Simone delivers the lost Linderman painting to Nathan, only to have Nathan splash it with black paint before we can see what's on the canvas. Simone dobs on Nathan to Peter and then shows him a photo of the painting. In the painting, Peter appears to die at 8:12 in the evening.

Peter decides to go to Odessa. Jessica goes to the desert to play with guns and practice shooting DL's brains out with a sniper rifle. While at a roadside diner, Micah tells DL all about his mother's split personality issues.

Mohinder has a change of heart with regard to his father's research and decides that he's going to follow in his father's footsteps after all. This leads him to discover the list of all the heroes on his father's computer.

Peter calls Hiro and Ando and tells them to get to Odessa, Texas and quick. Hiro's in the past, unfortunately, but Ando says they're already in Texas, so Peter should just fly out on the next teleporter available. Then Ando actually sees the picture of Hiro and Charlie on the wall and realizes that Hiro might not be coming back. He asks a waitress where Hiro is and she has no idea, saying that Hiro disappeared weeks ago.

Isaac's drug-induced painting from last week elicits unsatisfactory results for Bennet, so he decides to have Eden "take out" Sylar while he makes sure that Claire doesn't leaves the house on homecoming night. This plan backfires slightly when Bennet inexplicably grounds Claire and sends her to her room and Zach shows up to rescue her from her imprisonment.

Peter ends up at Odessa High after briefly meeting up with Ando at the diner. He runs into Claire, but is under the incorrect assumption that Jackie is actually the cheerleader to save. Sylar has the same wrong idea and, once Peter's out of range, he attacks Jackie, attempting to slice off the top of her head. Claire intervenes to try and save her, only to have Sylar throw her against a wall. Claire, of course, begins to regenerate and, when she stands, Sylar realizes his mistake and comes after her.

Peter steps between them, only to run away once Sylar starts mind-flinging a bunch of locker doors at him. In the end, Claire gets away, Peter and Sylar fight and fall off a roof, Sylar disappears, Peter regenerates because he touched Claire, Claire decides to tell her father the truth about her abilities, Peter gets arrested because guys covered in blood who run around screaming at cheerleaders are clearly the devil, and Sylar comes up against Eden who persuades him to take a little nap at the hands of the Haitian.

For our finale, we catch up with Jessica just as she takes a shot at DL from her sniper's perch...then we catch up with Ando who's getting another cup of coffee at the Burnt Toast Diner...then we catch up with Hiro, who's just arrived in the past, six months ago to be exact, and told Charlie that he's there to save her life. "Six months earlier" says the placard, which just happens to be the title of next week's episode...

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