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'Heroes' first season ends with boom

(AP)
Updated: 2007-05-22 11:37


NEW YORK - The cheerleader, New York and the world are safe - thanks to
"Heroes." Every character still standing in NBC's "Heroes" universe
played their role in stopping serial killer and superpower thief Sylar
during the freshman series' gripping season ender.

Pint-sized human global positioning system Molly Walker (Adair Tishler)
used her ability to track Sylar down. Mind reader Matt Parkman (Greg
Grunberg) distracted him with a storm of bullets. Superpowered single mom
Niki ( Ali Larter) landed a crushing blow with a parking meter. And Hiro
Nakamura (Masi Oka) slashed him with a sword (but not the same weapon he
tracked down in previous episodes).

Of course, everyone should've been more worried about the superabsorbent
Peter Petrelli ( Milo Ventimiglia), who was one flash away from turning
into a mushroom cloud.

Leading up to the finale's big bang, which had been foreshadowed for
months with psychic paintings and dream sequences, the biggest question
became: Which man is going to explode and destroy most of New York? Evil
foe Sylar or good guy Petrelli?

"Turns out you're the villain, Peter. I'm the hero," Sylar cooed before
Peter started going nuclear. Uh oh.

Although Peter was willing to sacrifice himself, his brother flew in to
help him out. Literally.

"You saved the cheerleader so we could save the world," flying
congressman Nathan Petrelli told his blazing brother before sacrificing
himself to hoist Peter up, up and away to safely explode somewhere among
the stars.

Before the fireworks, Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose), Peter and Nathan's
witchy mother, was revealed to be working with the clandestine
organization that's been very familiar with the "Heroes" all along and
very interested in seeing Manhattan go kaboom. In one scene, she offered
her indestructible granddaughter Claire "a place to belong and a family."

But, in one of her most fantastic feats, cheerleader Claire coolly
whispered "I already have a family" before lunging out of her biological
father's office window and faceplanting into the sidewalk stories below.

Of course, Claire being Claire, she nonchalantly stood up and strolled
away to assist in the final fight.

Teases of what's to come were slipped in throughout the episode. Sylar's
true fate was questioned with a trail of blood leading to a nearby
manhole. Molly foreshadowed a boogeyman "a lot worse" than Sylar. And, at
the end of the episode, Hiro found himself transported all the way back
to feudal Japan, staring at a samurai warrior toting around the
omnipresent "Heroes" double-helix-esque symbol underneath a shadowy
eclipse.

Are these "Heroes" older than the moon?










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