Over in D.C.: Danko asks HRG about people on file who can fly, and HRG makes claims about missing files being burned up in that fire. Danko thinks HRG knows about the Petrellis. After all, he did adopt their daughter. We both know Nathan is hiding something, Danko says. HRG instead points Danko at Angela for answers, and then calls Angela to warn her to be ready for him. Angela’s not scared. (Is she ever?) We both do our homework, she says.

Back at the Comic Book store: Claire’s on her way out after her first shift, and all the creepy little fanboys watch her go. The agents in the van, parked outside the store, are also watching her. Claire stands on the sidewalk and calls HRG for advise on how to lead a double life, choose the right path, and other lines that remind me of the beginning of Pocahontas. He’s watching agents bring in Parkman to Building 26 as she asks these questions, and he’s in a tough-love mood today. “Which answer do you want? The truth, or the one that makes you feel better?” he says. She doesn’t know (so why’d you call, Claire?), so neither does he. That wasn’t helpful, now was it? The van pulls up and away fast, and she gets a text from Rebel saying where the agents found Doyle. Over at the location, the female agent points her gun at Doyle, but he’s quit to make her his puppet. He points the gun at her head, but doesn’t kill her, because he wants to go back to the way life was. He slams her against the wall, and the other agent too. Claire shows up behind him. “Barbie?” he asks. (He really loves that nickname. I do not.)

In Manhattan: Danko meets Angela for dinner. He’s hoping she can help him figure out how biological inheritance of abilities works. She plays off the question with: Genetics are complicated. “So Nathan was the misfit?” These things can skip a generation, she tells him, but he doesn’t buy it. She then brings up a shady “incident” in 1997 when Danko was involved in lots of civilian deaths. “I’m surprised you survived,” she says. (Could our boy baldy have a power too? That would be self-loathing in its purest form.) He gets up and says she is a resourceful woman. She sucks up an oyster as he walks away, and she smiles.

Back at the trailer: Sylar and Dad chitchat about how people are always disappointing and life is meaningless and painful (Dad’s ideas) while they sew up the rabbit. Sylar accidentally cuts his hand and it heals. The father sees that Sylar can heal himself (and I can see our cancer-ridden villain lusting after that power from a mile away) “Not everyone gets old, and not everybody dies,” Sylar tells him. “Just that much longer to suffer,” Dad says. He asks Sylar to go get something, and quickly grabs a bow and shoots Sylar in both sides of the chest. He then starts to whistle, weakening Sylar. Turns out Dad wants another shot at life after all, to get real power and authority, to change the world and all that. He holds a knife to his son’s head, but Sylar forces him back, pulls the arrows from his chest, and doesn’t seem too weak after all. For a hunter, you should know when someone’s playing possum, Sylar says. He wraps the respirator tube around his dad’s neck, softly choking him. Taking his power wouldn’t kill Sylar… but it would keep the father alive, and Sylar can’t have that. He grabs the rabbit, and starts to walk out when he turns back. He got his answers, and he knows what he needs to do now (Uh oh. You know what that means, right? We’ve got a real Big Bad on our hands now.) His father asks Sylar to just kill him, but he refuses, preferring the long, painful cancer-method instead. “Sorry, you’re just small game,” he says as he walks out.

Over at Building 26: Nathan got a signed document from the President firing Danko over the whole trying-to-blow-up-Washington thing. (Go figure.) Danko thinks his team will leave along with him, but they stay put. (Can you blame them, in this economy?) Danko threatens that Nathan will find himself alone someday, and walks out. HRG is the new man in charge, and the President wants to hear his big ideas, says Nathan. HRG promises an “unorthodox but tested” plan (What could that mean? No, seriously. I have no idea.) They walk into the hallway, off to meet the Chief, when they see Danko standing there, staring at Nathan, and oozing hatred. He tells Nathan the rules don’t apply to him, and pulls a gun on him. His logic: Heroes scare Danko, but Nathan doesn’t show any fear, so… that means he is one. He shoots the window behind and pushes Nathan out. Nathan falls a bit before (seemingly reflexively) levitating a few feet below the window. As Danko watches, Nathan flies up and away. “Tell me you didn’t know about this,” he says to HRG.

In Costa Verde: Doyle’s sitting on a bench, and Claire comes over. She gives him an envelope with a new identity. He wonders how he earned her help, and she replies with something about “it’s not about you, it’s about me and who I need to be right now.” (Are they breaking up? Because I’ve heard that line before.) He says “Thanks, Barbie,” and gets up. She asks if he meant what he said about being changed. He smiles (translation: no) and walks away.

In Los Angeles: Hiro and Ando (they’re alive! It’s been a while.) walk into a house, the address of which was given to them by Rebel. They need to save Matt Parkman (whom we know is in D.C.) They walk in on a skinny, frustrated babysitter who thinks they are her replacement (two older Japanese men who walk in unannounced? And she doesn’t even question it? Or get their names? Some babysitter.) She obviously hates this baby, and is about to book it out of there before she spells it out for our too bumbling heroes: the baby is named Matt Parkman. (Junior.)

A pretty little montage of action wraps us up: Sylar is hiding in Danko’s apartment, along with his new stuffed animal. Agents storm into Claire’s house with guns, but she’s out the window on Nathan’s flying arm.




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-Meghan Carlson, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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