Heroes Clues and Spoilers: Season 1, Episode 21, "The Hard Part"

This is the Heroes TV Show Spoilers clues article on what we learned in “The Hard Part”, Heroes season 1, episode 21. As Spider-Man 3 debuted this weekend, we are hurtling quickly to the grand finale of Heroes – “How To Stop An Exploding Man”. We have some Heroes spoilers on that episode, but more on it later. For now, The Hard Part …

(Get the point Sylar)
The gathering of storm clouds over New York continues in this episode, as the Heroes super heroes, good and bad, converge on New York. Ted, H.R.G., clueless Matt, Claire. The not-so-spoiler – y spoiler is that they all have to arrive in time for the finale, episode 23. …

Molly Walker is introduced in greater depth in the Hard Part. Remember her? She is the girl whose parents were executed by Sylar in “Don’t Look Back”, all the threads coming together now. Her father was killed by Sylar for his powers, and no surprise is that Molly too is blessed. Molly can locate Heroes super heroes, anyone anywhere. However her superpower is blocked by a lethal virus – so rare that only one other person was afflicted, Mohinder’s sister. Mohinder carries the antibodies to cure Molly in her blood, and finally Mohinder has a real purpose, other than helping megalomaniac “President” Sylar of the future, of course. Mohinder still is clueless though, since saving Molly only serves to enable the evil Linderman's tracking program.

Molly’s virus is so complicated that Linderman’s super-healing power cannot save her. Hmmmmmm plot hole detector ringing.

Poor conflicted Sylar. He had a really tough home life didn’t he? Hiro was not yet future hero. He has sympathy for Sylar and misses his chance to stop him. Hiro has a lot of maturing to do before he is a true superhero. Symbolically and in reality his sword is broken. The Heroes spoilers are: have no fear the sword he has been carrying around all the time is a replica. Sulu to the rescue and his dad has a sword to make Hiro reach his real destiny.

Sylar’s mother turns out to be almost crazy, but not quite. She has the insight to kill her own son when she sees the emptiness of his soul. Unfortunately, he turns her scissors on her and she dies. Sylar paints another explosion painting, in her blood. Macabre.

Yet she is the one who plants the plan in Sylar’s brain, “If you wanted you could be President”. Indeed.

Nathan, oh Nathan. Just when everyone thought you might be a good guy after all, you turn in your own brother. Peter wanted to stop Ted the radioactive guy. Of course stopping him would mean no explosion and Nathan would not become President. Instead of calling the FBI, Nathan tattles on Peter and calls Linderman. Thomson commends Nathan for making one unspoken sacrifice. The Heroes spoilers blog spoiler here is the sacrifice is the death of his own brother Peter in the explosion not stopped because Ted the radioactive guy is not stopped.

Sylar is not the only one with a mother problem. Mamma Angela Petrelli turns out to be a bad guy as we knew all along. She has been in league with Linderman all along after all. She finally reveals her complicity in pursuit of Linderman’s dream of global domination … er … uniting the world.

Neither Nathan nor Angela realize the grand plan is for Sylar to kill Nathan and become President.

And for the big Heroes spoilers clue reveal , Peter meets Ted Sprague, the radioactive guy. Now Peter has the radioactive ability, and of course cannot control it. How do you stop an exploding man? The little Heroes spoilers here is that he does manage to control the radioactive power.

Heroes Spoilers - "The Hard Part" - Season 1, Episode 21

With three episodes remaining in Heroes Season 1, the schedule is winding quickly down to the grand finale in New York (filmed in L.A.). Episode 21 is "The Hard Part" and this is the Heroes TV Show Spoilers blog for the episode.

By the way, before we start, the NBC spinmeisters already are promising amazing twists and turns in Season 2 of Heroes. A number of episodes will focus more closely on a single character, like the "Company Man" episode in Season 1 focused on Mr. Bennett, aka H.R.G.

The big spoilers reveal is that Sylar goes home to mommy in this episode. He is conflicted and tells her everything about his superpowers and how he gets them. She tries to kill him, but of course that does not work. Hiro also confronts Sylar at the same time and tries to use the magic samurai sword on him. Doesn't work - yet.

Here is the official NBC TV Heroes spoilers preview clip for the episode, but there is a lot more below. This preview clip reveals "Molly" the new child hero who Thomson (Eric Roberts) says is the only person who can stop Sylar:



The Canadian preview focuses more on Sylar Heroes spoilers, but is a bit misleading about what really happens with him:



Two scene clip spoilers are released that shed a lot of light on what is going on in The Hard Part. In one, Matt the clueless mind reader is on his mission with H.R.G. to knock out Linderman's Primatech Paper heroes tracker in New York. He decides to take a time out to call his wife on his unsecured cell phone. Clever ... huh? Fortunately, he does not need to rely on his own brain for survival, since newly lovable H.R.G. is there and tells him to hang up. In the other Heroes spoilers clip, Sylar calls also clueless Mohinder to try and get some help. It seems he's learned that he will blow up New York from Isaac the future painter's paintings. We do not know if it is a trick by Sylar to get his hands on Mohinder and his list. However, we do know that in the future Sylar posing as Nathan the President has teamed up with Mohinder in a big way. So it would not be so startling to learn that Sylar is trying to court Mohinder in the present time too. After all, Mohinder has the list and is pretty manipulable, and Sylar is the master manipulator. Anyway, Sylar hears Mohinder dialing 911 (the police) using his super hearing power and plan aborted for the moment. Also, Peter tries to talk Claire out of hiding out in Paris until the election. The Heroes spoilers are that Claire does not leave and is around for the explosion.



As usual, NBC TV has put out an official Heroes spoilers press release, that has some interesting reveals:

AS NATHAN AND HIS FAMILY READY FOR THE ELECTION, HIRO AND ANDO FACE THE HARD PART OF SAVING THE WORLD

No surprise there.

Now knowing what’s at stake if they fail in their mission, Hiro and Ando’s determination to save the world is put to the test. Committed to the path, Nathan takes some surprising steps to guarantee his election. Jessica (Ali Larter) and D.L. (Leonard Roberts) begin to learn how their family fits into Linderman’s plans. Thompson (Eric Roberts ...) brings someone new into his company’s fold. With more and more blood on his hands, Sylar visits his mom ...

And Mom does not like what she hears...