Previously on Heroes: An eclipse eliminated everyone's powers, giving HRG the upper hand with Elle and Sylar, stranding the Petrelli brothers in Haiti with a crazy man and reverting Daphne back into a polio-riddled Kansan.  Thankfully, Seth Green and Breckin Meyer showed up to make sense of it all.

This week on Heroes it's time for the second half of the eclipse, which means the heroes and villains don't have powers until about halfway through, when the eclipse passes, all the powers return, and nothing that happened over these past two episodes matters. I suppose last week's interesting episode was an anomaly. If you're still not convinced this episode is bad - Maya returns.

Rather than run for cover, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) and Elle (Kristen Bell) decide to have sex in the house where, only moments earlier, HRG handed them a two-by-four of whoop-ass. HRG (Jack Coleman) plays a game of coitus interruptus with a rifle and he gets a bullet into Elle's leg before the villains can flee.

Sandra Bennet goes against her husband's better judgment and takes Claire (Hayden Panettiere) to the hospital. Claire seizes and begins to flatline, giving me hope that they might just kill her off. Sandra calls HRG to come, but he gets distracted in his quest to find and kill Sylar and Elle.

That showdown takes place in a supermarket where Sylar puts Elle into an elevator so he can save her and face HRG alone. A fight ensues, and Sylar does a lot of taunting while getting his butt kicked. Finally, HRG picks up a boxcutter and slices Sylar's throat open. Oh my God, they killed Sylar! You bastards!

In less tragic news, things don't go so well at the hospital and the doctors pronounce that Claire is dead. But then the eclipse passes and Claire is brought back to life. Damn it, we were so close. On the bright side, it means Sylar isn't actually dead and the villains can use their powers to torture Sandra and HRG and kidnap Claire. HRG tries to wiggle out by saying that Angela and Arthur both lied about being Sylar's parents.

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