By Couch Baron
Sylar finally meets his dad, and I'm extremely pleasantly surprised to see it's the completely fabulous John Glover, but Sylar discovers that Samson has terminal lung cancer, which kind of takes the air out of his plan to kill him. Sylar still continues to be completely whiny and a total loser and bore me beyond belief, however, but when his dad learns of his regenerative ability, it's no surprise when he attacks Sylar and tries to steal his ability. Sylar's too powerful for him, though, and leaves his dad to die from his illness. Well, that was worth six episodes.
Claire obviously isn't jazzed about Doyle showing up, nor is Sandra, but Doyle guilts Claire… into taking over Alex's job at the comic-book store as a front to help mutants while getting hit on by the entire cast of Chuck. The agents are still watching her, though, so she calls Bennet for advice about leading a double life, but he doesn't have too much wisdom to offer. She then gets a text from Rebel saying that the government has found Doyle, so she helps him escape and start over, although she realizes there are pros and cons to what she's doing, the biggest of the latter being that her free pass gets revoked.
Nathan and Danko are clearly becoming enemies, and when Nathan hears about Matt being in front of the Capitol Building with a bomb strapped to his chest, he goes to help him. Danko's plan is to set off the bomb on Matt's chest, and he's willing to sacrifice Nathan in that effort, but Rebel, it seems, blocks them from detonating the weapon. Nathan gets Matt to break through the drugs and use his power to read the minds of the soldiers on the scene and figure out how to disarm the bomb, and they do so just in time, but then Matt gets taken again at Nathan's behest. Afterward, Nathan tries to fire Danko, but Danko isn't all that ready to go quietly, especially when he broadcasts Tracy's declaration that Nathan's "one of us" to the rest of Building 26. Speaking of Tracy, she gets a message from Rebel telling her that help is on the way. Nathan and Bennet bitch at each other over the way the Danko thing has played out, and then Nathan goes to convince Tracy that he's still on her side, which he does just in time to get her not to tattle to Danko about his ability. Danko still is onto the fact that Nathan can fly, though, but Bennet tries to confuse the issue by suggesting to Danko that Angela was responsible for saving Peter. Danko goes to see Angela, who tells him that Nathan is normal. He doesn't believe her, but when she brings up an incident from his apparently extremely checkered past, he leaves, and then Nathan succeeds in getting him fired -- and replacing him with Bennet. Danko, however, tosses Nathan out a window and forces him to reveal his ability, so things are in extreme flux in Building 26, to say the least.
In the end, Hiro and Ando turn up to the address Rebel supplied to try to save Matt, and find… an infant. Don't even want to speculate on what that means, but also, when Danko comes home, Sylar is waiting for him, and agents invade the Bennet house, only to find Claire gone -- and, unbeknownst to them, in the hands of Nathan.
Would Peter be good dating material? Find out. Come back later this week for Couch Baron's full recap.