Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 121 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT A One-Way Ticket To Explosiveville
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Aired on 2007.05.21
Mohinder and his motley crew come racing out of the building. They're all about to run to safety when Mo sees Matt in the distance. He runs to tend to Matt's wounds. Sylar still has Peter in his chokehold. He reaches out for a parking meter, just as Niki is covering D.L. with her coat. She sees Sylar clearly getting ready to kill Peter, so she gets up and runs over to him. Sylar gets the parking meter and hits Peter with it. Sylar: "Did you really think you could stop me?" He raises the meter in the air, intent on delivering a killing blow, but Niki's there and she stops him by grabbing the meter out of his hands and hitting him in the mid-section, HARD. He drops like a sack of wet noodles. Micah hollers out to Niki that D.L. needs her. Peter grits at her, "Go back to your family. I got this." She tosses aside the meter and runs back to her husband and child.
Peter walks right over to Sylar and hits him in the face once, twice, three times a lady. It's clear that Peter's absorbed Niki's powers. He hits Sylar a fourth time, but Sylar just starts laughing and laughing and laughing. Peter's hands start glowing, and I think that Sylar somehow knew that if Peter got overloaded with powers and also allowed his anger to get the better of him, he'd get taken over with the radioactivity and explode. Peter staggers off and Sylar gets to his feet. "Turns out you're the villain, Peter," he sneers. "I'm the hero." Peter tries to breathe and control the radioactivity, but it's not working.
Suddenly, Hiro appears. "Sylar!" he calls. Sylar turns. "You..." is all Sylar says. Before Sylar can even react, Hiro just runs forward and stabs him through the heart. "Yatta!" says Hiro, breathing heavily. He pulls out his sword and Sylar stumbles a bit, and then finally falls to the ground, supposedly dead. Peter calls out for Hiro and they run to each other. "You can stop this," says Peter. "I need you to kill me!" But before Hiro can even lift his sword, Sylar raises his head and delivers one last TK before (possibly) dying. Hiro goes flinging off through the helix sculpture and manages to teleport himself out of there just before he hits a building. Peter looks over at Sylar and we see Sylar's eyes go white again and the previous scenes flash across them, ending with what we're supposed to assume is Sylar's death (although the jury's still out on that one, I think).