Thoughts on Chapter 9

The latest episode of Heroes, "Cautionary Tales" brought forth several revelations. One of which a lot of fans had already speculated. Takezo Kensei, aka Adam is the hooded killer who took out Hiro's dad. It makes sense as he has the grudge to bear with Hiro over the whole "back in time" princess love story. Hiro found out the shocking truth and had to let fate be.

Matt Parkman started to really flex his mental powers and has basically the same abilities that Eden had. Wonder how far he will go with these new powers. He's already got inside his boss' head and Angela Petrelli's. Will he try his tricks on other heroes? Will he woo a supermodel to be his girlfriend? He might just be one of the more powerful heroes so he should really avoid Sylar. This also ups the ante of what Peter is capable of.

Hiro finally has better control of his abilities too and seems to be really developing the attitude of a true warrior. It will be interesting to see what he does with his new skills and attitude. I'm guessing some swordplay comes into the picture in the next few episodes.

We seem to be on a collision course of some sort with Parkman trying to find Adam Monroe and stop his quest to kill the elders. Peter is working with Adam. Adam killed Hiro's dad. Nathan is looking for his lost brother Peter. So something's gotta give. Most likely Adam will tell Peter that Parkman and Hiro are working for The Company and spark some sort of mini-heroes feud.

Also, I found it interesting that Claire's blood was used to heal/save HRG. The questions that raises are: Was he dead? Does he have a power, or does the blood heal anyone back from injuries? It's a valuable bit of blood if that's the case, and probably something Sylar wants his hands on. Best bet for who saved HRG is Suresh or Elle. Suresh may have realized the ability of the blood to save people and shot HRG knowing this. Or Elle was swayed by HRG's discussion of her father and The Company not giving her a normal life. The worst case scenario is that Bob and The Company took HRG in.

Just 2 episodes to go and it's going to be interesting! The big questions are going to be what happens with Sylar, Maya, Alejandro, Monica, Micah and Niki in the final 2 shows? Sylar's been very scarce this season, and may be scarcer as he has Star Trek coming up in which he plays Spock. Monica and Micah haven't had too much of a role in the overall scheme of this season either, but figure to play some part. I'd hate to think Monica is just part of the show to give Peter a new ability, but that could be the case.

Update: Although many are saying no hero died on the episode, in actuality you could count Kaito's death as the "hero death" of the show. The wool may have been pulled over our eyes with that one.