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Don't fall over when I say this, but some actual interesting things happened this episode. Not that it was all good. I'll start with the bad: Claire's lesbian girlfriend seems more and more like a crazy stalker, to the point that Claire accuses her of having something to do with Annie's murder/suicide. And then they kiss, so Claire chalks it all up to a crush. And, in actuality, it's a new character, Rebecca, who is Samuel's niece and has been intentionally causing mayhem for Claire and Gretchen. She also happens to be in the sorority that Claire and Gretchen pledge in this episode. All the carnie kids leave home to go to college and pledge a sorority, you know.
Our deaf girl still sees sounds as colors, and when Peter saves her from getting him by a bus, he picks up this "power," too. I have no idea how that explains Samuel giving him his compassy power thing, but whatever. [Since he just now lost his speed, I think we can assume the compass is not a power at this point, and just magic dust in Peter's skin. - Zach] The annoying part is that Peter's stuck with such a lame power, but the great part is how cute she and Peter are flirting together. Until he unwittingly insults her filing job, and then she's back to her weird, standoffish self again. Oh, and Dr. Ratched is also her mother. That's news. Peter's also trying to connect with Mama Petrelli, but all she's doing is spacing out worrying about Nathan. Er, Sylar-as-Nathan. You know who I mean. Just when Peter feels like he'll never make any human connections, Hiro shows up, teleported here covered in toner from last episode. And he collapses. Good thing he teleported right into the apartment of a paramedic who has a lame, useless power. Though deaf girl plays a cello and uses her power to ultimately rip a hole in her apartment wall. As if that's a good thing.
At the carnival, Samuel has a big feast with his "family," which seems to consist of Edgar, Lydia, the old guy, and a bunch of kids. Seriously. These are the villains of the story? There is one empty seat and Samuel spends all episode deciding who's going to replace Samuel, since he promised the family he'd have the chair filled by the end of the episode. Will it be Hiro? Peter? Claire? Tracy? Lydia wants to know, too, but isn't ready to show him anything yet. Lydia's back finally reveals a picture while Rebecca's paying Uncle Samuel a visit to fill us in on all the mischief she's caused for Claire (basically everything that's made Gretchen seem like a stalker has been Rebecca's doing, which makes me question whether I should really hate Gretchen now that I know that).
Sylar digs himself out of his grave and ends up in police custody, where they realize he can't remember who he is, so they call in a pretty, British psych expert to question him. She earns his trust and then the police send her away because his fingerprints have pinpointed him as Gabriel, a watchmaker who killed his mother. They try to arrest him, but Sylar, legitimately confused (since his own knowledge of himself seems to be within Matt Parkman, and now he seems to have lost his knowledge that he's Nathan, too), accidentally throws Warden Leo through a window and then escapes with the British lady. The cops catch up and shoot holes in him, which heal themselves. The British lady tells him to run, and he does. Right into Samuel's carnival. [Which apparently moves. - Z] Makes sense he'd be the one to join the villainous carnival, right? Now they'll just have to teach him to be evil again, which... shouldn't be too difficult.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: Samuel went looking for Peter, thinking he'd found his dead brother's replacement. And he was exactly who Samuel hoped he'd be. Peter met Emma, our deaf "hero." He tried to flirt, but she would rather people think she's an ignorer than admit she's deaf, so she ignored him. She can see sounds. Gretchen was obsessed with Claire, even after finding out that Claire's invincible. She even told HRG she knows about it. He was less than thrilled. Swoosie Kurtz toasted to closure with Mama Petrelli, as her goon buried Sylar-as-Nathan in a hole in the ground.
Now (and also then, though they're not including it with the previouslies), Sylar digs himself out of his hole and staggers along the road, until a police car happens by with sirens on to pick him up. The driver is Warden Leo, who's apparently been demoted since his days at Oz. He wonders if Sylar's had too much to drink, and then gets out and makes him get down on the ground with his hands behind his head. Sylar, clearly not knowing his power or who he is, obliges. Title card. Wow, that came quickly.
Feet trample the ground, and our episode chyron -- "Chapter Four: Hysterical Blindness" -- and then we pan back to see we're with the carnies in their circus tent, or whatever it is they live in. Edgar's pushing some gigantic box around as breakfast is being prepared. An old woman's sticking her hand on a hot waffle iron, apparently for show, though Samuel comes out and says she's Mrs. Comey and she's making her "unparalleled blueberry waffles." Apparently they're so good because she burns her hand while making them. Then he goes on and on about how great breakfast is, because they all sit as a family before anything bad happens for the day. Birds chirp in the background as he goes on that Joseph's seat is empty at the table -- which consists of the old guy who has the same power as Hiro, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Edgar, Samuel, and a bunch of children -- but he says he'll convince one of the heroes out there to join their table by the end of the day.
Claire and Gretchen are eating in the school lunchroom, when Gretchen wonders why Claire's so happy. Claire: "This. This is cool." Wow. How does any writer come up with such engaging dialogue? She just loves being in college with her roommate instead of being shot at or chased. Gretchen thinks this is pretty much tedium, but Claire thinks right now she can be anyone. Seizing the perfect moment to butt in, Jackie from Veronica Mars walks up and tells Claire she can't escape her destiny. Oh, show, you're so clever. She introduces herself as Becky Taylor, and says she's a member of Psi Alpha, Sandra's sorority. Gretchen's horrified to discover Claire's mom was in a sorority, but Claire eventually caves to attending open rush, even though Gretchen tries to tell Becky she's going to pass. Gretchen tries to say sororities are a social crutch for people who can't make their own friends, and that they'll turn Claire into Stepford Claire. Claire sweet-talks Gretchen into going with her.
A jailhouse. Warden Leo's interrupted by a pretty British doctor, who's apparently new at doing real-life criminal psych consults, which pisses Warden Leo off. He caves, though, and tells her that they know nothing about Sylar: who he is, where he's from, etc. She says amnesia can be complicated, but Warden Leo says he can simplify it: "Take out your rubber stamp and mark this guy insane." He wouldn't be wrong about that, but she says they aren't given stamps and she needs to talk to him. After some weird camera work that shows us Sylar's looking at his reflection in the shiny table, she sits down, introduces herself as Dr. Gibson, and asks him his name. He just looks freaked out, and like he might throw up. Warden Leo's lurking in the corner, all, "I told you so." After a commercial break, Sylar just says, "I..." And Dr. Gibson tells Leo that it could be an aphasia, since traumas to the head can result in brain damage. Warden Leo says he was like this when they found him, which I'm sure is extremely helpful to Dr. Gibson, who probably thought they picked up a nice, normal guy and bashed him in the head until he was crazy. She asks Sylar if he can tell her what happened to him. He stutters out that he was in the forest, and then we get weird flashbacks that mean nothing. He says he was lost, and then he says he was... and trails off and cries as he flashes back to gunshots. He says he was then walking, and now he's in this tiny room. He cries some more. Dr. Gibson asks him to unlock Sylar's cuffs, but Leo won't lock himself in with an unrestrained lunatic. So she asks if he'll give her his keys, please, and leave. She unlocks Sylar's cuffs and then tells him she wants to help him get cleaned up and put the pieces together. He has more flashbacks to the shooting in the forest. Dude, can't Dr. Gibson just pull out her clicker and get Sylar to mind? (Thanks to forum poster lilith1930 for the joke; I knew Dr. Gibson looked familiar, but forgot she was Simone.)
At the hospital, Dr. Ratched finds Emma and wonders if she's still "seeing things." Emma walks off and Dr. Ratched follows. She wants to tell Emma it might not be synesthesia after all. Her new theory is conversion disorder, which used to be called "hysterical blindness." So, hey, the episode title makes sense! If only this storyline did. Emma's like, "You think I'm going crazy," and Dr. Ratched doesn't deny it, saying this whole filing girl thing is finally getting to her. Emma wonders if Dr. Ratched acts like this with all her patients, and Dr. Ratched says, "Only the ones who happen to be my daughter." I wish I could be bothered to care about this at all, but since we didn't know either of these characters until two episodes ago, and only one of them has a "power," and it's not really a power, I can't.
Peter's apartment of darkness and gloom. He's pouring coffee and telling his mother that focusing so much on work is really getting to him. He says he's been told by more than one person that he's closed himself off from human connection. Then he gives Angela the coffee, and she's spacing out to the point that she doesn't even see the cup of coffee he's giving her. He says this is his attempt at connecting with his family, at least her, since she bothered to show up. She wonders if he called Nathan, and he did. He tries to keep talking about himself, but she wonders if he actually talked to Nathan or left a message with his "black hole" of an assistant. Peter asks if they can possibly focus on him for one second.
So that we can see the parallels between Peter and Emma, we cut back to her, and she asks her mother if she even knows what Emma does. Dr. Ratched does: Emma hides in the filing room, filing things, wasting her brilliant mind. Emma says that's demeaning to filing clerks, and that Dr. Ratched shouldn't be surprised if the files disappear when she needs them most. Back to Peter, who's saying that he thought being a paramedic would fill the hole inside him, but he... stops talking because he realizes his mom's not listening. He's like, "Mom?" And she says, "Yes, you're right. Nathan will be fine. Go on with what you were saying. Start over." He says he's not starting over. Back to Emma, whose mom's telling her that she talked to the chief, and he says she can restart her residency if she wants. Emma doesn't want to ta
lk about it anymore. Dr. Ratched says it's been six years and is time for Emma to stop blaming herself for Christopher's death. Ooh, Christopher died?! Oh, wait, we don't know who he is. NOR DO WE CARE. Dr. Ratched tells her to stop grieving and take her life back. Emma actually speaks, and says she's not grieving, then goes back to signing as she says she's not hiding, not anything, and storms off. Peter's finishing breakfast with Angela, when he says he has to get to work. She's going to stay awhile, since Nathan might be running late. She tells Peter she hopes he knows he works too much, and he refrains from telling her that if she'd been listening at all, she'd know he realizes that. Instead, he kisses her sweetly and leaves. Angela needs to get over this whole Sylar-as-Nathan thing, tell Peter the truth, and focus on the one son she has left. I am not a fan of wimpy, whiny, brooding Mama Petrelli. She's almost as bad as gloomy HRG. Peter leaves at super-speed.
Claire and Gretchen show up late for rush, thankfully keeping us from having to listen to Becky's whole spiel. They enter at the end of said speech, when she says it's now time for her favorite part of rush: speed-dating. She walks between Claire and Gretchen and divides the group right between them. I'm not sure what purpose this serves, but I guess it will make it so that they don't get to speed-date each other? You'd think that would be true if they were in the same group, especially based on what happens during said speed-dating. Before we get to that, I'd like to point out that Claire's been in school for a while now and rush should already be over, since it usually starts before school does. But this isn't Greek, so I'll cut it some slack. We get to see Claire as if we're the person speed-dating with her, as she says this might be the scariest moment of her life, and her mom raises professional show dogs. Before you ask why, then, we have only ever seen Mr. Muggles, Claire corrects herself: "Show dog." She doesn't have a boyfriend, hasn't ever. Her dad works for the government or paper or something. Then girls begin to already know stuff about her, and they all found it out from Gretchen: former cheerleader, lived in Texas. Claire's stuck with Becky for the last round, who also says she heard all about Claire from Gretchen, and then adds that Gretchen's cool and "edgy." I don't think that's even meant to be a compliment. Claire looks at her stalker, clearly annoyed at the realization that she is, in fact, a stalker. Gretchen asking if she could cut Claire wasn't a clue at all, I guess.
Emma's walking down the street. We hear street noise as we're away from her and then silence when the camera's close up, so we know what it's like to be her. She watches a siren in silence, and sees red. Then she watches a jackhammer and sees even more red. Apparently, the color red scares her so much that she backs into traffic, in front of a bus. Lucky for her, in the entire city of New York, Peter Petrelli happens to be right there to whisk her out from in front of said bus. He asks if he's okay, but we get silence (her perspective), then we hear him say, "You almost... you all right?" They both look confused. Commercials, the first of which is one of those Liberty Mutual Responsibility Project ads that are mini-movies made by NBC actors. This one's made by Milo, who introduces it by telling us how much like Peter he is: heroic and full of himself. The movie, Dave Knowle Finds His Soul, stars Masi Oka, who is totally adorable, trying to help people but continually being punished for it. In the end, a hot girl gives him her number for being such a nice guy. Because, haven't you heard? The nice guy always gets the girl in the end.
Emma's taking off again, and we get silence as the camera's close-up. Then the camera backs off to see Peter following her, trying to talk, but she just storms off as he tries to ask if she's okay. He finally gives up and just mutters, "You're welcome." Peter dashes into an alley and hilariously tries to run super-speed. It doesn't work, so he tries again, and again. In frustration that the power's gone, he kicks a garbage can, and watches it roll and make noise as yellow shoots off of it. He realizes he must have borrowed the lamest power in the world from Emma.
Samuel's crouching down looking over a canyon when Lydia the Tattooed Lady saunters up. He orders her to hand him a cloth to wipe the dirt he's been playing with off of his hands. Lydia asks him who the new family member is, and he wonders why she's interested. She says he used her body to find them, so she's vested. She asks if it's Petrelli, Nakamura, Tracy, or Claire. He won't answer, so she asks if he even knows. He doesn't know, but he felt something. In his bones and in the earth. But the dust hasn't settled yet. She thinks it's a gamble to make promises to the family based on a feeling. He says it's worth it for the chance to grow the family, and that there are plenty of cousins out there, like planted seeds. She wonders who will break ground first, and he says we'll have to wait and see as he does this sort of conductor-like movement and the earth rises up and then falls in front of him. It looks cool and everything, but I don't know what the point was. Which is actually how I could describe the majority of this show lately: Pretty to look at, but why? Lydia walks off and we see they're across the canyon from the carnival.
Claire's in her dorm room asking Gretchen if she's seen her frilly white sweater, then turns around and sees Gretchen's wearing it. Gretchen wonders if that's cool, and Claire says to go ahead, but even Gretchen can tell she's annoyed at this point. Gretchen goes to use the restroom, and a book falls off of her shelf, turning Gretchen's computer on. Claire notices the website Gretchen has open is about her, and that every other tab open on her computer is also about Claire, except one about the science behind "Jump-Push-Fall." Oh, and just some crazy article about murder-suicides. Gretchen comes back and Claire pretends she didn't see any of that. She does tell Gretchen to go on without her, though, and she'll catch up. Gretchen wants to wait, but Claire says they should mix with people they don't know, since it's a mixer. Gretchen's sad, but it's hard to care.
We get table reflections of Sylar and Dr. Gibson as he compliments this "amazing" beverage he's drinking. He asks what it is, and says "tea." So his brain really seems to be totally wiped, other than the fact that he can talk a little. She asks if he's ever had tea, and he says he's never had anything; everything feels so new, like he's feeling it for the first time. He practically snuggles his tea and a pocket watch in front of him, describing them as "hot" and "cold." I wonder if Sylar can even find his own brain in there without Parkman, who seems to have Sylar inside him, right? Sylar describes all of these sensations as scary, but also "overwhelmingly beautiful." Dr. Gibson says it's jamais vu, the opposite of déjà vu, which is quite common in cases such as seizures or amnesia. She thinks he's still in there somewhere, but a traumatic experience blocked it out. She'd like to play the memory game with him. She asks him to relax, with his eyes closed. He does, and then he freaks out because the clock's ticking doesn't match the ticking of her watch. That distracts him. She's amazed that he can hear that her watch is running fast, which it has been for years. She says this ticking thing is good, and is probably a clue to his past. She wants to try again, but Warden Leo interrupts and asks to see her in the hall. She promises
just to be a sec. But in the hall, Leo tells her they have an ID, based on Sylar's fingerprints. Uh-oh.
Hospital. Peter's walking around looking for someone or something. I'll guess Emma. But he gets distracted by a room full of little kids singing the theme song to Greatest American Hero, which is a pretty funny shout out. It's not the singing that's distracted Peter, though -- or at least not the sound of it. It's the rainbow of colors the singing is producing. He's all happy and smiling and glowy, as if this isn't the stupidest power he could possibly have if he ever needs to, I don't know, save the world or anything. Somehow I find it adorable, though, when he and Emma see each other from across the room and realize they're both looking at the rainbow ghosts coming out of the music. She motions to ask him if he can see it, and he makes a face that's like, "Duh. Who doesn't?" He smiles at her cutely, and I like it in spite of my better judgment.
After commercials, they find each other and he starts talking to her, asking if she also saw the colors. She finally admits she's deaf, and he wonders if she reads lips. She does, so he tells her he must have gotten her ability on the street. She doesn't get what ability means, so he tells her there are people, like them, who have abilities: They can fly, teleport, read minds. She thinks she's misunderstanding, so he writes it down. She still thinks it's crazy, so he asks, "Is it?" and plays the piano. The sound is blue. But, again, I must ask: HOW IS THIS A POWER OR ABILITY? Peter plays the piano and they both admire his beautiful blue sounds. She joins in, and her notes are green. They mingle in the air, and it becomes a rainbow. They like each other, but how could this relationship ever go anywhere? Peter will end up with this stupid power every time he touches her. They finish playing and she wonders why her, why now. He doesn't know, but suggests they get lunch tomorrow, to figure it out and get her out of the file room. She starts to agree until he insults the file room, and then she says she likes it there, and storms off. He sighs, frustrated. And, seriously, why is she so sensitive about the files?
Claire finally shows up at the sorority mixer, where Becky greets her. She's glad she came back, and Claire goes on about how it's good to expand her social circle. So Becky introduces her to someone else, who also used to be a cheerleader. It's the same girl who knew Claire was from Texas at the mixer. They make boring small talk about why they both hated cheerleading, and then a flag pole falls down between them. Claire pushes the other girl out of the way so it doesn't spike her, but it also doesn't get Claire, luckily. She looks up and sees Gretchen on the floor above, where the flag fell from. Claire walks off, annoyed.
Warden Leo comes into Sylar's interrogation room and tells him Dr. Gibson is gone, since they brought her here to find out who he is but they know now: He's Gabriel, a watchmaker from Queens who murdered his mother. Sylar's like, "Did you say 'watchmaker'?" Which is hilarious, because you'd think that's not the part an amnesiac would focus on in that sentence. Warden Leo agrees, and says, "I also said 'murder' and 'mother.'" He orders Sylar to put his hands on the table. Sylar says he'd never kill his mother. Oh, but you would, Sylar. Among so many other evil deeds. Don't worry, though, because in the future you become nice and have a baby and think you're Peter's brother (yeah, I'm still annoyed that they showed us futures that obviously will never happen; am I the only one?) Leo turns the camera off in the interrogation room and says he's going to do some real interrogating. He says he's going to throw Sylar down a hole forever, and Sylar lifts his hands and throws Warden Leo through the glass with his mind powers. He looks surprised at himself as an alarm sounds and we go to commercial. First up, the latest episode of the carnies mini-series Slow Burn, which has something to do with Lydia the Tattooed Lady and her daughter, who's burning up her room. They're talking on Sprint phones, which I think is the actual advertisement here.
Dr. Gibson's getting in her car and looking at Gabriel Gray's file. It says he's wanted for murder. All the lights go off around her and then Sylar's banging on her window. She wonders what he's doing, and he says she promised she'd help him. He keeps banging on the window in desperation. She looks like she can't decide whether to let the known killer into her car. Because she's trained in psychiatry and all. Claire and Gretchen, meanwhile, are bickering in their dorm room about whether Gretchen dropped the flag pole on Claire and her friend. Claire thinks Gretchen wanted to out her power to everyone, but Gretchen swears she wouldn't do that. Claire admits she saw all of the stalker stuff on Gretchen's computer, but says she wasn't stalking because a book fell and turned on her computer. Gretchen doesn't think it's such a big deal that she Googled her, but Claire also saw the stuff about Annie on there. Claire asks if Gretchen can honestly say she had nothing to do with Annie's death. Gretchen accuses her of being paranoid, but Claire says this isn't paranoid; it's a pattern. She brings up the Annie thing, the computer, the accident tonight, the speed-dating. Gretchen says Claire's just more interesting to talk about than her, which doesn't make it any less creepy. Gretchen says she's actually not stalking Claire, it's just ... and she kisses her. She says she just has a crush. Claire looks shocked and then the Psi Alphas interrupt to offer them both a bid into the sorority. Claire smiles.
Carnival. Lydia the Tattooed Lady thinks it's getting a little late to try to figure out who's going to join the family. Samuel: "Says you," and sticks his pen to her back, which reveals nothing. They both say "nothing," and then he throws his ink cloth, which is caught in mid-air by something we can't see. Samuel knows who it is, though, and says, "Hello, Rebecca." She reveals herself, and it's Becky from Psi Alpha. She tells her "Uncle Samuel" that she's missing bid night. He thinks they can go a night without her, and asks how things are going with Claire: Is Rebecca doing all she can to isolate Claire and push her in their direction. Becky says she feels like all she does is push, and we flashback: She was invisible to Gretchen, and dropped the flagpole knowing Claire would think it's Gretchen. The best part is that we get to relive the boring cheerleading conversation between Claire and her new sorority sister. Becky also knocked the book off Gretchen's shelf and onto her computer so Claire would see the Googling. Then she stood by smiling as Claire realized what a stalker her roommate is. Most revealingly, Becky pushed Annie out the window when all Annie was doing was leaning out to open it. Not sure how she made it look like a "jump" rather than "push," from a scientific perspective. Then, when Claire came home, Becky was still invisible and hadn't put the fake suicide note on Annie's pillow yet, which explains Claire's discrepancy with the cop. Back to the present, Samuel wonders if Claire's on the way to them now. Lydia says no, it's not her yet, but she does think his dust has finally settled. He looks at Lydia's back and orders Rebecca back to campus, because it looks like they're pulling up stakes.
At night on a windy road, Dr. Gibson's speeding Sylar to safety from the police, apparently. He's hunkerin
g down in the backseat saying he's not a killer, but she says he's a kidnapper and a carjacker (so she's apparently not here of her own free will), and he beat up an entire precinct somehow. He says that Warden Leo was going to throw him in a hole, and no one believes him except her. She says she doesn't even know him and calls him "Gabriel." He says that's not his name; he closes his eyes and it doesn't feel like him. She says the whole "watchmaker" thing sounds an awful lot like him, what with the ticking and all. He says he's not a killer, and she knows that. She stops driving and says he's right.
Dr. Gibson gets out of the car and says he won't kill her if he's not a killer, so he should just take her car and get away. He says he needs her, but she points out he doesn't even know her. He says he doesn't even know himself. She asks him to turn himself in and let the police figure out what happened to his mother and she'll figure out what happened to him. He says okay and throws down the gun as the cops pull up. She tells him to do what Warden Leo says, and he puts his hands up. She tells the police to please put their guns down since he's turning himself in. They keep them trained on Sylar, who hears ticking. He accidentally unleashes some of Elle's electricity from his hands, and Leo shoots him several times in the chest. Dr. Gibson is right behind Sylar during the shooting but manages not to get shot. However, Sylar grabs her as he falls and starts rolling down the hill. When they get to the bottom, they both stand up, and she covers her mouth as she watches his wounds spit out the bullets and heal. She asks what the hell that was, but he doesn't know. The cops are running after them with dogs, and she tells him to run. He does.
Emma's apartment. She's arriving home after her long, stressful day or whatever. I don't care. She looks at the cello sitting there, which I think she must have stolen from that guy in the park. She starts playing, and continues to look puzzled at the colors all the while. She plays and plays, and I realize I actually miss Mohinder's narration over the awesome original theme music. I don't want all of this cello crap over the closing montage. Becky shows up invisibly at college and makes herself visible just in time to follow the new bids back to the sorority. She apparently has super-speed in addition to her invisibility. Peter's at his apartment, realizing he's more alone than ever. He says "So much for human connection," and then Hiro shows up (apparently he's been in suspended animation somewhere since he disappeared last episode and now he's finally materialized here) and says, "Peter Petrelli?" He smiles sweetly, and Peter's like, "Hiro?" Hiro collapses and Peter runs to him. Emma keeps playing until the sound colors makes some sort of laser power and slices her wall in half.
Sylar's still running through the woods as barking dogs pursue him. He stumbles out of the woods into the scene we glimpsed of him in the first episode. Carnival music picks up and he's lit up by the lights as Samuel stands outside the carnival and beckons him to come. He looks confused, but realizes it's the dogs and cops or this guy. They go through the carnival gates together. When the cops and dogs get to the top of the hill and look down, there's a giant, empty field. They wonder where he could have gone, because the carnival's apparently only visible to heroes? Or it's cloaked in invisibility? Or Samuel's used his ground-shifting to move it already. Sylar's still panicked, but Samuel tells him, "It's okay, brother. You're safe here." So, maybe Joseph's not his real brother and he just calls people that randomly? Sylar: "Where exactly is here?" Samuel: "Home." We get a final shot of the Zipper (best ride ever) and then a close-up of Sylar's face, looking like he could actually be happy here, because home is where the Zipper is, after all, whether at the edge of a forest, to a canyon, or in a big field near a funeral.
week: Hiro's in the hospital, and tells Peter he's dying of a brain tumor. Peter knows medicine can't save him, but seems to have an idea of what can (uh, Claire's blood, anyone?). Some kid with a power is holding a gun to Bennett, when Peter teleports in and stops the guy from shooting him. Looks like he shoots Peter instead, but since Bennett just said the kid's a healer, I'm guessing it will all be okay. Samuel speechifies to Sylar about how he's a man of great power. Samuel would like to help Sylar know the truth so some guy with dreadlocks puts his hands on Sylar's head. We also get a close-up of a bloody face, but I can't tell whose it is. But Sylar is ready to know who he is, which will be nice, since there's no mystery in this for us.
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