Herosite Reviews

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sylar gets locked in a room and fried by Elle before discovering he can acquire abilities without a traditional scalping. Nathan learns of Arthur's crackpot scheme to bring superpowers to the masses, which is a work in progress because it turns out The Formula needs a catalyst that seems to be Claire. Meanwhile, Matt climbs into Angela's head, only to be joined by Daphne and Arthur, the last of whom eventually lets everyone wake up. And Hiro becomes a 10 year old, teleports to a bowling alley and plays spitball with a couple of schoolgirls. No, I'm not making that last part up.

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An eclipse temporarily removes everyone's abilities. This strands Nathan and Peter in Haiti while they try to find the Haitian, and Matt, Hiro and Ando in Kansas while they try to track down Daphne, the last of whom turns out to need leg braces without her superspeed. Nathan and Peter find the Haitian, but Nathan gets captured by the Haitian's brother, Baron Samedi. Meanwhile, Angela assigns Noah to protect The Catalyst. Noah brings Claire to Vortex-Stephen's empty house and trains her to fight, but her prowess doesn't help when Sylar and Elle show up and Claire ends up getting shot.

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The eclipse ends. Peter and the Haitian rescue Nathan, the Haitian overpowers Samedi, and Nathan defects to Team Pinehearst. Claire dies from her gunshot wound and Sylar gets his throat slit by Noah, but both of them regenerate. Daphne gets her ability back and makes amends with Papa Millbrook. Hiro reads lots of 9th Wonders comics, decides heroism sucks, then gets a pep talk from Seth Green and teleports Claire to the day Noah adopted her. Hiro also interrupts Sylar's rampage (and Noah's revelation that Sylar is NOT a Petrelli) by teleporting Sylar to a beach and letting him scalp Elle.

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Sixteen years in the past, we learn that Mama Sulu was the host for The Catalyst and that Papa Sulu selected Claire as her successor. Claire changes her own diapers (!) while Hiro bonds with Mama Sulu, gets his memories back and persuades her to put The Catalyst in him. Having robbed Hiro of both his abilities and The Catalyst, Arthur combines The Catalyst with The Formula. He doesn't get to see his superpowered army take shape, however, because Peter and the Haitian show up to shoot him. After establishing that Arthur definitely isn't his father, Sylar helps the bullet along its trajectory.

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Sylar locks down Primatech and traps Claire, Noah, Angela and Meredith inside. Before Claire can stab him in the head, Sylar pumps Meredith with adrenaline and triggers a pyro-overload that sends Primatech up in flames. Meanwhile, Ando gets the Force lightning, which acts as an amplifier to other abilities and enables Daphne to speedyzip through time. (Don't ask. Long story short: she gets Hiro back to the present.) Finally, Peter gets back his empathic mimicry, Mohinder gets rid of his scales, Pinehearst explodes, and Nathan takes all information on the superpowered population to the president.