By DeAnn Welker
Hiro and Ando are back this episode, and they spend the entire episode in a loop in which Hiro tries to keep a guy from... photocopying his butt. That's right. Hiro's whole mission of wanting to go back and undo his wrongs? Apparently this is one of them. I don't know how that works exactly. Hiro learns a very valuable lesson from all of this looping, though, and ultimately comes clean to his sister, Kimiko, about the fact that he's dying.
Sylar-as-Nathan is on a journey of self-discovery all episode, instigated inadvertently by Angela. She brings him a box of his old things, since she gave Sylar that power where he learns the history of an object by touching it, and ends up reigniting some things that she'd had the Haitian wipe from his memory (how's that for confusing? New viewers shouldn't even bother trying to understand what's going on). He finds out he was present when a girl he liked died, and that his mom covered up her death and made it look like she ran away. Her mom, Swoosie Kurtz, has beaten herself up about it for years. Sylar-as-Nathan decides to come clean, so Swoosie has him killed. Don't worry, though; Sylar comes out of the grave at the end of the episode.
Meanwhile, Peter tells Bennett about the compass tattoo, but Bennett's not interested. He just spends the episode moping around, and Claire's coaching him on life and job hunting (but at least her stalker's not around, so that's a plus). Tracy's back with the governor, but realizes she wants to help people so -- after crying out of the tips of her fingers; that's right -- she quits her job and presumably goes somewhere to do good. The carnies see Bennett's face in the visionary tattoo back and figure that Bennett must be back on the case. Sure enough, he's starting his own Peter-style wall of clippings, only this one is of heroes. Dare I hope we have our old HRG back?