So, everyone is excited about Episode 20. “Five Years Gone” is the appropriate title for the episode, with the original title being “String Theory,” subsequently the title of graphic novel 30. So, for those who don’t feel like trudging through the online Heroes labyrinth, I’ve compiled a list of spoilers for the new episode. Comment on the bottom if you know something we don’t know.

Peter has a bunch of new powers (given, from the promo). Here is the updated list:

• phasing
• telekinesis
• pre-cognition
• flight
• invisibility (I’m guessing that this one will be important and that we haven’t seen the last of Claude)
• time-travel
• super-strength (from when he’s kissing Jessica)
• regeneration
• he should also have telepathy from meeting Matt, and
• he also has the metaphysical connection with Nathan, and lastly
• his prophetic/”everywhere eye” dream

To sum it up: Peter is going to be one powerful guy. And he’s teamed up with Hiro, and possibly Jessica from the looks of it. Posts to heroesrevealed.com say that this band of united Heroes is called the Freeworld, but that is at the moment unconfirmed. Cute, innocent Hiro is now the world’s most wanted terrorist (and perhaps Peter is second?). This Hiro went back in time to try to stop the bomb, who was originally Sylar. But instead of stopping the bomb, he turned the bomb into his best friend. In the graphic novel, we know that future Hiro finds Peter Petrelli on the subway because he trusts future Peter (because he is so powerful and the previews show that they are friends and perhaps live together-Isaac’s loft with the timeline). If you had one chance to save the world, wouldn’t you pick the person you trust the most? And so what if he’s the strongest, too?

To the other Petrelli brother, the Oval Office has become a reality. If he was a “heartbeat away from the Presidency,” then someone’s heart must have stopped beating. Parkman has become Head of Homeland Security with Suresh as Head of Medicine. However, if Suresh has teamed up with the Company, then the Company must be involved with Linderman, with current ties to the White House. This is shaky-but if Matt and Mohinder are working together, but the Company has tried to kill Matt and Mohinder works with them….then this plot fits perfectly in convoluted Heroes style. Back to Mr. President for now. Nathan is proposing a genocide of all “special people” (even though he does tell Claire he’s “the most special person of all.”) But I digress. Nathan’s “genocide” could merely be the killing of the mutant gene by a genetic cure. We do see Mohinder with a needle. Mohinder is given an ultamatim by Nathan, is he with him or against him. This is a tough call, because Mohinder is a geneticist who studies “special” people and that is his life dream. However, going against the President who you know is a “special” person could also be a bad idea.

HRG meets with Claire-now a brunette. She, meanwhile, has found a new love interest, a guy from Texas (name unknown). Claire wants her normal life back. I guess she realizes what Angela Petrelli was talking about. Either way, it seems as though things between her and Nathan are not going smoothly. Claire’s world is not looking up, as we see her confronted by Sylar.

The “America Remembers” advertisement shown on the promo shows a picture of Sylar next to a pic of the bomb. So I guess we can assume Sylar is being blamed for the bomb. I can imagine that to be true, it wouldn’t look good for the President to be the brother of the bomb that brought so much pain to America. But, how bad will it look to Nathan if his brother is one of the main fighters against his regime.

But where does Mrs. Petrelli fit in to this? It is apparant that she has a power: she knew about both Peter and Nathan’s power, but has not yet exposed her own. Sorry to the fans who thought that Linderman was the father of Nathan, but in the graphic novel, Nathan was born while Mr. Petrelli was in Vietnam, before the family knew of Linderman (and before Linderman became a mobster/”Original Hero Team member”).

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