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Hiro puts a hand on Adam's shoulder and teleports them away, leaving the vial to free-fall and spin slower than the final scene in Chariots of Fire. Peter arrives just in the nick of time to stop the vial before it shatters and rids Earth of Perez Hilton and Ahmadinejad. Again, why the virus wasn't locked up tighter than Jessica Simpson's virginity is beyond me. Parkman echoes my confusion with my favorite line, "What is all this stuff?" I've been accused of being a packrat, one who hoards useless sentimental stuff and someone who's guilty of stocking up on paper napkins at fast food joints. But I'm not sure why a deadly virus is stored in the same facility as a brain in a jar, though. That's like giving a filched roll of butt-friendly brand-name toilet paper the same value as generic ketchup packets. Peter clasps the virus vial in his hand and irradiates it into dust. Not gonna lie, it was sort of anti-climatic.

Parkman is fed up with parental issues and calls for a team huddle in the vault. The trio vent about how they've been used, in generalizations that have no dramatic effect whatsover. The buck stops here. No more secrets. The lies end now. The final solution starts soon. Nathan decides to have a press conference and asks for Parkman's help in ensuring everyone listens to him (creeping towards the dark side, no?). They'll take down The Company by brain-addling the press into believing them. Hey guys, red flashing lights usually indicate security cameras are working.

Japan

Ando returns to his desk to find Hiro at his computer, dressed for work and watching Japanese YouTube. Hiro confesses he went to confront his father's killer. When Ando asks Hiro if he killed him, we flash to Adam in a coffin, buried six feet under, yelling to be let out. The cemetery appears to be in Japan. He really should've just shot him in the head but I guess Adam can always come back for Volume 3. Of Kill Bill or Heroes.

Like a Japanese capsule hotel, but with child-proof locks.

Odessa Police Station

Nathan preps for his press conference, but not without reuniting joyfully with his brother. He tells Peter not to think of himself as monster, or it'll eat him up inside. They exchange loving words.

And nearly make out.

Parkman interrupts the hug and says he made it so everyone will listen to Nathan. At the podium, Nathan launches into an eloquent and poignant speech about losing everything, including his way and all regard for hygiene and trim facial hair. He had the chance to see the world through newly humbled eyes, witnessed amazing things, as a montage of our heroes plays: Mohinder and Molly, DL saving a child, ordinary people doing things to be heroes. Ordinary people capable of extraordinary things. But there are organizations, other people who don't want the truth to come out. "First I was afraid, I was petrified," he starts singing. Nathan is about to tell them that he has the ability to fly when two shots ring out and anchor themselves squarely in his chest - Peter, give him your blood! Everything gets silent as Peter holds his dying brother in his arms and Parkman hovers. Nathan can't die, surely Claire has to revive her other daddy too.

FEMA finally gets its comeuppance.

A figure in black slowly walks away, and despite the fact that they are in a fucking police station, not a single cop runs after the assailant. Oh Texas, how you disappoint me. Vigilante justice, my ass.

Mama Petrelli is watching the news of her son's assassination and on the phone with someone. "I know that it was unavoidable," she says. "But you do know you've opened Pandora's box." Cristine Rose is my hero/villain. END OF VOLUME 2.

Don't tell me the woman isn't at least half evil. Deliciously evil like a gingersnap laced with arsenic. Or something like that. What does it all mean? Was she talking to Bennet, who's now the Company's biatch? Who else is such a sharp shooter and trim-looking? Does she mean that she will seek revenge on whoever killed Nathan, or that evil will be unleashed on The Company for their actions? Perhaps she's afraid, and is the supreme villain after all. Or maybe she'll head up a vigilante force with Micah and Monica as her sidekicks. Does the modern feminist interpretation that Pandora's box represents the womb and unease with female sexuality come to play? Why, oh why, did the wrong Petrelli have to "die"?

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