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Micah comes home at daylight. Niki is fully dressed and worried out of her mind. Micah reveals what he's been up to, Niki says "I told you so" and starts calling the police. Not sure why she hadn't already called the police or woken up Nana (who I'm convinced still has crazy powers related to wallpaper). Micah wants to be a hero and rescue his cousin, but Niki reveals she has no strength, due to side effects of the virus. Thank you Santa, she's totally about to croak. Insisting that all she needs to do is drive, Micah convinces Niki to get in the car. Excellent.

The thugs have tied Monica up to a wall post in the soon-to-be-torched building. One of the thugs echos Niki's lament that being a hero only gets you killed. Unfortunately, she doesn't have can't trade a pimped out grill for her life and doesn't bother seducing the guy. He proceeds to take his red gasoline tank and pour it everywhere. Hey buddy, arson and murder are two very different things in a court of law, so I don't know why you feel compelled to kill someone.

Micah is tracking Monica's cell phone, triangulating her system with the GPS. The Micah system could totally outsell Tom Tom, if marketed properly. The kid's also able to change traffic lights and screw with police radars. They've almost reached Monica who is trying to use her phone when the thug notices. He flips out and uses the St. Joan copy of 9th Wonders as kindling, having no qualms about setting the place or girl on fire.

Niki does some crazy driving in an attempt to play chicken with the red van guy, who calls her a crazy bitch. How apt. She kicks him in the balls, gets his gun and asks where Monica is. Micah points out the building that's on fire. Thanks, Captain Obvious. Niki knocks the thug out, and runs in and unties Monica. I'm a little perplexed by this next scene, where Niki gets caught up trying to move a heavy support beam while urging Monica to leave behind her. It's not like she's actually trapped. Monica escapes right before the muffaletta joint blows up, clutching a horrified Micah. Bye, bye Niki. See you in Resident Evil: Extinction DVDs.

It's a shame about that comic book.

In another dimly-lit but way more expensive apartment in Manhattan

Nathan and Parkman have managed to get Mama Petrelli out of jail. I'm not even going to question how they managed it, but try this thing called "suspension of disbelief." Nathan is still pensive about Peter, and Mama Petrelli makes a half-assed attempt at thanking them for freeing her. Parkman tells Mama Petrelli that Victoria Pratt is dead, and that Adam signed the photo with the Heroes symbol using her blood. It seems that Adam's knowledge of Victoria Pratt's whereabouts was independent of Parkman coercing the information from Mama Petrelli. A nice link to this volume's title, Nathan asks his mother: "How long are we going to suffer for your sins, for your generation's deeds?"

Oh shit, these expired last year.

Mama Petrelli says Adam wanted revenge on those who betrayed him, and that they should let it go. Does she want the world to get wiped out by the virus? Is Mama P. the Big Bad Mastermind of The Company? Parkman drops that Peter was at the murder scene with Adam, and his fingerprints were everywhere. Mama P. says it all went so wrong. Thirty years ago, a group came together to change and fix the world, and Adam had a perspective on history that was "compelling." You mean hindsight? Everyone believed Adam was a guru, including Mama P, Pops, and Linderman. In the beginning, she helped him, but eventually Adam felt the world wasn't worth fixing and needed to be wiped clean with the virus. Mama P. realized how "wrong" it was but Nathan points out her hypocrisy in that she and Linderman wanted to blow up NYC.

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