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Sigh. Once again, everyone is being mean to Heroes. And by "everyone," I mean Rickey and EW. They just don't even know.

I happened to love this week's episode. And it's not just because Peter had his season one hair back, it's also because it was an awesome episode. It explained a whole lot and answered some questions. I do not agree with some people who believe it was unnecessary.

Hiro takes his spirit walk and we get to see what was going on with the villains 12 to 18 months prior to present time on the show. Pretty much all that happens to Hiro is that his eyes go all smoky and he falls over a few times, so his story line doesn't really pan out like I was hoping it would yet, but the end of the episode was certainly interesting. Hiro comes out of his spirit walk and then he and Ando find Meesta Afreecan Eesaac sans head. Then they find the head. And then Arthur Petrelli finds Hiro and (presumably) takes his powers. That was a crazy ending and I am very much ready to see what happens to Hiro next time.

Hmmm. Now let's talk about ... Claire's mommy Meredith. We find out that orange-flame-girl Meredith and blue-flame-boy Flint are siblings, which means Flint is Claire's uncle, which means yet another character can be linked to the Petrelli clan. Fun! Meredith and Flint rob a convenience store. Flint is stupid (apparently). Eric Roberts is also there and gets Meredith in order to train her to be an agent for the Company.

After Meredith and Eric Roberts (I know his name is Thompson) nab metal fist man (crazy power, by the way), Mer finds Flint has been locked up in the Company's prison place, so she busts him out and they run away to a freight train. Well, Eric Roberts hops the same train and a fight ensues.

Flint escapes the train, there is a little more fighting, and then Mer sets the train car ablaze before she and Eric Roberts jump out. And then the train explodes! And guess where they end up?! Odessa! And guess who runs into the burning train to save people?! Claire!! Her mommy exploded that train that she ran into in season one. I just love things like that. It reminds me of the Back To The Future movies, how everything is connected and intertwined. Oh, Eric Roberts ends up feeling sorry for Meredith because she was talking about how her baby, Claire, had died in a fire, but Eric Roberts knows that's not what really happened, so he lets Mer go. So that's that story line. I liked it.

Now let's talk about ... hmm. I'll save my favorite story for last, so now we will talk about Arthur Petrelli. If Peter had been in this episode more, this might have been my favorite story line. Haha. This was the part where I got to see Peter and his awesome hair! Not for long, but still, it was there and it looked great. So. Back before he was REALLY scary, Arthur Petrelli held lavish parties. Linderman attended at least one of these parties, the one that was on the show last night. Arthur Petrelli was still scary back then, apparently, because he got Linderman to hire someone to run Nathan off the road - another question answered! We saw this in season one, the crash that crippled Nathan's wife, Heidi. So now we know Linderman was behind it, but Arthur was REALLY behind it.

But why did Nathan's daddy want that to happen? Because Nathan was the assistant district attorney investigating Linderman and Arthur didn't want Nathan uncovering all the super secret, scary Linderman-Petrelli connections!

That's not all of Arthur's mean-ness for this episode. He also plays crazy mind games with his wife, Angela, messing up her memories and altering her thoughts and stuff so that she agrees that Nathan has to die! Uh oh! But Linderman ends up helping her out by repairing the parts of her mind that Arthur had altered.

So Angela loves Nathan enough to kill her husband, because that's what she did. Well, she tried to. She poisons his Italian lentil soup and has the Haitian there so Arthur can't do anything about anything! Then Arthur keels over and Angela orders the Haitian to take the body to the incinerator post haste! But there's one problem! Nathan comes to visit and finds his daddy lying on the floor, still breathing, and calls 911.

Here's another question answered: Arthur played mind games with the doctor and got him to tell Angela that Arthur was dead when he really wasn't! So that's why everyone thought he was dead but he was hanging out at Pinehearst! Crazy stuff. Then there's a nice scene with Nathan and Peter at the funeral. Poor Petrelli boys. If only they knew what was going on ...

Now, my favorite story line! Gabriel!! He totally wasn't Sylar in this episode. Well, not until the end. His story line starts out with him in his clock shop, holding what?! A noose! Uh oh. He was very upset that he killed that guy, Davis, to get his telepathy powers, so he was going to commit suicide. And he really went through with it! He was hanging from the ceiling with the rope around his neck and everything, but he didn't die. Guess who saved him? Elle. She zaps the rope, it breaks, and Gabriel falls to the floor.

(Random side note: I just wrote a story about a character named Gabriel, and there was another character that called him "Gabe-y Baby" every time she spoke to or about him. I seriously almost just called Gabriel Gray "Gabe-y Baby." Geez.)

So I liked Elle a little more in this episode. At first, I didn't know if I was going to like her because, even though she zapped the rope (though she told Gabriel that it just broke), she was working with Noah Bennet to get Gabriel because he was one of those dangerous folk - a villain. But she ended up liking him and wanting to help him rather than help Noah! But her job is to help Noah so she is so confused!

She bakes Gabriel a peach pie. Another question answered: Gabriel's favorite pie variety is peach. Yay! Gabriel shows Elle his power - the telepathy one, not the head slicing one - and she is VERY excited. Well, she was acting that way.

Anyway, Gabriel and Elle become best buddies! They cook and stuff! But Noah is not interested in ziti. He wants Elle to get Gabriel to transform into a villain so he can be studied. That is not very nice.

Elle finds Gabriel's piece of paper that has the names of other "people like him." He is very defensive of that paper. He throws it in the garbage! But Elle secretly gets it out of the trash and brings it to Noah. They then get another dude with powers to visit Gabriel. It's a dude named Trevor that can ... shoot invisible bullets? It was pretty cool.

But Gabriel gets REALLY mad when Elle tells him that she stole his paper. He slices Trevor's head and Noah watches on the secret camera monitors. Question: how did they get all of those secret cameras into Gabriel's apartment? Maybe I missed something. Anyway, Elle was really mad at Noah for making Gabriel be a villain. And I kind of liked Elle for that episode.

Alright, so that's that. I love Peter Petrelli! I love Gabriel Petrelli! Yay Heroes!

Bye!