Some mysteries solved, new questions surface after Monday’s episode
The biggest surprise in this week’s episode of “Heroes,” “Kindred,” that isn’t really a surprise is that Sylar isn’t dead.
Anyone who followed the off-season action knew that Zachary Quinto, who plays Sylar, was on the list for this season’s cast. This is a surprise, though.
Sylar’s powers are gone and he can’t absorb new ones. And how do we know this? He kills his caretaker (big surprise there, right?), Candace the illusionist, and fails to gain her power.
Whoever put them there was smart, Sylar’s place of recuperation is so far out in the middle of nowhere that Sylar is unlikely to get out. Not without help at least, and we know there’s no plot in just leaving him there.
But why did he lose his powers? Does he have the virus, or is there some other out there who can steal powers who stole Sylar’s? Or, is the entire scenario an illusion and he didn’t kill Candace at all, only an illusion of her? How far do Candace’s illusions go?
Peter Petrelli has been adopted into the Irish crime family. The guy seems to have a knack for joining the most dysfunctional families he can find.
Somehow he managed to find a moral crime family, they go out of their way to make sure none of the guards get killed when they rob a bookie. Of course, Peter using Matt Parkman’s thought sensing power, knew one of the criminals was planning to betray the “family” and saves the day, and the girl.
This is a doomed relationship. That box with Peter’s identity is there, waiting, and we know eventually he’s going to decide to open it.
The “family” tattoo was interesting. Newly adopted into the crime family, he is tattooed with the “family” symbol, which promptly turns into the helix — that mixture of two Japanese kanji meaning “great power” and “godsend” that is ever-present throughout the “Heroes” world. Then it disappears. Can a person who can heal any wound actually keep a tattoo?
Hiro figured out how to send “time mail” to Ando in the hilt of the sword. Hiro puts it there in the distant past; Ando pulls it out in the present.
The tale is exactly what I thought it would be. Hiro is helping to create the legend of his hero Takezo Kensei and helping Kensei win the girl Hiro has fallen for. Cyrano de Nakamura, I presume? Can’t they do something a little more original? This was too predictable.
Niki Sanders has the virus. This is likely the true reason Jessica disappeared. Now she’s working for the company in exchange for a cure. So who is caring for Micah? Why it’s Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), of course, who seems to be playing D.L.’s mother. D.L., by the way, is now confirmed to be dead, headstone and all, the only casualty of the season one climax in New York.
Alejandro and Maya are still on the move. They find themselves still in Mexico and try to steal a car. Unfortunately, there is a police officer just across the street.
Alejandro is captured, separating him from Maya again, but tellingly, this time Maya does not turn all creepy. The physical separation theory is put to rest as she consciously uses her power to help her brother break out by intentionally forcing the police officer to take physical action against her, stress and fear seems to be the trigger.
Again Alejandro cures everyone and they escape to hitch a ride with Alejandro’s American cell mate.
One of the things I really love about this show is that they actually give us answers. The producers and writers of “Lost” should take note that a television show about mysterious supernatural stuff can reveal mysteries without losing its appeal.
Claire and Wes finally get together, and we learn that Wes was one of her father’s victims from his work with the company.
Claire is not impressed with what she learns about the man who raised her.
Mohinder is back in New York. The company has transformed Isaac’s studio into a laboratory for Mohinder’s research, and he’s being watched. When he finally does have a moment alone he searches through Isaac’s paintings, discovering the final panel of the series that, in its first panel, revealed Hiro’s father’s death.
Coming after Claire’s revelation of what her father had been, what he had done to Wes, it was almost unsurprising to find that Isaac had painted Mr. Bennet’s death, Claire looking on with a distinct lack of concern.
View the entire episode and next week’s trailer online at NBC.
Contact Campus Press Staff Writer Arwyn Rice at arwyn.rice@thecampuspress.com.
