Posted by Dustin on 03.11.2009 at 6:48 pm

This week’s “Heroes” was good, but damn if we don’t have to wait two weeks for a new episode!

First up, the meeting between HRG and Angela that ended last week’s episode. Yeah, we still have no idea what it’s about. This week picked up right where last week left off with Matt, stuck outside the capital with a bomb strapped to him. Nathan arrived to help, Matt explained it was The Hunter’s doing not his. In the end Nathan and Matt defused the bomb, but Nathan knocked Matt out so he couldn’t use his power to escape! Matt was apparently caught.

Nathan tried to fire The Hunter, who was finally wise to Nathan, having seen a tape of Tracy screaming “You’re one of us!” He suspected Nathan had a power just as everyone in his family did. He denied it, and convinced Tracy not to tell The Hunter anything as he was her only hope in here. She didn’t rat Nathan out (though she should have!), but The Hunter was no fool. He pushed Nathan out a window, and of course Nathan flew off. The Hunter looked at HRG and wondered if he knew about this? We did not hear the answer.

Claire meanwhile was sent a guest by Rebel, Eric Doyle aka The PuppetMaster. She had to wrestle with the question “What kind of hero was she?” Would she help her enemy or let him suffer and be caught. In the end she helped him start over and get away. When she asked if he would seriously start a new life and go straight (which he claimed he would), he basically gave her a look as to say “You dumb blonde, hell no!”

Claire returned home only to get a text from “Rebel” that her free pass was up, run for it! She left her home right as agents stormed it. Nathan arrived outside her window, their story ended with Nathan floating outside holding Claire as the agents burst into her room.

Meanwhile Sylar found his father and confronted him about killing his mother, wanting answers. Sylar learned his father had the same ability as he did, taking powers. Sylar’s father basically had become just what Sylar had, hungry for powers and collecting them. However in the end, the thrill of the hunt was lost on him, and he was diagnosed with cancer. He was dying. He made a speech about evaluating his life, yada yada, how they all grew old and died in the end. However when he found out Sylar had the ability to heal, suddenly the hunt was back on! Sylar’s dad tried to kill him to take his power, but when he failed, he claimed Sylar clearly wouldn’t die so he was just borrowing it to live as well. Sylar however wanted his father dead. Though he didn’t kill him, he left him to die on his own, alone, from the cancer.

The show ended with the return of Hiro and Ando. They were sent by Rebel to protect Matt Parkman. When they showed up at the address they found a frazzled baby sitter who handed off a baby to them, saying he was Matt Parkman!

I’m not sure how I felt about this episode honestly. It was good, but oddly anti-climactic. I felt that it took The Hunter WAY too long to figure out Nathan had a power. The whole ordeal with Claire and Doyle . . . um the point? Is it to make Claire more conflicted than she already is? Where will Claire and Nathan run to? Mama Petreli’s is too easy to be caught at, and I think she’s on the run herself now. Sylar’s confrontation with the father, yeah that went where? Is he going to have another change of self because he doesn’t want to become his father, or accept he’s destined to do just that? See if Luke was in the picture it would have gone somewhere! Finally the end confused me. I thought, did I miss when Hiro got his power back and went back in time? A reader in the shoutbox suggested the baby was Matt’s with his ex-wife. See that didn’t occur to me, I thought that it was settled the baby was the cop’s she was having an affair with.

The previews for two weeks look great. Based on HRG asking Tracy who Rebel is and her look, I totally think it really is going to be Micah!