Previously (a long time ago) on Heroes: Hiro and Ando got the world's longest distance fax from Rebel, telling them to help Matt Parkman and Tracy iced a dude in jail. A little more recently, Parkman got captured and Danko strapped a bomb to his chest and threw him outside the Capitol.

Tonight on Heroes: Doyle shows up at Claire's (he's still calling her “Barbie,” which annoys me, and doing so incessantly, which annoys me more). Claire tells him to get out, and he says Rebel sent him for her help. He wants to start over as a puppeteer, making people happy. He cries a single tear, saying that the agents (whom Rebel sent a fake call, temporarily sending them away from Claire's house) burned down his theater with him still inside. He calls Claire his only hope, but the puppeteer won't “force her to help” because that's not who he is anymore. He leaves.
Meanwhile over at Building 26: Danko walks into the war room and accuses Nathan of knowing where Peter was and helping him. Nathan gets a call saying Parkman is in front of the Capitol with a bomb strapped to his chest, and jets off. (See what I did there? He can fly.)

At the Capitol: Parkman's drugged and confused as the police come and aim guns at him, asking him to deactivate the device. Nathan shows up and approaches Parkman, who thinks Nathan is behind it. Nathan denies it. He tells Parkman to read his mind, but he can't because he's drugged, so he'll have to use regular ol' human lie detection. Danko watches remotely and again asks how Nathan got there so fast. He scoffs that the Senator wants to play hero, and tells one of his goons to activate the device (which would clearly, at least judging by Parkman's prophetic painting, blow up a ton of policemen, a Senator, and the Capitol Building, and radiate through the rest of the D.C. mall, so… HUH?) This guy is crazy.

Well, luckily, the bomb doesn't activate, and the goon tries to fix it while Nathan asks Matt to see into the mind of one of the many bomb techs nearby, who would know how to deactivate the bomb. (Or… couldn't you guys use your WORDS to ask one of them? Just a thought.) He reads a mind that isn't thinking directly about it, so he can't tell which wire to pull. Nathan and Matt flounder for a minute over red versus black, but when the device doesn't activate, Matt throws away the activator, and Nathan punches straight up in the face, saying he can't let Matt use his powers (on him?). A killer punch, but seems a bit unnecessary, regardless.

Meanwhile, in the backwoods of… somewhere: Sylar shows up at a remote, trashy, broke-down doublewide. (Or is it a shack? Hard to say.) He walks in, knocks on a window inside, and the back of an old man (who seems quite busy) thinks he's there for a dead stuffed animal pick-up. He tells the old man that no, he's actually the man's son, Gabriel. He was coming with some questions about himself… until he remembered that the man abandoned him and killed his mother. “So?” the cold, apparently soulless man replies, still not looking up. “What now?” “Now I kill you.” This gets him to turn around, and the grizzled, dirty old man says, “Go right ahead.” He gets up, and we see he's on a respirator. Cancer. “I'm dead either way, and I haven't got all day,” he tells Sylar as he puts another cigarette in his mouth.



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