On his quest to figure himself out, Sylar finally gets in touch with Claire. He creeps out the whole world (or at least the few people still watching) by making out with her so he can use Lydia's powers to figure out how she connects. Turns out she doesn't know either, though, so he pep-talks her about how much she needs to connect with Gretchen. She does, and she's happy to finally hold hands and laugh. That doesn't solve Sylar's loneliness, though he does figure out his powers are the problem. Then he heads to Parkman's, where he shows up and ominously talks to Janice and Matty, which ends the episode.

Hiro drops a glass and ends up in a dream world where he's on trial for abusing his powers for personal gain. The best part is that Adam Monroe is representing the prosecution (the world), and the judge is Hiro's father, Kaito. It's nice to see them both again, and especially the beautiful David Anders. Hiro ultimately pleads guilty in his head as Ando tells him to fight in surgery to remove the tumor back in the real world. In his brain, his father gives him his sword back and he fights Adam. Still not tumor-free, though, he sees his mom and thinks she's there to take him to heaven. But she says destiny doesn't want him to die yet, so she heals him. In his dream. But let's hope there's an actual explanation, too, such as the doctors removed the tumor while he was dreaming.

In the only other storyline of the episode, Samuel tries to convince Vanessa he loves her even though he kidnapped her. He shows her the house he built for her, and she loves it and kisses him, but wants to leave. She says this fantasy is his, not hers. He lets her go, but then ends up so angry, he Sunnydales an entire town as the carnies watch from afar. So now he's evil. My problem (one of many problems, actually, but it's the biggest one) with all of this is that he seemed bad from the beginning, and now we're supposed to believe the plan he kept spouting off about was to win back Vanessa, and only her rejection will make him want to destroy the world. Whatever you need to tell yourself to make this somehow make sense, I guess, because it's definitely not going to on its own.