Hiro and Ando have decided to check out Isaac's loft/Mohinder's lab, which is kind enough still to be unoccupied, and while Hiro busies himself dealing with the motion detectors the agents apparently installed in the place, he informs Ando he's going to have to be the bait that gets captured so they can find their headquarters. Ando is not enamored of this plan, although he does undercut his position by telling Hiro that his superhero nickname is going to be "Crimson Arc," and I'll forestall commenting on that in favor of letting you know that Hiro and Ando are about to lengthily and tiredly revisit yet again their argument over Hiro not wanting Ando to be a superhero, or whatever, and it makes no sense that Ando would still be on about this after Hiro lost his own power and supported him, but anyway, let's move on to where agents bust in, and as they shoot at them, Ando pushes Hiro down and Hiro freezes time. Even as he happily surveys his handiwork, he puts a hand to his temple for a moment like he's in pain, and I do appreciate that he, at least, didn't look into a mirror and ask, "Why is my head suddenly hurting?" They then flip out when they realize that Ando didn't freeze along with the agents, and Ando happily exclaims that this means he doesn't have to be bait. Hiro gives him an unconvincing smile, like, "You just keep you mouth shut and look pretty."
A guy in a police uniform who looks like he came off the top of Central Casting's list for "Older Irish-American Beat Cop" shows up at Sylar's door and asks in a Noo Yawk accent if he's that agent, and Sylar replies, "So it seems." Heh. The cop hands over some boxes, saying they contain stuff relating to "the unsolved murder of Virginia Gray," and starts to ask why a Fed would want them. He gets Sylar's front door closed in his face as an answer, which suggests to me that he recently kissed the Blarney Stone. Inside, Sylar opens the box and finds the bloody blouse or shawl or whatever that his stepmother was wearing when she got the business end of those scissors, which he smells a couple of times, and it would have been both funny and just if he'd gotten a few moths up that honker of his for his trouble. I'd wager this is not what Danko had in mind when he counseled Sylar to find an anchor, though. Sylar moves on to the scissors, and after a couple of red-streaked black-and-white flashbacks to Virginia's death, he picks up a snow globe (why they had one in the box is beyond me) and throws it into the wall...













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