TV Review: Heroes - "The Line"

We open the ep in Ireland. Peter tells Caitlin he’s going to Montreal. She’s going with him because she intends to kill Elle when she sees her.

Save the Ozone, Save the World... Back in high school, Claire is trying out for the cheerleading team with a cheer about planting trees that doesn’t even rhyme. Debbie, the head cheerleader, who has it out for Claire, decides she shouldn’t make the team. “Bring it,” Debbie says. “It’s brung,” Claire says. Later, we find Claire chatting with West, who decides Claire does need to bring it and give Debbie a taste of her own snobby medicine.

Over at the lab in Hartsdale, New York, Suresh is monitoring Monica, who Suresh describes as having “adoptive muscle memory.” She’s doing gymnastics of Olympic caliber just by watching a video. Goldfinger Bob enters and wants Suresh to try out a virus on her — a virus that they have not tested and Mo doesn’t know what repercussions the injection will have. “It’s for the greater good,” Goldfinger Bob tells him. We later see Mo talking to HRG. HRG convinces him to use the virus. “Sometimes we have to do bad things,” HRG tells him.

ivan.jpgHRG and The Haitian go visit an old friend in Odessa in the Ukraine. Look, it’s Yakov Smirnoff! No, it isn’t, but it sure looks like him. (The actor is actually Elya Baskin.) HRG backhands his old mentor, Ivan.

The Wonder Twins are close to the border and Sylar is working his charm on Maya. As Maya is already enamored with what she thinks of as her own guardian angel, the charm is working. Meanwhile, Alejandro isn’t so charmed. He wants to stop at the next gas station to shake the dew off his lily and to find a coyote to take them across the border, but Maya makes the executive decision to go with Sylar to the border. They get to the border and a fake border patrol comes to stop them. Sylar eggs Maya on to use her powers before they all get shot and she does, using her black goo-ness on them, killing them. They drive off. How does she drive with black eyes?

Ando enters the office of the curator, who is already reading the scrolls. He starts where they left off, but Ando makes him start over again because he doesn’t want to miss a single detail.

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