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
Cut to Sylar in the Superstudio, painting a picture of Ted. The image on the canvas seems to be Sylar threatening Ted, so Sylar thinks this means that he steals Ted's power and becomes the bomb and blows up New York. Oddly, Sylar doesn't seem too happy about this. Switch to Suresh in the Biggest Apartment in Brooklyn. The phone rings. Mohinder picks it up and it's Sylar. He's freaked out. "I think I'm gonna do something bad," he says. Mohinder's like, "'GONNA'? Oh, right, because killing dozens of innocent people isn't really evil or anything. What constitutes 'bad' in your book, psycho?" Sylar says he thinks he's going to kill a lot more people and, unlike his other killings, which, in his twisted mind, he thought had purpose, this mass killing he's going to potentially partake in will be a massacre of innocents. There's nothing to gain from this genocide, so Sylar's not sure why he would do it. Mohinder tries to keep Sylar on the phone while dialing 911 on his cell and Sylar's like, dude. I CAN HEAR YOU DIALING THE PHONE. Sylar hangs up the phone and stares at the painting of his potential future as the Bomb That Ate New York.
Vegas. D.L. has discovered that Micah's been hijacked by Linderman, and he's none too pleased. Jessica tries to convince her husband that she told Linderman he couldn't have her son and that Linderman took him anyway, but D.L.'s not buying what she's selling. He says he's done with her and that he's going to get Micah himself. He leaves and Niki, who's still trapped in the mirror, pleads with Jessica to go help D.L. If she doesn't, he'll get killed. Niki tells Jessica that this is her one chance to save their son. Jessica sucks it up and goes after D.L.
Meanwhile, Micah's in a hotel room in New York with Candice. She's still morphed into Niki, though, so Micah is just calmly playing video games in the living room. Candice is on the phone with Linderman, bitching about how she's squandering her talents on babysitting this kid. She morphs into Niki and goes to talk to Micah. When she tells him she was on the phone with Linderman, he says he doesn't like him because he smells funny. That's the smell of fear, Micah, which must flow from Linderman in waves. Micah says he doesn't like it here and he doesn't want to do what Linderman wants him to, and Candice fucks up as his mother when she snaps at him in an uncharacteristic fashion. Alarm bells start ringing in Micah's little head. She tries to cover, but Micah's totally onto her. He's seems to be thinking that even Jessica wasn't this much of a bitch!