TV Tuesday: Heroes

This week's episode takes place five years in the future. It shows us what life and most of the characters will be like if the Heroes don't succeed in saving the world.

**SPOILER ALERT FOR REST OF POST**

• The future Japanese Teleporter/Time Traveller (Hiro) has been constructing the timeline to understand the blast in New York City. Future Hiro is using it to figure out the chain of events. There are critical things that need to happen for them to prevent the blast:
• Save the Cheerleader (Claire): By saving Claire, they've kept Ticking Timebomb (Sylar) from acquiring her regenerative powers. And that means he can still be killed.
• Save the World: Hiro must go back in time and kill Sylar on the day after the election.

• Future Killing Machine (Niki) is a dancer in a strip club in Las Vegas and is now Power Absorber's (Peter) girlfriend. It would appear that Niki has shed Split Personality (Jessica). We find out that her husband Walks Through Walls (DL) and son Electronica (Micah) were killed in the New York blast.
• Future Peter has a huge scar across his face. Can he be any sexier?
• Niki says HRG is rustling cattle in Texas but he's really at Primatech Paper hiding the "good" Heroes. Kinda putting them in the witness protection program.
• We've known that Peter is responsible for the explosion that blows up New York. But we didn't know that Flying President (Nathan) would lie about it and blame Sylar to protect Peter. We find out that the Mindreading Cop (Parkman) has a son named Matthew and has teamed up with Brain Scrambler (The Haitian) as the heads of Homeland Security. At Future Nathan's direction, they are hunting down those with special powers and killing them. Mohinder says they are actually a new species and he's been instructed to develop a way to kill them on a mass scale. Intentional shades of the Holocaust.

• Wowwie Kazowwie!!! Then it happened. Sylar has met up with Shapeshifter (Candice) somewhere along the way and has taken her powers. Now he has taken the form of Nathan, so he's really Future Nathan, and is now acting as President in the form of Nathan!!! I didn't see that coming!
• No one knows that Nathan is really Sylar in disguise.
• Parkman brings Claire to Nathan, thinking he's doing a good thing in reuniting them. That's when Sylar begins to scalp her and take on her ability to overcome usually-normal wounds. He's taking particular pleasure in this, saying he's waited a long time to get ahold of her. With her abilities he'll be indestructible!

• In the end, Mohinder decides to disobey Future Nathan and kills the Haitian with an injection rather than killing Hiro. Chaos ensues, with Parkman killing Future Hiro, regular Hiro and Ando returning to present time to kill Sylar according to the comic book, and Peter and Sylar become locked in epic battle. Shades of an original Star Trek episode.

Do you think Sylar can be stopped? Who do you think can do it? And who's the new hero we'll meet next week...the little girl who is "the only one who can stop Sylar."

Anything I missed?
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