Heroes Season 1(#9)---11/20/06-'Homecoming'

[dravot]

How come no one's mentioned Isaac's "useless" painting yet? It looks like a Human-Torch type figure flying at the viewer. Sylar controlling Radioactive Guy's power, maybe?

How? Why do we even think that Sylar can do anything of the sort?

 

[GlassEye]

About Ando and Hiro - I think they were never shown in the images together with Claire -they just happened to be near the incident.

And this reminds me of something that I've been wondering about. Why are Hiro and Ando in Midland, Texas? It's certainly not on any direct path to New York and as far as I can remember no one knew where the cheerleader was that needed saving when Hiro and Ando left Las Vegas. So, why?

 

[Taelorn76]

How come no one's mentioned Isaac's "useless" painting yet? It looks like a Human-Torch type figure flying at the viewer. Sylar controlling Radioactive Guy's power, maybe?

I think it was Ted(nuclear man) in the painting.

 

[Krafus]

Well, the rescue finally happened, and I'm happy about that... but less happy with how easily Sylar was taken out. He was built up as being really powerful (I liked that painting where he's shown as some sort of red wraith), then went down rather quickly. He must have expended a lot of power to recover from the fall, weakening him enough to make him easy prey for Eden and the black guy.

Oh, and was there any blood from where Sylar fell? I mean, Peter seemed to have bled lots, but I don't recall seeing a blood pattern that would indicate someone fell alongside him. Maybe Sylar "cleaned up" after himself.

I'm curious to see how it turns out. I doubt that Peter will remain in jail too long (okay, and I hope he won't). Maybe Nathan will arrange a cover-up. Certainly Claire won't be at all happy if she learns the guy who rescued her is accused of being the murderer. And I'm curious to see what Bennett will do with Sylar, and whether Sylar will escape.

 

[dravot]

Remember there was a sonic boom when he escaped from Claire's dad. The only other thing I see to disprove this theory, is that when Mohinder and Eve went to Sylar's apartment Nathan's picture was on the map. I think that may have been the only picture. Soo why would he have a picture of himself?

Agreed.

(Actually, her name is Eden.)

Sylar is Sylar. He's not Nathan, he's not Peter. He's Mohinder's father's 'Patient Zero'. People want the story to be more twisty and convoluted than it already is (and it's convoluted enough).

 

[DonTadow]

Well, first off, we don't know where exactly Nathan is when Charlie dies. He's not in that episode.

Secondly, if a guy can fly, that pretty much explains being in one city one day and another city the next.

I don't know I thinke we're approaching grassy knowle here. It's a far stretch that the creators would cast a whole new person to play sylar only for it to be Nathan. There's also no motive for Nathan to be a killer and it doesnt mesh with the previous of next week.

 

[Arnwyn]

What a great episode - this certainly cemented Heroes as being my favorite show on TV right now.

I was particularly struck with the conversation between Peter and Ando. It was short, yet detailed and concise. What a concept! (I say this, since I also watch Lost and BSG, which both seem to make points about characters simply refusing to talk and pass on information to each other).

 

[drothgery]

And this reminds me of something that I've been wondering about. Why are Hiro and Ando in Midland, Texas? It's certainly not on any direct path to New York and as far as I can remember no one knew where the cheerleader was that needed saving when Hiro and Ando left Las Vegas. So, why?

Maybe they were halfway to Phoenix by the time they stopped running away from Vegas, and just got on I-10 from there?

 

[GlassEye]

Maybe they were halfway to Phoenix by the time they stopped running away from Vegas, and just got on I-10 from there?

That would work, I guess. Or maybe they just took a wrong exit and ended way off track before they realized it. (Incidentally, only 20-ish miles from Odessa and Claire).

 

[mmu1]

That would work, I guess. Or maybe they just took a wrong exit and ended way off track before they realized it. (Incidentally, only 20-ish miles from Odessa and Claire).

Perhaps they're still using the comic book as a guide...? Though that only makes sense if the comic is vague and leaves out many important things, like Charlie getting killed.

Which is not outside the realm of possibility - the comic is what sends them to Vegas in the Nissan Product Placement, but they walk into the whole mess surrounding cheating at cards blindly, despite the fact Hiro is scouring the comic for clues.

Anyway... I think that, like dravot said, people are making way too much out of an already complex story. The makers of Heroes don't seem to believe that every question is best answered with three other questions, which I'm grateful for... One Lost is enough.
And as far as the specific Sylar / Peter / Nathan issue goes - you see enough of the guy's face at the end of the show, and in the previews, to make it crystal clear it's a different actor.

Finally, as far as Peter being arrested goes - I think it is the perfect opportunity to bring in the FBI agent and the psychic cop, but I'm not sure it's going to happen, at least not right away - since last we see them, they're in the middle of a huge flap surrounding the Radiocative Man's escape.
What I want to see is if they show the police handling the crime scene evidence from the homecoming in an intelligent manner (provided Bennett doesn't mess with it) - after all, there is no physical evidence on the dead cheerleader that'd link her to Peter, and unless they're completely incompetent, they will realize that's a pool of his own blood he was lying in. On the other hand, Sylar probably did leave a blood trail on his way to his scuffle with Peter, and then disappeared, which can make it look like Peter is the one who killed the girl. (Though do we have 100% proof, at this point, that she's actually dead? It looked like Sylar only got started with the incision, and non-lethal head wounds bleed a ton.) Or they might figure out there were two people there, but think Sylar and Peter share the responsibility.