Heroes Recap and Review “I am Sylar”
Last week we flashed back to 1961 where we learned that history has a nasty way of repeating itself within the Heroes Universe. We saw that Angela has a sister Alice, and she has weather controll powers and is pretty pissed that Angela ditched her. We also learned that people with abilities were experimented on and all died in a huge massacre in the desert. On a happier note, the Petrelli family reunited only to see that Nathan was also on television. Looks like that shapeshifting villian Sylar has taken over as Nathan. Now here we go with “I am Sylar” after the cut.We open with Agent Taub waking up in a cold sweat. Except we find out that it is in fact Sylar. He is apparently shifting while asleep. Turning back into Sylar, he rips out a tooth, I assume to show how hardcore he is. Ouch. Later he meets up with Danko and says he is losing his own identity and shifting without control, even growing a new, extra tooth. Danko says he can either be Sylar and hunted or Agent Taub and go to work. Sylar shifts and Danko is happy, and Sylar then carves into his own arm the title of the episode.
Sylar goes after some unlucky guy who happens to have a power that the government thinks is dangerous. Sylar asks him to choose a side (after the guy got a text from Rebel or Micah) and he chooses Sylar side. Sylar kills him, steals his power (I beleive he vibrated things at a frequency until they shattered) and splatters his blood on the wall declaring that “I am Sylar”. Danko tells Sylar later that he needs an anchor, and shows Sylar an old watch his dad gave him taht acts as his anchor when he goes undercover. Great symbolism having it be a watch.
In our B story, Matt and Hiro with Ando are talking about taking down Building 26, something which Matt wants no part of. Hiro and Ando decide to do it anyway. Hiro really needs to learn that a hero also knows when he is outnumbered, its ok to retreat. Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando break into Isaccs loft and try to lure out some government agents, but Ando doesnt want to be bait. Hiro stops time when the agents appear, and Ando isnot stopped and is quite excited. Hiro and Ando continue talking and really the great line is that Ando thinks SUperman and Hiro anre really similiar including being a little fascist. Awesome. Hiro then betrays Ando and he gets knocked out while Hiro finds someone in the agents that is his size so he can infiltrate Building 26. That plan goes awry and they have to dump the truck after Ando electrocutes everyone.
Angent Taub gets files on the death of Virginia Grey (Sylars adoptive mother who he killed in Season 1), and starts looks for that anchor.Then we 
get a really disturbing look into Sylar and dead mom talking that turns out to be him constantly shapeshifting into her and Sylar during the conversation. Truly creepy, but really cool. We are interrupted as Danko says they have found Rebel. The agents go and cut the power wherever Rebel is hiding and charge the place. Micah is packing up when he runs into Sylar. Not good. Micha gives his second inspirational sppech of the season and Sylar shapeshifts to look like hima nd distract Dankos men. Danko mentions that he is a loose end, but Sylar dismisses him later. Sylar is needed to hunt the more powerful supers, and Sylar seems to relish the idea of being the hunter and not the prey. A callback to the episode with his real dad.
Micah ends up hanging out at Sylar or Taub’s place and witnesses Sylar and his mom have a wonderful shapeshift discussion. Gotta say, Sylar was right, getting he ability to talk to machines would have made that whole thing much worse. So Micah gives Sylar the idea to impersonate Nathan petrelli before kicking Micah out of his house with tears on his face.
Sylar is at Nathan’s office, and is looking for a personal product to shapeshift into our favorite Senator. During this he has more of a crazy conversation as the writers try and give justification for why Sylar acts the way he does. He killed the only womn that ever loved him…twice if you count electric girl. Anyway, he transforms into Nathan and we get reaction shots from Hiro and Ando, the Petrelli clan and Danko, who seems to know its Sylar or atleast suspect.
Oh and Matt and Janice meet up and talk and realize that they need to leave cause the agents are outside. They also have a lot more to talk about and Matt says he wants to be in his babies life. Boy, Matt got over Daphne quick didnt he?
We focus back on the Petrelli Clan as Nathan decides to go off on his owna nd get Sylar. That works out well when Sylar almost kills Nathan only to be knocked out by Danko who says the Senator needs to be handled delicatly. Danko wants Sylar to turn back into Taub to take down the rest. We see a montage of images as Suresh, Claire, HRG and Angela are captured and Hiro isnt able to use his powers and is getting a nosebleed. Back to Danko and Sylar as Danko gets pissed that Sylar isnt Taub and stabs him in the right area of the head to kill him. Unfortunatly that doesnt work and Danko is being stared down by an angry Sylar…and we fade to black. Next week is the finale! Lets hope we get drama and action to send us all off happy. This wek was set up for that as Sylar went crazy and for the most part it worked, but the end got kind of jumbled as they raced to the finale episode. Overall a solid effort and lets hope we get a great episode next week. Until next time!
Jeff “DarkSpirit82” Adams
