Previously on Heroes: The battle lines were drawn between Team Angela and Team Arthur, while Hiro was stuck with the mind of a 10-year-old looking at comic books.

Elle (Kristen Bell) and Sylar (Zachary Quinto) continue their electrical training when Arthur gives them an assignment: get Claire Bennet. Robert Forster should only play old school mobsters, because he has the perfect voice for it. Arthur goes to Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and shows him a picture he drew of a dead Claire. Heroes has promised major characters dying before, so I'm not going to fall for this again.

On the other team, Angela (Cristine Rose) is giving out orders left and right., Parkman (Greg Grunberg) is finding Hiro (Masi Oka), Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) is getting the Haitian, and Claire (Hayden Panettiere) has to hide away because she's the Catalyst (a fact everyone seems to believe but me). Rather than lock her up, which would be the only intelligent move, Angela pawns her off on HRG (Jack Coleman), who is back to calling her “Claire Bear.” It hasn't gotten any less creepy.

They hide out in the former home of the Black Hole Man, but Sylar and Elle are hot on their heels. For some reason, Elle is obsessed with turning Sylar into a full-on psycho killer instead of the trained obedient person he's become. Since two episodes ago we saw a flashback of Elle trying to save Sylar, this new approach makes absolutely no sense.

HRG takes his alone time with his daughter to train her by calling her a spoiled brat and kicking her butt. These are things I can get behind. Elsewhere, Tracy appears to be a double agent, secretly working with Angela. Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) guilts Nathan into letting him tag along to Haiti on his mission. I've seen this movie before, and it's never a good idea when the impetuous younger brother tags along.

Daphne freaks out because she's been betraying people left and right and power-stealing Arthur is after her. Their only hope is time traveling Hiro, and miraculously, Hiro and Ando (James Kyson Lee) happen to show up at that exact moment. Why? Because the comic book told them to, because Parkman is supposed to fix him. Why can't they just skip to the end of the comic book and save everyone a lot of time?

While Parkman fails to read Hiro's mind (because it's all in Japanese), Daphne decides to run away because she's scared. Parkman reads her mind and learns she's originally from Lawrence, Kansas before she flees. The three men look at the comic, see that they're in Kansas in it, then Hiro teleports them to her house. See...if they'd just stop and read the stupid comic in its entirety, they could save themselves a lot of time.

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