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.

Also...

I'm hoping that a reanimating transfusion of sooper!blood means Noah grows a power. Perhaps he can turn that glower of his into xray vision or somesuch.

I'm hoping exactly the opposite. Noah doesn't need powers to be awesome; that's how awesome he is.

I was actually almost disappointed when the thought occurred to me that he might get a power from the transfusion.

I'm hoping exactly the opposite. Noah doesn't need powers to be awesome; that's how awesome he is.

Yeah. I can see that point too. Awesomeness should not be directly connected to power...see Ando, for example.

I'm hoping exactly the opposite. Noah doesn't need powers to be awesome; that's how awesome he is.

Noah's so awsome that Chuck Norris, Batman and Werner Herzog are scared of him.

eta Maybe not Werner Herzog. After all, he made how many movies with Klaus Kisnki?

Oh man. We should totally have a site for NB like the Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris sites. Those cracked me up for DAYS.

Noah Bennet doesn't need glasses for his vision. He's just trying to protect you from his glare.

Noah Bennet doesn't shoot bullets. Bullets are just trying to get away from him.

Noah Bennet doesn't die. He just gives the Second Most Awesome Man in the World a few hours to celebrate.

Heroes Wiki talks about Victoria Pratt (and mentions Mutant X.)