This episode was fantastic and left fans wanting more as Heroes does in each and every episode. The hour went by so fast I was hungry for a 2nd hour (The Season Premier Double Episode spoiled us). My Sequence of Events are a bit off, but here is the best I can recall. After the five minute recap which they do in every show to keep people informed on what was missed the show dove right into the scene where Angela Petrelli is standing over Sylar and recants that she is Sylars biological mother. Sylar is unsure what to make of this, but Angela tricks another company employee named Bridget who has the power when touching an object to see everyone who has ever come in contact with the object previously. This is a great tracking and hunting ability, and Sylar quickly steals this ability from the woman once Angela leaves the room.

We cut away to see Tracy sitting at her apartment freezing rose petals and quite confused as to who she is and how she has the ability that she does. Later in the episode Nathan visits her and still thinks she is Nikki, Tracy learns that Nikki lived in New Orleans and takes a flight down there to see Nikki in a casket. Remember Nikki [correction] Nikki was killed by the house explosion in the last episode of 2nd season not by the Shanti virus. Micah thinks Tracy looks so much like his mother, you think that Tracy is another personality, but after Micah hacks into records from all over the country, they both learn that Nikki and Tracy were born at the same hospital on the same day and at the same time. This confirms that Nikki and Tracy are two separate individuals it looks like twins or clones is a possible explanation at this point.

Peter is still trapped inside the body of the convict Jesse Murphy who escaped from Level 5, and all the inmates decide to rob a bank. They just enter the bank and unleash their powers on the inside. One man exhibits his ability to manipulate metal by shutting the banks blinds, the other with blue flames covers the room making everyone sprawl on the floor. Peter doesn’t play the disguise of the convict well enough and some of the convicts are starting to suspect him at this point.

Back at Company HQ, Angela who was expecting Mr. Bennett’s return introduces him to his new partner Sylar. Naturally HRG is disgusted to be paired with the person who attacked his daughter, even when Sylar says “She can’t be killed” he reluctantly agrees only to prevent Sylar from being unleashed into the world uncontained.

Hiro and Ando arrive at the theater they tracked Daphne too, only to find that when Daphne arrives neither Hiro nor his Nemesis are able to use their powers. The Haitian walks into the room with a briefcase and Hiro recognizes him from the future and that he has the ability to stop other people from using their powers. One funny scene just prior to the Haitian walking in is when Daphne says she doesn’t need to use her powers to defeat Hiro and Ando and calles him “Pikachu”

Claire decides to not go to school abandoning her effort to be normal, but after a disagreement between her Birth mother and her mother, Claire is instructed to go to school. Meredith Gordon meets Claire outside and decides to take Claire to play hooky from school. It would appear at first that Meredith has good intentions to help Claire learn to fight.

We cut back at the bank to see the magneto type villain has opened the vault and the police are lining up outside. Knox reveals he has called the police because he wants Mr. Bennett the man who put them away to show up so he can have payback. Why are villains so dumb, they have strength in numbers, and had they not isolated themselves into a bank vault, they would have had better odds. Knox senses fear in others, and somehow draws upon it to gain strength. He punches a fist sized whole through the Telekinetic guy killing him after being challenged. This reminds me of the old Japanese Anime flick “Fist of the North Star” where fists, fingers would pierce and rupture people.

The scene then cuts to Africa where Matt Parkman is walking with the man who can paint the future in similar fashion to Isaac Mendez. Matt learns that the African Man has been painting him since he was a boy. Every major event of Matt’s life is laid out on painted rock wall and surface and Matt sees a painting of himself holding a baby with a woman. He asks about why this hasn’t happened yet, and the African Man explains that the future is changed and that future wont happen. The man then goes into a painting trance for his next vision, one thing to note is the man uses his headphones and the Heroes Theme Song plays to enable him to enter is trance. Matt tries to interrupt him but only angers him as his eyes become pure white as did Isaac’s.

Cut back to the Theater where Hiro and Ando have tracked The Haitian to a silent movie playing. They sit in the back discussing what to do, when Daphne arrives and talks quite friendly to Ando. Ando has always had a weakness for the ladies, he got into trouble numerous times in the first season with Nikki and the Vegas Showgirl and alas Ando is following in his own footsteps. Hiro and Ando continue to operate as a team that is fracturing from the distrust and feelings of hardship, it is hard to watch their friendship crumble piece by piece in each episode. Hiro and Ando follow The Haitain to the projection room where The Haitian reveals he is taking the formula back to Angela Petrelli to keep it closer. Hiro and Ando decide to come up with a plan to get the formula.

Claire and Meredith are in a ship cargo container and Meredith tests Claire’s ability to survive, Claire is cocky at first realizing she can’t feel pain and can’t die, but Meredith uses a water-board like tactic to near suffocate Claire. This causes instincts for survival to kick in, and these survival instincts cause Claire to panic and fall apart, revealing what we already knew. She is still very much emotionally scarred by Sylars attack and she wants to be a Hero to try and get even with Sylar.

HRG and Sylar arrive on the bank scene to where Noah instructs Sylar to stay back and he will handle the situation. Sylar becomes quite persuasive with the police officers getting them to all fall back. Silver Tongue ability is what Mr. Bennett calls it, and still instructs Sylar to stand back.

Meanwhile inside the bank Peter is discovered as not being Jesse and is confronted and assaulted by the remaining inmates. He still professes his noble nature to not let them hurt anyone and they mock him for it. We see hostages being released and HRG is tied to a chair being punched by Knox. Jesse is standing back trying to instruct Knox not to do this and when Flint starts to attack Peter, Peter blasts a sonic attack from his mouth. This is the same type of ability that The Mailman Echo de Mille’s has from the Heroes Webisodes. His sonic blast incapacitates Flint and he releases another one against Knox, but HRG is hit a bit. Just as the blast hits the two, time freezes and the special effect of the time stop never ceases to amaze me about the show.

Future Peter arrives and literally pushes “present Peter” out of Jesse’s body. I think this is some weird example of the Phase ability, but not sure how this is accomplished. Future Peter explains to present Peter that the world is in danger, and he needs to do something. He time jumps himself and Peter into the future, but we don’t see the two of them again this episode.

Meanwhile HRG thinks Peter is still in Jesse’s body and thanks him for his help only to be kicked. Knox and Jesse are about to finish off HRG when Sylar arrives behind them. Using his telekinesis he stops Knox and does a Darth Vader style choke on Jesse. Just as Flint is about to blast Sylar off guard, HRG Shoots him and disables him without killing him. Just as HRG is hauling Flint off to prison and leaves the bank, Sylar shuts the door and it looks like he is about to attack Knox and Jesse. Knox manages to escape, but Jesse is held up against the plate glass door, and Sylar is about to sever his skull cap and unlock his power. HRG tries to explain to Sylar he can fight the urge to kill and take the powers, he does not have to do this, Sylar explains that he can’t help himself and the show cuts away from the scene as we see some of Jesse’s blood fly against the glass door.

Claire and Meredith are back home where Meredith is confronted by Sandra Bennet who is Claire’s mother even if not biological. They square off and I completely agree with Sandra’s point of view, Meredith is cruel and cares only for her own agenda. Meanwhile, we know Claire is going to run away and try to hunt villains, she stole her father’s company files and using a sleep away at a cheerleader friends house she leaves and gets in the car.

Tracy arrives at Dr. Zimmerman’s house who is the doctor who birthed Nikki and Tracy. She arrives at the door where at first the Doctor calls her by another name, but then realizes she is the one from Los Angeles. Tracy asks how he knows her, and Dr. Zimmerman reveals that he created her. I can’t help but compare this scene to the movie “Twins” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito when they confront the doctor who engineered them.

Back in Africa, Matt after seeing a painting of him carrying a wounded or dead girl decides that he wants to change the future. The African Vision man decides to help him and after having him eat some unknown substance, he tries to help Matt go into a vision trance. Only after putting his headset on Matt’s head does Matt go into a trance where we start to see the world around him change. Though we don’t know what his visions are yet in this episode. I wonder if the Vision Man can allow others to see visions of the future as well, this could be where his power differs from Isaac Mendez.

Back at Level 5 we see Flint being locked up and its somewhat eluded to that Sylar did not kill Jesse after all by what he says to his mother. I was thrown, I was 90% sure that Sylar was going to do it. Sylar tells his mother that “She was wrong about him” and she says “We’ll See”, she has to be the most morally bankrupt character on the show. I have never seen a character more cold, evil, pessimistic and black hearted than Angela Petrelli. Literally chilling to watch and listen to talk to her own sons the way she does.

HRG talks to the Haitian where he reveals that he is only working with Sylar to learn his weakness so he can kill him.

The preview for the next episode look just as fantastic, with Sylar showing some odd light hearted and good natured behaviors, glimpses of the future, among others. I will post a preview tomorrow of next week’s episode.

This is my review of the episode, like I said it didn’t disappoint and I am hooked on this show like a fish on a line.

-Dragon Blogger

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