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If you're here to find out what happened after last week's cliffhanger (it did end with "To be continued..."), you're out of luck. Most of last week's characters have taken the week off, so that Tracy and Parkman can enjoy a little time in the spotlight..
Bennett's still around, and he's still trying to help poor healer Jeremy. Unfortunately, he gets arrested by a bunch of rednecks, who are sure he killed his parents (they're right) and want to make him pay. They're not releasing him to anyone other than the of kin, either. That's when Noah calls Tracy, and she pretends she's Jeremy's aunt. It takes a lot of arguing with the hick sheriff, but it almost works until someone attacks Jeremy and he uses his healing power to kill him. It doesn't seem that accidental, and even when Noah pleads with him to heal the guy, he doesn't. He just turns himself in. And then some even more redneck cops take him out back and drag him behind a car. Because, you know, that's what rednecks in Georgia do to people who are different. While Tracy's trying to help Jeremy, she gets a visit from Samuel, who shows her where home is and gives her a compass. At the end of the episode, she tells Noah never to call her again and then looks at the compass. Samuel razes the police department for what they did to Jeremy. I can't even tell whose side I'm supposed to be on at this point.
Which is true in every storyline this week, because Parkman (who?!) and his Sylon are both equally annoying, as usual. Sylon somehow takes over Parkman's body and has mind-blowing sex with Janice. This pisses Matt off, so he drinks Sylon away. Really. Then, when he wakes up, he's no longer Parkman. He's Sylon in Parkman's body, and Parkman is Sylon's Sylon. Janice and Rick Worthy can tell he's losing it, but there's not much they can do. I suggest they run off together and leave Sylon and Parkman to grow old together.
Finally, there's the Halloween-themed portion of the episode, in which Samuel's nice, Becky, takes the sorority's four pledges to a slaughterhouse so they can compete to see who doesn't have to participate in Hell Week. The real reason they're there, though, is so Becky can be invisible and try to kill Gretchen. Claire figures it out, and -- though she ends up skewered -- reveals Becky by hurting her while she's invisible. All of the pledges see her before she gets invisible again and run off. They also see Claire heal, though. I'm guessing that's going to be a problem for HRG. A word to all sorority pledges, though: If you are going through initiation and you are ever scared for your life, LEAVE. You don't have to win the competition and you don't have to join the sorority. That was what made the whole storyline so annoying. That and Gretchen. Oh, and Claire's a lesbian now. She needs Gretchen. But the show doesn't, considering it didn't even have time for Peter or Hiro this week.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: Now that Claire's all grown up and joining a sorority (after being invited by Samuel's niece, Becky), Bennet went off to find another kid to take care of. He found a healer-turned-killer named Jeremy. Sylar's still not sure who he is, but he called himself Nathan. Claire and her BFF kissed a little bit. Parkman is keeping Sylon trapped inside his head so the rest of the world can be safe.
A rainy night in Los Angeles. Parkman's house. Matt and Janice are having sex on the floor in front of the fireplace, and there's plenty of moaning involved. But Sylar's the one who's really doing the lovemaking, as a shirtless Zachary Quinto makes clear. morning, Parkman wakes up on the floor, confused, and Janice tells him he was amazing. The operative word, of course, being "was." Sylon sits in a chair eating an apple (because noncorporeal beings can eat now), and smirks at Parkman: "Forbidden fruit. My favorite kind." Oh, Sylon, you are such a cliché. Opening title card/eclipse. Hey, maybe we could have another eclipse and change everything again? I'm bored of this stuff now.
Cainan, Georgia. Healer Jeremy's been arrested, and Bennet's watching through a window as an officer handcuffs him to something. A redneck sheriff approaches and HRG tells him he can't do this to Jeremy. Sheriff wonders what's HRG anyway: a lawyer? HRG points out that Jeremy lost his parents, and the sheriff says that's his point exactly. HRG's like, "What about the broken heater you saw?" Cornpone Sheriff says all he knows is that two people are dead, and this isn't the first time Jeremy's made trouble in this town. He says that kid isn't going anywhere until he's finished his investigation and even then, he'll only be released to his of kin (or, as Cornpone Sheriff says it, "-uh-keyun"). "And that. Is not you. Friend." The lesson to be learned here is that all people in small Georgia towns are hillbillies. HRG makes a call and asks someone for help.
thing we know, Tracy's pulling into a dusty town in her silver, shiny convertible. She doesn't stand out or anything. HRG's waiting on the street when she pulls up. She jokes that she's sure she can get a latte here, right, and Bennet tells her he saw a cow, so all she needs is espresso. Ah, easy jokes. What a delight. Tracy wonders who Bennet's fallback was if she didn't show, but he didn't have one (apparently he doesn't believe in working with Peter two episodes in a row?), so she's honored to be his chosen one. Tracy thought HRG was done with the whole bag-and-tag business, and he says she's right: This is more of a rescue mission. Then he catches her (and anyone who missed last week's episode) up on Jeremy's dual abilities of life and death, and how he killed his parents. HRG says Jeremy's emotions got the better of him, and we all know that can happen (and what he means, of course, is that Tracy especially knows it can happen). Tracy wonders if that's why she was the chosen one, and HRG admits it sort of was, but she's also here because she's going to be playing the part of Jeremy's favorite aunt. She can just pretend he's an older, less cute Micah. (Aw, I miss Micah.) Tracy hesitates, but HRG tugs at her heartstrings by reminding her what it's like to have nobody. She walks inside the station. HRG follows, as some hillbilly cops (I guess?) look at him ominously.
Arlington University at night. Claire and Gretchen are in their beds, but neither is asleep. Gretchen asks if Claire's afraid she's going to kiss attack her in her sleep, and Claire smiles and then says, "Maybe." She looks happy, but she seriously tells Gretchen they should talk about this. Gretchen sits up and says it was stupid, impulsive, and bad. But Claire breaks in saying, "It wasn't bad. You're a good kisser. But I don't want to mess this up." She tells "Gretch" (she really calls her that, in case this storyline didn't already make you want to hurl) that she's the first friend she's had since she left Texas, which is a big deal for her and this totally ordinary life she's been chasing. (By "chasing" she means jumping out of windows, of course. Because that's so normal.) Claire really likes Gretchen a lot. Gretchen: "Just ... not in that way?" Before she can answer, though, some shrouded ninjas break in, and Claire lurches into full-on attack mode, taking one down. Becky unhoods herself, and tells Claire she doesn't have to go all Buffy on them, since they're just kidnapping them. Claire apologizes, and Becky asks if they want to be Alpha Chis or not. Gretchen asks if that's a trick question, and Claire asks where they're taking them. Becky says it wouldn't be a very good kidnapping if she told them, would it? She covers the girls faces (or, actually, the camera, but I think that's the effect they were going for). Commercial.
Claire and Gretchen are breathing heavily in the trunk of a car, covered in black hoods. But since they cast actors who are pretty to look at, they quickly pull their hoods off and end up all cozy and sweaty. Gretchen starts to make it squicky -- "Look at us: all tied up in the dark" -- and then Claire steps it up a notch -- "They have entire websites devoted to this." Sadly, that's true. They stare at each other and then apologize. Gretchen wants to know if Claire likes her as a friend or something more, and Claire says she doesn't know. Then the car bumps and they almost kiss again. Claire repeats she doesn't know, and Gretchen says "Awesome." Becky opens the trunk and welcomes them to "Hell Week." Or some sort of precursor to Hell Week.
Inside a warehouse, Becky lays down the rules to four girls (who have been rehooded): This is a "screamin' scavenger hunt." There's an Alpha Chi treasure nearby, and whichever team finds it first gets to sit out of Hell Week. You can trust Becky: You want to sit out. They've bought goldfish. Whatever that means. She reminds them someone has to win and someone has to lose, and she and the other kidnappers run out. Claire, Gretchen, and the other two sorority pledges are left alone, and the other two start shrieking, "Oh my god! Where are we?" They all remove their hoods and untape their hands. Everyone follows Claire.
Cainan Sheriff's Office. Tracy is let in to talk to Jeremy. She tells him she's a friend of Mr. Bennet's, and that they told the deputies she's his aunt. He's like, "I don't have an aunt." Wow, this kid is slow. She says he does now, because HRG fixed some paperwork and here she is. He tells her that Bennet also said that everything would go away, that the cops would buy the story, that they'd let him go. She says that all she has to do is sign him out, but he thinks that might not be such a good idea, because he killed his parents. He's a murderer. Tracy looks like she's going to cry. But I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for this slow, broody teenager when there are actual characters on this show I'd rather we see.
Parkman house. Matt's yelling at Sylon that he's never been able to control him; he can't do that. Sylon says he had a compelling reason: "Your wife is kinda hot." Matt screams, "Enough!" Sylon says he's the second Parkman he's made scream today, and he can give him some pointers later if he'd like. Matt calls him a crazy psycho, and Sylon asks if he wants to hit him to defend his lady's honor? But he says they both know it's not about that: It's about all those other things Sylon can do to her and Matty time he takes over Matt's body. "That's when the real fun begins." I sure hope so, because I'm bored with this.
Claire and the other girls are now in a drippy, damp basement. Gretchen says, "Mmmmm. Cozy." Claire notices a sign of a pig on a stool putting on boots that says "You must wear gear in the carcass room." The ditzy girls shriek about the smell of death in here. Claire sees hooks and bloody plastic, and finally, brilliantly figures this is a slaughterhouse. She stops the biggest ditz from saying, "Oh my god" anymore. Gretchen finds a "super cute puzzle" and calls the others over to read them some writing on the wall that says, "What you find will help you survive. / When we were found will keep you alive!" Gretchen wonders what "when we were found" means, but the ditziest ditz opens a locker and fake blood splatters all over her. Claire tells them to open 24, since the sorority was founded in 1924. Gretchen wonders why she knows that and Claire says her mom's a former sister, remember? I remember, but why on earth would anyone know or care when their mother's sorority was founded? They pull backpacks from locker 24, and the ditz's snotty friend takes theirs, and drags her ditzy friend away because now they're going to "bring it," despite Ditz's pleas to stay with Claire.
Back in Georgia, Tracy tells Jeremy that she understands what happened with his parents, since the same thing happened to her the day she discovered her ability. She says she felt threatened, but something took over. Her emotions took over, and she couldn't let go. She touches Jeremy and her hands turns to water. She tells him he got mad, which isn't bad for most people. "We're not most people." Back in the lobby, HRG asks Cornpone Sheriff what possible reason they could hold Jeremy now that his of kin is here. Cornpone Sheriff has one of his deputies, Gil, show HRG what they found. It's a drawing and poem by Jeremy, in which he calls himself "the bringer of death." Bennet points out that he's seventeen, and half the songs i
n his iPod sound like that. Gil says that any kid at school will tell you that Jeremy also kills animals. For fun. HRG wonders if gossip is now being considered evidence. Bennet, Bennet, I believe they call it "witness testimony," not "gossip." Cornpone Sheriff says there's something wrong with Jeremy, and this proves it, so he's keeping him right here for now.
Outside, Tracy's on the phone telling someone that they haven't charged Jeremy and have only circumstantial evidence, at best. She tells Dennis (whoever that is) that she's calling in a favor. She thanks him and hangs up. When she does, Samuel's standing there in a black trench coat. He says it sounds like she's shaking things up in there. He thinks the place could use it, from the looks of the place. He asks how a girl like her ends up in a place like this, and she scoffs he's going to have to do better than that to hit on the likes of her. He says his name's Samuel, and all he wonders is what's if she's here to save Jeremy's life? She looks puzzled that he knows what she's doing here. He asks if she's going to take him somewhere to live, and as he asks that, the camera swirls around them and the dusty town turns into the carnival. He finishes: "... Or where he belongs?" She asks what he did, and he says it's all right: "I'm a friend, Tracy." She's sort of freaked, but he says it's safe here, because they're all like her. She asks what this place is, and he says, "Home." She looks around as we get the faintest hint of the awesome theme music we miss so much. Commercials.
Dank slaughterhouse. They come to a fork in the hall and wonder, "Slaughter floor? Or operations center?" Um, may I vote operations center? There are probably phones there. Or at least an exit. No sorority is worth this, especially when you don't even really want to be in it at all. Snotty and Ditzy take off toward "operations center," after one last snotty comment to Claire and Gretchen, who head downstairs to the slaughter floor. Since there are pools of water on the floor, we see Becky's footsteps follow them down. Claire asks Gretchen how long she's known. Gretchen: "What? That I really don't want to be in this sorority?" My thoughts exactly. So, possibly consider leaving the slaughterhouse then, so that we don't have to suffer through this storyline? No? Okay. It was worth a shot. But Claire meant the whole liking girls thing. Gretchen says Claire makes it sound like something she has to declare, like her major. Claire says she's jealous that Gretchen's already figured herself out. Gretchen says she isn't sure about that; she's actually had more boyfriends than girlfriends. Like, six or seven more. Then she asks Claire if she's a virgin. Claire is, so Gretchen says, "Wow! We could not be more different. Maybe we're strange attractors." Well, they have the strange part right, at least. Gretchen explains that it's a physics thing where particles end up together that don't really belong, but when they're together they're super powerful. "Sort of like we could be. Or not." Gretchen turns around and looks at Claire, who's focused on something going on behind the bloody sheets of plastic Gretchen's now standing in front of. Gretchen tells Claire not to tell her she's freaked out now, and she charges on through the bloody plastic. She says it's "just more lameness," just as a big heavy chain and hook comes hurtling toward her. Claire pushes her down and lands on top of her. She tells Gretchen she's starting to think this isn't a game. Kidnapping? Slaughterhouse? Nah, Claire, it's totally a typical game.
Carnival. Samuel keeps making his sales pitch to Tracy, about how Jeremy could be accepted here, surrounded by family. They walk up to a fire-breather and Samuel asks if she remembers the first time she experienced her gift. Tracy: "Gift might be a little generous." He says the entire universe was coursing through her, and that wasn't just her ability. She was tapping into something greater than herself. She looks around, as he goes on that they're all connected. He gets a feeling every time someone joins the family. He says this is where Jeremy should be, and Tracy gets judgy: "What? Living in trailers? Drifting from town to town?" He reminds her that what she's going to have to do is give him a false name and a false life. He shouldn't have to be invisible (figuratively, I guess, since he'd sometimes be literally invisible at the carnival), so he should come home. He says Tracy could join him, since Samuel knows she's been lost, too. She tells him that's enough, and to take her back now. Sylar's in the distance, wearing a striped shirt and a straw fedora. He's clearly embraced the carnival life. He even appears to be picking a flea off his back when he notices Tracy. Obviously, his Nathan memories are kicking in and he recognizes her. Samuel gives Tracy a compass that he says will help her find her way back. He sends her off with Lydia, and then Sylar approaches him and says he knew her, and held her in his arms while he was flying. Samuel says they already talked about this: The memories he's having aren't his. Sylar wonders whose they are then, and then gives us the most obvious transition in the history of television: "And if the real me isn't in here ... where am I?"
Parkman house. Janice comes in on Matt packing a bag and asks what he's doing. He says he has to leave, because it's not safe for her or Matty with him here since someone else can control his body. She asks why he always does this, and says they're just getting close and wonders why he wants to blow everything up again. Matt tells her he did a horrible thing, and Sylon's all, "This ought to be good." Matt continues that he used his abilities to push one man's memories into another man's head. Sylon: "Yeah! My head." He starts to tell Janice, but she can't hear Sylon, of course. Janice didn't even know Matt could do that, and he says he didn't really either, but he had to do it to get rid of this "really bad criminal." Sylon: "That's not very nice. How quick to label." Or at least his mind, and now his consciousness is rattling around up in Parkman's head. Sylon: "Well, there's so much space." Matt snaps, "Will you just shut up?!" at Sylon, and Janice starts to cry, not understanding what's going on. Matt tells her he can get rid of Sylon, but he has to go find the answer. He says he can fix this. Janice tells Matt he should stay here to work things out, and she'll take Matty and go and stay... Matt shouts, "Don't! Don't tell me where you're going." He doesn't want Sylon to hear. She says okay, kisses him, tells him she loves him, and leaves. Sylon groans that was pretty smart, even for Parkman (I'm not going to point out the literal meaning of that grammatically incorrect sentence, but I am tempted), to not let her say where she's going. Sylon: "But you still haven't figured out how to get rid of me, genius!" Evil laughter leads us to commercials.
Matt's on the phone when we get back from commercials. Leaving a message for Mohinder! OMG. They remember he exists. Matt says, "I have no idea where you are." That makes six million of us (or however many are still watching at this point). He pleads for him to call hi back. Then he swigs some beer, and Sylon's like, "Mohinder? How's he going to help you? He's probably still working on his fath-uh's ree-such." (That's my attempt at Sylon's impersonation of Mohinder, which is amusing.) Matt tries to ignore Sylon, but Sylon is pesky and just won't leave. He tells Parkman to forget it and just give him back his body already. Matt drinks again and Sylon experiences physical pain. Sylon keeps talking, but stops in pain every time Matt drinks. Parkman realizes the alcohol's hurting him, so he pounds the beer, screaming for Sylon to stop him from drinking if he can control him. Then he moves on to the harder stuff, and says, "I think I've finally found a leash for this dog." Oh, Matt, this is how alcoholism begins, don't you know? Trying to silence the demons in your head.
Back in Georgia, Jeremy's still in his cell when Tracy returns. HRG tells her that her guy, Dennis, came through and made all the arrangements to get Jeremy out of here. Tracy's a little shaken from her carnival experience but pretends she's okay and just wants to get Jeremy out. They tell him he's getting out and he wonders who he's going to live with. HRG says he's set up a new identity for him and he'll live in his apartment building and go to Georgetown High School. No one will know what he can do, and he'll learn to control his ability with Tracy's help. But he can't tell anyone; that's the only way. Jeremy wonders what if something happens, and Tracy tells him nothing will. He'll be safe. He'll be invisible. She looks torn. Jeremy sighs.
Slaughterhouse. Gretchen tells Claire that this is just a sorority game, and they wouldn't have brought them here to kill them. I mean, like, who's ever heard of anything getting killed in a slaughterhouse, right? Gretchen asks how that thing would have moved toward them since no one was there, other than just coincidence. Claire says there are a million ways in her world. Such as telekinesis. She says she's seen it, and knows someone who has it. Gretchen asks if there's another one of Claire here at the slaughterhouse, and is bored and playing a college prank on her. Claire says it's not a prank. Gretchen asks if Claire thinks they're trying to kill her, and Claire says, "Not me." Gretchen: "Then who?" Claire turns and looks at her,
and Gretchen's all, "Come on! Me?" As if no one has ever wanted to kill her. Claire tells her to think about it, since her first roommate had that mysterious death with a mysterious note that showed up after the fact. Gretchen thinks that's a little out there and sounds like some "crazy-ass conspiracy theory." She pauses and then says, "Which pretty much describes your entire life." Uh-oh. They hear a noise and Gretchen's freaked. Snotty and Ditzy run in, and Claire asks if they found another clue. Snotty's all, "Like I'm gonna tell you." Claire tells her that Ditzy's freaked and she doesn't care about the treasure, so why not work together? Claire says they can have the treasure, and Snotty agrees.
Cainan Sheriff's Office. HRG and Tracy are leading Jeremy out in slow-motion, so you know something dramatic is about to happen. They wouldn't want to surprise us or anything. They step outside into a crowd of protesters and hillbillies. Some big guy jumps out of the crowd and Jeremy touches him and the guy falls and dies. HRG pleads with Jeremy to save the guy, but Cornpone Sheriff tells Jeremy he's going back into the jail, where he belongs, adding, "You know what you did to your mama and daddy." Jeremy turns and walks willingly back into the station and HRG yells, "Jeremy!" Tracy looks distraught. It's all still in slow-motion so you know you're supposed to feel how dramatic and poignant it is. But it's not. Commercials.
Back inside the sheriff's office, HRG tells Cornpone Sheriff that he doesn't understand the first thing about what's happening. Cornpone Sheriff says he doesn't care what's happening; he just knows that three people are dead and that boy, whatever he is, is responsible. Tracy asks if she can talk to him, and Cornpone Sheriff says they're both done talking to him. A couple of Cornpone Deputies are leading Jeremy out of a car, in shackles, taunting him that killers don't go free. Cornpone Sheriff finds his cell empty and asks on the radio where he is. He says, "Do you read me, Gil?" And we hear that on the radios of the cops with Jeremy. Dramatic music starts, and Jeremy looks stoic, staring straight ahead at Gil, who asks Jeremy to give him his best shot, a reason, as he points his gun at him. Jeremy gets teary and holds his hands back and then drops them to his sides. Gil tells Jeremy he's not normal and doesn't belong here, as the other officer drives away with one end of the chain around Jeremy's legs tied to his bumper.
Parkman's. He's getting drunker and drunker and Sylon's disappearing. He's telling Sylon about the alcohol he's drinking, which he bought on an anniversary with Janice to Ensenada. Parkman think it's poetic he's using it to bury Sylon, but I don't really see the poetry in that. I'm not sure Parkman knows what poetry is. Sylon asks if he's burying him or drowning the truth. Parkman wonders what truth: that Sylon's nothing but a figment of his imagination. Sylon struggles as he's disappearing to blurt out that Janice left because she can't stand the sight of Matt. He says that she asked him in front of the fire last night, "Why can't you be more like this all the time?" Matt tells Sylon he and Janice will have a beautiful life together when he's gone. Sylon asks why Parkman can't accept his power, instead insisting on fitting in and being forgettable. Sylon passes out, and Parkman finishes off the bottle until Sylon fully disappears. Then Parkman passes out, right after Janice comes back with Rick Worthy, and he tells her he really did it. She and Rick look at each other, all, "Did what? Drank all of the alcohol in the house?"
Slaughterhouse. The foursome come to another corner with two choices: kill house or prep room. Snotty decides kill house sounds more dangerous, so she and Ditzy will take that one. Ditzy says she thought they were sticking together, but Snotty's like, "No way." They head into kill house. Gretchen wants to check prep room real quick, saying they'll catch up to the others. They go inside, where there are sharp hooks hanging everywhere. They find a pink bear hanging on a hook and Gretchen says, "Well, we won. Kind of." She says she's going to go get Paris and Nicole, and Claire laughs. Gretchen tells Claire she gets why Claire wants to run from her freaky world and lead a normal life. She says she's sorry she got all relationshippy on her, since the last thing she needs right now is... Claire interrupts, "I need you. Trust me." Then the hooks behind Gretchen start to move and Claire looks worried. Gretchen's like, "What?" Then a rope or chain is put around Gretchen's neck and Claire runs over and is knocked down. She picks up a stick and hits the area behind Gretchen with it, so Gretchen's released. Claire watches the moving hooks, which is silly considering that Gretchen and Claire walked through the room just fine without moving the hooks so much, and Becky's just as tiny as them. But I guess they needed it for effect here. Something throws Claire against a wall onto a sharp stake sticking out of it. Gretchen, still gasping, says, "God, Claire." But Claire has a hook in her hand and swings it hard, knocking Becky down and back into visibility, which is pretty awesome. She looks up at Claire, and touches her wound. Claire just glares at her. Ditzy and Snotty come in to find them all there, with Claire hanging on the spike like ... something in a slaughterhouse. Snotty's like, "Becky?" And Becky gets up to run away. Claire yells for them to grab her, but a) they're not competent and b) she goes invisible and pushes them aside as she leaves. Ditzy and Snotty are in shock. Claire's like, "A little help, please?" And Gretchen pulls her down, despite the other girls' protests. She heals and Ditzy asks what's happening. Gretchen looks at Claire and asks what they're going to do.
Georgia. Tracy and Bennet are driving at night, when they see something in the road. She tells him to stop and they get out to find Jeremy's bloody corpse, where he's been dragged through the street to rest here. Do you get it? These hillbillies are bigots who are prejudiced against him because he's different? I am offended on behalf of anyone who's different (women, other races, gays, little people, carnies) that this show would want us to feel the same type of sympathy for people who use their abilities to kill (accidentally or otherwise) as any other victim of a hate crime. Tracy cries that Jeremy needed a home. She's buying into Samuel's sales pitch, at least. Maybe she'll be joining the bad side again. Commercials. Another episode of Slow Burn. In this one, Lydia's daughter shows up at the carnival, and when Lydia wonders how she found her, she says her picture on her Sprint phone was geotagged, so it was no problem. Hey, someone should tell the cops looking for Sylar that that's all they need to do to find the carnival! She wonders why Lydia's ashamed of her, and Lydia says it's dangerous here and she's trying to protect her. But her daughter, Amanda, says she feels normal for the first time in her life. Then a fire starts up. The end.
Georgia. Tracy's walking to her car in a huff, and Bennet's following, apologizing. She says this was supposed to be simple: She was supposed to walk in and sign him out. He says he thought he could manage it, and she wonders how: by hiding him away for the rest of his life. He tells her he stood on Jeremy's porch and told him he wouldn't let him down. She points out he did anyway. "We did." He says he did what he thought was right and he was wrong. He's been wrong all these years. She wonders if they have to be invisible, or if he thinks they can ever just live out in the open. He says not after today. She tells him not to call her ever again and gets in her car. He walks off, and she grabs the compass out of her bag. It spins and then stops, telling her where to find the carnival.
Parkman's. Matt's waking up from his passout with a big-ol' hangover. He greets Janice sweetly, and Rick Worthy says he gave them quite a scare. He says he knows and is sorry, but he just had to see if he could, um, and he looks around for what we assume is Sylon. He says he's much better now and Rick Worthy gives him a one-day chip. He says it's time to start over from the beginning. Matt agrees and thanks them both. Janice hugs him and tells him she loves him. He says she'll love him more after he showers, and gets up to go take one. As he walks away, he throws an apple in the air, and when he catches it, clocks are ticking and he's Sylon, having taken over Matt's body. He turns a corner and we see Matt, who must be the Sylon now. Sylon says the second Matt blacked out, he slipped in and is in the driver's seat now. Matt-Sylon tells him he'll never get away with this, and Sylon-as-Matt says he already has as he takes a bite of an apple and laughs evilly. Janice watches sadly as her husband laughs and talks to himself. Rick Worthy just rubs her back comfortingly.
Georgia. Samuel arrives and sees Jeremy's blood staining the street. He watches some men walk into the police station. He raises his arms as the earth rumbles and the whole station crashes to the ground. As it falls to the ground in a huge crash, he turns and walks away. Proving Andy Samberg right once again: "Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions." Whose side are we supposed to be on here? The hillbillies? Samuel's? HRG's? Lydia's? And are we supposed to factor in Lydia's fear in Slow Burn? And, if so, should I be watching the online-only episodes?
time: We finally get the continuation of Hiro arriving at the Burnt Toast Diner as he sees Charlie. This time, Samuel's there, though, telling him not to change history. And then old Sylar shows up to kill her. Am I the only one excited Jayma Mays is back on this show, despite her work on that much better one? I always loved Charlie and Hiro, so I'm glad we might get him some closure on that. Although is actual closure a possibility on Heroes, on which they bring back characters who have been dead, by going back in time, giving them a triplet, or having a shapeshifter shift into them?
DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, is finding herself rooting for Samuel. You can contact her at twopmodmars@gmail.com.
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