Desmond and the Return of Elle.

*Major Heroes Season 3 Spoilers*

“Previously on Heroes”, goes my screen. And then I am treated to a montage of previouslies from last week’s episode, the first one being the scene with Sylar and Peter, whatever little screen time they had last week. The previouslies ends with a scene that we did not see last week, Claire and Sandra finding a Pinehearst calling card at Doyle’s.

Then starts the episode proper: “Somewhere in Africa”. Hiro is whining about not wanting to go back to the future, and DesertIssac says something about evil forces gathering, a dark sun rising, and soon it’ll be too late. Sounds kinda familiar doesn’t it. I think someone’s been watching too much Lord of the Ringgggsss.

They cut to a painting of a man standing in front of a couple, which morphs into Mohinder, Nathan and Tracy, in real life. Suresh says, “Nathan, do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to love and cherish...” Okay he doesn’t, but it looks awfully like they’re getting married. They have a conversation that ends with Mohinder grabbing Maya’s unconscious body and flying/jumping out of the skylight, sending showers of glass/rice to celebrate the happy couple’s marriage. Bride Tracy gives Groom Nathan a look that seems to say, “HE STOLE OUR THUNDER DARLING!”

Then we cut to Peter, dreaming about when he first heard his father had died. He wakes to see DaddyPetrelli beside him. He’s handcuffed, and they have a chat, which ends in DaddyPetrelli grounding him. DaddyPetrelli, “grounded” means no ice-cream, go to your room, no more prom for you. Not exactly handcuffed to an autopsy table.

Sandra and Claire return home to find their house lights all flickering on and off. They find Lyle on the floor. Claire goes to the study and finds that ELLE IS BACK!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Elle’s all “Hey Cheerleader,” before electricity flickers through her body and face. Claire replies “Hey Cyborg.” Okay no, but they have a fight which ends when Lyle pours a bucket of water over Elle, shocking her. I LOVE THE BENNETS!! AND ELLE!

Elle explains that her powers have been on the fritz and she’s been having random outbursts of electricity. She also has a Pinehearst calling card which we know Claire does too! Elle explains she needs help. My girl, what you need, is to be grounded, literally.

Then a quick cut to Mohinder in Pinehearst. Arthur talks to him, and takes away Maya’s ability with his touch. Finally she’s free from her lousy power. Daddy Petrelli needs Mohinder’s help to make the formula better, which might help save Mohinder from his own lousy synthetic powers. Daddy Petrelli offers Peter as Mohinder’s test subject. OH OH.

Angela, in her comatose state, then visits Syler, in his comatose state, through her dream power. She tells him he doesn’t know the half that he’s capable of. I don’t either, Angela, and I really wanna find out! Anyways, she tells him to save Peter, and to show them why Syler’s her favourite, and to make “Mommy proud”.

Now, I watched the first season last night and she said Peter was her favourite then. I like Angela but she seems to be making use of Syler. Lying liar who lies!!! Syler then wakes up, and pulls out the tubes, and flings the doors away. Guess it’s true then, his powers can overcome the liquid-stupid pumping through him.

Daddy Petrelli asks Daphne to kill Matt for refusing to join the company. In front of Matt’s father no less. Maury objects, and Petrelli snaps his neck. OUCH. Daphne whines about not being a killer and asks for another way to the Matt problem. And apparently the answer is to gain Matt’s trust by pretending to be unable to shoot Matt. Which she acts out at his apartment. He buys into the whole act, because Matt is nice, but very, very, VERY gullible, and puts too much faith in the stupid future he saw. Knox comes by to fake-kill imaginary-Daphne. Imaginary-Matt then immobilises Knox with his mind-mojo and says he can kill Knox with his own fears. And because Matt is nice, but very, very, VERY gullible, he doesn’t and gets himself killed. Imaginary-Matt at least.

Mohinder is about to inject Peter with a new and improved version of the formula when SYLER (YES!!!!!!!!!!) comes and saves Peter. Peter’s all “you came back for me, even after what I’ve done.” Yea. I’m as shocked as you are Peter, but I’m dealing with it. Get over it. Mohinder then starts smashing Syler’s head repeated against the ground with his spider-strength. STOP IT SURESH! STOP IT! Daddy Petrelli saves his other son (so Syler is a full-fledge Petrelli, not an affair baby!!) And saves my poor heart from almost giving out on me.

Cut to the eldest Petrelli boy, Groom Nathan and his Bride Tracy. They called Primatech, which sends Noah, and Meredith (yes!!) to rescue them. Now, this is a wedding. With all the relatives and ex-es reuniting!! Meredith the ex, says, HILARIOUSLY to Nathan, “I see you still have a weakness for blondes.”

Cut to two other blondes, Elle and Claire in a plane on their way to Pinehearst. Elle’s outbursts almost shocks the plane into a crash, but Claire comes up with a brilliant idea to channel Elle’s shocks to Claire. They hold hands to make it work, and it’s again HILARIOUS when after the ordeal, Elle asks awkwardly but gratefully for her hand back, “do you mind?” This episode is awesome!!!

Daddy Petrelli is suspending Syler in mid air with his powers, and goes on to tell him that Angela is a lying liar who lies. And that she dreamt of the horrible things Syler had done, and tried to drown him as a baby, but Daddy saved him just in time. Argh, who do I believe?! Poor Syler, he’s trying to be a better person and everyone’s still using him. I’m not surprised if he becomes evil, although I really hope not. Anyways, Peter comes in awhile later to save Syler, which is really nice of him. This episode is shocking me. (Yea, the pun about Elle’s powers aside!) Arthur breaks up the reunion, and Syler proceeds to fling Peter out of the window!

Syler!!!

Elle and Claire arrive just in time to see Peter survive the 7 story fall with only cuts and scratches. Peter explains he’s not healing because his powers were taken, and Elle runs straight into the building. Guess she really wants to be grounded too. Claire helps Peter away, and we cut to the happier family reunion at the wedding.

There’s an introduction to each other. “So Meredith’s the biological mother of your illegitimate daughter Claire, whose adoptive dad is Noah? How cool is this Nathan??” Nathan’s too busy to answer, he’s got a call from Claire. I think the scene’s awesome, Tracy!! Ask me! Nathan’s got a call from his illegitimate daughter, “Hey real-dad? Uncle Peter was just flung out of the window by Uncle Syler and Grandpa Arthur. I hear my foster dad Noah, and my real mom Meredith are there with you! Oh how’s Tracy the fake-new wife of my real dad (you)? Come over now!!”

Nathan and Tracy do go over, where Peter deduces that Sylar used his powers to slow Peter’s fall. Peter thinks Syler saved him, wanted him to escape. So do I, Petey so do I. Peter tells Nathan about their father’s fake death and after bluffing Peter that he would not go looking for Arthur, Nathan and Tracy do. What a great honeymoon destination Nathan.

Last scene, Somewhere in Africa. Hiro is given some old family recipe for seeing the past or future, and some spirit walk. Which actually works. Made out of hyena dung and other stuff, but it works. That’s probably why next week we’ll see a flashback.

Bottomline, Sylar, Elle, Angela, Noah, Sandra and a glimpse of smarter Peter? Excellent episode.

And yea, I can't believe I recapped an entire episode also.