I have to say, this episode makes me so glad I have this opportunity to write this review.  It was filled with everything I love about Heroes: suspense, small moments of glee and big revelations.  That's  not to say that I though the episode wasn't without its faults, but rather, it was easy to forgive them; for me at least.

Since the show has so many intertwined and complicated plots, I'm going to do my best to extricate them on by one and quickly go over them individually.  This way I won't go mad trying to explain everything.  And at the end ... I'm going to go over the episode's biggest reveal.

First of all, lets's go back a few episodes.  In my last review, I ran out of room to discuss the events that revealed the identity of the Nightmare Man in Molly's dreams.  When Mohinder and Matt finally come across the undamaged photo with the previous generation's Heroes (including Angela Petrelli, Bob and Kaito Nakamura), Matt recognises his own father, a man who had abandoned him as a child.  And Molly recognises him as the Nightmare man who has been tormenting her in her sleep for the last few weeks.  When Matt asks Molly to locate him, she agrees, seeing how important it was to Matt.

NOTE: I just have to say how much I love the Parker-Surest-Walker family. Seriously, people, I am utterly smitten with them!

When Molly uses her power to locate Matt's father, he uses her power against her and traps her in her own mind.  Her body goes limp, yet Matt can hear her mental screams as she begs for him to help.  ANGST!  Matt, needing to help his little girl, goes off in search of his father with Nathan (whose own mother had been attacked by the Nightmare Man).  Unfortunately, Matt's father, using his abilities, eludes the two men.

Mohinder, powerless and desperate to help his little Molly, takes her to the Company and puts her in Bob's care.  Bob is the man with the Midas touch.  That's right; he can turn objects into gold by merely touching them.  No wonder where the Company gets all their funding.  In return for Bob's help, Mohinder agrees to do some work  for the Company.  His first assignment is apparently Monica Dawson, Micah Sanders' cousin. He tracks her abilities and lets her explore them in a more controlled environment. Her excitement at exploring her abilities is wonderful to watch!

Soon, Bob pulls Mohinder into his office and instructs Mohinder to use a vaccine the Company  has developed that inhibits, if not entirely removes, the extraordinary abilities of the Heroes.  Mohinder refuses and an argument breaks out between Mohinder and Bob.  Bob claims the target for such a vaccine would be people like Sylar who use their abilities for violence and destruction.  During their little argument, Mohinders spies a file folder with the name "Adam Munroe" on the tag.  He doesn't ask Bob about though. 

Fortunately  for Monica, Bob backs down and agrees to let her go, if only to keep Mohinder on the Company payroll (and Molly in the Company's grasp I suspect).  In the end, Bob agrees to return Monica to New Orleans and even leaves her with a job offer and an iPod loaded with fighting techniques and other such informational videos.

Also in this episode, we encounter the twins and Gabriel again as they slowly make their away to the Mexico/US border.  When we first see them again, Gabriel and Maya are in the front seats of the Nissan while Alejandro takes  a nap in the back seat.  It is soon obvious that Gabriel has a "thing" for Maya and he explains how he misses his abilities, as they made him feel special, unlike Maya who believes them to be a curse.  When Alejandro wakes up, he sense something is up between the two and gives Gabriel the evil eye.

It isn't long before the trio find their way to the border fence that now separates Mexico and the US, but they end up encountering border police.  Since Maya is driving, Gabriel encourages her to "just drive" but she soon panics causing her abilities to turn on.  When Alejandro reacher out to help her, Gabriel stops him and instructs Maya to let them all die so they can escape.  Surprisingly, she listens to Gabriel.  Unsurprisingly, this causes a rift between the twins.

Once they escape, Maya convinces Alejandro to revive Gabriel.  Alejandro tells his sister that the next time she listens to Gabriel,  he's going to let Gabriel die.  Once Maya, who has until now been the interpreter between Gabriel and Alejandro, is out of earshot Gabriel tells Alejandro that he plans on killing Alejandro and keeping Maya to himself.  Good times all around.

And now, we will take a quick trip to the past to check up on my dear Hiro.  Ando is using Nakamura resources to get the scrolls Hiro had hiding in the sword hilt repaired.  Personally, I think this is a poor use of Ando's character, but no one asked me.  I understand that Ando is a way of connecting Hiro's story in the past to the present and that this is a method of keeping Ando and Hiro connected as well, but it feels stilted to me.

In either case, while in Feudal Japan, Hiro has finally convinced Kensei that he is, indeed, the fabled Hero of Japan.  Kensei has also fallen in love with Yaeko, just as the stories had told, and he as agreed to rescue her father.  Following the illustrated maps Kensei and Hiro had obtained, they were able to find Yaeko's father, a great swordsmith.  They soon learn that they are all in great danger because even though guns had been banned from Japan at the time, White Beard had forced Yaeko's father to make him enough guns to supply a battalion of soldiers.  Then, during the rescue mission, something goes wrong and they are discovered.  One of White Beard's men shoots at Yaeko and Hiro with a gun and Hiro, desperate to save Yaeko, with whom he as fallen in love, grabs Yaeko and transports them both to safety.

Well, Yaeko isn't stupid and she soon realises that it was Hiro that had saved her originally.  It was actually Hiro that she had initially fallen in love, not Kensei whom she had believed all this time.  Her and Hiro share a brief kiss despite Hiro's initial hesitation. Hiro describes it in the scrolls to Ando as "the kiss that fractured time" as Kensei witnesses the kiss.  Kesnei feels understandably betrayed, and confronts Hiro.  He tells Hiro that he "cut him deeper  than any blade ever could" and promptly turns them all in to White Beard.

That that is where we leave Hiro ... and the first part of the review.  And to make use of a phrase both familiar and reviled by all Heroes fans: to be continued ...