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This was the mid-season finale of Heroes, as NBC gears up for the Olympics so, here’s a look at what happened:
Tracy rescued Claire and HRG from the sunken trailer before disappearing again. Then the two of them were taken to NYC with Lauren and Samuel was there with his carnival. Sylar and Peter were also there.
There were two main storylines this week, one involving Sylar and Parkman, the other revolving around HRG and Samuel.
Sylar contacted Parkman and threatened to kill Janice if he didn’t go into his head and get rid of all his abilities. He buried Sylar’s abilities and then trapped him into a lonely existence.
Peter showed up and took Parkman’s abilities to read his mind. He found Sylar and tried to rescue him because his dream showed Sylar saving lives, not hurting people, but he ended up in the same nightmare as Sylar.
Heroes has been taking a lot of heat from fans recently for being, well, lame. And its doubtful this week’s episode changed their minds.
One of the season’s ongoing storylines, Hiro’s brain tumor, was wrapped up when he fainted, dreamed about a court case where he defended his recent time-traveling decisions, fought Adam Monroe with a sword and then his dead mother touched his head which killed his brain tumor.
In Monday’s episode, Hiro and Ando rescued Mohinder from the mental hospital. While there, Ando used his powers to short-circuit Hiro back to normal and then the three of them transported themselves into Noah’s living room.
Samuel tracked down his long-lost love, Vanessa. He took her back to the carnival, against her will, promising to show her something “beautiful”.
Parkman tried to help HRG find Vanessa and, eventually, Samuel. This plan went all wrong though and Parkman was left back at home, cooking dinner for family and feeling useless. He felt like his fear was letting everyone down.
Heroes star Jimmy Jean-Louis is trying to contact his parents after the earthquake that struck Haiti Monday. Unfortunately, the actor has already learned that several of his relatives have died in the natural disaster. Yesterday he said, “I have not slept yet. The second house that I grew up in was down, and some relatives have died, from what I have been told. I haven’t been able to reach my parents. I have heard that they are OK, but I do not know what is going on around them.”
To help with the relief efforts, he has made a video for his organization ‘Hollywood Unites for Haiti’, which he created several years ago and is going to start doing what he can to help rebuild his native land.
Last night’s much-hyped two hour episode of Heroes wasn’t exactly action packed but it did open up some interesting possibilities for what’s to come.
First off, the dramatic high point (or low point, depending on how you look at it) was Claire fighting with HRG again because she found out about fake Nathan and that Sylar killed her dad a long time ago.
HRG tries to learn more about the carnival by capturing Edgar and getting some information out of him. Edgar tells HRG that Samuel killed Joseph. But just as it looks like Edgar is on HRG’s side, he steals HRG’s map of the carnival and vanishes so HRG can’t try to break it up.
Well, Heroes fans, you’ll have a few weeks to regroup after Nathan’s death last week. There won’t be a new episode of the show until the end of January. Here’s a look at what happened last week, in case you missed it.
Peter took the Haitian’s ability, confronted Sylar and erased his powers while almost beating him to death which was pretty gruesome. As a result, Nathan emerged again. The brothers talked and Nathan admitted the attempts to fight off Sylar were killing him. Peter took Nathan to the rooftop from season one and he jumped off the ledge. Peter tried to grab him but Nathan pleaded with him one last time to remain a force for good and then let go, dropping to his death. Below, his body bounced off a car, then got up and walked away but now it was only Sylar.
Sendhil Ramamurthy has joined NBC’s comedic drama pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer as a regular.
Ramamurthy, who currently plays on Heroes, will reportedly play an ambitious lawyer who falls in love with Rex’s fiancée, played by Abigail Spencer. His casting is said to be in second position to Heroes.
Jane Curtin also has been cast in the pilot, which stars David Tennant as Rex Alexander, a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and starts coaching clients to represent themselves in court. Ramamurthy will play an ambitious but good-natured lawyer who was in Rex’s shadow until Rex’s career switch and whose friendship with Rex becomes complicated when he falls in love with his friend’s fiancée (Abigail Spencer).
Ramamurthy’s character on Heroes, Mohinder Suresh, played a vital part in the series’ first couple of seasons. Recently, his presence has gradually been scaled back and he has appeared in three episodes so far this season.
Here’s a quick wrap up of Monday night’s Heroes.
First off, Hiro and Lydia traveled back eight weeks to see exactly how Joseph died- Samuel killed him. He was mad because Joseph had been keeping his true abilities from him. When Lydia and Hiro returned, Samuel tried to accuse Edgar of beign the killer. But Hiro stopped him and got Edgar out of there. At the end of the episode one of the carnies tried to erase Hiro’s memory but he disappeared.
This week’s plot revolves mostly around Hiro’s assignment from Samuel.
But first, Nathan and Peter arrive at the hospital and Parkman is revived, but in the process Sylar jumps back into Nathan’s body. Nathan and Peter fly away with Nathan knowing he is Sylar.
Hiro receives a mission from Samuel, he has to go back eight weeks and get a film from Mohinder. We see Mohinder during this time and he’s happily, with a woman. She doens’t want him to look for his father’s stuff but he does anyway. He comes across an old movie that shows his dad at Coyote Sands, warning the camera about the powers of a newborn who turns out to be Samuel. This encourages Mohinder to pay Samuel a visit.
