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
OWI. Mohinder's hit a wall with Molly's cure. He can't figure it out. He gets angry and knocks his father's papers off a table. Molly comes running in, and Mo apologizes for frightening her. She brightly says that he can't help her either and that it's okay. She helps him pick up the fallen papers as he tells her that there's an antibody for her, but they don't know where or what it is. "Like the bogeyman," she observes. "Exactly," says Mo. Molly finds a picture of Mo's parents and sister amid the papers, and Mo tells her that this is the first time he's ever actually seen his sister since she died before he was born. Molly asks if she's going to die. Mo tells her that his father did everything he could to save his sister, he was just a month too late. "I won't be," he says. "I promise." She hands him a piece of paper with a star on it and says it'll protect him from the bogeyman. She hugs him and runs out of the room. Mo looks at the star and the picture of his sister and then looks at the screen with the blood analysis on it.
Cut to Sylar, apologizing to his mother through a door. She's inside, kneeling by the bed, crying and possibly praying. Outside in the alley, Hiro observes that Sylar is sad. Ando thinks Hiro should get in there and kill him now while he's distracted. Again, Hiro exhibits cold feet, saying he can't kill a man who's asking for forgiveness because it's against his code or whatever. Ando's like, "Look. Kill the freak, okay? He's a psycho." Hiro claims that Ando doesn't understand. Ando understands perfectly: Hiro's a chickenshit. He's all, "Future Hiro wouldn't chicken out! He'd cut a bitch!" Hiro's all, "I no likey Future Hiro!" Back inside, Sylar's practically licking the door. He tells his mother about his vision of the future wherein he kills a bunch of people. He slumps down in front of the door.
Hiro says that Future Hiro killed so much that he forgot it's supposed to be hard. Ando tells his friend that he dies at the hands of Sylar on the same day as the bomb. Sylar starts banging his head on the door until his mother comes out. She says she's leaving and when she gets back, she expects him to be gone. She says he's not her son, he's damned, and she wants him out of her house. He goes to take her hand, and she shrieks at him and pulls away and asks what he did with her son and, where is he, and give her back her boy. Sylar actually starts to get tears in his eyes as he insists that he's her son. He keeps coming toward her until she's backed into a corner. She grabs some scissors and points them at him. He goes to take them away from her and they struggle. Then, just as quickly as it starts, it's over. And his mother pulls back to reveal that he's inadvertently stabbed her in the heart. This is an awesome scene between Quinto and Greene, by the way. It's so sad.