Episode Report Card Erin: A | 100 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT This Just In: Sylar Has Mommy Issues.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2007.05.07
So, after Sylar accidentally stabs his mother, she starts to fall forward, but suddenly she freezes in mid-fall. Totally cool effect here, actually. She's basically at a forty-five degree angle. Hiro enters and draws his sword. He walks over to Sylar and puts the blade to his neck. He apologizes and pulls back the sword to take off Sylar's head but the second he does, he loses his grasp on the time freeze and Sylar's mom falls forward at the same moment that Sylar sees Hiro swinging for him. He grabs the blade with his hand and asks why Hiro's following him. Hiro says he has to stop him and, instead of kicking his ass, Sylar just pulls the blade to his stomach and orders Hiro to kill him. Suddenly, the blade starts freezing. "You can't," says Sylar. "You coward. Now I'm gonna have to kill you." Just then, Ando busts in to save the day. Hiro grabs him and they teleport out of there. Sylar looks down at his mother as the plinky piano keys of impending psychosis take us out to the break.
OWI. Mohinder's hanging a bag of blood on Molly's IV stand. "You did it," she says. "You found a cure." Mohinder tells her that the cure was in him, explaining that if parents have a sick child followed by healthy child, that second child often contains the healthy antibodies needed for a cure. "Unfortunately," he says. "I was born a little too late to help my sister. But I'm not too late to help you." Aw. Cut to Hiro and Ando, landing in the Superstudio. Ando asks if he managed to kill Sylar, but Hiro says he failed. Ando says they still have two days to kill Sylar and stop the bomb. "How?" says Hiro. "The sword is broken!" Sure enough, it is. But it still has a pointy end, doesn't Hiro? Just stick that part in Sylar and you're right as rain.
Petrelli Palace. Peter furiously searches through some drawers until he comes across a gun loosely wrapped in a handkerchief. That'sâ¦a lovely thing to keep around in an unlocked drawer with kids in the house, don't you think? Peter picks it up and heads to the hallway. Claire's coming down the stairs with her suitcase. "You weren't even going to say goodbye?" he says. "Goodbye," says Claire with a sigh. Peter says he's figured out a way to save the world. He holds out the gun. Claire's all, "A gun? That's it? That's your plan? Good plan, UNCLE." Peter says he can handle Ted, but if he loses it, Claire's the only one who can get close enough to stop him. "Right through the back of the head," he says handing the gun to her. "You know the spot. Same place you pulled the piece of glass from." "My destiny is not to shoot you!" she says, ignoring the gun and moving past him. "The universe cannot be that lame." Heh.