Heroes Season Finale! An Invisible Thread
Last week Sylar went through hell as he went through a very thorough identity crisis and came up with a plan to take out Nathan and then use that disguise to take out the President. We ended on a cliffhanger as Danko had knocked out Nathan and tried to kill Sylar. Something which Sylar didn’t appreciate. HRG and Mohinder were captured, Hiro gets a bloody nose when he uses his powers and Matt must end this. Now here we are at the finale, lets see how they tie off this season!
We see HRG manage to get Angela and Claire to safety before he is picked up by agents. Matt flies to his destiny. Sylar tells Danko that shape shifting has altered his “off switch” that makes it a lot harder to kill him. He reiterates his plan to take over as President of the United States. Then he frames Danko for attacking a bunch of agents. Devious.
Angela and Claire are together until Angela goes after Matt to get his help to save Nathan. Claire goes to find Nathan. Sylar is kicking Nathan around, funny as hell. Starts absorbing memories from objects when Claire enters the room. Sylar manages to fool her and get her to suggest coming with him. Danko meanwhile is brought to Building 26 and paraded in front of everybody. Hiro and Ando are watching, Hiro is willing to sacrifice himself to get the job done and shut this place down. Danko ends up sharing a cell with HRG.
Nathan is found by Peter, and tells him he has to take out Sylar. Peter remarks sarcastically that he will be a lotta help. Nice. HRG and Danko are in the cell and realizing that they are essentially screwed and agree to help each other get out. Right when their hands are about to meet, Hiro stops time. He opens the door and sees the two of them shakes his head, and leaves. Hiro and Ando are trying to find the prisoners. Ando steals the two wanted photos of them as Hiro finds the prisoners and excaims, “Holy Crap.” They find Suresh and trade spots of the prisoners and the wardens. Nice job. The prisoners are released as Hiro continues to have ill effects. HRG is almost betrayed by Danko, but Hiro stops him, then collapses, bleeding from his eye. HRG goes for Sylar. Nathan/Sylar is with Claire and she is growing more and more suspicious. HRG calls his daughter to warn her, but by that time Sylar has the phone and HRG is quite scared for his daughter.
Sylay suddenly has access to the puppet master power and is bossing Claire around to get him his drink. He then proceeds to tell Claire he will kill everyone she cares about. She says she will spend the rest of her life trying to kill him, to which he replies that everyone needs a hobby. Then he thinks they can hook up and maybe she could even be his first, first lady. What a sweetie. Nathan and Peter arrive and somehow convince the Secret Service to let suspected terrorists (people with powers) to just go in and help out. Thats 2 plot holes in 5 minutes. Nathan and Peter go to confront Sylar as Claire is sent flying out. They charge in leaving Claire behind a closed door as we get a light show and screams through a crack in the door. *Sigh* Is it too much to see one cool fight on this show? Anyway, Claire bursts in and finds an injured Peter, as Sylar and Nathan apparently flew out. Peter can no longer fly. Claire and Peter give chase, as they leave Sylar throws Nathan into the room and slices his throat and watches him die.
Matt arrives in DC and is confronted by Angela, she gives a great argument that they need the same thing and he agrees to help her. Claire and 
Peter are confronted by HRG, but the agents try to capture them. Angela and Matt find Nathans body and Angela freaks out. Meanwhile Sylar/Nathan kills the President Chief of Staff and goes to get the President. He manages to get into the limo and shakes the Presidents hand, but its Peter! He stole the shape shifting power in the lottery that is hand shaking. Sylar is then stabbed with a tranq. Why Peter does not kill him? GAH!
Matt, HRG, Angela are part of a plot involving changing Sylar into Nathan with a mindwipe. HRG sent Claire and Peter to try and find Nathan. So those two are int he dark. Sylar needs to be Nathan because someone has to explain to the President the situation and to stop the hunting process. Now why didn’t they use Claire’s healing blood to help Nathan? Why didnt Peter just shapeshift into Nathan to fool people. The former seems to have been written out of the show, the latter actually has some semblance of sense because only Sylar could have Nathan’s memories. So now Sylar is Nathan. Fake Sylar’s frozen body is now burned, as Mohinder gives a voiceover about identity and its meaning. Angela and Nathan talk about establishing a new Company, this time with government sponsorship. They even want to put HRG in charge. This really sets up the status quo. In some ways we are right back with Season 1, just now Nathan has a ticking time bomb in his brain. Hiro also seems to not be able to use abilities.
This season has been up and down, left and right. Hopefully the next season will give us a lot more to look forward to, a lot more story consistency and for the love of god a legit fight scene.
Ok now our first look at Volume 5! Looks like Season 5 will be called Redemption, and judging by the way Tracey turned to water and killed a former agent of Building 26, she is the judge jury and executioner. With the Company getting government sponsorship and HRG in charge, he can redeem himself in his own eyes and in the eyes of his family. Should be an interesting development. Also we see that Nathan/Sylar are still attracted to how things work, something is sure to be a plot point next season.
Next season will be 18 episodes, so lets hope for a nice tight season of Heroes next year. As for the finale, there are issues as always, but I think they tied everything off the best they could.
Jeff “DarkSpirit82” Adams
Staff Writer
