HEROES – Landslide, Chapter 22

TELEVISION Things are moving pretty fast towards next week’s season finale. And most of our heroes are meeting up in New York. There were four possible deaths in the episode. Linderman shot DL, who was actually still alive and suddenly appeared from behind to shove his hand inside of Linderman’s head, killing him. DL probably is not dead since we saw Sylar with his power in the future. But the future we saw may be changed. And it could change several more times!
Too bad Linderman could only heal and not regenerate himself like Claire. But he did heal Nathan’s wheelchair-bound wife---but not before giving us info on Papa Petrelli, saying he had great powers but gave up. I wonder what they could have been. Maybe it had more to do with the controlling Mama Petrelli putting him down than giving up. We’ll see.
It’s kind of funny that Molly is the location-tracking system that HRG and Matt were looking for. Will Matt realize that she is the same girl he rescued in Chapter 2? I cracked up when Jessica said to Matt: "Didn’t I throw you out a window?" But what I didn’t see coming was HRG shooting Thompson.
It’s voting day here in Philadelphia, so how coincidental it was to see Micah change the voting machines, making Nathan win by a landslide! Micah’s comment to Candice about her eating habits made me realize that she is probably not the pretty brunette we’ve seen and is probably more like the plump African-American woman she turns into later on.
Hiro called Nathan a villain, but he didn’t realize that it was Sylar he saw in the future impersonating Nathan. It was fun watching Mr. Nakamura, George Takai, teaching his son Hiro how to wield a sword and defend himself. But what happened to Ando? He certainly can’t save the future. Hiro hopefully will save him but I don’t think Hiro is tough enough to fight Sylar.
Sylar, using the name of the deceased Isaac Mendez, tipped off the cops and Agent Hanson of the location of Ted, who was then arrested. Sylar later flipped over the police van, opened the back door and saw Ted still strapped to his seat and conveniently hanging upside. I get so creeped out when Sylar magically slices the heads open, as he did with Ted. (Did you see the promo with a bloody Peter Petrelli?) But Sylar seems to have no remorse, especially since his mother isn’t around to create guilt. And he looked very pleased with his newly acquired power as he stood on the building overlooking the city. Still, I’m not sure that there will still be an explosion, and definitely don’t think the future will be the same as we’ve already seen.

NBC just renewed "Heroes" for a 24-episode second season, plus a separate six-episode show detailing character backgrounds, called "Heroes: Origins."