"Heroes": Brilliant!

I don’t even know where to start with last night’s episode of “Heroes”…

There were twists and turns, main character deaths, great special effects, major throwdowns and even some answers…

It was, in my opinion, the most inventive hour of TV all year. But I have a feeling we haven’t seen anything yet…

Warning: The remainder of this post contains details about last night’s episode of “Heroes.”

So, let’s start with the answers, as we finally learned how saving the cheerleader will save the world—or at least, how Future Hiro thinks it will. Future Hiro believed that Sylar was responsible for the explosion, but he couldn’t stop Sylar because he killed Claire and absorbed her indestructibility. So, Future Hiro figured that if Claire was saved then Sylar wasn’t indestructible, Hiro could kill him and New York would be saved…

However, we know that theory is completely flawed. Claire was alive and the explosion still happened, because it wasn’t Sylar who caused it. That was a cover story Nathan created to protect the real culprit—his brother, Peter. But saving the cheerleader may still help stop Sylar, which as we saw would not save the world, but would still save thousands of lives…

It was interesting to see Matt in a completely different light last night. Matt had always felt inferior as a beat cop, so it made sense that he would relish the opportunity to be a Homeland Security bigwig—even if it meant betraying his own kind. But I have to say watching him kill HRG was not cool. I had to remind myself that this future could still be changed…

I loved watching Peter with full control of his powers. The whole “Matrix” thing he had going for him was pretty cool and I loved watching him and Future Hiro fight the bad guys. And Peter and Nikki? That was pretty crazy…

But the wildest twist last night was the truth about Nathan. I was wondering for the entire hour what happened to him that made him so cold. I was wondering how Linderman was able to twist him so badly. And when he started telling Claire all about gathering power, I got even more confused. Why was he talking so strangely—both in his manner of speech and in what he was saying? When he mentioned Candice, I rewound the tape to try and catch why he would need her to become President. And then, it dawned on me, just before it dawned on Claire. Nathan was actually Sylar.

It was absolutely brilliant…

Adrian Pasdar’s Sylar impersonation sold it as all of the clues were there, if we had just looked for them. It was hard to watch as the blood started running down Claire’s face…

And even though I knew that this episode was five years in the future, it was hard to watch (Future) Hiro die. I’m guessing the paper Future Hiro handed Ando will tell Ando how to save his own life, a la Marty and Doc in “Back to the Future.”

So now we’re back to the present and as the commercial says, “It’s time to save the world.” But I have a bad feeling that saving the world is not going to mean a happy ending for everyone…

Stay tuned…