The plot thickens and the action speeds up.   If you remember from my previous review, we were left with Adam Munro in a coffin.   Adam Munro is the immortal hero whom we first encountered in season 2 who Hiro met in 16th century Japan.   Now Hiro is digging him up in a coffin.   So I was hoping there was a plausible explanation for this and of course there is - Munro is immortal and he was stuck down there by his enemies, and because he is immortal, he can survive down there!   Simple.

Hiro is digging him up because he is sure that Munro can help him find out where the other half of the famous formula is.   We later find out in the episode that this formula is the scientific "how to" for making heroes and giving them their special powers.   So we can now see why there is such a frantic effort to get it all back.   Munro instantly suggests Angela Petrelli.  When he sees that this answer puts him back in the coffin, he says he has other ideas.   This idea is to go to a bar ("just like the cantina!" enthuses Hiro) and I love it how Munro tells them to "act tough" and they walk in doing their "tough guy walk".   But we find out this was merely a ruse for Hiro to get punched unconscious so Munro could escape.    But the immortal hero didn't get far because Knox is waiting outside to smack him one and throw him into the back of a van.

Senator Nathan is still getting harassed by Ghosty Linderman who just won't leave him alone.   Linderman goes on and on about "messages from a higher power" and Nathan sarcastically says that a "dead mobster is not God's messenger"

Meanwhile Mohinder is apparently deciding to elevate things to the next level by not buying drugs but taking the drug dealer himself.    It seems that he needs to take out his powers on people and we later find out that he is cocooning people.   Maya comes to him later and tells him that his neighbour has disappeared (the guy he beat up in the last episode).   We shortly find out that the guy is cocooned in Mohinder's apartment - whether the guy is alive or dead is impossible to say.    We also don't know what he is doing to these bodies.  Is he extracting DNA?  Is he feeding on them?    The plot doesn't specify right now.

Sylar and Peter are having sibling issues.   Peter has Sylar by the neck when Sylar makes the unwise choice of informing Peter that they are brothers.   Peter takes this rather badly and snaps Sylar's neck.   Mrs Petelli comes in and berates Peter and Peter responds by freezing his mother with his powers and then begins to open her head up.   Luckily for her, Sylar recovers and is able to reset his neck.   He then is able to throw Peter hard against the glass, knocking him unconscious.   You somehow get the feeling those two won't become close.

Then it's back to Sylar and HRG doing their double act - out and about looking for bad-ass powerful guys to take down.   HRG is not happy about it - I'M not happy about it - but Mrs Petrelli wants it so who are we to argue?   They are going against the Vector Man who, as his name implies, can make vector storms with his hands and can make everything disappear inside that vector.    But little do they realise that Claire is already way ahead of them.    She initially sets out to capture VM and take him down but after he puts her down and starts talking to her, she realises that she has a lot in common with him, and decides to help him instead.    He has lost his family and Claire gets his file and helps him locate his family.   But they don't want to talk to him.

Suddenly HRG and Sylar come bursting in.    To say that they are shocked to see Claire - and for her to see them - would be an understatement.    VM is quicker.   He grabs Claire as cover and throws a vector that sucks everything in.   Everyone grabs something while he escapes.    Unbelievably, Sylar grabs Claire's hand and saves her life as the vector closes up.   But she isn't grateful.   In fact, it's the exact opposite.   She's extremely angry and resentful that Sylar even touched her.

The main thrust of this episode, in my view anyway, was the Linderman angle.   For the first time, we got a clearer view what was going on here and we got to see that Daphne the Speedster is heavily involved.   The first question is : how is Daphne able to see Linderman if he isn't really there?

The main center of operations seems to be a place called Pinehearst and the plan seems to be "recruiting for a new world order", a world where "people with abilities are respected and admired".   Daphne looks sceptical but finally says she'll do it as long as she's paid.    Linderman gives her files of people that he wants hired but Daphne says no because she thinks that those "people are bad and she doesn't get her hands dirty" (one of the files is Mohinder).   Linderman just calmly looks at her and says that those in the files have simply "lost their way" and need to be shown in the right direction.

Nathan and Tracy are told by Mrs Petrelli that they were given their hero superpowers in a science lab when they were born, by Doctor Zimmerman.   Then they split and hid the formula so it could never be done again.   But now someone wants the formula so the project can be restarted.   Nathan is furious and storms out of the office.   He tells Tracy that they will go and see Mohinder as he is a "harmless scientist" who understands this stuff.

Harmless?   I think not!   Right now, he has a hold of Maya and cocooning her!

Hiro and Ando are in a bar, getting totally drunk because they have lost Munro.   Enter Daphne and Knox who want to recruit them (on behalf of Linderman).   Hiro and Ando jump up and say "yes!".   But Knox wants a loyalty test first.   He takes a Japanese sword first and tells Hiro to kill Ando.    After some hesitation, Hiro stabs Ando in the chest with the sword and Ando (presumably) dies.    I'm sure there will be some superhero way to bring Ando back though.

In the closing five minutes or so, we get to the best part of all and what is possibly the most revealing part of season 3.   Linderman is sitting outside of Pinehearst when Daphne comes up and tells him that Hiro has signed up.   Linderman tells her to sign up Parkman and warns her that he will be more difficult.    It's then that she realises that he is a ghost, that he isn't really there but he smiles and tells her basically to get on with it and do her job.

When Daphne is gone, Linderman changes into none other than - Parkman's father.   So in other words it's all been an illusion.    Parkman then walks into Pinehearst and walks into a room with a huge bed.  A doctor is standing next to a bed and a patient is lying in it.    Parkman then starts talking and it's obvious that the patient is talking to him through the mind because Parkman is answering questions.  As he finishes, he says "whatever you say goes Mr Petrelli"

Nathan and Peter's father is alive.