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While under the influence of Usutu’s magic goop, Hiro witnesses events that led up to the pilot episode: Arthur ordered Nathan’s death, Linderman betrayed Arthur, and Angela tried to kill Arthur to protect her family; Meredith was captured, recruited and released by The Company, inbetween helping her incarcerated idiot brother escape; and it turns out Chandra wasn’t solely responsible for Sylar’s killing spree, because apparently Noah and Elle were under Company orders to trigger and document an instance of Sylar’s serial-killing rampage. In the present, Arthur shows up in the Desert of Clairvoyance, Usutu gets beheaded, and Hiro has reason to say AAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!

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Elle visits Canine Central, hoping Noah can explain why her ability’s gone haywire. She and Claire hop on a plane to go check out Pinehearst, and find Peter in the middle of getting TK’d out of a window and falling seven stories … although it seems that Sylar TK-cushioned the fall, and that this stunt was to get in Papa Petrelli’s good graces in order to betray him later. In other news, Mohinder joins Team Pinehearst, Daphne hooks up with Matt (although it looks like she’s double-crossing him), Hiro goes clairvoyant from Usutu’s goop, and — get ready for this, folks — Maya leaves.

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Hiro fools Daphne and Knox into thinking he stabbed Ando, although it turns out he used a collapsible blade and some fake blood. Daphne assigns Hiro to bring in Usutu, invites Mohinder to join Team Pinehearst (right before Tracy goes cryo on his ass), and meets Matt, the last of which is all kinds of aww. Meanwhile, Doyle traps Meredith, Claire and Sandra and forces them to play Russian roulette until one of them gets shot. Finally, Papa Petrelli dusts Adam (literally), clambers out of bed and greets Peter with a hug that saps his son’s abilities right out of him.

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Claire captures a Level 5 inmate who creates vortexes, but decides not to bring him in after discovering he’s a decent guy. It turns out Noah planned to use the same guy to suck Sylar into oblivion, but the inmate sucks himself into his own vortex rather than going along with Noah’s plan. Meanwhile, Mohinder cocoons Maya, Meredith gets forced into dinner with a puppeteer, Hiro stabs Ando, and Angela reveals that Nathan wasn’t born with his ability. The last of which has a lot to do with Papa Petrelli, who’s behind both Maury creating illusions of Linderman and Pinehearst building a superpowered army.

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Clairvoyant from Usutu’s mystery goop, Matt watches Present- and Future-Peter visit a future where superpowers are commonplace, where Peter’s a renegade and where Sylar’s a family man. Present-Peter absorbs Future-Sylar’s intuitive aptitude hoping it’ll help him avoid screwing up history, but Future-Claire, Knox and Daphne show up to apprehend Peter, killing Sylar’s son and provoking Sylar into nuking Costa Verde. We don’t find out if Sylar’s ability was worth that, but Present-Peter’s already warped enough to scalp Future-Nathan, so it doesn’t look good. In other news, Nathan rescues a suicidal Tracy, Hiro and Ando scuffle over a belt (I’m not kidding!), and Agent Sark is baaaaack!

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The Villainous Four hold up a bank. Everyone assumes it’s about the money, but Knox wants to lure Noah to the bank to kill him. What no one counts on is Angela assigning Sylar to accompany Noah, which turns out to be a surprisingly effective partnership until Sylar scalps the now-Peter-less Weevil. Meanwhile, Meredith forces Claire to admit she wants revenge on Sylar, Tracy discovers she was “created” by a guy named Zimmerman, Hiro and Ando botch their latest attempt to retrieve The Formula, and Matt’s apparently channeling Usutu’s clairvoyance with berries and music.

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Sylar visits Primatech and scalps Bob. Elle stops him before he can scalp everyone on Level 5 but gets fired from the Company by Angela, who’s now running the operation and prepping Sylar to recapture the escaped convicts. Also, it turns out that Angela is Sylar’s mom. No, you didn’t misread that. Meanwhile, William Katt shows up to extort Tracy with threats of exposing her as an online stripper, and Tracy literally freezes his ass off. In other news, Matt talks to a turtle, Noah recruits Meredith to protect Claire, Daphne outwits Hiro (again), and Mohinder goes from climbing walls to peeling flesh.

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Nathan’s shooter turns out to be Future-Peter, who’s trying to alter history so that everyone’s superpowers remain a secret. Nathan recovers (which might have something to do with Linderman, who may or may not be a ghost) and has an epiphany. Meanwhile, Sylar visits Canine Central and scalps Claire, Papa Sulu tasks Hiro with guarding a piece of paper (which he promptly loses), and Mohinder discovers how to give special abilities to anyone (starting with himself). Also, Matt’s now stuck in an African desert, Present-Peter’s consciousness is inside a superpowered convict, and Ali Larter’s playing a new personality. And Maya’s still around.

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Sylar takes Maya and Molly hostage and forces Mohinder to supply him with a cure that restores his abilities. Noah reaches an agreement with Bob that boils down to him resuming his job at The Company and Claire keeping quiet. Niki rescues Monica from a burning building, but gets caught in the fire herself. R.I.P. Niki. Meanwhile, Peter realizes he’s been played by Adam and destroys the lethal strain of the Shanti Virus. Hiro buries Adam in a coffin deep underground and returns to Japan. And then Nathan decides to tell the world about the superpowered population, which someone obviously doesn’t like because they shoot him. R.I.P. Nathan.

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Claire scatters Noah’s (fake) ashes and vows to reveal her ability to the world if it’ll end The Company. Sylar and Maya finally reach New York, but it’s minus Alejandro, whom Sylar stabbed in the chest. This isn’t catastrophic, though, because Maya learns to control her ability without her brother. Meanwhile, Monica tries to help Micah retrieve D.L.’s medal of honor from a gang (don’t ask), and Hiro time-travels to 1977, where he witnesses Adam’s first attempt to unleash a strain of the Shanti Virus on the general population. Hiro returns to the present to stop Adam from doing the same again, but finds Peter unwilling to let him decapitate Adam.

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