Heroes: 1 Down, 3 to Go

The fact that there are only 3 episodes left makes me so bitter. It's like, what's the point then? Can we just forget this season and wait til they come back full-strength?

This episode filled us in on some of what happened in the last 4 months, but not everything. Where the F was Sylar?

DL survived the gunshot wound at Kirby Plaza. Bob meets Niki and puts her on meds to suppress her abilities. The meds make her depressed so she dumps them and springs a new personality, Gina, an L.A. cokewhore. DL becomes a firefighter, but ultimately is killed when he goes to rescue Niki from the clubs of L.A.

Maya wiped out her brother's whole wedding party with her black tears. Still boring!

Peter exploded, Nathan burned and fell to Earth, then Peter flew down to save him. He took Nathan to a hospital where he was a crispy critter beyond belief. Elle and Bob got Peter at the hospital; they tell him he's dangerous but they're working on a cure and they drug him to dampen his abilities. He's held in a cell next to Adam, who has been there for 30 years. Adam tells Peter that his blood cures people and he can cure Nathan, which is of course enough for Peter to stop taking the meds and walk them both through the prison walls. Adam's blood does indeed cure Nathan.

Nitpick: When Nathan is cured I think it said "two" or "three weeks ago" - can Nathan really become an alcoholic and grow that big-ass beard he had at the beginning of the season in that amount of time? Italians are hairy I guess.

Theory: Mama Petrelli's power is the power of persuasion. I think she persuaded Peter to regain his memory, and was suggesting to Heidi in this episode that she move on and keep the secret.

In the end, Bob and Elle catch Peter and Adam at the hospital. Well really they catch Adam. Peter runs off, his shirt burning courtesy of Elle, which leads to the 75th shot of shirtless Peter this season. I mean really, we get it, you worked out during the hiatus. The boy has been shirtless every week!! The Haitian does him a favor by chaining him to the inside of a cargo container and wiping his memory.

I guess this filled in some blanks, but really no more blanks than I could just have assumed myself. 3 left. Boo.