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Heroes: “The Second Coming”

The second season of the series seemed devoted to proving that the show's top villain, Sylar, could be as much of a bastard without his super-powers as he is with them. So much so that it seemed genuinely disappointing to see the guy get his powers back at the end of the second season since he was certain to become an even bigger bastard with such powers than without them.

So in the first episode of the current season, the show's writers waste no time in proving me right. One of the first things Sylar does in this episode is symbolically rape one of the most likable female members of the cast. Nor did he get punished for this act. Instead, he walks away to live another day.

In other scenes, Senator Nathan Petrelli ends up being shot by a mysterious figure that turned out to be his own brother Peter. Actually it wasn't his actual sibling who did the shooting but a sibling from the far-flung future. A future in which Clair Bennett has dark hair and does evil things and Future Peter is genuinely unpopular with his fellow heroes.

Meanwhile, Niki Sanders -- who was last seen trying to rescue her son Micah and his cousin Monica from a burning building -- is now apparently dead. But wait. In Washington, D.C., there's a mysterious blonde woman named Tracy Strauss who looks just like Niki. You don't suppose...

As for Hiro and his friend Ando, they uncover a mysterious secret formula entrusted to them by Hiro's late father. So naturally they lose it.