First: I must admit that i lost faith in Heroes for a short while during the break, my crazy obsession had actually died down a bit. Sorta like a smoker having a cigarette a day for a year, then suddenly going cold turkey for a month. Near the beginning of the break, I was desperate for any heroes related stuff but near the end the addiction had worn off. But now that Heroes is back on the air, I’m back to (if you’ll pardon the extension of my metaphor) smoking like a chimney! (Note: Zettageek does not condone promote or encourage sticking little leaves of poison rolled in paper in your mouth and setting them on fire, nor does Zettageek think that Heroes will have any negative health effects, barring those common to every addiction. Drugs are bad, mmkay?)

Second: the following people are no longer on my awesome list, despite what I may have said on the review of the last episode:

• Nathan

• Linderman

• Candace Willmer

Nathan is off the list due to the whole sending Claire to Paris to win the election thing, though he does get points for considering calling the whole thing off when Peter died, and the preview where we can see Mohinder telling Nathan that what he is considering is genocide (possibly referring to a vaccine that will “cure” people of their powers?).

Linderman is off the list for considering “acceptable losses” in terms of a percent of the population rather than in hard numbers, for kidnapping Micah, and for manipulating Nathan.

And Candace, well she impersonated Jessica, and she was only on the list because she acted witty, so it was a shaky premise anyway.

As a side note, Sprague is temporarily on my awesome list for being able to create an electromagnetic pulse, but without the radiation burns (“So instead of Hiroshima, you’d be getting the seventeenth century”-Basher, Ocean’s 11). Issac gets a listing as well for being all accepting of his death and not panicking and making everything very messy.

Confirmed/Disproven Theories In this Episode:

• Mr. Linderman is in charge of OWI. PROVED. Mr Linderman got Candace to work for him while she was working for OWI, and Matt overheard (overthought?) Thompson thinking about it.

• Linderman has a power. PROVED. We see Linderman showing Nathan, healing a flower on his desk. Ironic considering he is trying to get the bomb set off in New York, and killing hundreds of people.

• Linderman can predict the future. Neither proved NOR disproved. While it was shown that Linderman’s power is that of healing, it is entirely conceivable that he could have another precog working for him. The fact that Linderman himself is not a precog however, severely hurts this theory.

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