Heroes

Trusty Heroes recapper John Kubicek is currently trying to rid his computer of a nasty virus (not of the Shanti variety, don't worry), so I'm stepping in tonight to report on the latest adventures of the super-powered crew.  On last week's episode, Sylar and HRG formed an unlikely alliance to round up some villains, but of course it ended with Sylar poking into someone's brain and Noah vowing to kill him.  After a run-in with Micah, Tracy went to meet with Dr. Zimmerman, who claimed he's responsible for creating her.  As for the other characters, Claire's mom started training her how to kick ass, Hiro and Ando were thrown into the Level 5 prison after allowing speedy Daphne to get the formula, and Matt continued bumbling around Africa.

Tonight on Heroes, Peter heads to the future and finds that Sylar has transformed into Martha Stewart.

Regular Peter and Future Peter travel four years into the future to witness how the world has changed.  This is like the umpteenth terrible future vision in the Heroes-verse, and the problem with this one is that everyone has abilities.  They've all injected the magical formula that gives them abilities, and people now fly around New York City for kicks.  Future Peter tells Regular Peter that he needs to go to Sylar for help, but before he can say another word he's shot by Evil Claire.  Regular Peter escapes just in time.

Evil Claire, who now hangs out with Future Daphne and Future Knox, plans to use Molly to find Peter.  Little does she know that Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) has gone to see Future Mohinder, who is now fully mutated and likes to hide in the dark.  He gives Peter some info on where to find Sylar, and when he heads to Costa Verde he's shocked to find the one-time supervillain wearing an apron, hanging with a kid and making waffles.

Sylar (Zachary Quinto) pulls Peter aside and fills him in on the fact that their brothers.  Peter doesn't seem nearly as shocked by this as he should be, but I think that's just due to bad writing.  Future Sylar has atoned for his evil ways and now spends his days watching little Noah, who must be named after HRG.  Peter tries to tell Sylar that the world is doomed, and suggests he try painting the future if he's not convinced.

Meanwhile, Daphne visits Future Matt, who is her husband in this crazy reality.  He doesn't want to use Molly to find Peter, but his speedy wife talks him into it.  After she gets the info, she passes it on to Claire (Hayden Panettiere) so they can go find Sylar.  Back in Costa Verde, Sylar tells Peter to fix his watch if he wants to learn his cool power-collecting ability.  Peter picks up the power, but the gang is soon interrupted by the trio of Evil Claire, Daphne and Knox.  How did they get there so fast?  Did everyone hop on Daphne's back?

Who cares about logic, because it's time for some fighting!  While speedster Daphne kicks the asses of everyone in the house, Knox throws Sylar through a table and accidentally kills Noah in the process.  Sylar gets so angry that his powers go haywire and cause a nuclear explosion, wiping out the entire area.  Whoops!

About 200,000 people die in the explosion, but Evil Claire survives and is now about to torture a shirtless Peter with a scalpel.  She's soon interrupted by President Petrelli, who tells his brother that Congress has decided to move forward with a superpowered army.  Peter goes a little crazy trying to figure out Nathan's true intentions, and accidentally pulls a Sylar and cuts open his head.  When Peter travels back to the present to visit Sylar, the villain tells him that he's now infected with the skull-slicing hunger.

Back in the present, Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is still spending his time shamelessly ripping off The Fly.  He wants to study the bizarre rash on his back, but instead he goes next door to break up a domestic dispute when he hears the neighbors fighting.  After Maya (Dania Ramirez) gets home, she tries to lay her annoying charm on the good doctor, but he finds her as obnoxious as the rest of us do.  His attempts to cure her ability got him into this inane plotline, after all.  Maya storms out in a huff, and Mohinder soon realizes that there's no way to remove his crazy freak rash.  He takes out his anger by beating up the crazy neighbor some more.

Dr. Zimmerman tells Tracy (Ali Larter) that she's just one of a set of triplets, and that he discovered her and injected her with a formula that gave her superpowers.  Tracy wants to know the name of the mysterious company that greenlit the project, and when Zimmerman can't remember she almost turns him into a doctorsicle.

After crying over her chilly situation, Tracy tells Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) that she's resigning from her position.  Linderman informs him that it's his destiny to help her, which is why he arrives just in time to save Tracy from jumping off a bridge to her doom.  As shocked as she is to see a man that can fly, it does help her open up and show him her ability.  The freezing trick steams things up a bit, and the two soon start making out.  They're also shown as being married four years in the future, officially making Tracy the First Lady.

Over in ancient Japan -- er, I mean Africa -- Matt (Greg Grunberg) puts on the shaman's magic headphones and starts painting up a storm.  He witnesses the destruction in Costa Verde, and also sees that Future Daphne had her back blown off in the massive explosion.  He wakes up in Africa and realizes that he must find the speedster, but the shaman tells him he has to find a mystical animal to guide him first.  Matt thinks the turtle might do the trick, which is going to make for a very slow journey.

Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando are still stuck in the Level 5 prison, and if that's not bad enough they're also not getting along.  Ando (James Kyson Lee) is pissed that Hiro said he didn't need him, and Hiro is still freaked out that Future Ando killed him.  The two team up to open up a vent in the prison cell so they can escape, which forces me to pause for a moment to touch on the stupidity of it all.  Are you telling me that Hiro and Ando can break out of this prison that's designed to hold people with freakin' superpowers?!  Oy.  Just as Hiro gets halfway into the vent, the Haitian shows up to rain on their parade.

As the episode comes to an end, Angela (Cristine Rose) tells Hiro and Ando that the missing formula can grant people special abilities.  After informing Hiro that some mysterious person is watching them and manipulating them, she tasks him to go dig up a very pissed off Adam Monroe for help.  Adam (David Anders) grabs Hiro's throat and calls him a son of a bitch, which seems like a perfectly sensible reaction when you've buried alive for months on end.


- Don Williams, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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