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Heroes review. Episode 305 "Angels and Monsters"

Heroes, angels, monsters, villains. This season, you can simply call them all the Heroes pawns in a game none of us quite understands yet. In one corner, you have The Company with Angela Patrelli, her three sons (Nathan, who's having a theological crisis of sorts; Syler, who's just trying to be good for mommy; and Peter, who's basically the new Syler now that he's taken his brother's power and the hunger that goes along with it), plus Mr. Horn-Rimmed Glasses Noah Bennet and, at least for the moment, his adopted daughter (and Angela's granddaughter) Claire.

In the other corner are those doing the bidding of Angela's husband, Arthur, who helped found the company with his war buddy Mr. Lindeman. His powers are such that Matt Parkman's father acts like a lap dog around him and has created an imaginary Linderman to help guide Nathan and to use Daphne the Speedster to recruit the rest of the gang—Mohinder, Matt, Hiro (who commits the most incomprehensible act of the series in episode 305) and Knox.

The games of chess are too much for one of the released prisoners, a decent fellow with the unfortunately murderous gift of creating vortexes the suck people out of existence. They're too much for Claire too, who wants to help but has no idea what that might mean. To be fair, at this point, neither do I. It's bad guys vs. bad guys with everybody wanting to save the world and constantly invoking the Law of Unintended Consequences. Give me one character who believes that the ends don't justify the means, and I'll give you a moral compass to navigate this mess. That's one superpower that seems to be missing from the current line-up.

Related Links:
Heroes Episodes 301 & 302 "Villains" review
Heroes Episode 303 "One of Us, One of Them" review
Heroes Episode 305 "I Am Become Death" review