Am I the only one who thinks that Heroes is getting really strange? Besides my wife, I mean. The whole idea is interesting and all, but they really have to cut down on the cast of characters or I think I’m going to need to hire an assistant to keep up. Or maybe I’ll just have to not keep up. That might be easier. And cheaper.
In any case, Hiro and Ando are back. Which is to say that they are now in the present, because they were in the future. Since they have no idea what they are doing, they turn to The Comic, which tells them… nothing. So we get to see what everyone else is doing instead.
As some of the cast crosses the country for their date with destiny – and someone or another exploding or not exploding – while Peter tries to convince Claire not to go on a shopping trip to Paris, that guy we love to hate, Sylar is actually doing something.
He’s using his newly-acquired power to paint possibly related events that might or might not happen (how is that for being specific?) and before you know it, he has a lovely picture of none other than himself stealing the power of Ted Sprague. This makes Sylar a possible candidate to explode! That actually makes Sylar seem like he cares. Not about stealing Ted’s power, mind you, but about exploding, so he calls his mom for comfort.
Little does he realize that he’s being stalked followed by Hiro and Ando.
On the juvenile front, uber-boss Thompson introduces Mohinder to little Molly Walker, a little girl that doesn’t have a cool ability that allows her to really do anything. She is only able to find anyone in the world at any time. That’s neat and all, but come on – it just might allow you to beat curfew by knowing where your parents are. All the cool mutants are going to laugh at you behind your back. Since Molly has the same disease that Mohinder’s sister had, he is able to cure Molly, and they become BFFs for life.
The other crazy kid, Micah, is still missing in action, but D.L. and Jessica decide that poking their nose in to see what Linderman is up to – or at least what they can find in his office is a good idea. They find out that their lives are just one big experiment, and that Micah is the result. I wonder if Linderman failed high school biology.
About now is when Sylar and the boys get to Sylar’s mom’s place, and some of the pieces are starting to make sense. She’s just as nutty as he is. Maybe more. After she finds out what he can do, she actually tries to stab him, but in the confusion she stabs herself. Or maybe Sylar turned it around so it would just look that way. You can never tell with that guy.
That’s when Hiro shows up, and he tries to stop time, but Sylar evades him. Hiro has been able to bring people along with him, but someone has been able to go outside his stopping ability? That’s an interesting development.
