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Assuming that Chapter Eleven: Fallout was the "Fall Finale" of Heroes, I'm not exactly sure what that makes this episode. The "Winter Premier" perhaps. Whatever the case, we've got new material on, and that's what's important.

Picking up two weeks after Peter hit the pavement trying to save Claire, we see that he's still a bit out of it. He's in the hospital in fact, and Nathan and his mom are there at his side, hoping that he'll come out of it soon. There's no telling when that will happen. Or even if it will happen.

While Peter and his family sweat it out in the hospital, Jessica and Niki have their own troubles, but let's face it - though they are in jail, they aren't really the ones with problems. Well, there are problems there, but the guys who have to try to contain that crazy woman are the ones who have it rough. Just look at the guy who already has a busted nose and try to tell me that you want to switch places with him. I dare you.

Flip again, to Claire, who is trying to reclaim her place in the world. It seems that The Haitian is up to something, since he didn't completely wipe her mind, but we don't know what. So in the meantime, she's stuck watching reruns of the Death of Jackie on the tube. Another fun life for those of you who are looking for someone to swap places with the next time your life isn't good enough. To make matters worse, her dad isn't helping at all.

Speaking of Daddy Dearest, it seems that he's managed to hang onto Sylar, no thanks to Eden, who thought she could take him out herself, but ended up only in blowing her own head off so she didn't succumb to him. At least he didn't get away, right? Well, it looks like someone else is still on that trail in the form of Matt Parkman, but Horned-Rim Glasses manages to hide the secret compound in the paper factory from the police raid, and it looks like Parkman is on the outs again.

In a bit of good news for our Heroes, Matt does go home to his wife and tell her about his superpower, however, she doesn't quite know how to take it. I'd lay odds that she'll probably play the Good Wife card for a little while and end up back in the arms of another man before long.

Another break in the action and then we're all the way in the Big Apple, and it seems that our visitors from the East (that's the Far East, as in Tokyo), have made it to their ultimate destination. However, Hiro feels that he's lost his power, and he needs to find the sword in order to concentrate the power and use it to the fullest of his ability. So ever the realist, Ando convinces Hiro that he needs to steal the sword from the museum.

Though it hasn't been mentioned to this point, I'm thinking that Ando's power is convincing other people to do things that they don't really want to do, all the while making them think that they're really doing something good. It's an obscure power, but a really useful one. Perhaps we'll see more on this in future episodes. Keep your eyes open.

Finally Hiro agrees to steal the sword, and manages to get his power going enough to slow things down a bit - but not completely to a stop - and gets the sword outside, only to find out that it's a fake, courtesy of Mr. Linderman. Do people really get credit for donating fakes to museums? I understand the need to advance the plot, but it wasn't even a real sword.

Eventually Hiro and Ando make contact with Isaac, who is clean and trying to impress Simone, but she's having none of it. She does offer to put them all in touch with Linderman, however, and all Hiro has to do is deliver a painting. Incidentally, it's a painting of what appears to be a dinosaur, which raises the question about what happened from the last episode where he was with one? Did he really go back in time, or was it simply an image of him with the painting?

One more jump to deal with, and that's to see how Micah is handling it with moms in jail. Actually, he's a smart kid, and he seems to be doing okay. D.L. is the one having a problem. That guy needs to get a backbone. Literally - have you seen how his hand can just go through anything? Anyway, D.L. has decided to give the money back to - you guessed it - Linderman - in the hopes that this will get everyone off his back. But Linderman being who he is means that D.L. just owes him a favor, to be collected later.

That is one guy who knows how to do business, and if I had to guess, I would suspect he's the one pulling the strings of just about everyone, including the folks at the paper company and Mr. Horned-Rim Glasses himself. We'll have to watch and see.

Speaking of the man who shall not be named, he goes to visit Mohinder, seemingly to offer a peace treaty between the two of them in an attempt to work together. Mohinder, however, doesn't think this would be a good idea, and agrees that they should just keep on keeping on. In fact, he pretty well surmises that he's about to be killed, but in a surprising turn of events, that is not what happens.

While Mr. Bennet is off in New York, his daughter is trying to figure out what's going on with her life, and she's talking with Zach and trying to get him to remember what they had before, so in a scene much like the one way back in Chapter One: Genesis, she has Zach film her falling from a height that would kill - or at least seriously maim another person. The only difference is that there it was her sixth attempt. Here it was her first - "as far as you know".

Back to New York, and it seems that Peter is awake. The only problem is that he left the hospital and no one seems to know that he's there. So he's wandering around the streets of the city and no one knows where or why. As he does, he comes across a homeless-looking guy who he's seen in his dream (you know the one, just before he goes all supernova) and this guy is amazed because no one is supposed to see him. That's interesting. Being invisible is a power to have. The next episode may be very revealing.