HEROES - The Hard Part, Chapter 21

TELEVISION Hiro and Ando find Isaac’s dead body at the newly inhabited Sylar apartment. Sylar knows they’re there, and can hear their heartbeats. But Hiro performs a quick escape and they move several doors down, watching and following Sylar to his mother’s home. When Hiro eventually meets Sylar face to face, you knew that Sylar was going to moves those eyes. Hiro can’t kill him so performs his disappearing act again. He doesn’t want to be a killer like Future Hiro, but it’s what he must become. Sylar breaks Hiro’s sword, but Future Hiro’s sword shows no signs of breakage. This is most likely the result of Hiro spinning right round (like a record baby, right round, round, round) through time and space.

Parents play such a huge part shaping and influencing their children. The most interesting scenario in this episode was watching Sylar shave and dress more conservatively to go visit his mother. She lives in Queens, collects snow globes, and is the only one we’ve heard who calls him Gabriel. Did you notice the picture of little Gabriel? It looked as if they slapped Groucho Marx eyebrows on the boy! Mother Sylar’s desire for him to be ‘special’, or president, has created a conflict within him. He’s happy to be a clockmaker, but wanting to please his mother seems to have fed his need to gather as many powers as he can (and possibly, becoming president.) But this creates conflict for him as he shows off his powers and wanting to please her by creating a snow globe effect right in the living room. But it results in his mother saying he is damned and ultimately getting stabbed by him with a pair of scissors. We finally see Sylar drawing a picture of the predicted explosion with her blood. Have you noticed that Sylar’s drawing style is different from Isaac’s?

Suresh meets a new hero named Molly Walker, and sees a photo of his sister, who (supposedly) died in 1974, for the first time. Can Suresh actually help Molly with his antibodies? We’re told Molly can stop Sylar. We’ll see about that. She gives Suresh a picture of a drawn star to protect him.

Micah finally caught onto Candice, but was trapped in the merry-go-round of rooms when he tried to escape. Another interesting tidbit was when Micah said he didn’t like Linderman because he smelled. Smelled of what?

Mrs. Petrelli seems to be the one fueling Nathan’s desire to become president, and echoes of The Manchurian Candidate are unavoidable. She says Linderman has cold feet and that the bomb won’t heal the world. She asks him: “Can you be the one we need?”

Funny moment when Claire learns Nathan can fly!

We ended with Peter’s hands glowing as he is taking on Ted’s power. I’m hoping that Parkman will be the only one to blow up during the explosion. I like him less every week and wouldn’t miss him. He has a cool power, but it’s a 50-50 split between the character as a frustrating dingbat and bad acting.

The graphic novel, “Walls” Part 1, at the following link fills in the blanks about how Peter and Niki meet up in the future.
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=31