Heroes

Yep, I'm watching Heroes live. Might as well just rip off the damn Band-Aid and get this over with.

So Matt finished bricking the wall? Like, with Peter just passed out on the ground? Cool. Sylar and Peter get out of their Brain World and Sylar somehow busts out of the brick wall.

T Bag had sent Multiplying Man after Sylar and Peter, because somehow he knew they'd be trying to make trouble for him. Because, you see, T Bag has big plans. Can't wait to finally find out what they are!!

The Carnival has set up residence in Central Park. T Bag asks Deaf Girl to play the cello to attract people to the Carnival. She doesn't want to do it, because Peter had the dream about that, so the Puppet Master forces her to. I still don't know exactly what T Bag plans to do with these people. And neither does Deaf Girl, so what's she so afraid of?

Multiplying Man is easily defeated, and when Sylar & Peter (the new Batman & Robin?) find out the Carnival is in NYC, they're on their way to save the day!

Claire and Bennet are trapped in a trailer underground. He's running out of oxygen, so they decide to give into their feelings and make love. Or not. But almost, I swear! There was crying and groping and desperation. It was hot. They're interrupted when Tracy arrives, flowing into the trailer with her watery self. And then she digs a tunnel - with her water power, I guess - and they're out.

Claire and Bennet arrive in Central Park, as do The Dynamic (Hot) Duo, Sylar & Peter. I'm assuming they couldn't afford to pay Ali Larter for 2 days' work, because Tracy's never seen again.

Claire tries to convince The Carnies that T Bag is evil and wants to kill everyone. What is killing everyone even going to accomplish? Is it just mindless fun? Claire gets up on her soapbox (like, literally) and goes on quite the tear, screaming at everyone that T Bag gets his power from them, and that T Bag killed his brother.

Hiro is reunited with Charlie - but she's 65 years older. He decides an 85-year-old girlfriend is too much for him to handle, and buggers off to Central Park (Bennet had called Ando, apparently).

Sylar distracts the Puppet Master and Deaf Girl uses her weird Rainbow Brite powers to break free.

T Bag starts in with the whole earthquake thing. And it's like the lamest fake quake ever. Until Peter flies in and tackles him. He steals his power and they begin this kind of tug-of-war with the ground beneath their feet, bitching at each other as the earth shakes.

Hiro arrives and Claire asks him to teleport The Carnies out of there. Without The Carnies, T Bag loses his power. Well, good thing Hiro A) got control of his power and B) didn't want to bang that 85-year-old bitch.

And that's where Volume 5 ends. With T Bag ranting.

Volume Six. Well, now, that's being optimistic, isn't it? T Bag is carted off by the cops, The Carnies are safe wherever Hiro took them, and Sylar's good. And Claire pulls the bonehead move of letting news cameras follow her as she jumps from the top of the ferris wheel.

Well, OK, so now we're getting somewhere. I'd actually like to watch a show where people knew that these mutants existed. Too bad I might not have the chance, and they didn't pull this 2 years ago. Too bad it took them until the last 45 seconds of this episode.