I missed last week’s Heroes update (and this one’s late), so I’m doing both at once.

In Five Years Gone, Hiro and Ando find themselves five years in the world of Future Hiro (from Hiros, way back at the beginning of the season), after the “bomb” has destroyed NYC and the government has begun arresting superpowered humans as “terrorists.” Believing that in order to prevent their world from turning into that, they return to the present to do The Hard Part: kill Sylar.

I was a little wary of Five Years Gone when I first read the premise, but I really ended up enjoying both of these episodes. Only two more to go!

Spoilers below.

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After last week’s slight letdown, Heroes was back in tip-top shape this week.

Claire confronts her father after her mother is hospitalized. Peter and Claude continue training until an apparent betrayal puts them both at risk. Matt deals with the aftermath of his failure as a bodyguard, and is finds a new mission with Ted and Hana. Hiro tries to find and save Ando, who disappeared with Hope. Mohinder and “Zane” (Sylar) meet a woman with super-hearing.

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