This episode might have well been called the Daddy Issue Episode, cause everybody’s got one. And they all come to a head, tragically.Little Claire is standing up to her morally slippery dad and refuses to leave Costa Verde and West. Mr. Bennet (aka HRG) confronts West, and then convinces him that their beloved Claire Bear’s in trouble. Bob comes knocking to the Bennets’ front door and takes Claire with him after tying up mom. HRG meets Suresh, who forces him at gunpoint to a deserted warehouse area and tells him he WILL give up Claire so her blood can cure Nikki. As HRG so eloquently put it, Suresh “has gone native,” totally buying in to Company Bob’s BS. (Was it really necessary for Suresh to walk around with the world’s most ridiculous bandage on his nose?) At the warehouse, West flies in, knocks over Suresh’s partner, Elle, and HRG grabs the gun away from Suresh. By the time he and West make it back to the Bennet’s home, an unconscious Elle in tow, Claire and Bob are gone and Mrs. Bennet’s tied up. They tie up Elle instead and call up Bob to arrange a trade.Hiro, meanwhile has his own daddy issue. As in, he’s gonna go back in time in order to save his own father, a former member of the Company. Daddy, predictably, responds that it’s his fate to die that day, but Hiro convinces him and off they go, back 17 years, when Hiro’s mom is being buried. There, in a graceful, heartwrenching scene, Hiro meets his younger self, who makes him realize that he cannot play God and must let his father die. He takes him back to the night of his murder by the hooded man, and then freezes time so he can see who the killer is: Takezo Kensei, aka Adam!Parkman is playing protective dad to Molly, only he just discovered he can not only read her mind, but control her with his. He also controls his boss into letting him continue to find out about the person killing every member of the Company (we now know that to be Adam, of course, whose cell regeneration has allowed him to live 400 years). When Parkman visits Mrs. Petrelli in the clinker, he mind-controls her into telling him about Adam. And, he tries to get her to tell him who an unknown woman in the Company photograph (presumably Adam’s next target) is. She guilt-trips him into not making her tell, by comparing him to–who else–dear old dastardly dad. Doesn’t quite work. On a later scene, we see Parkman holding the picture. And above the woman, she’s written “Victoria Pratt.”In the episode’s thrilling climax, HRG, West and Elle meet Suresh, Bob and Claire to do the girl-trade by the beach. Bob let’s go of Claire, but just as West takes off with her, Elle (duh) zaps them and they both fall from the sky. (We know Claire’s OK because she’s indestructible, but just how did West survive a 100 ft drop?). HRG grabs his gun, gets ready to shoot Bob and Elle (Again, doesn’t make sense, since Elle should be able to zap him at any point). Just then, Suresh grows a pair and shoots him in the eye, just as was predicted in Isaac Mendez’s painting.
Can this be?? Our favorite characters on the show, not to mention the strongest actor on it, snuffed out? Don’t count him out just yet. We next see HRG getting a transfusion, healing a la Claire and waking up suddenly. He seems to know where he is…and he’s not happy about it.Next week: Sylar comes back to NYC and pays Suresh a visit. The Dominican Twins? Nowhere to be found. Wonder how “Taps” would sound as a bachata?

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