Now, I’ll forgive the writers for not giving me any Peter this episode (a Petrelli-less episode? Say whaaa?) because Bennett got some good stuff. But note, that should either one of them ever go, I go too. Just sayin’. That said, this week on Heroes: Sylar plays dirty with Matt—and Matt’s wifey, Claire wants to kiss and…talk about it, Bennett makes a promise he can’t keep, and Samuel makes Tracy an offer she might not be able to refuse. Just another day in the life for the not-so-boring(?) heroes.

“Forbidden fruit. My favorite kind.”
Apparently, Sylar has moved up from just thinking about doing naughty things to Mrs. Parkman. And apparently, the baddie without a body is much more impressive in bed than his host. In an effort to prevent the evil entity in his head from ever taking advantage of his wife again, Matt attempts to literally drink his demons away. Sure, the liquor will kill your brain cells and, thus, anything inhabiting your brain cells, but at the same time, it leaves you impaired and vulnerable. Vulnerable indeed was Matt, as he allowed Sylar to awake first from their drunken slumber and acquire full control over the police officer’s body. I love the irony in that Matt was pretending to be an alcoholic to explain his Sylar-induced outbursts and schizophrenic tendencies on the job, and now in his attempt to be rid of the malicious voice in his head, he’s actually sunken to the depths of alcoholism.

“Someone’s gotta win and someone’s gotta lose.”
So, Claire and Gretchen want to talk about their forced publicity stunt kiss and the nature of their equally-forced relationship, only, their mid-night chat is rudely interrupted by a pack of ninjas! And you thought this show was dull! Talk about pushing Claire in the direction of the psycho hero carnival! Samuel’s minion, invisible sorority girl Rebecca, puts Claire and Gretchen through hell prior to the sorority’s “Hell Week”. Great idea, kill off everyone keeping Claire on her straight and narrow path back to a “normal life”. That way if when she finds out it was you, she’ll be sure to follow you back to the place you call home, where a whole brethren of just as demented superhumans awaits. Maybe it’s about time Claire head for the high hills and face the fact that with her hidden talent, she’s never going to lead a normal life as long as people like her know she exists.

“I just wanted to save him.”
Yeah. Maybe you should stick to bagging and tagging, Noah. So far the survival rate is surprisingly higher in your last occupation. When Mr. Bennett finds the not-so-forgiving townsfolk of Cainan don’t take even unsubstantiated patricide cases too lightly, he calls in some back up. Specifically, Tracy because she’s always down with playing along. And she’s his only go-to person. And she can empathize with the kid whose power is driven by his emotions. Still, she can only do so much with empathy. If you ask me, Peter had a much better chance at coming up with a plan to get the emotionally tormented kid out of that place in one piece…but who needs an empath at a time like that?

“How’s a girl like you end up in a place like this.”
By now I think we can be fairly certain that Samuel has only evil intentions in every move he makes, every hero he recruits. Such is evidenced in the abilities attributed to the heroes he’s after—particularly his special interest in the restoration of Sylar—the means he employs to secure them into his “family”, and the tantrums he throws when he can’t secure them (Really? Crushing the police department because they cost you your killer-healer? Really?). Despite his odd nature, Tracy, the ringleader’s newest target, can’t help but be enticed and almost comforted by his offers. It certainly sounds better than the life she’s living—or not living. Still, I can’t help but think Samuel and his “family” are the key to this season. As suggested by his interactions with Lydia and Samuel’s use of her power, it seems that each hero he seeks serves a purpose in an ultimately malicious scheme that seems to be slowly culminating behind the backs of a few somebodies. As of now it’s been established that Mr. Bennett (aka HRG) is his lone sworn enemy. I’m anxious to see where the writers are headed with this.

A Glimpse Into the Future
For as much of (the not-so-loved-by-me) Hiro as it appears we are to receive next week, there better be an equal amount of the recently absent (much-loved-by-me/show’s only remaining redeeming quality) Peter—or you’re going to drive me mad, Heroes “creative” team! Mad, I say! I am looking forward to getting some juicy insight into Noah’s relationship with his former Primatech partner, though. Give that man a lovah already!

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In Samuel’s circus, Sylar still has no idea who he was. The carnival leader tried to change this, having Sylar enter the Hall of Mirrors and see memories of his former, killing self. But this just made him upset.

Even being held at gunpoint by the cop (Ernie Hudson) that apprehended him last week didn’t jar Sylar’s memory. He couldn’t kill the man, and knife-wielding Edgar has to do it instead.

However, Samuel told the carnival that Sylar did the dirty deed and initiated him into the family. Samuel has a plan to mold Sylar into an even better killer, one that it totally their own.

- HRG and Peter, meanwhile, traveled to Georgia to find a healer that could help Hiro. They did, indeed, come across Jeremy, but his power had turned against him and he killed people, such as his parents, with his touch. When Jeremy accidentally shot Peter, HRG convinced him he could be a healer again.

Jeremy obeyed, Peter got his healing power and returned to assist Hiro. HRG stayed behind to help Jeremy cover up the accidental killing of his parents and to help the kid in general. Looks like HRG has found his calling again.

So has Hiro. When Peter got back to the hospital, he was gone. Emma – who Hiro had helped embrace her ability – took Peter into Hiro’s hotel room and he saw the note there: Save Charlie. We end with a scene, subtitled with “Three years ago,” that shows Hiro back at thr Burnt Toast Diner. Charlie is inside.

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This episode tried very hard to be profound and reveal a deeper side to Sylar, but it didn’t totally succeed. On to the recap…

Hiro and Ando want to take down Building 26. They end up fighting – again – over the status of their relationship, but Hiro seems to finally acknowledge Ando as an equal and a partner by the end. Oh, and Ando wants his super hero nickname to be The Crimson Arc. Once these two arrive at Building 26, however, Hiro gets a headache and nose bleed as soon as he starts to stop time. Weird.



Parkman takes his son home to Janice. As soon as these two begin to discuss their future (sorry, but didn’t Daphne just die?!?), agents surround the house. Parkman says he’ll take care of his child and ex-wife; just stick by his side.

The major focus of the episode, of course, was Sylar. Due to his constant shape-shifting, he doesn’t know who he is. Literally. Sylar even wakes up as an agent of Danko, as he has told Sylar to remain out of the spotlight and simply assume the identity of someone named Agent Taub, in order to help bring down Heroes. But Sylar isn’t happy about what he’s becoming.

As a result, in the guise of the agent, he asks the police for the remnants of his mother’s murder. (Remember, back in season one, Sylar killed her with a pair of scissors). With her clothes, and therefore DNA, in his apartment, Sylar can now turn into her. Which would be fine and all…. except a large part of the episode involved strange special effects that involved Sylar holding a conversation with his mother. This is the only time in his shape-shifting that Sylar actually took on the personality of another individual. It didn’t make a lot of sense.

One storyline in the episode involved Sylar actually saving Micah from capture because he felt bad that the child was also lost and without a mother.

In the end, the idea what that Sylar’s mother inspired him to be important again. That’s how he ended up acting as Nathan at a press conference (to close last week’s episode) and that’s why he wants to shake the President’s hand: to become him.

Nathan tracks Sylar down in the former’s office, though, and is shot by Danko and his darts. Danko then tries to kill Sylar with a knife to the back of the head. But Sylar rises. “That hurt,” he says, as the episode ends.

Also at the close of the hour: everyone is captured! Agents somehow track down Mohinder at Coyote Sands; Angela, HRG and Claire on the drive home from there; and, as previously mentioned, are walking around Parkman’s house as he tries to fend them off.

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Nathan finds Peter standing over Arthur’s corpse. Peter admits that Sylar did it; there was no other way to end it. Now the formula has to be destroyed. Nathan explains that it’s too late; he’s going to finish what Arthur started. Twenty marines have already been injected with the formula. Peter tries to shoot Nathan, but he can’t, so he knocks him unconscious instead.

Back at Primatech, H.R.G. summons Meredith. Now that Arthur’s dead, Peter will need their help. They’re joined by Angela and Claire, just as the lights flicker off, and bars slam down over the windows. Sylar is back and he’s put Primatech on lockdown. Holed up in the security office, Sylar broadcasts over the PA: tonight, he’s going to prove to them all that they’re monsters, just like him.

H.R.G. hands Claire a shotgun, telling her to protect Angela at all costs. He and Meredith are going after Sylar, who gets to work on Claire, reminding her that the others betrayed her. Angela doubts they can stop Sylar, but Claire is confident she can. There’s a vulnerable spot on the back of her head; if something was jammed in there, her brain would shut down. Sylar must have the same vulnerability.

Matt thinks that Hiro can’t cause any trouble, since he’s still stuck in time on the flag pole. Daphne’s not so sure — if Hiro dies, the past could change the present. Ando, Matt and Daphne proceed to Mohinder’s empty lab, hoping to find him, but no dice. Daphne figures that Mohinder is at Pinehearst and rushes off to get him.

Another entry in Mohinder’s log: time is running out. The infection in his lungs is fatal. Injecting himself with the formula is his only hope. Peter appears to hold Mohinder at gunpoint and announce his intention to destroy the formula. In a sudden whoosh, the EpiPen of formula vanishes out of Mohinder’s hand. Furious, Mohinder attacks Peter, only to be stopped by Flint, who threatens to burn his face off.

Knox offers to help destroy the lab, confusing Peter. Flint explains: if the formula works, then those who already have abilities will no longer be special. Mohinder protests — not only is the formula highly combustible, but Peter is siding with these villains over Nathan, who only wants to do good? Peter begins to destroy the lab, explaining that Nathan isn’t in charge anymore.

Soldier Scott enters Arthur’s office just as Nathan revives. He reports that Tracy stopped the injections, so Scott is the only one who’s received the formula. Scott promises to stop Peter, but Knox snaps his neck in a flash. Smiling, Knox admits that he’s working for Peter, who’s one of the good guys now.

Nathan tells Knox that he’s backed the wrong horse. Peter always winds up losing in the end. Knox is surprised that Nathan hates his brother so much. Is he afraid that Peter will top him? Claiming he’s not afraid of anything, Nathan attacks Knox, but it’s not long before Knox has the upper hand. Just as he’s about to deliver the death blow, Knox freezes and shatters into a million pieces, courtesy of Tracy.

Matt puts his hands on Ando and doubles over, his mind overwhelmed with voices. When he comes around, he explains that it was like he could hear every thought in the city. When Daphne touches Ando, she goes back a few minutes in time. Meanwhile, Claire drags Angela down the hall towards Level 5. When she lets go of Angela for an instant, Sylar steps in to taunt Claire about her allegiance to H.R.G.

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Arthur Petrelli is the leader of the villains. If you didn’t want to be spoiled about that fact before watching tonight’s episode of Heroes, neither did I. But NBC, in an effort to ruin television, ran promos announcing this very fact. I understand that ratings are down and Robert Forster is what passes for a big-name guest star on a show that has never regained the heat it had in the beginning, but revealing a huge spoiler about the entire premise and history of Heroes in a commercial during Knight Rider is truly reprehensible.

Nathan Petrelli has trouble sleeping because he can’t tell the difference between angels and monsters. Maybe that’s because the opposite of angels is actually demons, but Dan Brown must hold the copyright to that title. Nathan still thinks his powers are a gift from God, but Tracy knows that her powers came from Dr. Zimmerman. In the epic battle of science vs. religion, science wins this round.

Nathan gets an even bigger kick in the pants when Angela lets him know his power of flight is was also grown in a test tube. Angela requests their assistance in tracking down the Formula so experiments like the ones done on them will never happen again.

Peter, still frazzled from his future journey where he took Sylar’s power, snaps Sylar’s neck because he can’t accept their fraternal connection. Angela refuses to answer the now insane Peter, he starts slicing open her head to get to the gooey secrets inside. Sylar, now invincible, recovers from a snapped neck and knocks Peter out before he kills their mother. Angela takes care of her newly demented son while her formerly demented son goes out with HRG for some villain-hunting. It’s hard to believe that someone who talks to ghosts is the normal one in the family.

Claire’s two mommies fret over their missing daughter, because she’s out hunting Level 5 villains. Todays’ bad guy can create black holes out of thin air and send objects into a vortex so they’re gone forever. I don’t understand how Black Hole Man isn’t the most powerful person ever, since he can essentially get rid of whatever and whoever he wants. Claire sneaks up on him with a tazer, but he responds by tossing the tazer into a black hole. The villain tells his sob story and Claire learns that maybe not all villains are so bad.

Just then a Mexican standoff ensues when HRG and Sylar bust in to capture Black Hole Man. He thinks Claire set him up with her dad, but Claire is too busy being horrified by Sylar. Black Hole Man causes a distraction with a black hole and flees, leaving Claire to work out her seriously conflicted feelings with the whole situation.

Claire and HRG track the Black Hole Man down, and HRG orders him to create a black hole and suck Sylar in it. Claire, for reasons beyond all logic, is against this. The Black Hole Man, convinced that he’s actually a hero, refuses, and instead he creates a black hole and throws himself into it. There’s a difference between being a martyr and being an idiot, and Black Hole Man falls into the latter category. If I had his power I would rule the world.

Mohinder is still the fly, capturing neighbors and drug dealers and sticking them in his web while he makes false promises to Maya about curing her. This storyline would be boring even if it weren’t a total rip-off of a Jeff Goldblum film. Maya sneaks in and sees the people cocoon’s Mohinder has amassed in his loft, but Mohinder finds her and traps her in his cocoon.

Hiro tries to talk Adam Monroe into helping them track down the Formula, but the man who killed Hiro’s father isn’t very happy about being trapped in a coffin since the end of season 2. When Adam refuses, Hiro stops time and traps him in the coffin again, causing Monroe to call Hiro a “Japanese Nazi.” After accusing Angela of being the villainous mastermind behind the missing Formula, Adam offers to help find the real leader of the villains.

They go to a bar for help, but Adam Monroe tricks Hiro and Ando and escapes, because, as Ando explains, they’re the “worst heroes ever.” Unfortunately for Adam, he’s knocked out and captured by Knox, who has teamed up with Daphne on the order of Linderman.

With Knox, Adam and Hiro on board, Linderman commands Daphne to get one more member for their group: her future husband Matt Parkman. Daphne agrees, although she figures out Linderman isn’t really there. What she doesn’t know is what Heroes finally reveals in the final minutes: Linderman is a creation of Maury Parkman! That’s right, Matt’s crazy dad is back, making Nathan think he’s talking to God and orchestrating the team of villains.

Meanwhile, Angela has another future dream in which Tracy, Nathan and Peter are all dead at the hands of a mystery man with the apparent ability to paralyze people. The man in Angela’s dream is also the one pulling Maury Parkman’s strings. He’s being kept alive on a respirator, and his name is Arthur Petrelli! If you were shocked, you didn’t watch the previews or read the first paragraph of this recap, because a perfectly awesome twist was totally ruined by the promotion department of NBC.

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Heidi & Spencer

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Taylor

Taylor from Kid Nation on CBS.

The Devil

Ray Wise from Reaper on The CW.

Susan B. Anthony

Jodi Lyn O’Keefe from Prison Break on Fox.

Simon Elder

Blair Underwood from Dirty Sexy Money on ABC.

Conrad Ecklie

Marc Vann from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS.

Lex Luthor

Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville on The CW.

Wilhelmina Slater

Vanessa Williams from Ugly Betty on ABC.

Sylar

Zachary Quinto from Heroes on NBC.

Holly Harper

Patricia Wettig from
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