Picking up where we left off last week, you may recall that the heroes and villains were left completely powerless during an eclipse. This left Hiro and Ando in a comic book shop still trying to jog Hiro’s memory, Daphne confronting Parkman with the fact that she suffers from cerebral palsy, Nathan being captured by the Haitian’s brother in Haiti, Claire suffering a bullet wound, Sylar and Elle making sexy conversation in an abandoned house, and Noah pointing the scope of his sniper rifle at Sylar and Elle making sexy conversation in an abandoned house. Oh yeah, and over at Pinehearst Mohinder was held against his will by Mr. Petrelli and Flint.
Over in Haiti, Nathan is tied up in a hut…that is until Peter and the Haitian make a daring rescue. You may recall that the Haitian’s brother has the ability of invulnerability, which makes the village people view him as a sort of god, and the Haitian is really the only one who can stop him. After they bust Nathan out, the Haitian has a gun pointed at his brother, which during the eclipse, one bullet could easily take this guy down, but at the same time, I guess the Haitian was grappling with the fact that he was going to kill his own flesh and blood. He settled for knocking him out with the butt of the rifle. They rush off into the woods, at which point Peter insists that he hang back and hold off the soldiers because at this point he’s expendable. Nathan won’t allow it, but Peter says, “Dude, have a little faith,” and finally Nathan gives his blessing with an affirmative, “Bro,” and fist pound. Peter rushes off, firing off the gun in all sorts of directions (remember how this guy used to be a male nurse?), and finally he’s out of bullets. Naturally, Nathan and the Haitian came back…they totally had his back, and now that the eclipse has ended, they’re powers have returned. The problem with this is that the Haitian’s brother also has his invulnerability power. Nathan makes a completely badass move by flying at him full speed (it was like seeing a Mortal Kombat specialty move in real life), demolishing the front end of a jeep. Unfortunately, this does very little to faze the Haitian’s brother, and it is clear that it’s up to the Haitian to take him down once and for all. The Haitian grabs his brothers head, works his crazy magic and kills him. Back to the woods, but Nathan throws a wrench in the plan when he explains to Peter that their father is right and by giving people powers they could do so much good for the world just like how they saved the village. With that, Nathan tells Peter he can hit up the embassy for a ride home and he takes off. It’s kind of like your big brother driving to school but making you take the bus. Total dis.
Back in the states, Hiro and Ando are at the comic shop where Seth Green and Breckin Meyer help piece together all the events of “9th Wonders” comics to help Hiro remember. Together they attempt to put it altogether, but Hiro finds the memories too troubling, seeing how has father died and how he’s had several botched attempts in saving the world. Believe it or not, Seth Green is the voice of reason telling Hiro that a true hero puts the world before himself, at which point Hiro gets his act together and they piece together what Hiro must do next. He must go find Claire and bring her back to a past memory, at which point he should regain all his memories. Once the eclipse has run its course, he takes off and Parkman and Daphne show up at the comic shop to decide their next move. Seth Green, once again to the rescue (!), explains that these are the last published issues by Isaac Mendez (I’m proven wrong, seeing as how it’s entirely possible that Isaac was at least 5 months ahead on issues waiting to be published), but there’s a legend that there is one unpublished issue that was put in the hands of a bike messenger. Find the bike messenger, find your next move.
Brief Pinehearst interlude…Mr. Petrelli and Flint continue to give Mohinder crap about getting on with his research and eventually Mohinder beats the crap out of Flint with a microscope. Once the eclipse ends and Mohinder’s scales return, he sees that he has to continue their research, but Mr. Petrelli makes a comment to him, “You have to figure out how to control that monster inside you all on your own.” Mohinder goes to see Maya, apparently a post-it note with her address was in the lab all along, but after knocking on the door, he rushes off back to Pinehearst.
Sylar and Elle have made it from their make out session to setting up a makeshift bed on the floor of this abandoned house. Unfortunately, they’re disturbed by a red dot on Sylar’s head and a bullet shot that sends them running. They suit up and escape the house, but Elle suffers a shot to her thigh, and they find themselves on the run from Noah. Sylar tries to patch Elle up in the healthcare aisle of a grocery store, trying to convince Elle that they need to split up, but she refuses. They decide to try and catch Noah in a trap in the back of a grocery store, but they don’t have nearly enough time to set a trap before Noah shows up. Sylar throws Elle in some sort of shaft and then engages Noah. Still powerless, Sylar takes a good beating, and Noah takes the opportunity to use a boxcutter to slit his throat and leave him for dead…maybe…
Elsewhere, Claire’s wound is infected because she’s never been sick before and her body doesn’t know how to fight off the infection. Mrs. Bennett takes her to the hospital, where of course cops show up to start asking questions. Finally, Claire flat lines. Dead. Sunlight begins shining through the window though, the eclipse has ended and Claire’s wound heals up and she suddenly jumps up…alive, awake, alert. Returning home, the Bennett family is reunited with each other…but also with Sylar and Elle. Yup, post-eclipse Sylar didn’t stay dead either, and he shows up and throws Noah up against a wall while Elle holds Mrs. Bennett by the throat. It is then that Noah tries to explain that Sylar is not the lost son of the Petrellis, but this was just something they told him to gain leverage over him and use him to their advantage. Makes perfect sense to me, seeing as how I thought this was a stupid idea from the get go. Anyway, just when things are looking really grim for the Bennett clan, Hiro shows up, grabs Sylar by the shoulder, exclaiming, “Bad guy!,” then disappears with Sylar, pops back in next to Elle, exclaims, “Bad girl!,” then disappears with Elle, only to pop back up next to Claire. Once there, he says, “Save the cheerleader…” then disappears with her, leaving the Bennetts dumbfounded.
Two final things happen. Sylar and Elle are on a beach, and just when it looks like there’s about to be another implied sex scene, Sylar kills Elle…much to my disappointment. Then, we see the familiar scene from 16 years ago when Hiro’s father passes Claire over to Noah, telling him, “Do not get too close.” Sitting close by, little Hiro is playing Gameboy (old school, gray, colorless, and uses 4 double-A batteries). This kind of makes sense, seeing as how Kaito divided up the formula, splitting the two halves and I guess entrusting Noah with the catalyst. I guess Claire was meant to stay hidden. Anyway, Hiro and Claire watch the transaction from a window above…TO BE CONTINUED…
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