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It could be that there have been so many truly awful episodes that it's become hard to judge, but I think they might have knocked this one out of the park. Or at least to the edge of the field. At any rate, Hiro heads back in time to Season 1 and the Burnt Toast Diner and Charlie this episode, and everyone else who's in the episode follows suit, more or less. Hiro spends the episode trying to right the wrong of letting Charlie die. He freezes time when Sylar's going to kill her and then puts him in the cargo hold of a Greyhound bus (hee), but when he realizes Charlie's aneurysm is rupturing, he gets Sylar to fix it in exchange for information about his own future. Sylar is able to carry this out without opening her brain, which makes me wonder why he has to cut open people's skulls to see their brains for his own purposes. And he doesn't save Hiro by fixing his tumor, which I was hoping would happen. But it's still as good as this show's been in ages. Samuel follows Hiro back three years and, just when Hiro and Charlie are going to get their happily ever after, he takes her away and traps her in time so that Hiro will help him go back eight weeks -- season premiere, anyone -- and undo his wrongs. We jump back eight weeks and see what looks very much like a dead Mohinder!
In other three-years-ago news, Bennet had a hot partner played by Elisabeth Rohm. I'm struggling to figure out what her power was, since we know that she had to be a hero in order to be his partner, right? They had secret rendezvous at the Burnt Toast Diner, and then she got a hotel room. Bennet liked her back, but after a pre-homecoming heart-to-heart with Claire, he told Elisabeth that his family is too important to him and he loves them too much. But he still needs Elisabeth as his partner to help bring Sylar down (not sure why we never saw her before if that's the case, though). Then he goes back to work and Elisabeth gives him a package. He thinks she's being coy, but then he reads it and it's a note from her, telling him she's had the Haitian wipe her memories of her feelings for him. He gets teary, then heads back to Burnt Toast for a heart-to-heart with Future Hiro.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: A lot of stuff happened, starting three years ago when this show was good. Hiro loved Charlie, and after Samuel told him to right the wrongs of his past he realized he needed to go see her again. Then he disappeared two episodes ago and ended up at the Burnt Toast Diner.
We open on a country song and our episode chyron: "Chapter Seven: "Once Upon A Time in Texas." Hiro appears in his hospital gown and walks through the chyron. He gazes in the window of the Burnt Toast Diner at Charlie "Three Years Ago." A woman walks in and tells Hiro he has a nice butt, helping him suddenly realize he's still in the gown. He heads into a yard with a clothesline and steals some things, including a Knight Rider T-shirt. A kid in cowboy gear points a toy gun at him and tells him he's stealing his daddy's clothes. Hiro apologizes, but explains he's here to save the life of the woman he loves, but the boy doesn't believe in love. Hiro explains his story to the kid: Boy meets girl, falls in love, she dies, he travels through time to try to save her. We get flashes back to these things actually happening in Season 1. He says he did everything he could to try to save her, but life isn't a fairy tale: "The brain man" always killed her. He says letting Charlie die was his greatest failure. The kid follows Hiro to the diner and asks what a brain man is. Hiro doesn't answer, but just says he'll defeat him because he's the good guy. The kid puts his white cowboy hat on Hiro and says good guys wear white hats and bad guys wear black hats. Sylar shows up in his black baseball cap. But he's three-years-ago Sylar, so he doesn't recognize Hiro. Sylar goes inside and sits down at one of Charlie's tables, and the kid whispers, "He was wearing a black hat." Hiro: "Uh-oh." What? Did he not see this coming? Title card.
Carnival. "Present Day." Samuel tells Lydia the Tattooed Lady that Arnold is dying, and it could happen tonight. They need Hiro now, and since Samuel put him on a journey, it's not going to be easy to get him to stop it and come live with them. Lydia the Tattooed Lady tells Samuel that he could convince an apple that it's an orange. Which would be helpful when dealing with an apple that's insecure about its apple identity, I guess? Samuel doesn't know how he'll convince Hiro he's an orange. Or part of this family. Or whatever they're trying to be all dramatic about. Lydia the Tattooed Lady says "Desperate times, desperate measures. And all of that." Samuel touches Lydia's back with his pen and Charlie shows up on it. She explains who Charlie is, and that she died three years ago. He sees this as an opportunity, but Lydia's not done showing him stuff. She also shows him HRG, Claire and Sylar, all connected by a ribbon of ink. She wonders how he's going to get back there, and he says he's going to have to ask Arnold to help him again, which apparently will kill him, so he tells Lydia they all have sacrifices and quotes herself back at her: "Desperate times, desperate measures, and all that."
Burnt Toast Diner in the past again. Hiro hides behind a newspaper and watches Charlie go to Sylar's table. Charlie pours Sylar coffee and comments on his watch, then tells him that her brain's been remembering a lot of stuff lately. She's her very own Wikipedia. Sylar looks interested, and starts quizzing her about who won the Nobel Peace Prize in various years. Then he asks about the most common cause of death, and the best thing on the menu. She answers everything sweetly, until he asks if she thinks the photographic memory is because of the blood clot in her brain. She wonders how he knows, and he says he also has a gift: seeing things, and fixing them if they're broken. He says one look at her and he can see, then makes an explosion sound at her. When did Sylar become a parody of himself? Charlie's clearly rattled as she walks back by Hiro, who's hiding behind the paper again. Samuel appears and tells him it's a smart move to hide like that. But I don't get it, because Charlie hasn't met him yet, has she? Hiro remembers him from the carnival, and calls him "butterfly man." Samuel says they need to talk and leads him out, right past HRG, who's on the phone bickering with Sandra about missing homecoming.
As HRG wraps up his phone call by saying he'll pick up Greenies for Muggles, three-years-ago Hiro and Ando walk in and sit down at a booth. Then Elisabeth Rohm comes in, rubs HRG on the shoulder and says she's sorry she's late. She says traffic was actually a bitch; "homecoming hooray!" I don't even understand what that means. Elisabeth, whose name here is Lauren, tells HRG she can tell he's been talking to Sandra and arguing because he has some line on his face that's tell-tale. He snaps that he wishes he could tell Sandra the truth of why he's going to miss homecoming: that he's trying to catch a deranged killer with superpowers and trying to save Claire. Lauren agrees that the lying sucks. I know I said in the recap that Lauren and HRG were partners, but I think they're just co-workers who meet for coffee or whatever at the Burnt Toast Diner, and not partners at all. I still don't get why this storyline happened when we could have had something actually interesting happen instead that might help fill in something in the past and/or the present instead of this filler in what's otherwise a good episode. But I can't ask for too much good in one episode. That would require yet another remake of this show. Lauren says she uses PMS as an excuse, but HRG doesn't think that would work for him. He tells her how nice it is to have a friend he can talk to and be open with. She wonders if that's what that is, since she'd call it flirting. He says it's not, but she says they've been doing this twice a week, and the pancakes aren't that good. He agrees they're not. She tells him she booked a motel room and gives him the key. They look at each other and then he gets a phone call. It's Eden with the Sylar paintings. Lauren says she'll meet him at the office. He walks past Charlie, Hiro, Ando, and Sylar on his way out.
The present-day Hiro is hiding in the back with Samuel, who's watching everything with interest. Hiro is quizzing him on whether he's a time traveler, too, and if he's following him. Samuel says the question is what is Hiro doing here. He says he's here to save Charlie, and Samuel wonders why. Hiro reminds Samuel that he's the one who told him to right the wrongs of his life by stepping on the right butterflies. And Charlie? She's the biggest butterfly. She's Mothra! Except that I thought we determined the first time that this wasn't a wrong Hiro caused and that he couldn't stop it, no matter what? Otherwise, wouldn't he have gone back and done this before? Samuel says he's trying to protect Hiro, because this isn't a spilled slushy. This is something more, and everyone was on a particular path. He has him look at his past self so he gets it. He says Sylar, Peter, and Claire were all on their particular paths, too. Samuel tells him that one wrong move can change everything, and wonders if Charlie's actually worth that. Hiro says she is, and turns around to find her gone. Sylar's gone too.
In the back room, Charlie's opening her giant jar of fruit salad. Sylar's hiding behind a shelf but she doesn't see him. He raises his finger to start the head cutting when time freezes. Hiro comes in and looks at frozen Charlie, then turns and looks at frozen Sylar, exasperated. After a break for commercials, Hiro's wheeling frozen Sylar out past frozen everyone else on a dolly. He actually has Sylar duct-taped to it, so he did some quick work during our commercial break. It's still funny to watch Hiro do this. Hiro puts Sylar into the cargo hold of a bus as he tells him he has to stay on his path and Peter has to stop him to make everything in the future stay normal. So he'll just leave him here. We get a funny shot of Sylar's frozen head in with suitcases, but you can't help but wonder how long it will take a guy with Sylar's abilities to get out of this bind once Hiro restarts time. Inside, Hiro's nervous and checks himself out in the mirror to make sure he looks presentable for the love of his life before restarting time so she can see him. He gives himself a little pep talk, in which he tells himself in Japanese not to be nervous since he's going to be "awesome-charming-super-cool." Hee. I miss this Hiro, who's still sort of silly but not just a total waste of time and space (ironic, since he's supposedly the master of those things). As he goes to restart time, he reminds himself that if Charlie doesn't die, he doesn't go back to save her, and they don't fall in love. "Great-oh Scott." He runs out to see Ando sitting alone, and then he sees Charlie's birthday photo without him in it. He looks at Samuel.
In the bathroom, Hiro finds past Hiro. When he tells him he's from the future, past Hiro is like, "Ah! Like Peter Petrelli saw on the subway train. Where's your sword?" Oh, but I have so many more questions than that, Hiro. First of all, why didn't that Hiro come to pass? Is that only the Hiro that would happen if they didn't save the world in Season 1? But, back to that scene, why did Hiro tell Peter he looks different without his scar as if he'd never seen him without it when we know they know each other? Was that also only if the Season 1 world-saving hadn't come to pass? I'm going to pretend that's the case so I can stop caring about why. Past Hiro is here to save the cheerleader, but present Hiro tells him she will be fine, and he actually needs to save the waitress, who's dead. He won't let past Hiro see her, but he sends him back six months to find Charlie. He tells him she's MJ to their Spidey. Present Hiro tries to be all serious about it (as if it's possible to be this serious when telling someone that a woman is MJ to your Spidey) and tells him what to do, then calls him a moron after he goes back. He looks at the picture of Charlie's birthday and he's with her now. Hiro "Yatta!"s.
Bennet's at Primatech. Pixie (Nora Zehetner taking time from her Grey's schedule to reappear) leads him into Isaac's room and introduces them to each other. HRG and Isaac talk about all of Isaac's paintings of Claire and about Sylar and powers. It's all very repetitive if you saw the first season. Basically, though, HRG wants to know what Sylar looks like, so he needs Isaac to paint him. He whines about how Claire came along right when he and Sandra were having problems conceiving a child. He tearily tells Isaac this is his daughter they're talking about.
In a break room of some sort at Primatech, HRG throws something on the ground to show us how angry he is. So, apparently, Isaac refused the drugs or whatever it took for him to paint Sylar. Lauren comes in and tells HRG she was eavesdropping and heard everything. She walks right up close to him and tells him she had no idea. OF WHAT? That Claire is the cheerleader? Lauren tells him they'll handle this together, and then she kisses him. He kisses her back, but then pushes her away, so she calls herself an ass and apologizes. She tells him homecoming isn't for thirty-seven hours. She says they're made of time and will nail this guy. She tells him to pretend this never happened and jokes that she's Haitianing him. He says no, don't do that: He wants to remember.
Burnt Toast Diner. Hiro comes out of the bathroom and touches his head so we don't forget he has a painful tumor. Samuel asks him if everything's okay, and Hiro actually replies, "A-OK, Cowboy." Then Samuel asks him why he looks like the cat who ate the canary. (What is with all of the stupid sayings?) Hiro shows him the birthday picture and says he did it! "No kablooey!" Samuel says he's getting why Hiro's going to all this trouble, and then reminds him he should probably fill Ando in since he sent past Hiro away. Hiro sits down with Ando and tells him he's "Future Hiro." Ando wonders about the sword, and Hiro's like, "Enough with the sword!" (I think they're talking to fans who have been wondering when we'd get that non-accented Samurai Hiro.) He tells Ando that past Hiro's six months in the past but will be here soon, and Ando needs to wait for him. He says he will. Hiro goes to the back room to talk to Charlie, who greets him warmly. They hug, and she says he's acting like he hasn't seen her in forever. He tells her to pick a place and they'll go there. Her trip around the world starts today. He doesn't want to spend another minute apart from her. He asks where they're going. She laughs, and then decides Otsu, Japan, since that's where Takezo Kinsei was born. She spouts a bunch of her Wikipedia brain facts at him and then sort of freezes muttering them. Hiro yells, "Charlie," and she snaps out of it. She wonders what she was saying and starts to fall. She explains in more Wikipedia terms what's going on: Her aneurysm is rupturing, and she's dying. He tells her not yet.
He arrives back at the Greyhound station where he left Sylar and opens up the cargo hold. Surprisingly, Sylar's not in there anymore. But he pushes Hiro up against the bus and steps into the background, taking us to commercial. When we're back, Sylar asks who Hiro is and what he did to him. Hiro says he heard Sylar say he can fix things that are broken, and he needs her to fix Charlie. Hiro says Charlie's dying, and Sylar says Hiro's dying first. Hiro freezes time and moves away, then unfreezes it and tells Sylar he can't kill him, "brain man." He gives chase and Sylar follows him. They stand in an alley, all Western face-off, and Sylar lifts his hand again to take Hiro's power, but Hiro freezes time again and moves behind Sylar before unfreezing. He does it again and when he unfreezes, he tells Sylar that if he kills him, he'll never learn about his own future: his life and death. Sylar says he knows he's lying now, since he's about to get Claire's power of invincibility/immortality (which is it, anyway?). Hiro says he'll tell him everything he knows if he'll help him save Charlie. Sylar notices Hiro's tumor. Then some cheerleaders run by behind them.
Back at Burnt Toast Diner, the lady who told Hiro his butt was cute earlier is sitting with Charlie in the back room when Hiro and Sylar come in. The lady says Charlie's not doing well, and then Hiro introduces Sylar as a doctor. Sylar agrees, and Hiro swears he'll help her. The lady leaves. Hiro asks if Sylar can take the aneurysm out, and Sylar says it's not a problem. "It's like balling a melon." How cool would it be if he used an actual melon-baller? He says he usually prefers a more invasive style. Hiro tells Sylar that if Charlie dies, he dies too. Charlie tells Hiro she's okay with it being her time and he doesn't have to do this, but he says they're meant to be together. Sylar tells her to stay still, but she shakes and speaks Japanese. Hiro speaks Japanese back to her, telling her that his favorite Japanese poet was Ryokan, who wrote a famous haiku: "The thief left it behind; the moon at my window." Uh, how is that a haiku? He goes on that they have their love no matter what, and no thief or illness can take that. Sylar pinches his fingers together and she bleeds from the eye. She says she's fine, and Sylar did it. Hiro wipes her blood tear. Sylar looks serious. I know I already said this in the recaplet, but if he can do that without cutting her head open, why can't he take powers the same way? If he can see tumors and aneurysms inside people's heads and even be able to mess with them through skulls -- all of which I believe, I guess -- he shouldn't have to kill them or cut their heads open to read their brains. Should he?
Cheerleaders are cheering. One of them is Claire, with a long fake ponytail so that we know it's the past. She sees HRG standing across the street and runs over to him. He says he's there to watch her cheer since he might miss homecoming tomorrow. She says she was going to eat with the girls, but she'd love to grab a bite with him. So they sit on a bench to a giant plastic ice cream sundae and talk. She wonders if everything is okay at work, and he asks why she'd think something's wrong. She asks if he loves selling paper, and he says he likes it a lot. She's sorry, but she just can't imagine he grew up wanting to sell paper. She's right: Only Michael Scott would consider that a dream job. He says she's right, so she asks what he wanted to do. She gives him a "Pleeeeease," so he says he wanted to teach high school English, specifically Shakespeare. She wonders what he knows about that, and he quotes some: "Now fair, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon, but, o, methinks how slow this old moon wanes..." Claire asks if it's Romeo and Juliet, but it's of course A Midsummer Night's Dream. He tells her it's all about falling in and out of love. She laughs that he's a drama geek, and tells him she thinks he should teach. He can wait until she graduates (who cares about Lyle, right?), but he should do it. She wants him happy. He says he is happy, and doesn't think he'll teach. The other cheerleaders call for Claire, and she tells him she loves him and leaves. He looks at the hotel key in his pocket.
Diner. Hiro's asking if Charlie's sure she's okay, and she says she is. Sylar's finally eating the pancakes he ordered. He says he's sorry to interrupt this Hallmark moment, but he and Hiro had a deal. Now he wants to know everything he knows. This is the part where Hiro needs to negotiate to have Sylar fix his own tumor, right? But, no, he just tells Sylar that he'll tell him how he dies: "Alone. I'm sorry." Sylar wonders what the hell that's supposed to mean, and Hiro tells him he'll collect a lot of powers and become strong, but in the end, it won't matter because they all gather to stop him and he's alone. "No one will mourn your death. No one will shed a tear. No one." Hiro wishes he could change fate, but Sylar must go on his path. He sends him back to the alley (so, Hiro can control this power, or he can't? This episode isn't making that very clear), where the cheerleaders are running by again. Sylar puts on his baseball cap and heads toward them with a smirk. I am confused as to whether Hiro actually thinks Sylar is dead. It's not possible that he didn't see him or know that he didn't die in the entire last two seasons, is it? I realize he's been off in his own times and worlds a lot, but didn't he know that Sylar survived the first season finale?
Lauren's drinking in the hotel room of things that I am going to pretend never happened (BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T) when HRG comes in and asks for a drink himself. She pours him one, and they both start speaking. He tells her he can't do this as she says she's glad they came. Then he tells her workplace romances aren't smart, but she asks him not to blame it on the job, since that's what he does with Sandra and Claire, not her. Maybe he should try blaming it on, oh, I don't know ... HIS MARRIAGE. She says she knows about workplace stuff, but this isn't supply-closet, bored sex. He cares about her. He agrees that he does and touches her face. Oh god, this never happened. She tells him they are such good liars that they've convinced themselves everything is okay, but it's not. "Taking the long way home. Having that extra beer with dinner." What on earth is she talking about? Are these the excuses they use? Or ... ? Not that it matters, since this didn't actually happen. She asks if they don't deserve a little happiness. He sits to her on the bed and says he loves his family, even though it's complicated and he lies to them. He hopes one day he can tell them the truth and he doesn't want to destroy that possibility. "And that is the truth." She knows that. He tells her she's a great agent. She says, "I can bag and tag with the rest of them. I'm a regular rodeo queen." Seriously, what is with the dialogue in this episode. Rodeo queen? Really? He tells her he needs her help with Sylar and Claire. She nods, "Of course." She says she'll always be there to help. Except in every other episode of this show.
Present Hiro's watching Charlie through the Burnt Toast Diner window when Ando comes out to ask if everything is okay. He says everything is fine, and he needs to just keep waiting. He sends him back inside, as Charlie comes out. She looks upset, and tells him she has a knot in her gut. He says he'll untie it, but she says he's the one who put it there. She says she was okay with dying, but this feels like cheating. Plus, he says Sylar's going to kill a lot of people and she wonders how he can let that happen. He says he had to preserve the time-space continuum, but she points out that he didn't since he saved her. He gets frustrated and says this is their happily ever after, and they're going to Otsu. He looks so heartbroken that it breaks my heart more than a little. Charlie tells him thousands of people die every day -- young, old, accidents, murders. Why is she different? He says, "Because I love you." She tells him that's just selfish and leaves.
Primatech break room. HRG's reading newspapers when Lauren comes in and formally hands him an envelope. She says she found it on her desk, and thinks someone delivered it by mistake. He opens it and a hotel key falls out. She asks if he plans on staying at the Midland Motel. He looks at her, then gets up and quietly asks if they're pretending they've never been to the Burnt Toast Diner. She looks confused and asks if everything's okay. Then he opens the paper that was in the envelope with the key. It says, "Noah, Gone Haitian. Wiped my memory. Better this way. More professional. Love, Lauren." She apparently doesn't believe in complete sentences. He smiles sadly to himself and tells her, yeah, everything's okay. He says it was his mistake, since he thought he saw her at the diner. She tells him to have a good night and leaves. He looks a little tearful, but no one cares. Because this never happened. I remember Season 1, and she wasn't there. Commercials, including the latest episode of Slow Burn, in which some guy's showing Amanda (Lydia's daughter) around the carnival. She thinks it's incredible. When the guy leans toward her, Edgar threatens him with a knife and sends Amanda back to her mother.
Burnt Toast Diner. Hiro sits down at the bar and says, "Beer please." Then clarifies: "Root." He looks sad, and says in Japanese, "It's over." HRG replies in Japanese and asks if he knows him. Hiro says, "No." Then ... "Not yet." HRG wonders what's wrong, and Hiro says he might have ruined his chance at true love. HRG quotes more of A Midsummer Night's Dream: "The course of true love never did run smooth." Hiro smiles and then HRG says "It's a messy business, friend," in Japanese, and wishes him luck. Charlie comes back in and apologizes for being terrible after he risked his life for her. He tells her he understands why she thinks he's selfish, but he knows the world is a better place with her in it. She thanks him for saving her, and he does this cute, "Aww, shucks, ma'am. It was no trouble," and pretends to tip his hat. She tells him she was trying to make one thousand origami cranes. Then, in Japanese, she says she wants them to have their happy ending. She tells him she loves him. They kiss, and it's very sweet. It's so sweet that the first time I watched this episode and wrote the recaplet, I thought this episode was better than it was. In actuality, it's a lot of stuff that throws off the actual storylines that happened three years ago and then this one sweet thing. He says "Happily. Ever. After." She says "Let's go," and he follows her out the door.
Out front, she's not there, but Samuel is. He tells Hiro he's done something very bad. He's taken Charlie. He had to. He says he took her to the carnival. Hiro cries and wonders why. Samuel says it's all been about getting to Hiro. Samuel tells Hiro he'll have to dig deep and take control and take them to the present if he wants to see her again. Hiro angrily pushes Samuel up against a building, and then they're in the carnival. Samuel congratulates him on gaining control back. As opposed to when he kept freezing time and when he sent Sylar to the alley earlier, right? Hiro asks where Charlie is, but Samuel says she's not exactly here. Hiro looks around at all of the freaks from the carnival, who are circled around watching. Hiro asks where Charlie is, but no one says anything. They all just look at him as if he's the crazy one. Maybe they should take a look in all those funhouse mirrors.
Hiro goes into a trailer and finds Arnold dead. Samuel explains he was a time traveler just like Hiro, and he had a tumor, too, because his body couldn't stand the strain. Samuel says the last thing he asked of Arnold was to trap Charlie somewhere in time, which killed him. Hiro calls Samuel a murderer, and he says, "Yeah." Hiro asks where Charlie is, but Samuel won't tell him because then he'd have nothing to keep him here. He says Hiro has too much honor. (Is that even a problem? Too much honor?) Samuel says he respects him, but he had to do something to get him to work for him, to fix his past. Hiro wonders why him, since he already had a time traveler. Samuel says that if anyone here found out about his transgressions, all the good work he's done would unravel. Hiro says Samuel's not butterfly man; he's evil butterfly man. Samuel throws Charlie's nametag at Hiro, and says he's the only one who knows where she is, and he can save her, but only if he'll do exactly as Samuel asks him to do. He says he has his own butterflies that need crushing.
Samuel says he made a mistake, about eight weeks ago. Hey! That's when the show started. I will agree that many mistakes were made then and have been made since, though I'm not ready to blame Samuel as long as the writing staff of this show is still employed. "Eight Weeks Ago." Samuel -- who looks like he's from a biker gang or something, with greasy, slicked-down hair and a completely different wardrobe -- looks panicky and whispers that he's so sorry as a fire starts burning in an apartment. When we see what he's looking at it's Mohinder. Lying on the floor. He looks dead, and his apartment's burning up. So, yay! We'll get yet another character on this show who dies and then is brought back through someone's power. I just love it when that happens. The stakes are so high when there's no such thing as death. Sylar looks like he's possibly wearing a bullet-proof vest, which has been shot multiple times. Maybe. It's hard to tell, but there's something all over his chest, which looks might puffed up. We zoom in on his face and get our "To be continued..." Which, with this show, means it will probably be continued in two weeks or more.
time: Whatever power Peter has is draining out of him and then coming back. Emma's concerned, and thinks maybe he shouldn't use it. Peter: "And be ordinary?" Becky and HRG have a standoff, in which she says this is actually all about him. He says she's not going to hurt his daughter, and she says she's going to hurt them both. Sylon-in-Matt picks up a crowbar and threatens the Matt Sylon, but then uses it to kill a man. Which, of course, means Matt's body did the crime. But another lesson I've learned from this show: Crimes committed don't matter for our heroes. There is no law enforcement on Heroes other than the bumbling idiocy of Matt Parkman.
DeAnn, a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon, will never believe Lauren exists. You can try to convince her otherwise via email: twopmodmars@gmail.com.