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Heroes 3.02 "The Butterfly Effect" - review

by Grace on September 24th, 2008

Heroes episode 3.02 “Butterfly Effect“
Airdate: September 22, 2008

As Angela Petrelli warned Peter, “step on a butterfly today, three years from now a million people are wiped out”. Who started a butterfly effect of events? Can it be stopped or are the pieces in place now for an inevitable future? Future Peter went back to the present to correct the mistakes that were made, but Angela’s dreams revealed that the future has now changed completely.

Future Peter hid present Peter in the body of a Level 5 prisoner - Jesse Murphy, and the former thought his alter-ego was safe. Well, as his mother confessed, Peter wasn’t the brightest of her sons. And, I keep wondering how in the world can you “hide” a man inside another man’s body? That’s obviously a new Peter-power.

Sylar, with his newfound invincibility powers from Claire, takes on the Company, and kills Bob Bishop first. He definitely didn’t think there were villains more powerful than him. Elle’s electricity was too much for Sylar to handle and as she exploded, the Level 5 prisoners escaped. Peter/Jesse went along with his new gang and saw the atrocities they can do. And Sylar ended in the Level 5 cell again.

Nope, that’s not Niki Sanders. Her name is Tracy Strauss and she’s adviser to Molden, governor of New York. Seeing the miraculous healing of Nathan sent Tracy on a recruiting spree to get him as the junior senator for NY. Of course Nathan thought she was Niki Sanders! And apparently, another tabloid reporter thought she was too, showing Tracy a footage of her (or Jessica) and Nathan in the Vegas hotel.

Dubbed as the “Ice Queen” for her political maneuvering, Tracy’s freezing abilities manifested for the first time and tabloid man was her first frozen vic. It ought to be interesting to follow how Tracy is related to Niki. Are they twins? As Linderman anything to do with it? After all, he owned that footage and knowing how he likes manipulating Nathan I wouldn’t be surprised if this is his doing again.

Claire attempts another video to prove that she is still human, and to her teenage mind it was getting hit by a train. Uncle Peter flies in to the rescue and finds out that Sylar can now heal. Once again he realizes that the future has become different than how he left it. None of that was supposed to happen. Pain, Claire said, was one thing she was grateful for because it made her feel alive. Now that Sylar took that sensation away, Claire is confused about her identity. Is she still human? Is this what leads young Claire to change in the future, to be a ruthless killer?

In one of the episode’s funnier moments, Matt finds himself in the deserts of Africa after Peter teleports him there. He ends up talking to a bushman with abilities to paint the future, and who seems to know Parkman. Unfortunately, the African says Parkman wasn’t supposed to be there either.

The most expected transformation: Mohinder becomes a scaly, scary looking monster. I’d say he deserves it for setting the clock in motion. That formula and the enzymes are going to cause more havoc in the future than the thrill of his “quantum leap” discover.

The shocker of the night: Sylar is Angela’s son!

Next “Heroes” episode 3.03 “One of us, One of them” airs next Monday September 29 at NBC. Get scoops on the latest and rest of the “Heroes” volume 3 episodes here.

images: NBC/Chris Haston

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