Saw that move coming from a mile away. Pretty convenient how there's a pole in the middle of the store.

So lineage-wise, Monica Hawkins is D.L.'s sister making Micah her nephew and her son Micah's cousin. Both Monica and D.L. had powers which means that Nana (Nichelle Nichols) or her husband also had/have powers and the cousin may have unrealized abilities as well.

Random thoughts:

-Parkman / Father storyline gets a thumbs up from me. That was a nice twist to the story.

- The Claire storyline is beyond annoying now. It's gradually more obvious how Noah is going to die with the ongoing deception in that family.

- The pacing and story-jumping was better this week. It was almost better without Hiro and Peter

- When Slyar finally kills the Blunder Twins, I'm betting the power will backfire on him.

- Thank god Nathan shaved that ridiculous beard. But I have no idea what's going on with his scarred face.

I thought Monica's last name is Dawson?

A bit of searching:

http://heroeswiki.ew.com/page/Monica+Dawson?

DL is Monica's uncle.

That is incorrect about Taskmaster. He's learned techniques simply by watching a video tape. The Super-Adaptoid used to have to be within a certain distance of people to scan them, but I don't know if that's been dropped now.

That figures that we can't get a good look at Mr. Petrelli's face. If he does show up, in a flashback, maybe they can get John C. McGinley to do a cameo. That was the first person I thought of when I saw the photo.

I hope that Claire tells the truth to her father soon, because it is driving me nuts.

When it was revealed that Matt's dad was in the group, I sat up and said "What the hell?" out loud.

so, does Sylar got his powers back already?

I'm thinking no. Other way he'd kill the twins really fast.

If Claire wants to trick her parents, she should at least take her backpack when she says she is going to the library, not walk out empty-handed.

Even if Sylar's powers were working, I doubt he'd kill the twins that fast. He doesn't even know what they can do yet - which is why he yelled "what are you doing to me?" Once he figures out their gift, then their geese are cooked.

Anyone else expect to see Claire's dad standing there when the camera pulled back from the Hollywood sign?

I wonder if the wonder twins are like the new couple last year on Lost. If they originally were meant to be an intregal part of the show, but fan hate makes the writers/producers just kill them off.

hehehe yeah, I thought the same.

Not to mention, he had to kill the one guy with a rock...

Not for nuttin, but the promo for last night's ep insinuated that it would be revealed who the hooded killer was. Did that happen? Or was I so dumbstruck by the appearance of a stripper pole in a fast food restaurant that I missed it?

That's exactly what I thought. How did Sylar go from the island jungle to the desert Mexican road so quickly. I got the feeling that he wasn't supposed to meet the Wonder Twins or at least not yet.

well, it IS New Orleans.

It may be that the island jungle he was seeing was what Candice was showing him. Maybe she wasn't actually killed, and it was all in his head.

otherwise, i got nuthin'. big jump in time/storyline.

I was never convinced that Sylar actually killed Candice and that it was all part of her illusion. However, there's nothing to explain how he's met up with actual people now, let alone how he made his way to a road in Mexico.

right, but it's easier to believe that he was being shown the illusion of the island and was actually in Mexico, than it is to believe he was actually on an island and somehow made his way to mexico.

but i agree it hasn't been explained in either situation.

I think Candice is vain enough to never reveal her fat self to people, so by showing the viewers that she returned to her fat self, she was killed by Sylar after all.

It was weird, but towards the beginning of the episode, I think around the time that Nathan was talking to his mom at the hospital, I thought to myself "I wonder when we'll see Parkman's dad?" And, whadayaknow, a few minutes later he's introduced as the villain.

No Hiro? No Peter? Why set those stories up at the beginning of the season only to drop them for an episode? Why not start them later?

Yeah, I agree that this show has too many characters and the writers need to figure out what to do with those they already have before introducing more... Except we get K. Bell next week, so at least one more character is yet to be introduced... *le sigh of love* *le sigh of frustration*

-ringding-

I was thinking this when I saw last nights episode

Check yo self Foo!

Sylar was never on an island. While we first saw him this season sitting on a beach, that was revealed to be an illusion -- he was actually in a hospital bed, indoors. Last week, we saw him kill (probably) Candace and leave the building he was in -- only to find that he was in the midst of a large wooded/jungle area, which is obviously (in light of this week's developments) in Mexico.

So, can we start calling Sylar "Gleek" now?

Pop Petrelli looks like Kensei to me

This would explain Claire's powers since it would appear they skipped a generation.

Kensei is still alive. He must be the big bad...my guess anyway...