As to the blood - the Company probably has vials of Adam's blood stashed away ... just in case.

From that EW review:

I remember when Star Wars: Episode I came out. A bunch of us here at the office were talking about it, and former EW executive editor Mark Harris said something to the effect of ''It's kind of amazing that George Lucas' saga is actually about the redemption of the bad guy.'' And he was right. It is kind of amazing. Watching this episode, I thought the same thing to myself: How amazing would it be if Heroes was all about Noah Bennett, the bad guy who tries to redeem himself — even if it costs him everything and everyone he's trying to redeem himself for?

You know, I'd actually kind of like to see more flashbacks of Bennet when he worked for the Company, like in "Company Man." I'd be interested in seeing what he was like back when he was, you know, kidnapping twelve-year-olds. I'm not sure it would make me dislike him, and I'm actually not sure that he's changed all that much: like Bob said, he is, and always has been, fiercely loyal...to his daughter, not them.

A gun shot through the eye can be occasionally survivable with prompt medical support, but it usually results in massive brain damage, so I'll handwave that they medevac'd HRG to a secure facility and gave him a transfusion just before unhooking him from life support, et cetera.

Until they canonically state that Claire's blood is so potent that it really can bring back the (other) dead.

At any rate, I'm left wondering, WHY exactly would the Company bring back HRG? It's not like they like him or anything.

Maybe they want Claire?

WHY exactly would the Company bring back HRG?

Reanimated dead guy = eating brains = quick and easy way to replicate Sylar in a lab setting?

Maybe Mohinder and not the Company is behind HRG's reanimation?

I think HRG was dead. He had that Criminal Intent dead eyed look before his eye healed.

And I presume if they can replace your blood with embalming fluid after you're dead, they can just as easily give you a post-mortem blood transfusion.

Embalming machines pump the blood out in a pretty noisy process though. I assumed something less intrusive, like electrodes running a current across his heart.

A gun shot through the eye can be occasionally survivable with prompt medical support, but it usually results in massive brain damage, so I'll handwave that they medevac'd HRG to a secure facility and gave him a transfusion just before unhooking him from life support, et cetera.

Once I saw him hooked up I assumed it had been their plan all along. "Mohinder, just do what you're told" consisted of Mohinder making everyone think he was dead, tossing his butt in the back of the van, etc.

Maybe Mohinder and not the Company is behind HRG's reanimation?

That would be awesome. And it would prove Mohinder's super power to be "pretending to be as dumb as possible for as long as possible before shooting your partner in the head with amazing accuracy"

Maybe Mohinder and not the Company is behind HRG's reanimation?

And it would prove Mohinder's super power to be "pretending to be as dumb as possible for as long as possible before shooting your partner in the head with amazing accuracy"

That's what I started thinking as soon as HRG hit the ground, or at least in the commercial break between the shooting and the reanimation. I'm not sure what the specifics will be but I think we'll get flashbacks with Mohinder, HRG, and the Haitian. We may even get HRG's Ukrainian mentor alive again - not as a recurring character but to show them experimenting to see if it would work. I also wonder if the reanimating blood was Claire's or Adam's. (The Company had him locked up not too long ago. The Peter/Adam scenes were post-explosion, right?) Having a mole kill someone to establish his bona fides is a pretty standard trope, even if reanimating the victim is a new twist. And there's also the James Bond "don't make a speech, just kill him" aspect to the non-shooting of Bob: if HRG really thinks killing Bob kills the company then he just pulls the trigger. Now Mohinder has completely infiltrated and either his loyalty has been proven or they think they have something to hold over him. Why "holy shit" if he expected to be reanimated? 1) The plan was pretty outrageous & not at all guaranteed to work. 2) I'm guessing that dying is traumatic, even if you do come out on the other side. Or rather, back on this side.

I think we'll get flashbacks with Mohinder, HRG, and the Haitian.

Please, oh please, oh please, let this be true. I like the way you think Joe and am voting for your plan.

I have appreciated Mo's naivete since the 'just KILL Syler already' episode, but his maximum blundering lately has begun to make me suspect something else going on.

And while I'm down with the you can't-fight-fate/no-wait, you-CAN aspect of the story telling, it pulled me out of the story a bit when Mo turned out to be such a crack shot.

Also, I just assumed it was Clare's blood since her 'take it all' statement was followed by a pan down to the pint bag filling up on the floor.