five opened a portal to travel back to his time, Klaus threw a fire extinguisher through. Afterwards, he left with Diego, and it was revealed that although he is high, he is still able to talk with the spirit of his dead brother, Ben.[1]
While he slept, Klaus was tormented by the voices of the dead, or perhaps had nightmares of them. He awakened, hungover, and began to talk with the spirit of Ben, who admonished him for his drug use. He was asked by Pogo about the box that went missing from Sir Reginald's office the day before, but he feigned innocence.
He later hid in Number Five's closet and listened in on Number Five and Viktor's conversation about the apocalypse. He climbed out after Viktor left, and it was revealed that Number Five wanted Klaus to pretend to be his father. They went to the company that produced the prosthetic eye that Five was fixated on, but the technician in charge once again refused to disclose patient information to Five. This changed when Klaus changed tactics. First, he punched Five and insinuated that they will pretend that it was the technician who gave Five the swollen lip. Then, he smashed a snow globe into his head, and when the technician attempted to call security, Klaus threatened to tell them that the technician had assaulted them.
After Klaus insinuated that the technician would be assaulted if put into prison, the technician finally gave in and looked up the serial number from the eye. The eye, however, had not yet been manufactured, according to their records. When they got back outside and Five yelled at him, Klaus came to the conclusion that Five was so wound up because he's horny. At this point, Klaus also revealed that his longest relationship lasted three weeks, although that was only because he "was so tired of looking for a place to sleep. He did make the most fantastic osso buco, though." At this point, Five teleported away.[3]
Klaus and Luther showed up in the van that Five stole. After Klaus told them about the time, he "waxed [his] ass with chocolate pudding", they kick him out of the van. It's at this point Klaus decided to steal as much as he could from a nearby corner store. When Luther showed the family the surveillance footage of their father's death, Klaus ate a pack of chips, and got a drink as Diego revealed that he took Sir Reginald's monocle from Grace. The family argued over what they should do with Grace, Klaus sided with Diego.
Soon after, during Hazel and Cha-Cha's break-in, Klaus was in the bath. Although he seemed initially peaceful, he began to visibly experience a similar spiritual onslaught to his nightmare. Agitated, he sat up, put on a pair of headphones, and lit a joint. He then was completely oblivious to the attack on the Academy and was seen dancing as his siblings fought Hazel and Cha-Cha. However, he was kidnapped by Hazel.[10]
At the Academy, no one had noticed that Klaus has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Hazel and Cha-Cha tortured Klaus for information. They strangled, beat, and waterboarded him. These methods prove ineffective. As he began to go through withdrawal, Klaus started seeing and hearing spirits around him, specifically, a Russian woman.
Hazel and Cha-Cha, growing frustrated, went through Klaus' coat, finding pills and a bar of chocolate laced with marijuana. Hazel crushed the pills, and Klaus chose not to tell Hazel and Cha-Cha that the chocolate was "special". He eventually told them everything that he knew about Number Five's plans, after being bribed with what was left of his pills. As Hazel and Cha-Cha burned down Meritech Prosthetics, Klaus was left in a closet, giving him flashbacks to being locked in a tomb as a child, bringing back some unwanted trauma that his father had given him. A mix of these flashbacks and withdrawal caused him to scream in anguish, but Ben attempted to calm him down. As a cleaner vacuumed, Klaus screamed for help, but she didn't hear him, as his mouth was covered in duct tape, and she was listening to music.
Ben told Klaus how disappointed and hurt he was by Klaus' life choices. Hazel and Cha-Cha returned, dragging him out of the closet. Klaus took this as an opportunity to inform them that they were "scarier without the masks". He also begged to be let go but was informed by Hazel and Cha-Cha that he was now being used as bait to lure Five to their motel room. He began seeing and hearing spirits again, but this time, he talked to them. He used what they told him as ammunition against Hazel and Cha-Cha, mainly the name Zoya Popova and the story of Jan Mueller. Cha-Cha eventually had enough and shut him up with some duct tape over his mouth. Klaus saw Detective Patch through the blinds and started banging his head on the table. She heard and got the door open. She realized that he was Diego's sibling and cuthim free of the restraints.
Hazel came out of the bathroom and told Patch to not shoot at him. Hazel dropped his weapon and got down on his knees. Cha-Cha somehow got out and shot Patch in the back. Before Patch got shot, Klaus dove behind the bed, and grabbed their coat, crawled through the air vent, taking Hazel and Cha-Cha's case with him. He prayed it was money for drugs. He got onto a bus, where he opened the case and was transported away to another, at the time unknown, time and place.[11]
As seen nearly 12 minutes into the episode, Klaus had just gotten back from what seems to be a war, as shown on his body and army jacket which was covered in war/army tags, tattoos and bloody hands. Looking traumatized, sad and sobbing, he got off of the train and started destroying the briefcase, screaming, as he slowly dropped to the ground and sobbed.
At 18:40, Klaus was seen in the bathtub, with flickering lights, he heard himself shouting the name "Dave!" and jolted up, snapping out of it, clearly terrified. He was later seen by Five, who noticed how Klaus is acting, and the blood trailing from the bathroom to his room and asked him if he was okay, Klaus replying "yeah... Long one" and Five told him that it seemed to have been more than one night. Klaus argued and tried to hide the dog tag and tattoos, but Five told him the symptoms and asked Klaus if he could explain what had happened, and at this point, it was not worth hiding so he explained how he had been kidnapped and why he stole the briefcase. Five asked how long he had been gone, and Klaus stated that it had been almost a year and that he was 10 months older now, Five told Klaus that it wasn't a joke and asked where the briefcase was, but Klaus had destroyed it, Five stated that it was very important and had to get back but unfortunately for Five, Klaus walked away, completely ignoring him because of what he had gone through.
Later on, he bumped into Diego and asked to give him a ride since he couldn't drive, and Diego, not even bothered to argue anymore, just agreed in silence as Klaus went to get his things. During the drive, Diego asked Klaus if he was okay, Klaus ignored him and drank, shocked, Diego stated that Klaus had never been quiet since they were 12 when Klaus was said to have used Grace's heels while running down the stairs which made him trip and break his jaw. Diego asked how long his jaw was wired shut, Klaus answered quietly "eight weeks", he then told Diego to just drop him off, and then entered VFW Lakeshore Post B392 for veterans of foreign wars. Klaus entered, took a shot then went to look at a picture of war veterans which had Klaus and Dave on it, Klaus then teared up, remembering what had happened during the war and kissed a logo of Airborne, Sky Soldiers, which was interrupted by Diego wanting Klaus to open up to him, to talk to him, which again was rudely interrupted by a vet who made them leave, stating the bar was for veterans only, but Klaus argued, saying that he too was a veteran, but of course the old man was skeptical and again harshly told them to leave but Klaus talked back calling him an asshole which made the old man mad but luckily, Diego stopped him and told him to calm down and let them go. The old man agreed but only unless Klaus apologized, but instead, Diego apologized for him, but the old man said he needed Klaus to say it, and as Diego was trying to talk, Klaus interrupted by saying that the old man was right and "I'd like to apologize... that you... are depriving some village of their IDIOT!", and of course, this broke out to a fight.
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