TV Tuesday: Heroes

One thing about Heroes is that characters meet their doom on practically every show. Four heroes met their fate this week.

**SPOILER ALERT FOR REST OF POST**

• When last we saw the Power Taker (Peter), he was afflicted with glowing hands as he absorbed the nuclear capabilities of Mr. Three Mile Island (Ted). He wants Save The Cheerleader (Claire) to shoot to kill if he goes meltdown. Then he just gets things under control. Quite anti-climactic. HRG, after a nice reunion with his little Claire bear, tells Claire, Peter and Ted to go to Windy Forks Nebraska and wait for him there. That will get them out of town so Peter can't blow NYC to smithereens. HRG will stay in the city to destroy the "tracking machine." Evil Watchmaker (Sylar) is listening to their plans with his bionic hearing and decides he's gonna join 'em. As he follows, Peter catches what's on Sylar's mind with the powers he absorbed from Mindreader Cop (Parkman) and they all duck for cover.
• President To Be (Nathan) plots his election victory with Mastermind (Linderman). Linderman tells Nathan his father was a Hero but was weak. As a gift, Linderman heals Nathan's wheelchair bound wife. (Remember how he brought the orchid back to life in his Vegas hotel?)
• Time Bender (Hiro) laments his failure to kill Sylar. Inspirational Buddy (Ando) convinces him to move on and they decide to get the sword fixed at the local handy dandy sword fix-it shop. It broke in half as Sylar froze it in the attempt on his life. On the way to the shop, Hiro and Ando run across Nathan who is out on the street campaigning on election day. Hiro asks for his help to stop the explosion but Nathan said no one can stop it. Hiro tells him if the bomb goes off Nathan will become a bad man. (The Nathan that Hiro saw in the future was actually Sylar in Nathan's image using the ability of Shapeshifter (Candice) who he must have killed in the interim.)
• Daddy Sulu (Hiro's Father) is waiting at the sword shop. He congratulates Hiro for becoming all the hero he can be. Then father teaches son the secret of the sword. Ando runs out of patience and buys a sword for himself. If Hiro won't kill Sylar to save the world, he will. Sweet Ando. Dear, sweet, naive little Ando.
• Candice poses as the mother of little Machine Talker (Micah). They go into a voting booth and he rigs the election for Nathan by talking to the voting machine. Nathan ends up winning in a landslide.
• Jessica and her Caspar the not so Friendly Husband (DL) are in town looking for Micah. They go up to Linderman's suite and confront him. He offers Jessica $20M to kill DL and walk away. Jessica wants it but Niki appears. Linderman pulls a gun and shoots DL during the confusion. DL draws last blood by putting his invisible hand in the back of Linderman's head and then re-appearing. Linderman ends up with a huge hole in the back of his head. You could say he got fisted, and not in a good way.
• Sylar turns Ted in to the FBI chick that worked with Parkman many episodes ago. The FBI catches him on the street while Peter grabs Claire's hand and they disappear (literally) into the crowd to escape. Sylar shows up in the dark of night when Ted is being transported by police van. Sylar causes it to have an accident then goes all scalper on Ted's head and absorbs his power. I didn't hear any clock ticking sound effects, though. It gives me goose bumps.
• Professor Mohinder has nursed Reverse GPS (Molly) back to health. She tells him that her other hero, Parkman, is in the building. (I don't remember Parkman saving Molly from Sylar. Anyone?) HRG and Parkman are on their way to destroy the tracking device but they don't know it will be a little girl. In the hallway outside the lab, HRG outwits Eric Roberts and shoots him twice in the head. This came just in the nick of time as Eric was going to put a bullet in Parkman's head. They proceed into the lab area and HRG pulls a gun on Molly. Mohinder pulls a gun on HRG. And there they stand wondering who is going to zoom who.
• Death Toll: Linderman, DL, Ted, Eric Roberts

Anything I missed?
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