Heroes is getting better.  Chapter Ten “ Thanksgiving”  takes a look at Thanksgiving dinner for several cast members and things change.

First we take a look at the bad guy. While he learns more about the Butterfly Man’s power over the earth and his potential, his family unravels.  Lydia forces Hiro to take her to the past to find out what happened to Samuel’s brother, their true leader.  In the past, she sees their current leader kill his brother.  When they returned home, she tells the speedster, but before they can act, Samuel casts the speedster in the role of the killer.  He is forced to run. 

But it doesn’t end there.  Samuel needs Hiro to do more of his bidding.  our hero finally realizes that he cannot gamble everything to save Charlie.  So he resists. He threatens retaliation.  But,  the Butterfly Man has a plan.  He has his telepath mentally strip the time traveler’s mind.  But either he doesn’t know or he forgot; Hiro has a brain tumor.  The attack has unexpected results.   Rather than making the time travel compliant, he does something else.  The last thing he says is, “Must save Watson; Beam me up Scotty”, then he vanishes much to killer’s dismay.

Meanwhile the Cheerleader’s family has a bizarre, but fairly normal Thanksgiving Dinner with Claire, Noah, his date, her Mom and her date.  Needless to say, family happen.  Claire tells how she wants to quit school, because she feels so out of place.  While, Noah thinks he has handled his daughter, he doesn’t.   She has a heart to heart with her father, but she has learned the lessons well.  She plots and plans behind his back.   She takes Gretchen for a road trip, to the Carnival.

The final family, the Peterelli’s, have the most interesting reunion.  Mother Peterelli admits to Sylar/Nathan and Peter what she had done and with all the cards on the table, Sylar emerges out of Nathan.  Then in serial killer fashion, he uses his telekinesis to hold them still while he eats pie. When he is full, he plans to keep his oath to kill anyone involved in his recent troubles starting with Angela.  But the elder son is not gone.  His mind, his “spirit” is still inside and he won’t let Sylar kill his family.  Now, the war between two men in one body begins and  Peter has a new mission–save his brother or kill Sylar.

This is how the show should have been all year.  The villain’s plans are coming together.  Sylar is on a rampage.  Nathan is at a crossroads.  Peter has a hero complex.  Hiro is a hero.  And Claire is disobeying her father.  On a certain level, that doesn’t sound interesting, but it’s a story moving forward and that’s what was missing from most of this season–we had several weeks of spinning our wheels.  I know they were setting the scene, but they took too long and did it in the most uninteresting way.  

I look forward to see what happens next.  Still, I really hope we see the two villains of the season colliding.