Don't forget that Original!Timeline!Ted is headed to NYC with HRG, so he still could be the Exploder...

We ARE going to need strings in order to keep the timelines straight.

It never occurred to me that there was a fourth possibility: Hiro only thought Claire was dead and that Sylar blew up the city. He was wrong on both counts.

Right now, this is my working assumption. If Hiro's starting from the false premise of "Sylar exploded," everything he's deduced about the timelines leading up to that is questionable, if not flat-out wrong. If Present!Hiro has any chance of fixing things, he'll need to work it out on his own.

[Or, alternately, he's time-travelled so much that he's just lost track of which one he's currently in, and all of his data are right, but not for the timeline Present!Hiro is going back to.]

That's consistent with my previous point that Peter didn't start having visions about being explody until after he saved the cheerleader.

Yes, that may have been the basis of the theory, in fact.

Dude, when Mohinder did the dramatic thing and cut the strings where Sylar killed Claire and the whole structure collapsed all I could think was how they lost all that organization, how would thhey ever figure out what was going on!

Oh dear lord yes

I loved the effect of Mohinder valiantly up against the door as flashes of yellow and blue light pushed the door open.

Dude, when Mohinder did the dramatic thing and cut the strings where Sylar killed Claire and the whole structure collapsed all I could think was how they lost all that organization, how would thhey ever figure out what was going on!

me too!

when Mohinder did the dramatic thing and cut the strings where Sylar killed Claire and the whole structure collapsed all I could think was how they lost all that organization, how would thhey ever figure out what was going on!

I know!! (And supports my "Mohinder is an idiot no matter how pretty he is" theory.)

This week's comic is lame.

I mean, it's one thing to blatantly rip off Watchmen, but blatantly ripping off Civil War??!! What's the point?

Comic: I haven't read Civil War so I didn't notice the similarity. I'm hoping more happens in next week's conclusion.

The problem, though Sylar likely doesn't know it, is that he can't directly change the past (thus Future Hiro having to work through others to save Claire). So, even if he came back to our present, he wouldn't be able to change much.

I love that this big pronouncement that so much of the beginning of the series was based on was based on false assumptions and, now, demonstrably wrong.

Do we think that Hiro and Ando have figured out that Future Nathan was Sylar? Because it seems like a lot rests on their ability to figure out what the frell is (or, rather, will be) actually going on.

But if they kill present!Sylar, doesn't future!Sylar cease to exist?

Unless Future!Sylar goes back before his timeline is erased (not neccesarily TO when his timeline is erased.) Note that he just threw away the presidency to go after Peter and Hiro. He knows about the time travel. Stopping any Hiro from going back in time took priority. Failing that, after he kills future!Peter, my guess is that he immediately heads backwords without waiting for his timeline to vanish.

I mean even if the timeline vanishes, future!Hiro went back to our time at least once. If that vanishes then the timeline never changes in the first place. So Future!Sylar can go back.

Jon: here you go.