Heroes Cold Snap Review: Heroes Die

Two Heroes die.Another gets part of his powers back.Old characters return.And we find out the identity of REBEL.A lot happened on Heroes Cold Snap.Let’s get to it.The episode opens with Danko shaving.Security system in his apartment goes off.Danko grabs his gun and walks into another room and sees Eric Doyle pinned up against a window.Big bow around him and a note that says “My gift to you.”Doyle opens his eyes, sighs, then drops his head.The gift, of course, is from Sylar (who we saw in Danko’s apartment at the end of the last episode).The question is why did Sylar give up Doyle?And why didn’t Sylar take Doyle’s power?Out of all of the abilities we’ve seen on this show, Eric Doyle’s puppeteer ones seem to be as good and effective as they come.Seems odd that Sylar would pass up the opporunity to make himself MUCH stronger.We cut to HRG and Angela meeting in secret.She says that Danko throwing Nathan out the window means their plan is all up to HRG–Nathan has been outed.The problem: HRG knows that Danko doesn’t trust him.Angela says to give Danko REBEL, and Danko will be HRG’s best friend.She’s leaving the city before something unfortunate happens, and gives HRG a tip–don’t miss a particular train headed out of town.HRG tells her not to go home, as it wouldn’t be good for her health.As to the ‘plan’ that Angela and HRG have, well, that remains a secret for now.At Building 26, Danko shows Suresh a room full of drugged up Heroes lying on tables.It’s the way the Feds keep everyone under control.Suresh sees Daphne and wants to help her. Danko doesn’t want Suresh to help.He’s tricked Suresh, and some of the agents put Suresh down.Chalk this up as another instance of Suresh being a complete moron.He’s incredibly gullible.Someone kill this guy off already, please.Danko shows HRG Doyle drugged up.Danko takes credit for bagging Doyle and says it’s his gift to HRG.HRG wants to give back–wow, everyone is in a giving mood this episode.HRG says that REBEL is going to try to rescue Tracy Strauss.They should capture REBEL.If they don’t capture REBEL, HRG says he’ll kill Tracy Strauss himself.The lights go out–REBEL has arrived to save Tracy Strauss.Since the power has gone out, the heat lights are out in Tracy’s cell, so she freezes through her chains.What–no backup generator?She finds the room with the drugged up Heroes and wakes up Suresh and Parkman.Parkman grabs Daphne.They get through a door and find a group of armed agents.Parkman gets into their minds and tells them to move along.They do.Upstairs, Danko tells HRG to let Tracy go and to kill her and REBEL.On a side note, if we were ever wondering how the Heroes would gang up, we have our answers.The good guys know where their friends are being held, so I’m guessing we’ll see a breakout attempt in a future episode.Tracy is putting on clothes in a dressing room.She freezes off the security tags.She opens the door to the room and HRG is there.He tells her that she should have stuck with Parkman.HRG wants to know who REBEL is, but Tracy doesn’t know.HRG wants her to lead him to REBEL, and he’ll let her go.Then she’ll have a chance.And if she runs or kills HRG, she’ll be dead.Tracy knows she doesn’t have a choice.On the street, Tracy walks past an ATM, and her name is called.She walks over to it, and money spits out, along with a receipt telling her to go to the train station.She gets in a cab, and guess who shows up in the screen?Micah (+1 to those folks on the message boards correctly picking the identity of REBEL.Micah was a popular choice.)