TV Tuesday: Heroes Season Finale

Last night was the season finale of Heroes. This will be a pretty big week for me and this blog as Heroes, American Idol, and Lost all wrap their seasons.

**SPOILER ALERT FOR REST OF POST**

Two (maybe four) heroes met their fate this week. Last week I said that DL died but apparently I was wrong.

• President To Be (Nathan) wins his Congressional election. His mother tells him the news that Mastermind (Linderman) was murdered in his office but that "the plan" must go on.

• Cheerleader (Claire) tells HRG that Mr. Chernobyl (Ted) was killed by Terrible Timex (Sylar) who used the Cartoonist's (Isaac) power of the paintbrush to figure out that Multiple-powers (Peter) is the one he must vanquish. Peter and Claire meet up with Nathan because Peter is scared and needs help — so he calls upon his brother as he has his entire life and they meet in a parking garage. Sweet Peter still thinks that Nathan cares about him. That is, until he uses the Mindreader Cop's (Parkman) power to read Nathan's mind and figures out he knows about the explosion. Claire decides to fly the coup but runs into Grandma who's lurking in the shadows. HRG gets on the cell with Claire bear and tells her to go with them so she can be safe and then try to escape later on. Interesting that she calls HRG "Dad" right in front of biological father Nathan.

• Peter starts to have an anxiety attack of atomic proportions and begins going nuclear with his hands. He collapses on the street where he teleports back in time to the day when he first went to work as a nurse for Simone's father (Charles). Future Peter listens to Charles and his mother talk about the explosion and how they see the event unfolding. Charles says that the good son, Peter, must be relied upon but she says to trust Nathan because Peter is weak and ruled by his insecurities. As Peter processes what his mother has actually said, she takes her leave. It is then that Charles talks to Future Peter. He knows he's there listening and comments on his invisibility. Did Charles summon Peter back to this time to observe his mother's thoughts about him?

NO REVEAL: We never find out what Peter's Mother's powers are...or, for that matter, Charles' power(s). At the very least, we know that he can sense people around him even if they are invisible.

• Hiro saves Ando (yay!) but not before Sylar sends him flying and starts to cut his throat. Hiro transports Ando back to their office back in Japan. Hiro explans that he must go back and continue his mission alone.

• Little Miss OnStar (Molly) says Sylar is over at Isaac's loft. Parkman goes over to make the kill, but Sylar makes his way over to the building where Molly and The Professor (Mohinder) are plotting their next move.

REVEAL: Molly says she's afraid to locate another evil one because when she does, he can see her. Is this a set up for next season? A "Hero" worse than Sylar?

• Nikki comes to rescue Micah but she runs into a separate being Jessica. It is really Shapeshifter (Candice) and after split personality Jessica appears in a mirror and tells her what's going on, Nikki finally finds the strength to fight for her son. Candice is killed in the ensuing fight. Nikki and Micah show up at the lab to save daddy DL. He's been discovered in the elevator area by Mohinder and Molly.

REVEAL: HRG's first name is Noah.

The Final Battle
• HRG wakes Peter up from his unconscious state. He says Claire's safe and that he'll shoot him if things get out of control. Sylar appears out of nowhere (was he invisible? did he kill the invisible man?) and sends HRG flying through the air and his gun lands apart from him.

• Parkman shows up, better late than never I suppose, and tries to shoot Sylar who catches the bullets and sends them back at him. Peter gets agitated and his hands start to glow. Sylar gloats, "Turns out you're the villian. I'm the Hero." Nikki arrives on the scene and goes all kickbox on Sylar's ass. Peter says he'll finish the job when Hiro shows up and skewers Sylar through the torso with his sword.

• Peter goes into meltdown mode and the whole bunch of them are watching and cowering. We see into Sylar's eye as it run through all his personalities and powers. Before he goes, he gets some revenge on Hiro by sending him flying with the most force we've ever seen him exhibit.

• Peter's hands are getting hotter. Claire, who just can't do what she's told, pops up and decides to shoot Peter to prevent the blast. As she approaches, Peter tells her to do it. "I wish there was a better way," she pleads. Cue daddy-o Nathan who flies in on a wing and a prayer.

• Nathan decides that he wants to be a good guy and prevent the explosion even though he would become the ruler of the world. He grabs Peter and they fly into the heavens where we see an explosion that looks like an amazing summer lightning storm. Why, if Peter can fly, didn't he just take off? Was he just too preoccupied with his impending explosion?

Death Toll: Sylar and Candice for sure. Maybe Nathan and Peter.

REVEAL: Next Season Volume II "Generations"

• After Sylar sent him flying in the final struggle of Season One, Hiro lands in a beautiful field in the middle of an ancient battle. Place and time: Kyoto, Japan 1671. As a lone horseman is about to take on a gang of bow-and-arrow wielding villians sporting the Heroes brand (a calculus integral symbol with two cross bars) on a flag, a full lunar eclipse occurs...the eclipse that forms the Heroes logo.
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