Episode 6: Dying of the Light - Nikki 2, Nathan, Mohinder, Claire, Meredith

When a hair sticks in the back of your throat, it's hard to appreciate whether your meal is really any good. All you want to do is reach into the back of your mouth with a fork and scrape it out. Since that's impolite and could make you gag at the table, usually you'll try guzzling water to try to flood it out, but it never works. That hair in the back of your throat just taints the rest of your dinner.

The hair in the back of my throat was three of our heroines made immobile and crying around a fun game of Spin the Revolver. I don't understand the Puppet Master's power. Sometimes he can control their faces. Sometimes he can't. They can talk unless he pinches his fingers together and makes them shut their mouths. Sometimes he uses the opposite hand to move someone, like Meredith nearly sticking a wine glass into her neck with her right hand while he used his left. And sometimes he uses the same hand as the puppet, like when Claire is pointing the gun at her mom. Maybe it doesn't matter, but if it really doesn't, why does he have to move his own body at all? A little consistency, people. It's like finding a french fry stuck in the container with your onion rings. Seriously, is it that hard to keep it all straight?

I am curious why Meredith wasn't locked up in Level 5. Clearly, she knew other superpeople and she has a dangerous ability. Is she really any less dangerous than the guy who accidentally sucked a neighbor up into a vortex? I imagine Meredith accidentally hurt or burned someone during her life.

I think I figured out why Claire dyes her hair in the future. She looked mad when Puppet Master said to her, "What I want, Barbie, is not to be interrupted." When she dyes her hair the bad guys will have to call her Teresa instead of Barbie.

When Claire finally subdues Puppet Master, she quips, "Show's over." I can't believe we didn't get a comic book colorful taunt. Not even, "Show's over, freak." Come on, Claire, to be a mutant hunter you need to spit the contempt right off your lips.

We've seen now that Mohinder has crossed a line. He is abducting all kinds of people now, including some super people. Why doesn't Maya just cry black mascara again and wipe them all out? When she's webbed up does her power not work? Maybe that is a win for her, then. If Nikki 2 loses her power when she's webbed up, that's exactly what she came to the freaky loft laboratory for, anyway.

So what does Mohinder want with all of these people? They can't all have super powers, otherwise victim number whatever would have been a more successful drug dealer. Anyway, Nathan, just pick up Nikki 2 and fly her out the door!

Daphne tried to recruit Mohinder with a "save the world" kind of promise. Are any of the other superpowered refuse of society she talks to responsive to saving the world? And since they are recruiting people not known to have powers, why hasn't Claire's mom received an invitation? She would be the next logical choice. We are running out of characters who haven't picked sides yet.

When she tries to recruit Sylar, it seemed pretty easy to get in to and back out of Level 5. After Parkman, Ted, and Mister Bennett escaped, and then Sylar and all of those villains escaped, wouldn't they step security up a little bit? Maybe keep the Haitian around the building a little longer to prevent things like this? If security is that bad, I'm surprised more bad guys (well they don't really have to be bad guys, just anyone they feel like rounding up like Vortex guy) haven't gotten out.

Daphne tried to recruit Sylar and Sylar refused. Now evil Sylar is becoming Boy Band Sylar, and Boy Band Peter has become Mega Sibling Envy Peter. He had Nathan taking his spotlight his whole life, and now he has another brother he needs to compete with. "I'm the most special," he grunted in the middle of the fight. "You're too weak to stop me." Why would Sylar be too weak to stop Peter when Peter is the one who was just woken from a drug-induced coma? Sylar should have been able to rip him a new one.

What did we learn on this side of the story? That Sylar cares for Mrs. Petrelli because she accepts him. Peter doesn't like when people pay attention to anyone except himself. Claire can take down a bad guy but still makes some rookie mistakes. And finally, that it's better to make sure your food doesn't have hair in it before you start eating it. Once you take a bite, it's too late. But every week, you tell yourself next week, that'll be your last bite. For real this time. Let's see how we feel about Episode 7.