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Thompson tells Bennet that Bennet’s death is iminent; he is only waiting for the order. Thompson expresses disdain at how Bennet has betrayed the company.

Linderman reveals his healing superpowers to Nathan by reanimating a dead plant. Linderman tells a story of his early years, when he and other with power tried to help the world, but some of them lost their way. Linderman favors the armageddon scenario, with Nathan as the leader last standing who rallies humanity from the ashes. Linderman gives Nathan an ‘after’ painting showing the successful candidate.

Cell to cell, Bennet communicates telepathically with Matt, compelling him to take action before it is too late. Matt loosens a pipe, knocks out the guard and steals his pass, and proceeds into the hallway.

At Mohinder’s apartment, Peter initially neutralizes Sylar, but Sylar wins the battle by flinging glass shards that find and knock out the invisible man. But Mohinder gets the jump on Sylar and knocks him out.

Claire’s grandmother fills her in on her family tree of two half-brothers (Nathan and Peter). She also insists that Claire hide away in Paris until she is old enough to make her own decision about whether to return to the other superheroes and use her powers.

Sylar comes to and discovers a photo of Isaac. Presumably he is headed there next.

Isaac delivers the next installment of his comic book to a messenger who is also an avid fan. Isaac also gives him his sketchbook and requests that he hold onto it.

D.L. tells Niki that he is taking Micah away from her to protect him. She’s not too happy buy has no real response. Their ‘discussion’ is interrupted when two of Linderman’s associate show up and request that Niki return with them.

Telepathically, Bennet leads Matt to free Ted Sprague as well, just as Thompson discovers Matt’s escape and the alarm bells sound.

Mohinder brings Peter’s deceased body to Peter’s grandmother’s house.

Jessica meets with Linderman meets with Jessica and asks her for a loan of Micah. Jessica, despite her other faults, refuses, but Linderman indicates that he will do it anyway.

Bennet teaches Ted how to control his power and use an electromagnetic pulse, rather than radioactive energy, to take out the power grid. Matt then convinces Ted to go back and rescue Bennet.

Nathan arrives at Claire’s grandmother’s house and finds out Peter is dead. Claire insists on seeing Peter. She removes the shard of glass from his head and he re-animates. Peter takes this opportunity to ask Nathan to talk to Claire, accept her, and keep her around, rather than banishing her to Paris.

Bennet convinces Matt and Ted that the next step should be to go to New York and take out the tracking system, so that superheroes can no longer be bagged and tagged.

Jessica/Niki willingly and happily escorts Micah into the waiting arms of Linderman – then morphs into Candice.

Mohinder calls Primatech Paper, hoping to talk to Bennet again, but instead has a visit from Thompson at his apartment.

Sylar does visit Isaac, and, after gruesomely pinning him to the floor with paintbrushes like a butterfly in a sample tray, asks Isaac for information about the future. Isaac says he knows his own destiny is to tell others (in paintings, I would assume) how to kill Sylar and stop the bomb, and then to die at this moment. With that, Sylar fulfills his destiny.

Nathan asks Claire to go to Paris for a week, just until after the election, and then to return home ‘…to her family’, when he can begin to do the right thing and be there for her.

With his newly aquired powers of painting the future, Sylar draws what appears to be a much uglier picture of Nathan the successful politician.

Five years into the future, Hiro and Ando stand on the rooftop of a building, looking out over a devastated New York City. Ando wants Hiro to go back and stop the bomb from going off, but Hiro wants to go back and fix any mistakes they made. At Isaac’s apartment, Hiro and Ando discover a timeline made from notes and clippings strung on a clothesline. They also find someone else: Future Hiro!

Comments

Candice’s ability to morph is, like time travel, an unwelcome and unappealingly lazy script contrivance for me. I don’t like scriptwork where fooling the audience is so easy and so impossible to detect. This tends to make the audience just as lazy as the scriptwriters.

Since it has now been revealed that Zachary Quinto will play the young Mr Spock in the twelfth Star Trek movie, Quinto is now looking more and more Spockian to me.

In the final scene with Hiro and Ando, Ando says, "I’m confused." Well, so was I, momentarily, until I realized that what Hiro meant was that rather than time-traveling back into the past to fix things, they should first hang around and try to look for clues in the present, after the event.

Memorable Moments

• Hiro and Future Hiro staring at each other

Quotable Quotes

Thompson: Do you need anything? I just got through with this ‘Graham Greene’ I was reading…I’ll bring it.
Bennet: How was it?
Thompson: Ended bad.

Future Hiro: You!
Hiro: Me? (closing line)