We don’t need the present. Or you have to figure that’s the case, because that’s what’s happening tonight on Heroes. It’s now five years later (hence the title) and pretty much everyone is dead. What happened, you ask? Sylar exploded, not Peter, so those of you hanging onto all hope that cute little Peter won’t get hurt, you should be happy. Unfortunately, it seems that good-guy Ando has bought the farm, and perpetual short-sticker Parkman now works for Homeland Security, run by evil Nathan, and he is getting ready to lock up past Hiro (who is present Hiro to us, but he’s past to them). Good enough for now? Good.
Why would Parkman want to lock up Hiro? Because apparently present Hiro (that is, future Hiro to us, present Hiro to them) is considered a terrorist. When past Hiro shows up, they think he is present Hiro, and since they finally think they have him, they are going to grab him. Naturally that means that present Hiro has to bust him out. Meanwhile, HRG is running something of an underground hero railroad from someplace in Texas (probably the diner). Then present Hiro shows up, and he’s looking for Peter. The only problem is that Peter is invisible. And he’s dating Niki. That makes sense – if you were going to date a hero, wouldn’t you want to date Niki? Remember her job before she started killing people? What doesn’t make sense is why Peter has a monstrous scar on his face. I thought he could heal himself, thanks to exposure to Claire-bear. Maybe we’ll find out.
Speaking of Claire, it seems that she is now waiting tables at the good old diner, but then daddy comes in, and though she’s ready to get married, he tells her that she has to move. Which doesn’t sit well. She still doesn’t like having to move around at the slightest provocation – or whenever HRG gets paranoid about what’s happening. So it is sorta funny that this time he’s not paranoid, because that’s about when Parkman shows up and takes Claire to see her real pops (which would be Nathan).
Nathan, meanwhile, has decided to have Mohinder take care of past Hiro, and he then goes to the meeting with Claire. But when he meets her, we see blood start to appear on her forehead, which indicates that Nathan isn’t doing the fatherly duty, he’s stealing her power. It’s not Nathan at all – it’s Sylar. He didn’t explode five years back, it must have been Peter after all, and if he did explode, it’s pretty impressive that he only has a small scar to show for it. Now things are really getting confusing!
While all this is going down, Peter has teamed up with present Hiro to bust past Hiro out of prison before Mohinder can kill him. They get there just before this all goes down, and The Haitian gets the needle instead, and then Parkman shoots present Hiro. Then Sylar and Peter go into it, and Mohinder and Ando tell past Hiro to head back to the past already, because he needs to get the timeline back on track so this doesn’t happen. He needs to get back to the plaza and stick Sylar with the sword already. Though this has been a fun trip through future possibilities, it needs to not happen!
