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“Angels and Monsters” follows the heroes and villains on their individual quests all of which are connected to “the formula.” In the beginning Nathan is seen still taking orders from the vision/god Lindermann who is also seen by the speedster Daphne. Peter is still coping with his newest power and is put into a coma by Angela Petrelli while Sylar and Bennett continue to work together.
Mohinder Surresh continues to act like a football player on steroids, who now also enjoys to assault people and then wrap them in gooey cocoons on the walls of his lab, which could probably now be called a lair. He is most definitely fitting into the “monsters” category. Luckily, his back seems to have stopped peeling off, but it has instead turned scaley.
Claire goes after a villain who can create vortexes, something she is unable to defend herself against, only to find that he is not the heartless murderer she thought he was. After a touching monologue from the supposed villain about how much he missed his family, and Claire ends up assisting him and giving him their number. In the middle of his phone call, it goes dead, and Bennett and Sylar bust through the door. Claire is shocked to see her father and the man who nearly murdered her together, as is the villain, who creates a vortex that begins to suck the three of them in.
Hiro and Ando trust Adam Monroe, to no avail as he escapes soon after. Hiro is then faced with an impossible decision, to join Daphne and the others working for Lindermann to get the formula.
When Nathan and Tracy go to see Angela, they finally learn the secret that Angela has been protecting. The company experimented by injecting infants like Tracy, and surprisingly Nathan with synthetic abilities.
In all the episode is fairly exciting. An early fight between Peter and Sylar is incredible, complete with a scene of Sylar’s neck breaking and then healing. The dynamic between Claire, Sylar, and Noah Bennett is tense and seems to have a moral agenda, begging the question “Is Sylar still a monster?” But the most intriguing moments in this chapter of the Heroes saga are during the last five minutes.
As the episode comes to close several answers are given. Linderman is a vision, created by a man who is acting for a mysterious man in a coma. The man in the coma is disclosed to be none other than Mr. Petrelli, and he is trying to build an army. Angela Petrelli herself has a prophetic dream showing Mr. Petrelli killing Nathan, Peter, Tracy, and herself. Needless to say, the Petrelli clan, which now includes Angela, Nathan, Peter, Sylar, Claire, and the man in a coma is becoming more and more central to this volume’s convoluted plot.
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