Recap: Heroes

"String Theory" starts off 5 years into the future...5 years after the bomb went off in NYC. Hiro and Ando find themselves at Isaac's loft where they confront future Hiro. Although I guess the whole "space-time continuum" thing that Doctor Brown talked about in Back to the Future was bullshit. There were no cataclismic consequences of these two meeting face to face except that Hiro was afraid of future Hiro. Once future Hiro discovers that Peter saved Claire, he realizes that they can still prevent the bomb from going off by killing Sylar. That's when Parkman busts in with Homeland Security agents and they arrest Hiro. Future Hiro and Ando teleport to Las Vegas to find Peter.

At a strip club in Vegas, "Jessica" dances on stage as Hiro and Ando arrive to look for Peter, her boyfriend (first of all, does anyone find it weird that she has now presumably slept with both Petrelli brothers?) She won't tell future Hiro and Ando where Peter is, but does tell them that HRG man is in Texas. She goes to the bar where invisible Peter materializes.

The rest is a lot to take in, so I'll just use the ol' bullet points:

• Parkman questions past Hiro about all of the people he's murdered, but Hiro doesn't have any memory of this because these are all things future Hiro has done. Parkman tells President Petrelli (Nathan) that they have Hiro, but he doesn't seem to have any memory of things.
• Nathan summons Professor Suresh (who now works for him) and tells him they captured Hiro, and that he's decided to "exterminate" all of the people with "special abilities". Very weird that Nathan has turned Adolf Hitler-like and proposed a genocide of sorts.
• Surresh goes to Isaac's loft and finds the timeline.
• Back in Texas, HRG is testing a young boy to see if he has "special ablities". The boy tests positive, but he gives him and his family a new ID so they can escape the authorities. Future Hiro arrives and tells him that Claire is still alive.
• Surresh realizes that Hiro can travel through time and that he's trying to fix the past.
• Claire is a waitress at a small diner in Midland, TX and engaged to a busboy that works there. HRG is there and tells her to go into hiding.
• Future Hiro and Ando are almost captured by Parkman, but Peter comes and saves them.
• Parkman finds Claire at the diner.
• Back in Vegas, Peter tells Ando he is surprised to see him because he died in the explosion 5 years earlier.
• Surresh tells Nathan that Hiro was trying to kill Sylar before he exploded. But Nathan just tells him they will continue with the plan to exterminate those with abilities. Parkman tells them they have both Hiros in captivity, and Nathan tells Surresh to kill them both.
• Back in NY at the Petrelli mansion, Claire visits her biological dad Nathan, who thought she was dead. She's pissed at him for making people afraid of those with abilities. But he tells her he's met a lot of special people, including the one who allowed him to become president. Just then he starts opening her scalp and we realize it's SYLAR!

• Peter and Niki argue. Boring. She's pissed at him. ZZZZZZZZZZZ. He leaves her.
• At the site of the explosion, "President Petrelli" delivers a speech about finding a cure for the genetic code.
• Meanwhile, future Hiro and Peter fight their way into the Homeland Security team. Parkman stays upstairs with Surresh and the Haitian so that they are safe from Hiro and Peter's powers. As past Hiro begs for his life, Surresh apologizes and kills the Haitian instead. Snap!
• Past and future Hiro reunite. Peter holds off Parkman. Parkman calls Nathan to tell him the situation.
• Nathan flies from the bomb site and the crowds gasp.
• Peter confronts Nathan, realizing that it is really Sylar and that his brother is dead.
• Surresh holds off Peter and Sylar and past Hiro and Ando teleport back to the past.

NEXT WEEK: "The World At Stake" As Nathan and his family prepare for the election, Hiro and Ando prepare for a mission of their own.