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Episode: “Dual” (Season 3, Episode 13)

Synopsis: Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) has to choose what side of the forthcoming war he is on, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) tries to find a little monster in all of us and Claire (Hayden Panettiere) has to choose who lives, H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) or Angela Pertrelli (Cristine Rose).

Review: This week on Heroes, heroes becomes villains, villains become heroes, cats and dogs start living together and it’s mass hysteria! Man, I love Bill Murray and found myself enjoying this episode as well. All I, and Heroes fans, have been asking for this season is for the story to move forward. The end of the third volume finally accomplished this task, and who knew they could put a little action in the story as they did it? “Dual” proved that Heroes can be a show worth watching, a statement the majority of the third season proved contrary to.

Good things happen when you involve Sylar, at least in keeping my attention. Maybe that’s all we needed, someone who is more focused on doing and less focused on running their mouth, like Angela and Arthur Pertrelli (Robert Forster). Thank God he’s dead. I can’t explain how much I hated the storyline with him in it. I can only hope that Sylar escaped the burning building. But then again, this is Heroes, nobody really dies, right?

There always seem to be a few questions I have throughout an episode of Heroes, like when we got a little taste of the super-soldier ability, or lack of? I guarantee you Captain America wouldn’t get his neck snapped by Knox (Jamie Hector), but maybe it’s time to stop comparing these heroes to ones that have grown near and dear to our hearts. Still, why even introduce the super-soldier concept if you’re going to blow it to Hell in the next episode?

And why would Ando (James Kyson Lee) assume that the super-power formula would give him the ability to time travel? There’s tons of abilities out there that he could be given. Wasn’t this the equivalent of playing a super-charged version of Russian Roulette? And how exactly did Ando and Daphne (Brea Grant) know exactly when to stop in their travel back in time? Do they issue time-travel calendars?

The pacing of the episode worked better than I have come to expect from season three, and I am looking forward, unlike a large portion of the heroes focused on the past, to what is going to come next. For all intents and purposes it looks like Heroes is taking another page from the book of X-Men as the President is going to try and lock up all the heroes in an isolated facility. Hmm, remind anyone of Genosha? As we jump into the fourth volume it will be worth seeing how hard of a line Heroes draws between the good and the bad. This whole season was a moral blur, now it’s time to get down to business.

Up Next Week: Heroes takes a break until February 2nd. Then the heroes find themselves on the run as the fourth volume, “Fugitives”, begins.