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Peter's hands are glowing, but luckily, he gets control of them, and Claire doesn't have to shoot him. Well, THAT was anticlimactic. Hiro's sword is still broken, but, luckily, Ando discovers an ancient samurai sword repairman in the phone book. Bennet convinces Peter and Ted that they have to get out of town and Claire agrees to go with them. Sylar's lurking around the corner and it becomes clear that he's stalking them. (You guys, I literally went, "What the fuck is HE doing there?" when I saw Sylar show up. He's such an ass.) Nathan's worried because he's down in the polls. Linderman assures him that his victory is inevitable. As long as he lets Peter get blown up. And then Linderman tells him what we've all long suspected: Papa Petrelli was a Hero. Nathan's wife wheels up and Linderman takes her hand and whammo! She's healed.
Peter overhears Sylar's thoughts and realizes he's following them so Ted and Claire and he get off the streets ASAP. Hiro meets up with Nathan en route to the Ancient Samurai Sword Repairman and Hiro tells Nathan about the future and how he becomes a bad guy but he can become a good guy if he helps them stop the bomb. Nathan informs Hiro that he can't stop the bomb; no one can. Hiro calls him a birrann. At the Ancient Samurai Sword Repairman's shop, Hiro and Ando are greeted by Captain Dale Dye (what? it looks like him!) and George Takei, who tells them that they've reached the end of their journey. Apparently, Hiro's father has just been waiting for Hiro to grow into his power and be worthy of his legacy. Now he's going to train his son how to kill. It's like Kill Bill only with two short Japanese men and no Uma Thurman.
While hanging out with Micah, Candice reveals that Linderman's going to heal the world. Micah's not buying what she's selling. Linderman shows up and tells Micah that he's going to save the world by talking to machines. Candice takes Micah to a voting booth so he can tell all the computers to vote for Nathan Petrelli. Jessica and D.L. go to visit Nathan, and they want Micah back. They also want to kill Linderman. As they're talking, it's announced that Nathan has won by a landslide victory. Nathan agrees to tell them where Linderman is.
Bennet and Parkman go to destroy the Walker System and meet up with D.L. and Jessica at OWI headquarters. They join forces and share an elevator ride upstairs. Molly's inside the lab with Mohinder, but before Bennet and Parkman can get to her, Thompson shows up and puts a gun to Parkman's head. So Bennet blows Thompson's brains out. KICK. ASS. Bennet and Parkman make it inside to Molly; Bennet knew it was a person and doesn't seem to have too much of a problem killing her, but Parkman is horrified. Mohinder and Bennet have a Mexican standoff over poor Molly while Parkman takes a nap on the floor.
Audrey and her FBI goons show up and put Ted under arrest while Peter and Claire escape via invisibility. Turns out, Sylar's the one that provided the FBI with the tip on Ted's whereabouts. While they're transporting Ted to prison, Sylar appears and attacks the van and, of course, takes Ted's poor radioactive brain. Peter and Claire come across the fallen van and realize that Sylar's got Ted's power. Jessica and D.L. finally get to Linderman and they're pissed. Linderman tries to bribe Jessica to kill D.L., but Niki returns and tells him to go and screw. So he shoots D.L. And he's about to shoot Niki, but D.L. recovers enough to shove his hand into Linderman's skull and squeeze his brain until he dies. At this point, it's not clear whether D.L. survives.
Nathan makes his landslide victory speech with Heidi still in her wheelchair. While he makes his speech, we see a montage of Claire and Peter running off, Hiro running after Ando (who's run off to kill Sylar on his own), Audrey staring at Ted's head, and Mohinder and Bennet pointing guns around the room while poor little Molly cries.
The final shot of the episode is Sylar up on a rooftop, playing with his hands of fire. "Boom" is all he says. Creeeeepy. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously onHeroes: Okay, what is UP with the previouslys? For weeks now, they've been running that "ordinary people discovered extraordinary powers" voice-over shit that like explains to us the ENTIRE history of the show. Listen: if we're watching it now, let's assume we were watching it then and WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
That being said, last week's show was kind of Act One of a three-act play, so it was a bit slow, but still compelling, because even a boring day on this show is a trillion times more awesome and exciting than 95% of the shows out there. In short, Sylar killed his mommy accidentally (Sylar's a freak), Hiro tried to kill Sylar but he chickened out at the last minute and Sylar broke his sword (Hiro's a pussy), Nathan had to choose between saving the world or becoming president and guess which way he's going on THAT one (Nathan's a power-hungry dicksmack), and Peter gave Claire a gun and told her to shoot him if he goes nuclear (Peter's a downer). The whole episode wound up with Peter nearly going nuclear in front of Ted, Matt, Bennet and Claire.
We open this episode with a repeat of the final scene from last week. Claire runs to her father, they hug, Ted warily watches as Peter's hands glow, Matt looks vacantly into the distance and dreams of hoagies -- you get the picture. Peter tries valiantly to get his newly-acquired radioactive power under control, but it looks like he's not succeeding. Claire and Bennet move toward him and Peter shoots her a panicked look. "Claire -- you know what you have to do," he gasps. Claire pulls out the gun Peter gave her. "Do it," orders Peter. Claire points the gun at him and all of a sudden, he's like, "WAIT! HANG ON! UM! YEAH." Then he clenches his fists and…the red hands disappear. "I'm okay!" he says in surprise. And…scene. Like I said in the recaplet, that was…anticlimactic.
Cut to Hiro, staring at his broken sword. He thinks his mission is over because he pussed out on killing Sylar. Ando thinks the sword is still sharp, yo, so why not just use the pointy end on Sylar and leave the busted-up end at home? Hiro doesn't care HOW sharp the pointy end is, he's not fit to wield it. Ando's all, but dude, we used to be nerds. Now we're on an adventure. Hiro's all, I suck. Ando's all, dude, you totally don't! Also? I don't want to die, so you have to kill Sylar! Hiro's all, did I mention the sucking? Would you like me to draw you a diagram of how much I suck? Because we ARE in Mystery Sock's Superstudio and there are plenty of blank canvases and paint scattered around.
Ando's all, it's your destiny! Hiro's all, destiny's an idiot! (They seriously go overboard with the mentions of destiny in this episode. I had to start keeping track. Won't you join me? As of this point, we're at two mentions of destiny. Get that? Mentions of Destiny: 2) Ando's all, we can fix the sword! Hiro's all, uh, would that be the five hundred year old samurai sword you think we can fix? Ando's all, let's look in the phone book! I'm all, do they list ancient sword repairmen in the yellow pages? Because…wow. Sure enough, Ando looks up "Ancient Sword Repair" in the phone book and lo and behold, there's a large ad for something called "Jittesu Arms" and right smack in the middle of it is the infamous "S" helix symbol that used to make the occasional appearance earlier in the season. Ando calls, and a guy answers, and Ando asks if they repair ancient samurai swords and the guy says yes and Hiro grabs the phone. "My name is Hiro Nakamura and the fate of the world rests within your hands." The guy on the other end of the phone hangs up and goes back to watching Wheel of Fortune because that's the seventh guy today who's called and said the damn fate of the world is in his hands and he's pretty much sick of it.
Kirby Plaza. Bennet is surprised to learn that Peter is Claire's uncle. She's surprised to learn that her father didn't know that. Apparently the OWI wasn't terribly forthcoming with all their information. Claire asks why they're all there and Bennet tells her about the tracking system they need to destroy. He says that destroying the tracking system is the only way they can have a normal life. Claire doesn't think normalcy is even possible. "I mean, maybe Peter's right," she says. "Maybe we all have a destiny. And it's to save the world…together." (Mentions of Destiny: 3)
While Bennet and Claire are discussing the word "normal," Ted, Peter and Matt are arguing about how The Three Amigos have trekked halfway across the country just to destroy the tracking system and now Peter's telling Ted to leave just because of a stupid dream and a stupid painting. Peter says that Matt and Bennet will take out the tracking system, but Ted has to get the hell out of there so he can avoid having his powers taken by Sylar. Bennet walks up and announces that there's a town in Nebraska that has only 15 people in it; he wants Ted to go there and wait for word from him. Claire says she has the directions to get there and Matt is like, "WHOA! You're sending your kid with RadioacTed and Peter Peter Power RePeter? Are you NUTS?" Bennet just smiles at his daughter and says that she says she has a destiny. (Mentions of Destiny: 4) He says she could stop both of them if she needed to; in fact, she's probably the only one who could. Peter leans in to Ted. "You comin'?" Ted looks back at him. "I'm in." The camera swoops back and we see Sylar, hovering behind a wall. "Me too," he says. Oh, what the hell is HE doing there? Stupid Sylar! He ruins everything!
Petrelli Palace. Nathan's hanging out in his office, talking to someone on the phone about photo ops and polls. Linderman's there. Nathan hangs up and mentions to Linderman that he's down in the polls so he doesn't see how there's any way he can win this thing. "Ohhhh," says Linderman. "I never listen to polls!" Well, he should; the majority of our readers think you smell like Drakkar Noir, dude. It's not a compliment. Linderman and Nathan rehash their favorite conversation: "You'll Become President As Long As You Let New York Go Boom!" Once again, Linderman claims that Peter exploding is something that cannot be stopped. Really? Is it…destiny? Linderman goes on to say that it's what happens after the explosion that matters; and it's entirely up to them.
Linderman comments that Papa Petrelli would have been very proud of his son and Nathan says his pop would have had him committed for even considering any of this nonsense. "Well, clearly your mother didn't tell you," says Linderman. "Tell me what?" says Nathan. "Your father was one of us," says Linderman. "Someone with great power." Y'all, I TOTALLY CALLED THAT ONE. Well, I also thought that Linderman might be Nathan's dad, so I was pretty much grasping at straws, but it's nice to know I'm right about something every once in awhile. Linderman says that Papa Petrelli tried to make a difference in this world, but when that wasn't enough, he just gave up and committed suicide. "Your father was weak," says Linderman. "My father was my hero," says Nathan, fixing Linderman with a steely stare. "And when I win--"
Heidi, Nathan's Wife on Wheels, cuts him off when she appears and asks Nate if he wants to say goodbye to his kids before they go to school. She stops short when she sees Linderman there, and it's pretty clear she's not fond of him. He says he was just leaving anyway and starts to go. He pauses in front of her, saying that he'd like to give them both a gift before he leaves. Then he takes her hand in his and holds it for a moment and Heidi's like, "Okay, EW. And what's that smell? Your cologne is cheap, dude." Sparks don't fly or anything, but since this is Linderman, and we know he heals things, we can assume that he's just treated Heidi's lack of mobility to a hefty dose of Linderman's Locomotion Tonic.
It doesn't take effect immediately, however, so for the time being, Heidi's still in the chair. Linderman leaves, and she wheels into Nathan's study and starts haranguing him for even associating with that bearded gangster. Nathan just tells her that Linderman's his biggest contributor and if he wins this election, it'll be solely because of Linderman. Heidi tells him that this isn't true, that he'll win because of himself and nothing else, and she reminds him to remember who he is. "I know exactly who I am!" snaps Nathan. "I am a man who's being asked to make a hard choice for the greater good." Not sure you being president is for the greater good, Nathan. I'm fairly certain Gee Dub thought the same thing and look how HE turned out. Heidi continues trying to convince Nathan not to deal with Linderman, but Nathan's too distracted by her suddenly tapping right foot to listen to her. At first, she doesn't notice it, but when Nathan points it out, Heidi realizes that something strange is going on with her limbs. First one foot, then the other, starts moving. Nathan stands up and takes her hands. He helps his wife to her feet and they both start crying. "It's a miracle," says Nathan. But then he gets this look on his face like, "If by 'miracle' you mean, 'that Linderman is one crafty bastard'."
Elsewhere in New York, the Triumphant Trio of Peter, Claire, and Ted is making their way to a car rental office so that they can drive RadioacTed to the safety of Nebraska. Claire quips that after they save the world, she's going to go on patrol and dodge bullets for a living. Heh. She'd make a great cop, actually. "Stop or I'll shoot!" "BAM!" "Dude. What'd I SAY about the stopping? I believe you dropped this bullet. YOU DROPPED IT IN MY SOLAR PLEXUS. Now drop your weapon and put your hands behind your back, meat!" Hee. She jokes that she could go freelance and just pull people out of burning buildings. "You're not gonna catch me wearing a cape," says Peter, joining in on the fun. "Zipping around with my underwear outside my pants." Hee. Also? Milo Ventimiglia just said "underwear." I might have to go lie down.
Ted seems to be enjoying this entire exchange because he's grinning like a maniac. They all seem to be having fun, actually. "Why do we have to rent a car?" asks Claire. "Can't we just fly to Nebraska?" Peter shoots her a look. "In a plane," she clarifies. Hee. Peter has this awesome smirk on his face as Ted explains that the FBI has pictures of him all over the place because he's a wanted man. Suddenly, the good times are over as Peter overhears Sylar's thoughts. He hears that Sylar wants to use Ted's fugitive status to gain his powers. The camera swirls around and around, making me totally dizzy, as Peter tells them that Sylar's there, he's watching them, and he knows what Ted can do. "We'd better get off the streets!" he says. They all scramble into a building as Ted asks, "Who's Sylar?" Cut to Sylar, who's standing several feet away, enjoying a nice cup of fro-yo. Awesome. Also awesome is Sylar's new serial-killing-superhero hairdo. It's all spiky and edgy and hot. Do you think we'd dig Sylar as much if Zachary Quinto weren't seriously sexy? Like if, say, Philip Seymour Hoffman were playing him instead? That would be one ooky Sylar, y'all.
Back with Hiro and Ando, they're almost to the Ancient Sword Repair Shop when Hiro sees Nathan across the way, exiting a poll location. He of course runs right over and starts shouting, "Frying Man!" at the top of his lungs because he's a goddamned animé character who doesn't have the sense God gave a fruit basket. Nathan's right-hand-man is musing that it would've been nice if Heidi had been there for the photo op, but Nathan informs him that she had to stay home today. Then he says that she's not just fine, she's better than fine and they'll make an special announcement after the election. The right-hand-man is like, "What the hell are you talking about, circus freak?" Nathan says something about how miracles are happening all over the place, and I'm thinking maybe he should just keep his trap shut on that shit because the average voting public ain't really interested in stuff that can only be explained by raising one's eyes to heaven and praising Jesus, you know?
Hiro careens over to Nathan's car and instead of having him gagged and bound and shoved into the back of a van, Nathan gamely goes over to have a chat with him. They shake hands and Nathan even gives him a quick customary Japanese bow, which is kind of cool. Then Hiro ruins the moment by blah-blahing about all that save the world crap again. Nathan tells Hiro to keep it down, but Hiro just whispers that there's going to be a bomb and that Nathan can help them put a stop to it. He says there will be a bad future if they don't stop it and Nathan reacts like he's never thought of this before. Ando says they went to the future and Hiro tells Nathan that he becomes a bad person. But he can save himself from a bad future if he comes with them now and stops the bomb! Nathan just says he can't stop it and leans forward to whisper in Hiro's ear, "Nobody can." He moves away with a cheesy politician smile and thanks Hiro for his support.
"You already bad guy!" Hiro shouts at him. "You are birrann!" Nathan, having educated Hiro in the ways of "birrann" versus "villain," looks at Hiro with knowing, glowering eyes. The last thing he wants to become is a birrann! Hiro keeps yelling his version of "villain" at Nathan's car as it drives away. In the distance, D.L. and Jessica are watching the entire scene. D.L. comments that neither Linderman nor Micah are with Nathan, but Jessica says that Nathan will know where one or both of them are, so they should pay him a little visit. "He'll never see us coming," says D.L.
We follow Hiro and Ando to "Canal Street" in "Manhattan." Hiro comments that he's surprised Nathan's already gone over to the dark side. They find the Ancient Sword Repair Shop and enter. Ando spies the "S" symbol painted on a piece of fabric hanging from the ceiling and reminds us that it means "Godsend." Just then, a big hairy guy comes into the room. Hiro stutters at the guy about his sword problem, but the guy just stares at him while smoking silently. Hiro pulls out his broken sword and finally the guy speaks. He correctly identifies the sword as the Kensei and asks what happened to it. Hiro says it got really, really cold. Frozen, you might say. He asks if the guy can fix it and the guy says it depends. "On him," he says as a man enters the room. It's George Takei! Daddy Hiro is BACK! "Son, you've reached the end of your journey," he says as Hiro gulps about a million times.
Hiro's all, hey, I thought you went back to Japan! Daddy Hiro's all, nah, I stuck around to watch your progress. Hiro's all, the huh? Daddy Hiro's all, dude, let's take this convo offline and go somewhere quiet where prying Andos can't hear, okay? Hiro starts to follow his father into the other room, but Ando tries to tell him not to. Ando thinks Daddy Hiro's going to make Hiro go back to Japan and then Sylar won't get killed and Ando will wind up dead. He's not fond of this idea. Hiro just says that, out of respect, he should listen to what his father has to say. He enters the other room. Ando starts thinking of ways to prevent his own death.
Micah's Personal Prison at Kirby Plaza. Candice wanders through the room, shoving fries into her face. Micah comments that he has a cousin who eats like her, but this cousin is bigger than a New Jersey heifer. "He's huge," says Micah. "So am I," says Candice with a grunt. This makes me wonder if Candice is really grossly overweight person who presents herself as this hot chick because of her feelings of inadequacy and remorse about her own figure. She says that she picked up some comic books for him because she knows he likes them. She tosses the books on a table and parks it on the sofa. Amongst the comics is an original Silver Surfer number one. Micah is stunned. He tells Candice that she's nice, even when she's being scary. This is one of Micah's most endearing qualities: seeing the goodness even in bad people. He doesn't see much goodness in Linderman, however, and he asks Candice why she's working for such a bad man. "You could use your power to be a hero," he says.
Candice laughs bitterly and says that he's too young to see how much the world sucks and how mean people can be to you just because of where you were born or what you look like. She bites into a fry like it's the head of one of her enemies and it quickly becomes very clear that Candice is working through some fairly severe self-esteem issues. She sits up and tells Micah that Linderman is going to change everything. "He's going to heal the word," she says with a smile. "I didn't know it was sick," says Micah dubiously. There's a knock at the door. It's Linderman himself. He walks right over to Micah who says that he wants to see his mom. Linderman says that after today, Micah can go home. Micah doesn't believe him. Linderman kneels down before him and says that what Micah does today with his incredible ability will save many lives. Micah considers this a moment and then asks what he has to do. Linderman says he just has to do what comes naturally; he has to talk to machines. After that, Micah will not only be able to go home, he'll go home with enough money in his pocket that he and his parents will never have to worry about finances again. This seals the deal for little Micah.
Back with the Triumphant Trio. Ted asks Peter and Claire how Sylar steals the superpowers and Claire says he rips their heads open. Ted says they should stick to the plan and get out of the city. Unfortunately, the Feds squeal up and point a bunch of guns at them. Audrey, the angry FBI agent with a crush on Matt, gets out of one of the cars and starts shouting at them. Ted yells at Peter and Claire to get out of there, so Peter grabs his niece and turns them invisible and they disappear in the crowd as Ted gets tackled to the ground. Audrey says she's been chasing him all over the country and he tells her she knows he's not a terrorist. She still thinks he is because he blew up a van in Los Angeles. She says he's being taken to Guantanamo Bay, and Ted starts shouting out specific requests for his cell like it needs to be lined with lead and stuff. "So everyone is safe!" Audrey ignores him and the officers drag Ted into a truck.
Audrey then walks over to someone and says that they got Ted thanks to this person's tip. The camera switches angles and we see that the tipster is none other than Sylar, who introduces himself as Isaac Mendez. He says it was his patriotic duty to call in the second he recognized Ted; especially as it's election day and all. Audrey turns to survey the scene and when she turns back, Sylar's gone. Audrey looks really spooked.
Meanwhile, Hiro is in his father's inner sanctum. He starts to blabble at his dad about how he knows he should go home, but he's not going to because he's on a mission. "You will save the world," says his father, agreeing with him. "I have waited a long time for a Nakamura to ascend. I never thought it would be you, Hiro. You have proven yourself worthy of our legacy. And your power." Hiro's confused. "You knew about my power?" he asks. Daddy Hiro did indeed. Only he wasn't sure Hiro was going to grow a pair and get with the program. But now he sees that Hiro is ready. Hiro's not so sure. He couldn't kill Sylar when he had the chance and Sylar broke his sword. Daddy Hiro says the sword doesn't matter; it was the journey that restored his power.
Hiro is still surprised that his father knew everything. Daddy Hiro repeats the story about the Elderheroes and how they wanted to save the world but some lost their way. "Evil must be stopped, Hiro," says Daddy Hiro. "time you face your villain, you will kill him. I will teach you." Daddy Hiro pulls out another ancient samurai sword. Hiro's like, "Uh, yeah, thanks for that, dad. But, really, you're just a businessman. I don't see how you can help me here." Daddy Hiro unsheathes the sword and there's a split second where we see the reflection of his eyes in the blade and I'm not even sure those ARE his eyes and then Hiro wonders aloud how much his father could possibly know of killing and then George Takei busts a supreme ninja move on the dance floor and brings the blade of the sword down to Hiro's neck within a centimeter of the surface of his skin. "A little," says Daddy Hiro with a smile. AWESOME. Hiro's facial expression is just a fantastic blending of rainbows and puppies and unabashed joy. Hee.
After the break, we wind up at a poll site as Micah and Candice pull up in one of Linderman's big black cars. Candice holds out her hand for Micah, the camera swoops in and when Micah gets out of the car to grab Candice's hand, she's morphed into an older black woman in a patchwork jacket. They walk into the poll site, and Candice asks the attendant if she can take Micah into the booth with her so she can teach him about democracy in action. The attendant thinks this is inspirational and readily agrees. Micah tells Candice that he thinks she bends the light in order to make herself look like she does. "How do you know this isn't the real me?" she sneers. Because you're not Missy Peregrym. Duh.
They enter the booth and Candice morphs back to her cute form. She tells Micah to make the voting computer vote for Nathan Petrelli. And he should do the same for all the other voting computers in the room. He puts his hand on the screen and the computer immediately starts selecting Nathan's name over and over again. Candice says they just have to go to the rest of the poll sites and do the same thing. Micah informs her that they won't have to because the computer is telling him that they're all networked, so he can control the voting from here. "How many votes does your boss want him to win by?" he asks politely. "Make it a landslide," says Candice with a smile. So Micah turns to the computer and looks at it intently for a minute. The computer blips and bleeps and does some stuff and then Micah suddenly looks pained and pulls away from the screen. "Can I go home now?" he asks, breathing heavily.
Nathan's Election Headquarters. He enters his office, tugging at his tie, looking exhausted. He turns on the TV and watches the results. He's still low in the polls. "Sorry to interrupt your big day," says Jessica, appearing out of nowhere. D.L. is right beside her. Nathan's surprised to see her; after she tipped him off about Linderman, he thought she'd be dead. Jessica comments that she thought he'd have shot Linderman by now, but apparently, Linderman made him an offer he couldn't refuse. D.L. steps up and demands to know where Linderman is and Nathan's like, "Uh, and YOU are?"
D.L. and Jessica bring Nathan up to speed about Micah's kidnapping and how it has something to do with the election. Nathan's like, "Hey, now, kidnapping is a serious charge there! You got proof?" Jessica's like, "Cut the crap, hot stuff. You hate that bastard as much as we do and you were gonna kill him, so why not let us finish the job?" Nathan's like, "Your idea…it sounds…intriguing. Also? You're hot." D.L. is like, "Dude. Don't trust Linderman. He's a dog, dog." There's an explosion of applause on the TV and they all turn to look. Nathan has won by a landslide. Now that Nathan has safely won the election, he considers their plan to kill Linderman and says that if he tells them where to find the guy, they'd better make sure Linderman won't come after them. "He took my son," says D.L. "He's gonna pay for that in full." Jessica just smiles at Nathan and the expression on his face is like, "Yeah, D.L.'s all angry and shit, but SHE'S the one who scares me."
Ancient Samurai Sword Camp. Hiro and his father are engaging in an extended samurai training session. While they fight, Daddy Hiro tells the story of Takezo Kensei and the Dragon. I'll highlight it as best I can here because you know for reals that this shiz is gonna be important later. Basically, Kensei wanted to unite Japan, so he went to the dragon of Kiso Mountain and asked it to teach him the secrets of the sword. The dragon taught him to become the Kensei; the sword saint. Kensei fought his enemies and won, saving his people. But then the dragon came to his palace and demanded the life of his princess. So Kensei drew his sword and plunged it into his own heart. He handed his heart to the dragon and said, "My love is in here. Take it." Clearly, Hiro is Kensei, Daddy is the Dragon, and I'm not sure who the princess is, but if it's Ando, he's going to be pissed that he's a girl.
At this point, Hiro and Daddy Hiro heat up their battle and it's pretty nice fighting by both Oka and Takei. There's a pause in the fight and Hiro says, "I understand, Father. To save what is most important…I must be strong enough…to cut out my own heart." "Show me!" says his father. Hiro launches himself forward with a battle cry.
Cut to OWI, where Bennet and Matt are finally entering in order to destroy the Walker System. Bennet says the system is on the forty-second floor, so Matt will have to get a read on someone's thoughts in order to let them get upstairs. "You sure isn't another way?" asks Matt. "The reason I brought you here, Parkman," says Bennet, getting up in Matt's face, "was so that you could get us to those elevators without raising a ruckus. Now, if you can't do that, you might as well give up on your wife and unborn child right now because no matter how far you run, they will find you." There's a beat and then Matt just looks at Bennet. "Okay. A simple 'no' would've done the trick." Hee!
Matt gets a read on someone in the distance and they make their way over to him. Matt launches into this hilarious song and dance with a guard at the entrance to the elevators, calling him Stanley and acting like they're old friends. Stanley's clueless. He's also not letting them in. Matt's all, "Buddy! Stan! Remember when we ran into each other last weekend? At that restaurant? With your girlfriend?" Matt's pulling all of the relevant details right out of Stanley's head as Bennet watches bemusedly. Matt seriously riffs on poor Stanley, finally saying that he was really drunk that night and worried about people finding out about the…porno? I can't tell if Stanley was in a porno or his girlfriend was or if they both just liked porn, but whatever it is, it must be really bad, because Stanley snaps to at hearing "porno" and immediately lets both of them inside.
They head over to the secret elevator, but Bennet quickly discovers that his password doesn't work on the keypad. Bennet suggests they wait until Matt can pick it out of somebody's head, but Matt is too busy freaking out at the site of Jessica and D.L. sliding right through the security gate to listen to Bennet's fruitless suggestions right now. Bennet and Matt walk over to D.L. and Jessica. "Relax," says Bennet. "My friend here can hear your thoughts. And he says we have similar goals." Indeed you do. Jessica looks over at Matt. "Didn't I throw you out a window?" she says with a smile. Hee. D.L. shoots her a look and Bennet turns to look at Matt, who immediately looks incredibly embarrassed and like he'd rather be out that window flat on his back than anywhere NEAR here right now. Heh.
Seconds later, they're all in the elevator, listening to choice selections from the universal Musak collection as they do that thing where they don't look at anyone else in the elevator. Matt, who can read minds you know, kind of shoots Jessica a look that suggests she might be thinking something less-than-friendly. He's clearly terrified of her. Hee. At the same time as they're traveling onwards and upwards, Mohinder is checking up on Molly's progress. She's responding well to the treatment and she feels good, so things are looking up. She doesn't want any more shots, though. Mohinder says she's doing better, but she's still going to have to have shots. Molly argues that she's all better because she can track people again. She closes her eyes and thinks of someone and it turns out she's thinking of Matt the day that he tried to save her from Sylar. She picks up a thumb tack and sticks it directly into a book that's on the table.
Mohinder observes that she's stuck the pin into the building they're in and asks if she was thinking of him when she placed the pin. She says it was her other hero. She wants to see him. Mohinder asks what she's talking about and Molly says that it's the police officer who saved her from the bogeyman. Mohinder takes this opportunity to ask Molly to think about Sylar and show him where he is. Before she can do so, however, Thompson shows up and asks how she's doing. Mohinder says she can find Sylar, so they'd better get searching for him immediately. Thompson says they certainly will but, right now, they have some uninvited guests on their way upstairs and that means that Mohinder and Molly have to head up to the roof to catch a copter outta here.
The elevators ding and Bennet and Matt exit. Bennet tells the parents that they'll find Linderman on the fifty-first floor. "Good luck finding your son," says Matt. The doors close without either D.L. or Jessica saying anything at all. "Right. Nice to see you too," snits Matt. Heh. Matt and Bennet make their way toward Molly's room as Matt asks how they take out the tracking system. Do they erase the hard drive? Crash the system? What? Bennet cagily responds that Matt did his part, now it's Bennet's turn to do his. Inside Molly's room, Thompson and Mohinder are watching Bennet and Matt on the closed circuit television. Thompson cocks his gargantuan gun and tells Mohinder that Bennet's after Molly.
Bennet and Matt come around a corner, but Matt suddenly grabs Bennet's shoulders as he hears Thompson's thoughts nearby say, "Good night, Bennet." Thompson comes around a corner and Matt jerks Bennet back behind a wall. Thompson shoots and misses. He runs off. Bennet pulls his own gun and runs off, telling Matt to stay put. Matt's like, "DUDE. I DON'T HAVE A GUN! DON'T LEAVE ME!" So, Matt's all alone, frantically looking around for Thompson, when suddenly there's Thompson, right behind him, with the gun pointed at the back of his head. "What am I thinking now, Parkman?" "Your last thought!" grits Bennet from behind Thompson. He shoots decisively twice. I'm sorry, but that kicked ass. Matt turns around and asks how Bennet knew Thompson was going to come up behind him. "We were old friends," says Bennet with a grim smile as he hands Matt Thompson's gun.
Mohinder watches all this on the monitor in Molly's room. He makes sure that Molly stays in her bedroom while he tries to deal with the interlopers. He holds his hands ineffectively up against the door as, outside, Bennet slides Thompson's key card through the security lock. "All right, look," says Bennet, "whatever happens in here, you gotta know that this is the only way our families are ever gonna be safe." Matt's concerned. "Why? Whattaya mean? What's here?" They enter the room and look around. "Where's the tracking system?" asks Matt. "It's in there!" says Bennet. They move into Molly's bedroom. Bennet pulls back the curtains and there's little Molly, hiding behind her bed, terrified.
"That's the tracking system?" says Matt. "A kid?! We came her to kill a little girl?" He's horrified. "No!" says Bennet. "I knew it was a person, but…I had no idea." He says this, but he still moves forward with the gun pointed at poor Molly's head. Mohinder bashes Matt in the back of the head with something, and Bennet turns his gun away from Molly. Mohinder now has a gun -- Matt's, maybe? -- and he's pointing it at Bennet. Bennet just points his gun again at Molly and says that as long as she's alive, Claire isn't safe. Mohinder tells Bennet to lower his gun or he'll kill him. Bennet says that if Mo kills him, Molly dies. It's a conundrum, it is.
Elsewhere in "New York City," Ted's being transported to his requested lead-lined cell. Unfortunately, he's never going to make it there because Sylar's standing in the middle of the street and he's craving braaaaains. Sylar TK's the truck with a tiny move of his left hand and the truck goes ass-over-teakettle in the middle of the street. It's a fantastic stunt, y'all. Sylar easily spins the truck around so the back is facing him and pops the doors open. Ted's hanging by his ankles from the floor of the upside-down van and he's hurt. "Here," says Sylar. "Let me help." He points his cutting finger at Ted's head and he screams as his flesh is ripped open.
R.I.P. RadioacTed.
Ancient Samurai Sword Camp. The boys are still battling each other. Hiro lands a killing blow to his father's neck. His father is proud and says he's come far in a short time. "Now that I can kill Sylar," says Hiro, "Ando will not die. He will be so relieved." Hee. They bow to each other and Hiro runs out to tell Ando that he's ready to face Sylar. Unfortunately, Ando had been sitting there for approximately nine weeks while Hiro trained with his father, so he got bored and left, telling the hairy guy from the front of the store that if Hiro wasn't going to go after Sylar, he damn well would. So Ando bought a sword and headed out. Hiro turns to his father and tells him that Ando went after Sylar. "Then Ando is going to die," says his father matter-of-factly. Hiro just stares off into the distance.
Meanwhile, Claire and Peter are trying to get the hell out of the city in their rental car, but the fact that there's an overturned truck on the street ahead of them is kind of hindering their ability to beat tracks out of town. They both get out of the car and run to the scene. At the scene, two cops ponder over the missing top half of Ted's head, wondering if that happened in the accident. "How else does something like that happen?" asks one of them. "You don't wanna know," says Audrey dryly as she passes behind them. Peter and Claire see Ted's corpse and know that not only did Sylar kill Ted, he now has Ted's power. This makes Peter realize that it's Sylar who blows up New York, not him. Claire says that Peter has to stop him, but Peter doesn't think he can because the last time he fought Sylar, he wound up dead. They leave.
Cut to Linderman in his office, ordering a helicopter to retrieve the Petrellis. D.L. and Jessica morph through the walls. "Boo!" says Jessica with a sneer. "Jessica?" says Linderman with a trace of panic in his voice. She walks right over to him and flings him up against the opposite wall as she asks where the hell Micah is. Linderman somehow maintains himself and says that they wouldn't even have Micah if it wasn't for him; he orchestrated their relationship, arranged their lives, he made them what they are. D.L. gets violent with him, asking if he thinks that just because he has money he thinks he's better than them. "Well, social Darwinism did play its part," says Linderman. "I believe destiny to be intrinsic." (Mentions of Destiny: 5) D.L. demands his son back and Linderman tells him he's on the forty-second floor. Jessica says she'll go look for their son while D.L. watches Linderman.
"You'll never see him again," says Linderman. "How's that?" says D.L. "Jessica's gonna kill you for me," says Linderman. Jessica gets this look on her face like, "Ooooh, I get to kill someone again?" Linderman points her to a bag on the floor. She grabs it, but he walks over and takes it from her, spilling its contents onto an ottoman. It's full of money. Jessica's intrigued. D.L.'s like, "Bitch, you can't tell me you're listening to this shit!" "Of course she is," says Linderman smoothly. "Like most women whose lives have been ruined by men, all Jessica wants is security, and money buys that. Money's all she's ever really cared about." D.L. argues that she cares about their son. Linderman offers her twenty million to kill her husband and walk away. She stands up.
"He's right, D.L.," she says with a smile. "I wanna take the money. I really do. I would even kill you for it. But Niki wouldn't." She closes her eyes and inhales deeply and when she opens her eyes, she's Niki again. She runs to her husband and they embrace. "You don't love him," says Linderman. "Everything I've done," says Niki, sounding a bit like Jessica, "I've done for them." Linderman gets this pissed look on his face and whips out a gun and points it at her, but D.L. jumps in front of her, so Linderman winds up shooting him instead. Gah! Linderman steps past D.L.'s fallen body and tells Niki that she should've taken the money. Then D.L.'s arm appears out of nowhere and his hand goes through Linderman's head and he squeezes Linderman's brain and Linderman gets blood in his eyes and then he goes down for the count and EWWWWWW!
D.L. drops to his knees and Niki runs over to him, catching him as he falls to the floor. He says that it doesn't matter what Linderman said, their getting together in the first place was completely real. "Jessica wasn't the strong one," he says. "It was you." She holds him, but doesn't seem to know what to do. Cut to Nathan and Heidi, heading out for his acceptance speech. She wants to get out of the chair, but he won't let her because people don't believe in miracles. He says they'll tell people when the time is right. Bad Company's "All Right Now" is playing over the loudspeakers, which is actually kind of hilarious. Mama Petrelli nods at her son and he wheels his wife up the ramp and onto the stage. He hugs his family and steps up to the podium.
He thanks everyone for their support and says he's sorry Peter couldn't be there. While he talks about his brother, we see Peter and Claire running back to their rental car and looking at each other with fear in their eyes. Nathan says that his father used to tell him that we have a responsibility to use what God gave us and to help people and make a difference. We see Hiro run out of the Ancient Samurai Sword Repair Shop in search of Ando. Nathan says his father always made the hard choices for the greater good. Nathan says he believes in this too and that our children deserve that. We see Micah staring out the window while Candice drops her face into a bag of potato chips in the background.
Nathan goes on to say that children should have a future where they don't have to face their fears alone. We see Ando, setting off to kill Sylar, with nothing but a sword and The Last Comic. Nathan challenges everyone in the room to inspire by example. We see Ted being zipped into a body bag as Audrey watches with a grim expression. "The world is sick," says Nathan, "and spinning out of control. But we can help. With our help, it can heal. With our love, with our compassion, and with our strength, we can heal it." We see Niki holding a passed-out D.L. as she cries. Nathan wants us to put aside our differences. Mohinder and Bennet want to continue point guns in various directions around Molly's room. Nathan says we should embrace our common goals and "do it" for our children. Clearly, Molly is not included in those "children." "Let's show them all exactly what we're capable of," says Nathan, finishing his speech. Balloons and confetti rain down on them as everyone smiles at the brightness of their future.
Cut to Sylar, who's standing on the edge of a rooftop, playing with fire. He has it under control as he opens one hand and then another, watching the soft orange glow envelope his skin. He looks out over the city and gets an evil glint in his eyes.
"Boom," is all he says.
And it's enough.
on Heroes: It's the end, people. It's the end.
Nathan goes on to say that children should have a future where they don't have to face their fears alone. We see Ando, setting off to kill Sylar, with nothing but a sword and The Last Comic. Nathan challenges everyone in the room to inspire by example. We see Ted being zipped into a body bag as Audrey watches with a grim expression. "The world is sick," says Nathan, "and spinning out of control. But we can help. With our help, it can heal. With our love, with our compassion, and with our strength, we can heal it." We see Niki holding a passed-out D.L. as she cries. Nathan wants us to put aside our differences. Mohinder and Bennet want to continue point guns in various directions around Molly's room. Nathan says we should embrace our common goals and "do it" for our children. Clearly, Molly is not included in those "children." "Let's show them all exactly what we're capable of," says Nathan, finishing his speech. Balloons and confetti rain down on them as everyone smiles at the brightness of their future.
Cut to Sylar, who's standing on the edge of a rooftop, playing with fire. He has it under control as he opens one hand and then another, watching the soft orange glow envelope his skin. He looks out over the city and gets an evil glint in his eyes.
"Boom," is all he says.
And it's enough.
on Heroes: It's the end, people. It's the end.