Previously on Heroes: The villains united at Pinehearst under Arthur Petrelli, only to start killing each other at an alarming rate.  Sylar killed Arthur, but not before the Petrelli patriarch retrieved the Catalyst and injected a soldier with super strength.

Now it's time to end volume 3, a series that started so promising with Angela taking control of the Company, and quickly devolved as great villains like Adam, Maury and Elle were killed off.  Will the finale set up a possibly exciting volume 4?

With Arthur dead, Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) shows up and, for some inexplicable reason, he's now crazy. He's picking up where his dad left off by injecting the soldiers with the Formula, and when Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) vows to stop him, Nathan threatens his brother's life. I will give all the money in my pocket to whoever can provide a legitimate reason for Nathan's sudden evil insanity. Peter punches his brother out goes into the lab.

Peter finds Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and begs him to destroy the Formula. Mohinder is in agreement with Nathan that they can use it to help people, himself included. Knox and Flint barge in, wanting to destroy the Formula as well. Great, here we are at the end of “Villains,” and I still have no clue which side is good and which is evil.

Since I hate Peter most of all, I'm assuming he's on the wrong side. However, I also don't care for Nathan and Mohinder, so it's hard to root for them.

Mohinder gets knocked down by a blur. Nathan is stirred away by his Super Soldier who promises to stop Peter. That plan is short-lived when Knox kills the Super Soldier. Not so super now. That victory is also short-lived, because Knox and Nathan get into a brawl that's ended when Tracy (Ali Larter) freezes Knox and cracks him into a million little pieces. Wow, the death toll of villains in this episode is astronomical.

Once Peter and Flint finish rampaging through the lab, Flint turns on Peter and threatens to blow the whole place up. Nathan arrives to knock Flint out, then we starts beating up Peter. At this point, I give up figuring out who is on who's side.

Flint stirs awake and sets off an explosion, so Peter injects himself with some Formula to regain his powers, allowing him to fly away with his brother to safety. Peter did it because he loves his brother, but Nathan would not have made the same choice and he flies away.

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