+ Recap of last few episodes and key points of all the incidents that occurred to each character.
+ A short Mohinder soliloquoy occurs as we see Matt on a bus riding to Washington D.C., Hiro and Ando outside of Building 26, and Angela, Claire, and Mr. Bennet in a car driving.
+ Mr. Bennet figures out that the Agents know where they are as he drops Claire and Angela off and tell them to find Nathan.
+ Mr. Bennet gives Claire a phone and drives off.
+ Mr. Bennet arrives at a checkpoint as a truck filled with agnts arrive behind him and surround the car.
+ The same ending scene of last week's episode where Sylar is stabbed in the head by Danko replays over again.
+ Sylar is getting up like he did in the last episode and pulls out the knife from the back of his head as he tells Danko that its because of his shapeshifting ability he was able to survive.
+ Sylar traps Nathan in the bathroom in order to absorb his memories later.
+ Danko becomes TK'ed to the wall as Sylar tells him his plan to meet with the president and he transforms into Danko and kills another soldier outside of the room.
COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
+ Angela tells Claire that Mr. Bennet got caught because he was doing it for Claire.
+ Angela tells Claire to go find Nathan as she tells her that she needs to find Matt Parkman in order to save Nathan from harm.
+ Sylar is dressing up in a suit as he tries to wake Nathan up in the bathroom in order to get information about his past.
+ Nathan's secretary walks in as Sylar is turned around and tells him that his daughter is there to see him.
+ Sylar tells Claire that he is planning on stopping 'Sylar' from meeting the president
+ Claire questions Sylar if he really is Nathan and through the use of his powers figures out a way to convince Claire that he is Nathan.
+ Nathan and Claire are already on their way to meet the president.
+ Danko is being transported as Hiro and Ando are outside discussing a way to get inside.
+ They start arguing over Hiro's power and the effects its having on his body.
+ Danko is being transported down the hall as everyone sees him and stares at him, he gets throuwn into a room with a single table and Mr. Bennet standing around.
+ Mr. Bennet says, "Fancy meeting you here."
COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
+ Nathan wakes up in the bathroom as Peter finds him knocked out in the bathroom and tells Peter that they need to stop Sylar.
+ Mr. Bennet and Danko are discussing Sylar and the fact that they can't kill Sylar anymore because he moved the spot and how they got there.
+ Mr. Bennet tells Danko that he would have became exactly like Danko if he didn't have Claire and that they need to do something to escape.
+ As they are about to shake hands, Hiro and Ando freeze time and appear.
+ Ando finds pictures of themselves and takes them off a wall.
+ Hiro's ears are bleeding as Ando notices that Hiro is straining himself.
+ Hiro says "Holy Crap" as they find everyone in the containment center drugged.
+ They grab all the agents and replace them with all the people who have powers.
+ Mr. Bennet figures out that Hiro must have stopped time because the door is open and that there are no guards.
+ Mohinder is checking Hiro out and figures out that his powers are having an adverse affect on his body and that he can't use his powers anymore.
+ Nathan meets with a colleague as Claire starts picking up on all these hints that Nathan isn't who he really is.
+ Danko is about to betray Nathan and stab him with a tranquilizer as Hiro freeze time and uses it on Danko.
+ Hiro collapses as Mr. Bennet runs off to meet with Nathan.
+ Mr. Bennet calls Claire as it becomes obvious that Sylar is now impersonating Claire and tells Mr. Bennet that he is Sylar.
COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
+ Sylar is controlling Claire to open a bottle of wine and makes her move slowly towards Sylar and controls her every movement to serve wine.
+ Sylar is telling Claire that they have a lot in common as he makes her drink wine.
+ Claire tells Sylar that she would continue to hunt down Sylar continuously as Sylar starts telling Claire that they may eventually fall in love with each other.
+ Peter and Nathan arrive at the hotel and Nathan tells his colleague that Sylar is the one upstairs and shows him his power.
+ As Peter and Nathan enter the suite, Claire is thrown through the doorway as Nathan and Peter fly in to confront him.
+ Claire watches him from the hallway as Nathan and Sylar flew out the window and Peter and Claire run off to confront Sylar.
+ Nathan gets thrown through the window and Sylar cuts his throat as he says, "Claire will be so mad at me."
+ Sylar transforms into Nathan and walks off, leaving Nathan dead in a chair.
COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
+ Angela finds Matt Parkman and tells him that he has to come with her to find Nathan and save him.
+ Mr. Bennet arrives and finds Claire and Peter as the agents stop them as they warn them that the president is in danger.
+ Matt and Angela arrive at the hotel and finds out that Nathan died and Angela starts questioning her dreams.
+ Sylar arrives in the basement as Nathan and takes over a body of Nathan's colleague and starts going after the president.
+ Sylar gets in the car with the president and shakes his hand as Sylar figures out something is wrong and gets stabbed by Peter with a tranquilizer through the bottom of his neck.
+ Sylar is knocked out as Peter lays back and says, "I bet you never thought that I took that one from you."
COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
+ Mr. Bennet lays Sylar on a couch as Mr. Bennet and Angela is trying to convince Matt to mind control Sylar into becoming Nathan and telling the president that everything that occurred was a mistake.
+ Matt digs into Sylar's brain and tells him that he is now Nathan Petrelli and that Gabriel Gray is now dead.
+ Sylar transforms into Nathan and looks at Mrs. Petrelli and goes, "Ma?"
+ We see Nathan standing over Sylar's body and burning it as Sylar/Nathan stands by Angela.
+ Mr. Bennet asks Sylar/Nathan if he convinced the President to solve the problems, and Mr. Bennet says that he likes the name the "company."
+ Mr. Bennet tells Claire that Sylar is really dead as Matt Parkman walks away angry at himself for what he did.
+ Peter is standing there looking at Sylar/Nathan through the fire as Mohinder's soliloquouy ends.
END OF VOLUME 4!!
Beginning of Volume 5...
+ We see Water escaping from a kitchen as it flows into the living room and reanimates itself into Tracy and kills someone.
+ Nathan is sitting in his desk as he finishes looking at a newspaper mentions the murder and Angela walks in and tells Nathan that its time for lunch.
+ Nathan looks at the clock and figures that its running a little late as Angela feels a little uncomfortable with herself as she knows that Sylar will eventually come back.
Recapper's Note:
It was a fun season, can't wait for the next. See you next year and catch you on the other side of the moon.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
S2E24: I Am Sylar (Recap and Full Episode)
by Adam Bryant
Ah, self-discovery. This episode of Heroes finds several characters pondering who they are and what their next move should be. Sylar shape-shifts himself into a ball of emotional mess which he longer identifies with, Hiro finally accepts that two heads are better than one on his path of heroic destiny, and Parkman decides being a part of his son's life is about more than changing diapers. Plus, Nathan tries his best to stop the program he initiated and Sylar does his best Norman Bates! Huh, you ask? Read on for the details.
Two of a kind
After delivering baby Matt Parkman to his father, Hiro and Ando plead with Parkman Sr. to take them to Building 26 to take down Danko and his men. But Parkman's priorities have changed, and his "game changer" baby boy makes him realize he doesn't need two dead heroes on his conscience. So, Hiro and Ando (henceforth to be known as Crimson Arc) set out on their own to find Building 26. Unfortunately for the "dangerous but ladylike" Crimson Arc, Hiro still wants to use Ando as bait. They have the same argument they've had about 100 times this season, ultimately ending with Ando comparing Hiro to Superman...because he's a fascist. Ouch.
Ando gets a slight upper hand, however, when Danko's men storm in, forcing Hiro to freeze time. But because Hiro was touching Ando when he stopped the action around him, Ando is free to move and manipulate time as well. Hiro plays along like he's happy, but ultimately, sets things in motion long enough to have the tranquilizers take Ando down. Hiro has his bait, and after outfitting himself as one of Danko's men, he thinks he has his way back to Building 26. (Having a little heart, Hiro turns Ando's dope machine off, instructing him to play possum until they get inside.) Too bad that Hiro forgot that the guy he was pretending to be doesn't wear glasses. When they become suspicious, Ando has to take action, unleashing the Crimson Arc's justice on all Danko's men to keep them from Tasing his pal.
With that, Hiro decides he and Ando should indeed be partners. They take the GPS off one of the incapacitated agents, and find their way to Building 26, but just as Hiro gets set to stop time and scope out the scene he is stricken with a terrible headache and a nosebleed. (Shades of Lost, anyone?) How will Crimson Arc solve this one?
Father knows best
Parkman heads back west to return his son to his ex-wife, Janice. Once there, he senses Danko's agents nearby, and Janice makes a plan to head off to a lake house with the baby. And before she even knows what she's done, she invites Matt, which he is thrilled by. But as they ready to leave, Parkman sees his old police badge and has a change of heart. He tells Janice that he must go back and stop Building 26, or else they will never have a life together. He isn't sure what their life is, but he wants to fight for the chance to find out again. Of course, he has to keep the handful agents who've surrounded them in the house at bay first. For now, he has them under mind control, so stay tuned.
A boy's best friend is his mother
Yes, all the other action of tonight's episode was all just a mild diversion from the Sylar show. (The episode was named for him, after all.) We learn through the episode just how (and why) Sylar came to be impersonating Nathan on national TV, and it all starts with a case of shape-shifter identity crisis. While living as Agent Taub, Sylar finds himself unable to control the restructuring of DNA that makes his shifting possible. Side effects include extra teeth, an errant blue eye and apparently a penchant for self-mutilation (at least for the sake of this episode's title screen). Sylar gives his sob story to Danko, who could care less. Danko also warns Sylar that if he can't continue to live as Agent Taub, he will hunt him down like the rest. Luckily, Danko — he of eight different lives, wives and languages in recent years — tells Sylar he needs an anchor (or Lost fans might say a constant?) to remind him who he is no matter how many shifts he goes through.
Sylar's anchor becomes his (believed) mother Virginia Gray, who he murdered back in Season 1. He finds a box of evidence from her unsolved murder and takes to shifting back and forth between the personalities, even carrying on a conversation. (Hitchcock would be so proud.) Turns out, Sylar pinpoints the moment that he killed his "mother" as when he became lost, having eliminated the only person to have ever loved him. But by bringing her back, he is able to again convince himself that he can be and do anything. Even be president.
That notion was also helped along by Micah aka Rebel. Danko learns from a man's body in Virginia (a one-man wrecking machine who Sylar killed and took his powers of disintegration before the agents arrived) that Rebel is still in the D.C. area. They track him to a warehouse and kill the power, erasing his ability to use machines to his advantage. Sylar finds Micah first, and Rebel appeals to Sylar to come back and help his people, those with abilities. He apparently smooth talked him, because before you know it, Sylar-as-Micah leads Danko's men to a pier where they shoot him. The real Micah looks upset as he watches his doppelganger fall into the water, but I'm sure he's happy to live to rebel another day. Danko isn't convinced Micah's dead, but a re-shifted Sylar convinces Danko that Micah isn't a healer. "Dead is dead," he says. (Are we sure we're not watching Lost?)
When Micah sees a late-night chat between Sylar and Virgina while crashing on Sylar's couch, he compares Sylar to his mother. Micah says his mother became someone else on the inside in order to help people, and tells Sylar he could do the same on the outside. He suggests he become Nathan Petrelli and shut down this hunting operation. Sylar suddenly wants nothing to do with Micah and kicks him out, warning him that he will kill him if their paths cross again. But, of course, Sylar does pose as Nathan, though it seems his only goal is to get close enough to the president to fulfill his dead "mother's" dream of seeing her boy rule the country. "I won't let you down, Ma," Sylar says.
Nathan leaves his family at the restaurant to stop Sylar from getting to the President, and refuses Peter's help, choosing to end it on his own. Back in his office, Nathan stares in the mirror of Sylar and gets a lesson in his own self-loathing, brought to him by a guy who only recently decided his life was worth living. But before Sylar can crack Nathan's skull, Danko takes the senator down with some tranquilizers. Danko tells Sylar to get back into his Agent Taub costume to help them bring in the remaining big guns (Mohinder, HRG, Claire, Peter, etc.) they got from Micah's things at the warehouse. When Sylar refuses, Danko puts a knife in the back of Sylar's head. But while that used to be the magic act to stop the energizer bunny from beating his drum, (gasp!) Sylar isn't dead. "That hurt," Sylar says with a deadly smirk. To be continued...
Ah, self-discovery. This episode of Heroes finds several characters pondering who they are and what their next move should be. Sylar shape-shifts himself into a ball of emotional mess which he longer identifies with, Hiro finally accepts that two heads are better than one on his path of heroic destiny, and Parkman decides being a part of his son's life is about more than changing diapers. Plus, Nathan tries his best to stop the program he initiated and Sylar does his best Norman Bates! Huh, you ask? Read on for the details.
Two of a kind
After delivering baby Matt Parkman to his father, Hiro and Ando plead with Parkman Sr. to take them to Building 26 to take down Danko and his men. But Parkman's priorities have changed, and his "game changer" baby boy makes him realize he doesn't need two dead heroes on his conscience. So, Hiro and Ando (henceforth to be known as Crimson Arc) set out on their own to find Building 26. Unfortunately for the "dangerous but ladylike" Crimson Arc, Hiro still wants to use Ando as bait. They have the same argument they've had about 100 times this season, ultimately ending with Ando comparing Hiro to Superman...because he's a fascist. Ouch.
Ando gets a slight upper hand, however, when Danko's men storm in, forcing Hiro to freeze time. But because Hiro was touching Ando when he stopped the action around him, Ando is free to move and manipulate time as well. Hiro plays along like he's happy, but ultimately, sets things in motion long enough to have the tranquilizers take Ando down. Hiro has his bait, and after outfitting himself as one of Danko's men, he thinks he has his way back to Building 26. (Having a little heart, Hiro turns Ando's dope machine off, instructing him to play possum until they get inside.) Too bad that Hiro forgot that the guy he was pretending to be doesn't wear glasses. When they become suspicious, Ando has to take action, unleashing the Crimson Arc's justice on all Danko's men to keep them from Tasing his pal.
With that, Hiro decides he and Ando should indeed be partners. They take the GPS off one of the incapacitated agents, and find their way to Building 26, but just as Hiro gets set to stop time and scope out the scene he is stricken with a terrible headache and a nosebleed. (Shades of Lost, anyone?) How will Crimson Arc solve this one?
Father knows best
Parkman heads back west to return his son to his ex-wife, Janice. Once there, he senses Danko's agents nearby, and Janice makes a plan to head off to a lake house with the baby. And before she even knows what she's done, she invites Matt, which he is thrilled by. But as they ready to leave, Parkman sees his old police badge and has a change of heart. He tells Janice that he must go back and stop Building 26, or else they will never have a life together. He isn't sure what their life is, but he wants to fight for the chance to find out again. Of course, he has to keep the handful agents who've surrounded them in the house at bay first. For now, he has them under mind control, so stay tuned.
A boy's best friend is his mother
Yes, all the other action of tonight's episode was all just a mild diversion from the Sylar show. (The episode was named for him, after all.) We learn through the episode just how (and why) Sylar came to be impersonating Nathan on national TV, and it all starts with a case of shape-shifter identity crisis. While living as Agent Taub, Sylar finds himself unable to control the restructuring of DNA that makes his shifting possible. Side effects include extra teeth, an errant blue eye and apparently a penchant for self-mutilation (at least for the sake of this episode's title screen). Sylar gives his sob story to Danko, who could care less. Danko also warns Sylar that if he can't continue to live as Agent Taub, he will hunt him down like the rest. Luckily, Danko — he of eight different lives, wives and languages in recent years — tells Sylar he needs an anchor (or Lost fans might say a constant?) to remind him who he is no matter how many shifts he goes through.
Sylar's anchor becomes his (believed) mother Virginia Gray, who he murdered back in Season 1. He finds a box of evidence from her unsolved murder and takes to shifting back and forth between the personalities, even carrying on a conversation. (Hitchcock would be so proud.) Turns out, Sylar pinpoints the moment that he killed his "mother" as when he became lost, having eliminated the only person to have ever loved him. But by bringing her back, he is able to again convince himself that he can be and do anything. Even be president.
That notion was also helped along by Micah aka Rebel. Danko learns from a man's body in Virginia (a one-man wrecking machine who Sylar killed and took his powers of disintegration before the agents arrived) that Rebel is still in the D.C. area. They track him to a warehouse and kill the power, erasing his ability to use machines to his advantage. Sylar finds Micah first, and Rebel appeals to Sylar to come back and help his people, those with abilities. He apparently smooth talked him, because before you know it, Sylar-as-Micah leads Danko's men to a pier where they shoot him. The real Micah looks upset as he watches his doppelganger fall into the water, but I'm sure he's happy to live to rebel another day. Danko isn't convinced Micah's dead, but a re-shifted Sylar convinces Danko that Micah isn't a healer. "Dead is dead," he says. (Are we sure we're not watching Lost?)
When Micah sees a late-night chat between Sylar and Virgina while crashing on Sylar's couch, he compares Sylar to his mother. Micah says his mother became someone else on the inside in order to help people, and tells Sylar he could do the same on the outside. He suggests he become Nathan Petrelli and shut down this hunting operation. Sylar suddenly wants nothing to do with Micah and kicks him out, warning him that he will kill him if their paths cross again. But, of course, Sylar does pose as Nathan, though it seems his only goal is to get close enough to the president to fulfill his dead "mother's" dream of seeing her boy rule the country. "I won't let you down, Ma," Sylar says.
Nathan leaves his family at the restaurant to stop Sylar from getting to the President, and refuses Peter's help, choosing to end it on his own. Back in his office, Nathan stares in the mirror of Sylar and gets a lesson in his own self-loathing, brought to him by a guy who only recently decided his life was worth living. But before Sylar can crack Nathan's skull, Danko takes the senator down with some tranquilizers. Danko tells Sylar to get back into his Agent Taub costume to help them bring in the remaining big guns (Mohinder, HRG, Claire, Peter, etc.) they got from Micah's things at the warehouse. When Sylar refuses, Danko puts a knife in the back of Sylar's head. But while that used to be the magic act to stop the energizer bunny from beating his drum, (gasp!) Sylar isn't dead. "That hurt," Sylar says with a deadly smirk. To be continued...
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