Godsend

Finally, a new episode of Heroes to write about. It seems like it’s been forever since the show went on hiatus, so I was really surprised that my expectations had not built up to a point as to make this latest episode a disappointment. On the contrary, I really enjoyed it, and I felt like it covered a lot of ground. Highlight below to read more:

I still don’t see much point in the Niki/Jessica character. As impressed as I was that she snapped a guard’s baton like it was a toothpick, I still felt relieved when she got doped, put in a straightjacket, and tossed in a padded cell. Too bad she’s not dead.

What’s the deal with D.L., though? Why is he still bringing Micah around? For that matter, why is he bringing himself around to see Niki? The woman tried to kill him, and for all he knows (actually, he even implied it) she’s just plain crazy. That doesn’t really seem like a very safe environment for either him or his kid. I’d run like the wind, if it were me.

Claire obviously didn’t forget what happened, and now she’s getting fearful of HRG (Mr. Bennett aka Horn Rimmed Glasses). Good for her. And I really enjoyed the fact that she got to have a little conversation with the Haitian. Seems like he might be trying to subvert the efforts of HRG, though, so she better be careful. I think she’s just a pawn to him that can be used against HRG. Finally, I thought it was great that Claire started over with Zack and that he knows her secret again. Hopefully, he’ll keep it this time around, too. I just wonder if HRG knew that Claire had enlisted Zack to video her powers the first time around, what makes us think that he doesn’t know this time as well. And will that be dangerous for both of them?

HRG himself alluded more this week to the fact that he’s working for someone else. We just need to figure out who it is, and how do they know so much? Of course, as was revealed in his conversation with Mohinder, it seems that Chandra knew more than they did. So, who else is on the list, and what does HRG want to do with it?

Next up, Matt knows that HRG is up to something. I don’t really understand why the SWAT team couldn’t find any secret rooms, though. Seems like when they were looking at the blueprints and planning their assault, they would have noticed either a big difference between the physical footprint of the building and the plans or they would have seen the plans for the room. Unless it’s underground, but it’s always seemed to be on the ground level in past episodes where they’ve shown HRG and Eden entering.

Speaking of Eden. Sylar killed her at the paper factory, so why was her body found outside of Ottawa or Ontario or wherever they said in Canada? How did HRG manage to get her body up there to dump it and make it look like a suicide? And once Sylar killed Eden, he had her power and her gun, so how did HRG get him back in his cell and doped up on all those drugs?

Peter finally woke up, but I still don’t understand exactly what the deal is there. He’s trying to get to Nevada, which makes me think that either he believes he’s going to explode anyway, so he wants to be in the desert when it happens, or he knows that Ted Sprague is in the desert and he wants to find him. I’m betting on the former since his dreams never showed Ted. What’s the deal with the bum on the street, though? I get that he’s invisible, but why does Peter think that he can help?

And one more thing. What the heck was Ted doing in the desert anyway? Is he trying to learn to control his powers? Or his trying to learn to increase them?

And now everyone’s favorite: Hiro. They’ve made it to New York, and Hiro’s English is getting much better. I love the way that they worked in the painting of him with the dinosaur without having to time travel, and I’m glad that we finally found out what the symbol that keeps showing up everywhere means: Godsend. The question now becomes, how did it get on the sword? It seems to be tied to the heroes in that the Haitian wears it around his neck, Jessica has it tattooed on her shoulder (but Niki doesn’t, go figure), Isaac paints it, etc. So why is it on an ancient sword? Is it some sort of time travel paradigm where the symbol is on the sword because it’s a sword for Hiro, but Hiro ends up leaving it in the past to protect it or something? And is the guy that wielded it in the past also a hero? Or was that guy our Hiro but he just hasn’t traveled back to live that part of his life yet? Or maybe, and this is really reaching, that guy is Mr. Linderman, and he has the sword because it’s really his and it helps lengthen his gift of long life. Am I way out there now?

It was pretty cool, though, that Hiro, Isaac, Nathan, and Simone are all together now. Nathan is still trying to hide his power, but I didn’t get much bad guy vibe from him in this episode. I think he really wants to help Peter, and I think that he’s starting to understand that he and Peter are not the only ones with abilities. Simone sure seemed to turn around quickly, too, when Hiro started telling his and Ando’s story. Guess it sucks to be Peter right now because he just got dropped like a hot biscuit.