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By Meghan Carlson
Staff Writer, BuddyTV
Previously (a long time ago) on "Heroes": Hiro and Ando got the world's longest distance fax from Rebel, telling them to help Matt Parkman and Tracy iced a dude in jail. A little more recently, Parkman got captured and Danko strapped a bomb to his chest and threw him outside the Capitol.
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Tonight on "Heroes": Doyle shows up at Claire's (he's still calling her "Barbie," which annoys me, and doing so incessantly, which annoys me more). Claire tells him to get out, and he says Rebel sent him for her help. He wants to start over as a puppeteer, making people happy. He cries a single tear, saying that the agents (whom Rebel sent a fake call, temporarily sending them away from Claire's house) burned down his theater with him still inside. He calls Claire his only hope, but the puppeteer won't "force her to help" because that's not who he is anymore. He leaves.
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Meanwhile over at Building 26: Danko walks into the war room and accuses Nathan of knowing where Peter was and helping him. Nathan gets a call saying Parkman is in front of the Capitol with a bomb strapped to his chest, and jets off. (See what I did there? He can fly.)
At the Capitol: Parkman's drugged and confused as the police come and aim guns at him, asking him to deactivate the device. Nathan shows up and approaches Parkman, who thinks Nathan is behind it. Nathan denies it. He tells Parkman to read his mind, but he can't because he's drugged, so he'll have to use regular ol' human lie detection. Danko watches remotely and again asks how Nathan got there so fast. He scoffs that the Senator wants to play hero, and tells one of his goons to activate the device (which would clearly, at least judging by Parkman's prophetic painting, blow up a ton of policemen, a Senator, and the Capitol Building, and radiate through the rest of the D.C. mall, so... HUH?) This guy is crazy.
Well, luckily, the bomb doesn't activate, and the goon tries to fix it while Nathan asks Matt to see into the mind of one of the many bomb techs nearby, who would know how to deactivate the bomb. (Or... couldn't you guys use your WORDS to ask one of them? Just a thought.) He reads a mind that isn't thinking directly about it, so he can't tell which wire to pull. Nathan and Matt flounder for a minute over red versus black, but when the device doesn't activate, Matt throws away the activator, and Nathan punches straight up in the face, saying he can't let Matt use his powers (on him?). A killer punch, but seems a bit unnecessary, regardless.
Meanwhile, in the backwoods of... somewhere: Sylar shows up at a remote, trashy, broke-down doublewide. (Or is it a shack? Hard to say.) He walks in, knocks on a window inside, and the back of an old man (who seems quite busy) thinks he's there for a dead stuffed animal pick-up. He tells the old man that no, he's actually the man's son, Gabriel. He was coming with some questions about himself& until he remembered that the man abandoned him and killed his mother. "So?" the cold, apparently soulless man replies, still not looking up. "What now?" "Now I kill you." This gets him to turn around, and the grizzled, dirty old man says, "Go right ahead." He gets up, and we see he's on a respirator. Cancer. "I'm dead either way, and I haven't got all day," he tells Sylar as he puts another cigarette in his mouth.
Back at Building 26: Danko wonders what whiz deactivated the bomb (Rebel, for you slow pokes out there), and threatens Nathan again for letting his friends and family trump national security. Nathan fires Danko, who says he answers to the president. Nathan doesn't back down, and tells HRG he will be replacing Danko. As they walk away, Danko plays the video of Tracy yelling "Nathan! You're one of us!" (Thank goodness that came back. We were wondering if the bald man was deaf!) Danko tries to blackmail him with this not-so-ambiguous hint that Nathan's got a skeleton in his closet. Nathan tells him, "Let's see who gets to the president first."
Tracy is also in the building, and guards walk her along a hallway. She's in chains with a tube stuck up her nose. We see from her perspective that she's groggy, but she walks by a computer she clearly sees a message from Rebel saying, "Help is coming. Have hope."
HRG tells Nathan that showing Danko his hand putting them at risk, and he needs to keep his head like Angela would. Nathan walks into the room where Tracy is being held and pulls up a chair. She's more than a little mad at him over all this. Nathan tells her she's going to be questioned, he cares about her, and he's been helping her out. "And doing a fabulous job of it," she spits out. He reminds her that saved her from jumping off the bridge once, and he's still the same guy. (Hmm. Really? I'm with Tracy on a big, fat, "I don't believe you.") Anyway, he then says he's her last hope of staying alive. Just then Danko walks in and says he knows Nathan has a soft spot for Tracy. Nathan tells him to be as rough as he likes, and leaves. Nathan goes back and watches the interrogation unfold on video. Danko asks Tracy about Nathan. She says he was lousy in bed. "Does Nathan have an ability?" he asks. She blanks, and then says, "I have no idea what you're talking about." He walks out.
Over in Costa Verde: Claire wonders if she should have helped Doyle. She thinks she should use her free pass to help others, and sees that Rebel thinks so. Sandra thinks Rebel shouldn't sent psychos to the door. Claire pitches a plan to get a cover job, so she can have another place to play Heroes' Harriet Tubman, and Sandra reluctantly agrees to let her apply to Alex's old job at the comic book store.
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