Episode Report Card Erin: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shooter: 1 Nathan: 0
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.02.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Aborting his trip to New Orleans, Mohinder goes home to Brooklyn, and Sylar's waiting for him. He introduces Mohinder to Maya and she has so many questions! After learning that Sylar's lost his powers, Mohinder tries to kill him, but Sylar pulls a gun. Maya figures out that Sylar's been lying to her the entire time and the Big Bad Blackness shows up again. Maya gets it under control, only after realizing that if she kills Mohinder, she's SOL for real.
Nathan and Matt get Angela released from prison and they all hang out at Peter's apartment. Matt reveals that Adam killed Victoria. Then Nathan tells her that Peter's alive and working with Adam. Angela says that, in the beginning, the ElderHeroes partnered up with Adam. Then, after awhile, it became clear that Adam was evil, and Angela tells the boys that Adam chose Peter because he's the only one who can get to the virus. She says that it's at Primatech, and that the only way they can stop Adam is with a bullet to the brain.
Over at Primatech, everyone's frozen except Hiro and Peter. Hiro tries to attack him, but he tells Hiro about the virus and how he and Adam are going to stop it. Peter shocks Hiro and he goes down. Adam unfreezes and takes his sword from Hiro's grasp as Peter gruffs that they should go destroy the virus now. Meanwhile, over in California, Claire plans to tell everyone what she can do, even though her mother doesn't think she should. Claire's determined, though, and she begins to gather ammunition.
Elle gets dissed by her dad, and goes to ask Bennet what he knows about her past. He eventually tells her everything, revealing that she was seven when her father supervised her Company-sanctioned torture. Tobby interrupts and Elle skitters off. Tobby tells Bennet that Claire's being difficult and that, due to the possibility of her having access to sensitive intel, precautionary measures will have to be taken.
In New Orleans, Micah finally returns home to a frantic Niki. He tells her about Monica and says he needs her help. Too bad the virus has taken her strength away and Mohinder's stuck in New York getting his ass whipped by Sylar. Micah thinks this is all fascinating, but would rather they jump in the car and go save Monica right now.
Peter and Adam bust into the lower level at Primatech and come face-to-face with a huge security safe. Before opening it, Peter questions Adam about his murderous ways. Adam convinces him that he's good and the ElderHeroes are evil and open the damn door already! Before he does, though, we have to go check in with Team Mohinder at his lab. As Mohinder takes some of Sylar's blood, Elle looks in on them with a hidden security camera and decides to go get Sylar. In the lab, Molly offers to find Alejandro for Maya and discovers that he's "not anywhere." Maya realizes that Sylar killed her brother. She confronts him; Sylar shoots her and orders Mohinder to give him the blood.
Bennet shows up at home and tells Claire to stop -- he's made a deal to go back into The Company in order to protect his family. He leaves and tells Tobby that it's done. Meanwhile, Peter's having a tough time with the big-ass safe door. He finally gets it open, but Hiro shows up to stop Adam from getting inside. Peter TKs him over to the wall and Adam heads into the safe. Peter looks well on his way to being a bad guy when Matt shows up, and he and Peter start thinking at each other about Adam's goodness or lack thereof. Nathan appears and tries to convince Peter to start seeing the forest for the damn trees already.
Hiro tries to stop Adam from releasing the virus while Nathan tries to make Peter come to his damn senses already. Peter finally does, and runs into the safe to grab the virus at the same moment that Hiro pulls Adam somewhere in time with him. The virus is about to drop when Peter TKs it in midair and saves the day. Peter and Nathan watch as he goes nuclear on it, basically annihilating it in his hand. In that vault of parental sin, the three boys agree to expose The Company for what it is. However, as they make their plans, Big Brother is watching from a vent.
Back with Team Mohinder, Maya gets her Hot Blood Injection and immediately starts to heal. Sylar takes the blood pack from Mohinder's bag and is about to leave when Elle shows up and takes a shot at him. A gun/electroshock fight ensues, with the outcome being that Sylar escapes, Elle runs after him, and there's no blood left to cure Niki. Niki and Micah are still trying to find Monica, but she's tied up in a building that's on fire. They finally track down the building and Niki goes all Hero on one of the gang member's asses, even though she no longer has super-strength. Niki manages to save Monica, but she traps herself inside in the process and the building explodes.
Hiro visits Ando and says that while he didn't kill Adam, he made sure to put him in a place where he can never hurt another person. And that place? Is a very deep grave across town. Speaking of graves, Maya's not in one. Instead, she's alive. Elle loses Sylar, but when Mohinder informs her that she saved their lives, she's reasonably impressed with herself.
Peter and Nathan have a brotherly moment in Odessa; then Nathan faces reporters and gives a stirring speech about Heroes and The Company and we get flashbacks to the past season, and even the first season. Nathan is on the verge of telling everyone that he can fly when three shots ring out. He goes down, and a man in black walks away from the crowd. Angela tells someone on her cell that it was unavoidable and that the person on the other end has opened Pandora's box. Volume Two ends, and Volume Three begins with Sylar sprawled in an alley somewhere, shooting up The Cure. His wounds heal and he tries out his TK on a spinach can. He yam what he yam. It works. "I'm baaaaaack," he smiles. Ooooooh. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on Heroes: Sylar was wet and shirtless. That is all.
Oh, fine. Last week, it was one big road trip for Peter and Adam, who went to visit Victoria in order to get the location of the virus. They killed her, but not before she told them that the virus was at good ol' Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas. Bennet had a fucked-up eyeball due to the bullet it in it, but a bit of Claire's blood made him right as rain again, but all he really did was bitch at Mohinder about being a gullible pussy. Sylar killed Maya's brother, but he was wet and shirtless, so Maya thought this meant he was a good guy. Micah's stupid cousin stupidly thought selling Micah's comic books was a good idea, so he wound up getting jacked for them by a gang. So, of course, Monica and Micah play superheroes and go to get it, only to have Monica wind up kidnapped by the gang. Claire decided to come forward with her powers because...that's a good idea? And Peter and Adam made it to Odessa, only to have Hiro show up and foil their plans.
I still think the most interesting part about the whole thing was Wet and Shirtless Sylar, but maybe that's just me.
When the episode begins, Mohinder is returning home to The Biggest Apartment In Brooklyn, instead of boarding a plane to New Orleans in order to cure Niki. He removes the box with the cure inside of it and looks at it sadly, because he's a big old girl who'd rather save the kid with the big gums than some hot chick with dormant multiple personalities. When he enters the apartment, Sylar is sitting at his desk. He turns and greets Mohinder warmly, welcoming him home. "What happened to your nose?" he asks, seemingly genuinely interested. Heh. Mohinder just demands to know where Molly is. Sylar tells him she's in the bedroom, asleep, and that he'd better keep his voice down or Gummolly will wake up and think she has THREE daddies. Sylar stands, and Mohinder backs off, unaware that Sylar is only as dangerous as whatever sharp object he holds in his hand. "Breakfast?" offers Sylar with a hilarious open-armed shrug and a cocked eyebrow. I'm laughing out loud at the expression on his face. It's kind of a, "Hey, come on! Who couldn't do with a little huevos in the mañana?"
Turns out, Maya's made the brekkies, and she's delighted to meet Mohinder. Sylar makes the introductions, and she gushingly tells Mohinder how she's read his father's book and now she has tons of questions. The boys sit down as Maya serves them and talks about how meeting Gabriel was fate. Mohinder is all, "Gabriel? Don't you mean SYLAR? And don't you mean SYLAR THE MURDERER?" Maya's like, "Yeah, whatever, I know about his mother. Isn't he hot? You should see him wet without his shirt. You'd forget all about the dead mom too if you'd been in the presence of the wet hot shirtlessness, dude. Also? I think your busted-ass nose is leaking. Put a towel on that thing." Maya informs Mohinder that she, too, is a killer, and that she has a sickness and needs his help.
"We both need your help," Sylar pipes up sinisterly. "I've been reading all about your lab work on your laptop. About the Shanti virus. Does it reaaaaaally take away someone's abilities?" Mohinder says that it does and it also kills the person. "Is that why your powers are gone?" Maya blurts out, drawing a look of death from Sylar. "Because you think you have this virus?" Mohinder looks back and forth at the two of them, then whips out the knife next to his plate. Sylar beats him to the punch by pulling out a gun and pointing it at his head. Mohinder drops the knife as Maya emotionally asks Sylar what the hell he's doing. He orders her to be calm and then tells Mohinder that his blood is the cure to what ails him. Mohinder tries to say that it doesn't always work, but Sylar's already discovered Claire and how her blood heals anything, especially when mixed with Mohinder's.