A Night of Heroes
Someone flies, someone dies…
That was the promise, and Monday night they delivered. The invisible man finally forced Peter to develop his powers, but at what cost? Peter told us that his powers come not from shutting humanity out, but from embracing it. So perhaps it is not such a surprise that the materialization of Sylar’s powers should be accompanied by a bit of Sylar’s dark side. Still, how cool was it to see Peter go all Superman-style through the New York sky?
Meanwhile, “Zane” is accompanying Mohinder on the search for new heroes. I can’t help but think that Mohinder is going to figure it out if the people they go to visit keep getting eaten by Sylar. For now, however, chalk up super-hearing on Sylar’s ever-growing list of powers.
Hiro appeared to get his powers back tonight, at least a little. His confidence is still lacking, however. The exchange between Hiro and Ando after they narrowly avoided getting shot was pretty amusing.
Ando: Did you powers work? My eyes were closed.
Hiro: I don’t know; mine were, too.
You were all no doubt shocked and saddened by seeing Hiro push Ando away–who takes advice from a rogue gaming commissioner, anyway?–but the moment was lightened a little by a cameo from none other than STAN LEE (as the bus driver at the end)! Stan has a habit of showing up in any show or movie about heroes, since he created half of the most well-known heroes of our day.
While Hiro and Ando narrowly avoided getting shot, Simone Duveaux was not so lucky. Peter’s rage and Isaac’s misguided attempts to save the world ended in her death, the one promised by the advertising. Parallelling her death is the collapse of Claire’s mother, fallen in a pool of spilt milk. Too many brain-wipes by the Haitian have bruised her dura, or some such thing. Claire is through putting up with the lies and lets her father know it.
And Claire isn’t the only one. Matt Parkman, Ted Sprague, and Hana “Wireless” Gitelman show up in the Bennet home at the end of the episode! Whatever happens next, some serious stuff has hit the fan.
