Heroes 3.12 "Our Father" - review

Heroes episode 3.12 "Our Father"
Airdate: December 8, 2008

  Oh, did you see the scenes of Claire and Hiro with their parents? The best of the evening!

Hiro brought Claire back to the past, 16 years ago when Kaito handed the baby Claire to HRG. Claire also meets her young parents, and that was such a lovely reunion. She tells a young Noah Bennet how great a father he will be to the new baby, and gave him the endearment "Claire-bear".

 Nathan goes back to Pinehearst and demands to lead the company. Like the easily manipulated puppet that he is, Nathan thinks he is "the leader with a vision" as his father concedes. Tracy Stauss, as the power-digger assistant, shows him an army of soldiers who gets ready to be injected with the formula.

Sixteen years back, Hiro meets his dying mother, who is a healer, and she gets to heal Hiro’s memory. I’m such a sucker for good drama, and this one tugs at the heart strings. Hiro asks to have the catalyst and he is strong enough to protect it. She transfers the light to him and dies.

Meantime, Angela asks Peter to kill his own father, at the back of the head with one bullet. Arthur has become too strong for anyone and only Peter can do it.

Sylar really does kill Elle! Now, he’s out to find the truth about his past, if the Petrellis really are his parents. He makes a killing again, getting the powers of a human lie detector, by slicing her head open. Sylar already knows how to get someone’s abilities without killing them, but as the serial killer admits, it feels good to kill again. I guess we’ve seen the last of him as a good guy, either in the present or in the future.

Ando, Daphne and Matt go to Manhattan and retrieve Isaac Mendez’ unfinished sketchbook. Unfortunately, it’s titled "Hiro Lost in Time" and the trio read what has happened to the time traveler. Hiro meets Claire to tell her he has taken the catalyst "and we have saved the future. Arthur Petrelli shows up and gets the catalyst from Hiro and all his powers, leaving Hiro without any abilities trapped 16 years in the past. So much for protecting the light, huh. Arthur sends Claire back to the present to tell Angela he has won.

Arthur goes back to the present and transfers the catalyst to the formula. Peter and the Haitian confront Arthur at Pinehearst, but Sylar ends up shooting the bullet right between Arthur’s eyes.

Just when Peter thinks it’s over, Nathan creates the first marine to have synthetic abilities from a perfected formula.

Next week, we find out how everything ends, with the last episode of the volume "Villains".

Image credit: NBC /Adam Taylor; Chris Haston