Thanks for the good recap JoJo.
Sylar is my new favorite bad guy coz whenever he is on the screen I get all scared and try to hide behind my couch pillows. I was so worried that he was going to hurt Mr. Muggles.

Peter and Claude are so much more interesting that Niki/Jessica. HRG knows Claude huh? I am so interested in how long HRG and all this has been going on.

Claire being Nathans offspring - he just can't get away from his destiny can he?

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I haven't been speculating on Claire's father, so that ending shocked me, and I loved it.
Nikki in the mirror, banging on it from the inside and the door actually moving makes me believe she and Jessica are more than your average split personality. Two people sharing one physical space, maybe?

First of all i was so shocked when they revealed Nathan as Claire's father...i was literally screaming in front of my chemistry book. You guys were right, he's such a man-whore! The only thing i'm really disappointed about is the fact that Peter and Claire can never be together...unless they go to the southern part of the US.

how could you not mention the conversation about waffles between hiro and his father? It may have been the funniest part of the whole season.

oh, and i'm super pissed off about claire's dad being flying man. I always sort of thought peter would make an interesting love interest with claire. There would have been an age difference, but I thought would only spice the story up a bit.

Claire...and her uncle....not a love story I want to watch.

So I'd been thinking maybe Claire's dad was Lindermann, but I was pretty excited that it's Nathan.

Until just this second, when I realized it makes Peter Claire's uncle. Now I have to rethink the whole thing. Boo!

Nice ep, nice recap.

When Claire got home and picked up the piece of glass it seemed like a really thick pice of glass. I don't think it was from the china hutch that Sylar threw her adopted mother into. It seemed much too thick to have come from that. I am thinking it's a piece of safety glass. Like the glass from Sylar's cell that HRG was trapped in. Is it possible that HRG does have a power and he used it to break through the safety glass and Claire found a pice of the glass that fell off of HRG after he escaped Sylar's cell?

Claude just totally rocks. I loved how he called Peter on that awful haircut!

So far, this show has yet to disappoint me. But here's what would: Mr. Bennett's first name is Linderman. Mostly because Linderman Bennett is a terrible name. Another thing that would disappoint me: not having a Claire shower scene by the end of the season. You want me to return to NBC to watch season two? You've got to earn my loyalty.

The things I thought were funny this episode was when the invisible guy pointed out how 'gassy' people are when they think they're alone and also how Mrs Bennet ALMOST lets us know HRG's first name , although from looking at the photo of the driver's license, it looks like it says CLARK

Great recap, J-Unit.

Anyone else think that Claire's mom set the fire intentionally? She looked a bit tense when she said "I didn't think anything could have survived that fire", like she was disappointed that the baby didn't die. Or it could be that she was sort of apologizing to Claire for not being aware that the baby had survived. IMHO, it was a very suspicious comment! Was Nathan in on it? Curiouser and curiouser!

amused2bHere, interesting point about Claire's mom maybe starting the fire intentionally.

In that same scene, didn't she say something like "When I saw that roof...." That was interesting because there seems to be some kind of connection to the other roof in NYC where Claude hangs out with the pigeons, Simone's dad lives in the building, etc.

Good point on Peter being overpowered by Jessica if he met with Nikki, I never thought about that. I also never thought of what t-bag said, if Linderman was Mr. Bennet's first name. But I don't think that is possible because doesn't Nathan know linderman seeing as how he is financing his campaign, and Nathan already met HRG so he would recognize him.

I think Peter and Sylar's powers are the same, Sylar is just a psycho killer that likes brains.

And the whole letting Nikki out was crap. Just the beat down she gave the psych would have kept her there. I guess she couldn't have killed her or that would have been more than we can accept as far as letting her go. ?

Peter and Sylar don't have the "same" power. Sylar isn't even a real hero, Papa Suresh already deduced that. He is stealing people's powers via some scenario that involves taking out their brain, but Peter absorbs the powers without taking away from the original hero's power, i.e. not making them DEAD!

j-unit, i think claire and zack said they were going to lubbock, not san antonio. san antonio is 200 miles further from odessa than lubbock is. no way would her mother have let her go to san antonio.
and brigasm, i take offense to your comment about the southern us. i'm from sc and the idea of marrying my uncle? yuck. all of the south isn't like west virginia!

Why doesn't Nikki just commit suicide and relieve (most of) us from the pain of this boring story? I guess because then Jessica would stop her.. damn there goes my hope.

Oh you guys... jokes about us southerners. Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh.
It's a good things us West Virginians and Kentuckians and Georgians are illiterate, otherwise we might be offended. God what clever, smart people you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too.

The Nikki/Jessica story line is WEAK. Who gets let out of prison just like that? I know this show isn't the basis for reality, but come on...
When HRG came busting through the door, guns blazing, I developed a little crush. I'm having trouble taking Sylar seriously -- isn't that actor the same guy who played Tori Spelling's friend on her VH1 show?

IHeartTV -

Yes he is that guy.

I didn't he was also Adam Kaufman in Day 3 of 24.

i didnt mean to offend...but i'm from south florida if that makes u feel better

Nice recap J-Unit.

I totally knew it was going to be Nathan some of the previews let that out, still intresting though.

UGH, Nicki get's on my nerves, I'm sure she can fight back against Jessica or something, the writers just wussify her, and since Peter can soak up other's powers. If he gets near Nicki will he have an evil twin come out??

I think Meredith wasn't in control of her power when Claire was a baby. HRG said that there was an incident, some people got hurt and there was a baby left behind. Without further evidence, I'll believe that Meredith didn't intentionally leave her baby in a burning building. They rushed her, she panicked and the place went up in flames. Clearly, neither she nor Nathan ever worked for HRG (his story to the Haitian).

Claude made it clear he was involved in some sort of organization as soon as he met Peter. He called Peter an "empath." Immediate classification. It's no surprise he knew HRG (Claude did also imply that he is in hiding, so to speak.) It would have been a cool twist if Claude was actually hiding from a British covert division like Primatech Paper. There can't be just one in the whole world.

Peter and Sylar may not have the same ability, but they are similar. We don't know that Sylar can't gain ability without killing. He never tried any other way. Perhaps he gains them simply by being present when someone dies. If he gains them passively as Peter does, maybe he just never realized. Maybe Sylar has Hiro's ability, but he doesn't use it because he doesn't know he has it.

And frankly, Mr. Suresh may have been wrong about Sylar. He didn't know everything about the subject. It's not normal that Sylar can take other people's extra-sensory abilities. (I thought he was removing their heads as a sort of signature serial killer method. Not their brains. Did he do that to the first guy? The telekinetic?)

The use of mirrors with Nikki/Jessica is a visual expression of their situation. Think of Sidney Sheldon's book "The Mirror Has Two Faces" about a mild-mannered woman with a tough, bad girl alter ego. This is just a cool expression (the show is designed like a comic book) to show the audience what's going on in Nikki's head. Jessica and Nikki are aware of each other. When Nikki first became aware of Jessica, she saw her reflection moving around. That's not really happening. No one else would see that in the mirror. They see one another in Nikki's head. They communicate with eachother but there's not actually a voice coming out of the mirror. Remember the scene in "Sybil" when all the personalities congregate by a tree? There's a sort of field of play inside Sybil's head. A dimension where the egos interact.

Same with Nikki.

What surprised me was that the drugs restrained Jessica at all. Nikki must have been exerting tremendous will, because it was possible that the drugs would knock Nikki out and Jessica would be free to get and go on a rampage. (I don't know if that happens to real people, but it made for a classic episode of "Matlock.")

#11 and 12 - When Claire's mom made the comment about seeing the roof of the building during the fire, I thought it meant that the way she survived the fire was by Nathan using his flying power to pull her out of it. That's why she would have seen the flames from above, similar to the way Nathan flew up out of his car and saw from above how it crashed with his wife still in it. If Nathan's flying during that fire occurred involuntarily, out of fear, the way it did during the car crash, then it would explain why they didn't bring the baby along. Could be the baby was elsewhere in the building or at least out of reach at the moment it happened.

brigasm,
1950 called, it wants its cliched insults back you moron.

I kinda knew Nathan was Claire's biodad from the previews. Who else on this show is a fancy dresser?

gdawg...of all the things that's happen on the show the only thing u can comment on is my comment, which i later rationalized...how lame is that? If its not true about the south, then y r u so upset. Brush that shit off and get over it!