As ever, not everything is as it seems, and it’s up to everyone’s favourite excitable Japanese man to try and figure out just what he needs to do when he returns to the past. There’s plenty of mystery as to what’s happened over the past five years, and while a lot of ideas are pure X-men rip-offs (substitute the name ‘Sylar’ with ‘Magneto’ and the parallels are…well, copyright infringements), there’s a lot left undisclosed. In some cases this is genuinely intriguing, in others it’s a bit sloppy and vague. And as with all time travel stories, a wealth of plot and logic inconsistencies arrive. It’s never really made clear if this is an alternate timeline or what-have-you, and if indeed anything can actually be changed in the past that could stop it all from happening. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. With three episodes to go, it’s time for Heroes to really pull its socks up and dazzle everyone. This episode is a nice precursor for what I’m sure will be some awesome fights to come, and things are very much coming to a head now. Bring it on.