Posted by Dustin on 09.23.2008 at 11:35 am

I have a three hour drive a head of me, but wanted to get a “Heroes” post in because it was fricken awesome!

I’m not liking Future Peter returning to the past to fix the future, only to screw it up. Future Peter is the one who shot Nathan, and Peter figured it out. Future Peter then stuck current Peter in the body of a prisoner in Level 5, the company’s prison. How did he do that trick? That seems like a really odd power.

Nathan was saved from certain death, but didn’t know how. He thought it was by God at first, and even made some announcement to the fact on television. Later he learned it was Linderman who brought him back. However only he can see Linderman. Is Linderman a ghost? Does that mean they still have powers as ghosts?

Matt learned about Future Peter and was teleported to the middle of Africa where he met a mystic. Not to much going on there, but the mystic knows the world is in for some doom. Mama Petrelli finally also leaned about Peter and we learned what her power finally is, she sees the future in her dreams. She saw him forecoming. She also warned him that by coming, he has changed the future in a whole knew way. Interesting, so perhaps if she could always see the future, she and Linderman weren’t bad after all?

Syalr went to Claire and opened up her brain. We learned he traces along their brain with his fingers until he finds the area with the power, then he takes it. However he did not kill Claire, telling her that he couldn’t if he wanted to. She can’t die, now neither can he. So it seems both of them have Adam Monroe’s powers? They are immortal? Also Claire’s powers seem to have mutated after her run-in with Sylar. She no longer feels pain when she’s hurt, she did before. Interesting!

Sylar stole an envelope about Level 5 from Claire’s dad’s things, he then went there to get home really great super powers. He killed the company head Bob, later trying to kill Elle. However she blew a fuse and saved herself, but blew out the power at the prison and set everyone free! Opps! HRG, who was also there, caught Sylar before leaving.

Speaking of Super Powers, Surresh figured out where in the human body the powers come from, not blood but adrenaline. He used Maya as a test subject and made a formula that could give powers, the first step at taking them away as well. He tried it on himself and ended up with Spiderman like powers. He was super strong, had heightened senses and could wall-crawl. However too predictably, he started having a reaction and his skin started to shed. All too “Jeff Goldblum in The Fly” for me.

HRG Noah Bennet returned home to Claire and explained to her what happened at Level 5, how all these prisoners got out. He had to go find them as he was the only one that could. She tried to convince her dad to let her be his partner, she had to help. He said no, but brought someone to stay here and look after the family while he was gone. He brought in Claire’s biological mother, the fire starter!

Meanwhile somewhere in New York we learned one Traci Strauss is not only sleeping with the Governor, she’s his right hand woman. She also looks exactly like Nikki Saunders, who was left for dead at the end of last season. Micah and his cousin were nowhere to be found in this premier. Traci and the Governor decided to use Nathan to fill a seat left in the senate by someones death. Traci met with him to make the offer, but he was sure she was Nikki. She claimed she wasn’t. Nathan did accept, which Linderman told him was wise.

Later Traci kept getting pestered by a tabloid reporter also sure she was Nikki. She kept saying she wasn’t this woman, but he was running a story. He had photos and even a tape of Nikki and Nathan together. She realized this could blow everything and exploded on him . . . but not with super strength. She grabbed him and he turned into a block of ice and shattered! She looked horrified she did this and ran off. So wait, this is a different power, so is she not Nikki? We know Nikki had a multiple-personality disorder. Could that also allow her powers to change too? Or could this be the long-dead twin Jessica? Maybe Jessica didn’t die? Hmmm….

Over to Japan, Hiro was now head of his father’s company. He and Ando found out that he was left in charge of a secret, one he was to guard. It was half of an important formula. Hiro’s father said it cold destroy the world, and if it fell into the wrong hands . . . he gave some riddle about only the blood of the “light one” could stop the darkness to come. A speedstar named Daphne then zoomed through the office, taking the formula from Hiro!

Hiro traveled to the future to see what was happening, and saw the world being destroyed. He also saw Ando betray him for the formula, shooting lightening at him. Woah, Ando got powers! Was it from Surresh’s formula, or has he just not figured them out yet?

Upon returning, Hiro and Ando set a trap for Daphne. She revealed she was working for someone and they tracked her to Berlin, where she was after the second half of this formula. Have to say I love Daphne!

Back to Level 5, Angela arrived after dreaming of a horrible future in which all her friends and family were dead, the world of a group of villains who escaped from Level 5. I’m pretty sure Adam Monroe, as well as Nikki/Traci, was with the bad guys! Angela took over Level 5, as the chain of command fell to her. She told Elle she was only kept around because her father protected her, but she was no longer needed and fired her! She then went in to see Sylar who was strapped down to a table. She told “Gabriel” that he just needed some encouragement from his mother. He told her that she wasn’t his mother . . . but she said oh yes she was!

WOAH! SO Gabriel AKA Sylar was adopted? He’s a Petrelli? Very cool.