Take Angela Petrelli, who for the previous two seasons has been presented as an acerbic personality, but hardly lethal. In the space of the first five minutes she’s transformed into a narcissistic sociopath, feeding her ‘son’ Sylar another victim and another power. But back to this episode, entitled “One of Us, One of Them”. What I did like was how they represented that ‘present’ Peter’s mind was trapped in the body of another. When the camera looked directly at him we saw Peter, but in reflections we saw the body he’s inhabiting. This was cool even if the logic of putting him in a super-powered villain seems the dumbest thing that ‘future’ Peter did so far. Surely any incarcerated person would have done? He’s now part of a bank robbery with three other super-villains, while Noah and Sylar are dispatched to get them all back. Noah seems stunned by this teaming, and I was too, as credibility took another kicking. Which is a shame, because their subsequent arrival at the scene of the bank robbery is one of the most enjoyable scenes in Heroes possibly since seasonone. Future Peter turns up and takes himself out of the body he left him and teleports him to who knows where, before Noah and Sylar resolve the bank heist sorta. There is so much that I haven’t mentioned, like the ongoing Hiro and Ando knock-about comedy interludes, and Parkman’s spirit-walk in the desert, and the impact of Claire’s biological mother’s arrival on the Bennett household. But these are all pot boilers this week, subservient to the Sylar threads. This show has lost the definition it had in season 1, and I’m not sure how it gets it back. Check out our review of episode 2 here.
