No long preamble this week. Just highlight below to read:
Peter seems to have momentarily jumped back to the future again and he sees himself and Caitlin captured again. As proof that he was there, he shows Adam a flyer mandating evacuation as a result of the virus. Since no one else seemed to see him there, I'm not sure whether he really was there or not. Regardless, Adam tells Peter that he knows the lady that created the weaponized Shanti virus. The lady is Victoria Pratt. She is the same lady that Angela tried to protect from Matt in the previous episode.
As it turns out, when Victoria had created the weaponized form of the virus, strain 138, Adam broke into the lab and tried to steal it with the apparent intent of releasing it into the public. He was caught and put in a cell by Mr. Nakamura. As a result of the incident Mr. Nakamura moved strain 138 to the Primatech Paper facility in Texas, and Victoria Pratt quit the company and went into isolation. Let's hope that this is why Angela tried to protect her. There are several questions raised here, too, why didn't Mr. Nakamura just destroy the strain right then as Victoria suggested? What was their actual intent?
Bob seems to be continuing work that was abandoned by the actual company years ago, and he continues to maintain that they are looking for a safe way to remove powers from those that are dangerous. I still believe that the company (and now Bob) was intent upon removing powers from those that weren't "approved" and giving vaccines against the virus to those that were. Either way, Bob had a pistol in his face when he showed up at the Bennetts with an urn full of ashes. He said that Noah's personnel file was very specific about immediate cremation; he neglected to tell them that it wasn't really Noah's ashes in the urn.
After he leaves the house, he tells Elle that she has to watch them for the next 24 hours. He also tells her that everything that happened is because she let down her guard, and that she needs to regain his trust. What a messed up way to treat your daughter. Of course, I got the impression last week based on something Noah said to her that Bob is not her biological father. I got the impression that Elle was assigned to him much the same as how Claire was assigned to Noah. Did anyone else pick up on that?
Last week we saw Noah's wound heal and him wake up. We see it again this week with Mohinder entering the scene shortly after. Mohinder has Noah at a company facility and he has used Claire blood to heal him. Mohinder tells Noah that he's got it all wrong and that the company exists to save lives. Noah is left screaming to Mohinder that he's got it all wrong as the door closes. Where is the facility that Noah is imprisoned in? And will any of that sink through to Mohinder?
Was the company's original intent to save lives and they've just become misguided? Is Noah right about them being evil? Is Mohinder right about them trying to save lives? All of that is still unknown, but some of that must've put doubt in Mohinder's mind. Apparently, he's been researching into the company's virus experimentation. He found strain 138 in the records and he knows that it would be lethal to the general public. Mohinder also has a cure for Niki, though. He tells Bob that he is going to give Niki the cure, and that he expects Bob to help him destroy all of the Shanti virus when he returns. I doubt that Bob will see that plan through.
Niki has returned to Micah in New Orleans and is awaiting a cure. Micah tells her that she can have D.L.'s medal while she waits to help her feel better. When he goes to get the medal, he finds his backpack missing. Monica decides to play superhero and get Micah's backpack from the gang bangers that stole it (from Micah's other cousin), so she sneaks Micah out of the house in the middle of the night. Monica manages to break in to the house and find the medals, but she is caught when the gang returns home. They toss her in the back of a van and drive away leaving Micah across the street wondering what to do.
When Niki received her call from Mohinder about the cure, she went to tell Micah and realized that he wasn't there. I wonder if Jessica isn't going to show up to rescue Moncia and make Niki realize that she can't live without her powers. It'll be corny, but what about that whole storyline isn't?
In other worthless storylines, Maya, Alejandro, and Sylar are all somewhere in America now. Sylar is sharing wine and snacks with Maya near a pond somewhere when he convinces her that she should leave Alejandro and just go alone with him to meet Dr. Suresh. Maya doesn't believe that she can control her power without Alejandro, but Sylar pushes her to use it and she manages to pull it back in by herself. She's so excited that she tells Alejandro.
Before she can get through her entire explanation, though, Alejandro reveals that he has discovered that Sylar is a murderer by searching on the internet for Gabriel Gray. Does Maya trust her brother and flee for her life? No! She listens to Sylar explain how it was all a misunderstanding and how he made a mistake and how he killed his own mother in self defense. She's such an idiot. She even goes so far as to send Alejandro packing.
Alejandro is determined to take care of his sister, though, so he comes back in the middle of the night and confronts Sylar. Sylar kills him. Finally, we're one down. I hate that Sylar is killing again, but really Alejandro was completely worthless once Maya learned to control her own power. There can't be that many people out there with black goop coming out of their eyes that need someone with Alejandro's power to save them. Anyway, before her brother's body is even cold, Maya happens to knock on Sylar's door. She tells him some sob story about needing to protect her brother and then kisses Sylar. I thought she was going to leave Sylar at first, but that was obviously not the case.
Later, Sylar and Maya are in Mohinder's apartment with Molly and they call Mohinder. Now, why isn't Maya suspicious about breaking into someone's apartment? About the way Sylar looks at Molly? About the way they had to dispatch Matt (surely Molly isn't completely alone in the apartment)? About the odd conversation that Sylar had with Mohinder? She really is an idiot and I'll be glad to see her go.
Claire and her family tell Noah goodbye by spreading someone's ashes in the surf. I wonder whose ashes they really were? I haven't seen Mr. Muggles lately. Anyway, as Claire is hugging West, she notices Elle watching them, and she confronts her. She tells Elle that she is going to reveal her power to the world, and that will make her and her family untouchable. I wonder if Claire's real father (Nathan Petrelli) will show up now or be more involved.
Hiro is tyring to track down Adam to avenge his father's death. He comes across a photo of his dad, Adam, and Victoria Pratt from 1977, and he travels to that time to see what happened. He witnesses Adam being caught trying to release strain 138, and he finds out that it was moved to Primatech. Hiro returns, grabs the sword of Kensei, and jumps to Primatech to stop Adam.
Peter and Adam, in the meantime have met with Victoria, and Victoria has tried to kill them both. She assumes that Peter is bad because he's working with Adam. Peter seems unsure of what to think. Adam ends up untying Victoria under the pretense that he's letting her go, but he uses her attempt to shoot Peter as an excuse to kill her. He tells her dead body that he'll let the survivors know that it was she that helped him.
Since Peter ripped the location of strain 138 from her head, the two are off to Primatech, and just as they arrive, everyone freezes except Peter. As he looks around, he notices Hiro and the two speak briefly. Hiro says that he's there to kill Adam. Peter says that he can't let that happen. The two appear to be headed toward a fight when the episode ends.
Is Peter really going to fight Hiro? Why is Peter protecting Adam? How many times to people have to tell Peter that Adam is bad before he switches sides?
