I've listened to it twice now while at work, and watched it last night at home. I still need to watch it at least two more times to get the various nuances down, but OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!

Your review is fantastic -- I'm going to be less coherent here because I'm still picking out bits and speculating like crazy.

I'm fascinated by where Nathan seems to be going here. I hope he doesn't go that way, because I was SO happy when he actually turned out to be working with the FBI to take Linderman down. Now I'm worried for him...

I'm very amused by the double entendres they have Nathan making around Linderman -- first there was the 'eating zucchini' comment he made in the previous episode (not just a phallic vegetable, but an Italian phallic vegetable! They can NOT tell me the subtext is unintentional!), then the 'first dates' comment here!

The one spoiler I had for this episode was three words in someone's comment somewhere -- I had no idea if it was speculation or real, but I saw "Linderman can heal". I had seen the pictures of dead!Peter on the couch, and was terrified that Linderman would come to NY with Nathan when he was called, and be the one to heal Peter. I was very worried that they'd end up owing him even more than they already did. Now, obviously, they will anyway. BUT, it won't be that personal.

I was particularly freaked when Linderman used Peter's words: "Healing one person at a time is just not enough." I'm not sure what it actually signifies, but it was one of those things that gave me goosebumps.

Sylar about Mohinder: "I'm not finished with him yet." Yeah, I'll bet he isn't! ;)

I loved the continuity with the brain-stem injury keeping the regeneration from happening -- I'd been yelling at Mohinder to pull the damned shard out of his head, but Claire doing it makes even more sense. At least Peter didn't need to reassemble himself (I bet Claire HATES jigsaw puzzles now...)!

Since the tracking system is in NYC, we finally know how Peter will get exposed to Ted -- I'd been wondering about that for quite a while now. I'm still not sure whether the exploding man is Peter or Ted... And being able to set off an EMP is a fascinating talent. I'm hoping as they all get more used to their abilities, they'll find some more creative extrapolations of what each person can do.

And I'm not all that sure Mr. Petrelli is really Nathan's and/or Peter's father. I really hope that whoever is, they're still full brothers, though.

I'm still a little confused about how the Company people actually work for Linderman -- there's a bit of a logic gap there. Unless Thompson is working on his own agenda, and when Linderman discovers it, it will go badly for him. I hope it does. :)

Pure speculation here, but I figure Linderman's going to use Micah to rig the election. A little technopathic tweaking here and there, and *poof* Instant winner! My question is, though, how does a junior Congressman end up "a heartbeat from the Presidency" in two years -- that phrasing is used to refer to the Vice President, and it would either take some spectacular wrangling on Nathan + Linderman's part, OR about half of the population of Congress and the Cabinet being wiped out for it to happen in that short a period of time.

Nathan sobbing over Peter -- I have SO MUCH LOVE for this scene!

And oh, Mohinder, please stop making the wrong choices. PLEASE.