Sylar, Mohinder and Isaac
Sylar begins to cut open Peter’s head, but the wound heals. Peter pushes Sylar away using telekinesis and then turns invisible.
Sylar uses his telekinesis to lift up shards of broken glass from the floor and then sends them flying at high speed to all corners of the room. One of the pieces hits Peter in the back of the head and he reappears and collapses.
Sylar walks over to Peter and stands over him. Mohinder sneaks up behind him and knocks him out with the map board.
Sylar wakes up to find that Mohinder’s laptop with the list on it had been broken in the fight. However, he comes across a scrap of paper with Isaac’s name and address.
Isaac gives the pages of his latest comic story to a courier and says it’s going to be the last one. He gives the courier his sketchbook, saying that it may be worth something someday.
Mohinder takes Peter’s body to Angela’s house, having found her address in Peter’s wallet. He tells her that Peter died saving his life.
After leaving at Angela’s request, Mohinder calls Primatech paper, using the business card that HRG had given him. Thompson is the one who turns up at Mohidner’s apartment, and he offers Mohinder the company’s resources to help continue his research, and says that them working together will be the best way to stop Sylar, which was the reason Mohinder called in the first place.
Sylar arrives at Isaac’s studio. In their conversation, Isaac says that he’s painted Sylar’s future, in which “they” stop Sylar and he dies in process.
Sylar asks Isaac to show him that painting, and at one point we hear the effect that was applied to Eden’s voice when she used her power. So that suggests that Eden’s suicide was all in vain, and Sylar was able to “eat” her brain anyway.
Sylar uses his telekinesis to pin Isaac to the floor using his paintbrushes. Isaac ends up lying on his back with his arms out to his sides and paintbrushes through his wrists and ankles.
The position that Isaac was lying in and the fact that he knew and accepted that he was going to die makes me wonder if they were going for some religious symbolism there. I don’t think it means that Isaac will come back to life after three days though.
HRG, Ted and Matt
HRG is locked in a cell in Primatech Paper, but is able to contact Matt with his thoughts. Under HRG’s direction, Matt is able to break a rusted pipe in his cell and use it to knock out a guard.
HRG directs Matt to Ted’s cell, and by the time Matt gets there, Thompson has found Matt’s empty cell and he sounds the alarm. HRG tells Ted (thugh Mtt) to produce an EMP out the power and hence the alarm.
The three of them take refuge in the Burnt Toast Diner, as the company won’t come after them in a public place. They discuss their next move, and HRG says the best thing to do is to go after the tracking system, which is in New York.
In the conversations, Matt reveals that he learnt from Thompson’s thoughts that Linderman is running the company, something which HRG didn’t know. This bit of information isn’t really that surprising, and it certainly explains how Linderman knows so much about everybody.
Linderman and Jessica
Linderman reveals to Nathan that he has the power to heal things (or at least to heal plants, which is what he uses for his demonstration). He tells Nathan that when he was younger he and other powered individuals came together in order to try at make a difference. The natural conclusion to draw from that is that Linderman’s referring to the Company.
Nathan brings the conversation back to the topic of his running for Congress and the White House and Linderman produces a painting of Nathan in the Oval Office. Nathan points out that Linderman must know that Peter is the exploding man.
Linderman confirms this and says that everyone has their role to play and that Peter’s final moments will occur the day after Nathan is elected. I wasn’t aware that Isaac included dates in his paintings, so unless Linderman has someone else with precognitive abilities working for him, there’s no way he could know just when Peter will go boom.
DL tells Jessica that he’s taking Micah away. He’s figured out that Jessica is in control of the body and he says that she’s free to lead the life she currently is, but Micah shouldn’t be part of it. While they’re arguing, one of Linderman’s men arrives and tells Jessica that Linderman wants to see her.
Linderman tells Jessica that he needs Micah to help him. When she refuses, Linderman tells her that it wasn’t a request, but Jessica tells him that he’s not touching her son.
Later on, Linderman visits Jessica’s house and she lets Micah go away with him. After they’ve gone she morphs into Candice, explaining the sudden change of heart.
The Petrellis (and one Bennet)
Angela explains to Claire that she had known about Claire since she was a baby. She and her husband had made arrangements for Claire even after the fire, which Nathan assumed had killed her. Angela hints that she may have a power of her own, but doesn’t say outright.
Nathan arrives back from his trip to Vegas and asks to see Peter’s body. While he’s looking at it, Claire comes in.
Angela and Nathan leave the room, and Claire cradles Peter’s head. She finds the piece of glass embedded in it and pulls it out, resulting in Peter coming back to life. So unless Peter was channeling Claire’s power at the moment he was “killed”, then this means that a person’s (or at least Peter’s) powers remain active even after they aren’t.
Nathan and Peter talk later about what happened, and Peter encourages Nathan to talk to Claire. Angela enters the room, and Peter says they need to explain what just happened. Angela replies that there’s no need, as she knew about it long before they did.
Later on, Nathan removes the wrapping from a package in which is the painting of him inside the Oval Office. Claire comes in while he’s doing this and the two of them talk for a while.
Nathan explains that it would be better if she disappears for a week in order not to harm his chances at the polls. He tells that once that week is up she can return to her family.
The scene closes on the painting and then cuts to one of Sylar painting a similar picture. However, the person in the painting doesn’t appear to be Nathan.
I’m hoping that it’s just Sylar’s lack of artistic talent. Up until this point the show has been operating on the premise that the future show in Isaac’s paintings can’t be changed. If it suddenly now can be, then I’m going to be disappointed.
Hiro and Ando
Five years in the future, Hiro and Ando look out at a devastated New York. They realise that they failed to stop the explosion, and Hiro decides to go looking for Isaac. Ando points out that the “brain man” had killed Isaac when the bomb went off, but Hiro tells him that Isaac could be alive as Sylar had been caught.
The two of them arrive at Isaac’s studio and find pieces of string stretched across the room, with various bits of paper, including newspaper cuttings, clipped to the strings. Hiro says that he thinks it’s a timeline, which makes me even more concerned that they’re about to introduce the concept of being able to change the future.
The two of them hear a sound, and draw their respective weapons (Hiro the sword and Ando the gun). To their amazement, they come face-to-face with the future Hiro who delivered the “Save the cheerleader” message to Peter.