Heroes: Dumb and Dumber

Quick, who's stupider? Mohinder or Peter? (pictured)

Well, the answer is Mohinder. I mean, come on — NOBODY is stupider than Mohinder. Still, Peter sure seems determined to give him a run for his money as the outbreak of the Shanti Virus looms nearby.

I get that Peter feels he can trust Adam/Kensei because he helped him heal Nathan (by the way, where the hell has Nathan been for the past month), but how naïve and stupid can he possibly be that Adam/Kensei was obviously locked up for some reason, has a nasty streak (killing older Company member Victoria Pratt when he didn't have to) and is CLEARLY some sort of bad guy due to the character's roguish British accent. You can't trust those guys!

It doesn't help that his main motivation isn't so much preventing the death of 93% of the world's population, but his guilt for leaving his boring Irish girlfriend behind in the future.

The two set about finding the last surviving older member of the company, Victoria Pratt (Joanna Cassidy) — Peter wants to destroy the virus, while Adam/Kensei obviously wanted to kill Pratt and cross her off the list. Eventually, they found out the virus is sitting in the good old Primatech paper company in Odessa, Texas, so that's where Peter, Adam/Kensei, and Hiro (determined to stop him) headed.

This week we found out Ad/sei previously tried to release the virus 30 years ago, which led to him being locked away. We found that out because Hiro traveled back in time after finding a picture of his dad alongside his new nemesis. Obviously, Ad/sei wants to once again try to release the virus, and rid the world of 93% of humanity. It only took about 8 or 9 weeks to hash out (whereas we saw a bomb-decimated New York in season 1 VERY early on), but now we appear to finally have the main plot of the season.

I kinda like it. It's a nice little twist on Linderman's plot last year to have the bomb wipe out 0.7% of the world's population and install a hero in the White House. That plan seemed sinister, but Kensei seems content to just wipe out most of humanity and start from scratch. Either way, (the surprisingly American) David Anders has proven to be a one of the show's best additions. Ok, he's the only good addition.

Speaking of bad additions to the show, we finally got a much awaited subtraction as Alejandro finally bit the dust at the (still powerless) hands of Sylar. While it's good to see Sylar manipulating Maya and generally back to his old ways, Zachary Quinto and the writers were overplaying his evilocity just a bit. The only thing missing for Sylar to indicate to Maya that he's evil would've been for him to be twirling a mustache. Also, why couldn't Maya control herself all this time? Methinks she's probably been evil along, but that's been lost because she's been so cry-y and lame.

Still, I kinda like that he's had to use his brains (and no one else's) to get by lately, and it's ALWAYS good to see him taunting Mohinder.

Speaking of Mohinder, ugh, I don't really want to talk about him. We found out for sure that he was the one keeping Bennett alive and that he's not sure who to trust anymore within the Company. Honestly, I'm falling asleep writing this sentence.

Let's talk about the young ladies instead (yeah, ratings!) Seriously though, it was nice seeing a hero actually try to do something positive with their powers, although not as nice to see Monica captured while trying to retrieve Micah's backpack (black people = trouble!)

Meanwhile, Claire was mourning her dad most of the episode after Bob turned up with what he claimed were Noah's ashes. Although Claire knows this guy has lied before AND she knows the Company has some of her regenerative blood, I'll overlook the fact that she should put two and two together and probably allow for the possibility that her dad is still alive. I mean, she's upset. She's so upset that instead of punching Veronica Mars in the face, she punched her car window out! Honestly, what the hell was that about? God forbid those two actually fought and an interesting scene broke out.

Heading into the finale next week (let's get this writers' strike settled!), this episode was truly a mixed bag. Some good stuff (Sylar, Ad/sei), some not-so-good stuff (could've done more with Claire, Monica...and Mr. Muggles could've said a few words at Noah's funeral) and stupid stuff (Mohinder and Peter).

Anyway, what'd you think of this episode? How long will Peter wait until he blasts Hiro as the latter charged at him toward the end? If Alejandro didn't know any English, how was he able to read the article online about Sylar being a murderer? Where hell was Parkman when Sylar threatened Molly? Elle didn't look too happy with her dad scolding her, how much you wanna bet she ends up killing him? Why didn't Monica watch "The Matrix" or something to prepare her for her late-night excursion? Finally, will the virus actually be released and who will be the two (YES TWO!) "heroes" killed next week?