Previously on Heroes… Kensei is pretty. Thank you, casting. Thank you. Also, Molly lives with Parkman and Mohindar. Peter is alive. Nathan is a drunk. Sulu was murdered. Calleigh’s old abusive-ish bf from CSI: Horatio found Peter. Claire is in a new school and has a mutant stalker. Her family all lives together.

Chapter Two: Lizards.

Peter is being questioned and beaten by the people who found him in the container in Ireland.

Is that what poached eggs look like? Claire saves her mom’s wedding ring from a pot of boiling water. HRG and Crazy Cheermama are insisting that Claire lay low (shouldn’t that be lie low?).

Claire goes off to school, and Crazy Cheermama shows HRG the photo of dead Sulu, and he says he knew this would happen, because he has one of Isaac’s paintings. HRG says there are seven more paintings, but he doesn’t have them and doesn’t know who else is supposed to die. I wonder if Crazy Cheermama is the one killing off the others of the nine. But I also wonder if it’s the Petrelli dad, who is supposedly dead.

Ando and Parkman are talking, and Ando tells Parkman about Kensei’s symbol on Sulu’s picture. Have those two ever met before? We don’t remember their meeting, and it doesn’t sound like they have. Parkman needs to talk to Mrs. Petrelli and to Hiro.

Hiro and Mistuh Sahhk are arguing, and Kensei is drunk. Hiro is trying to sober him up so he can be a hero. Kensei passes out, and Hiro takes his horse, armor, and all that. We’ve both been wondering if Hiro ends up being his own hero. Please don’t let that mean that David Anders goes away early. He needs to stick around forever and ever.

Claire is standing out in her biology class. No, Claire, being an individual is bad!

Mohindar and Midas are arguing about what Mohindar needs for his research. They’re discussing the virus. Mohindar’s sister and Molly are the only ones who have been hit, and Midas thinks they have a third case.

All this reading of subtitles! Can’t they just dub everything for us? The Central American brother and sister stop in at the house of someone they know, and she’s going to help them get into Mexico. Death Sister feels bad for risking the nice lady. She’s worried “it” will happy again.

A girl named Kaitlyn is cleaning up Peter. She tells him that someone named McSorrelly is the one they’re supposed to deliver info to. Peter tells her that he’s the one who gave the guy the electric shock in the container. She’s been cleaning his blood off, and HE DOESN’T HAVE A MARK ON HIM! NO WAY! Too bad he has amnesia and doesn’t know that he’s a supercool superhero.

Mohindar is in Haiti. Yay, I’ll bet that means we’ll meet the Haitian again! But oh no… that probably means the Haitian is the one sick with the virus. Yep, he is. The Haitian doesn’t want to be cured, because he abused his God-given power. Mohindar says he was led to the Haitian, so maybe he should take that as a sign that God isn’t done with him yet.

The Central American kids are waiting to go to Mexico, and a healer offers to help them. The healer takes the girl’s hand, and she tells the girl that she has something black inside her! It’s called black oil, yo. The healer tells their friend that she refuses to cross with the Black Oil Kids.

Hiro comes upon the swordsmith’s daughter, and she is surrounded by men with swords. They’re threatening to kill her, and Hiro comes up and starts talking about how they should fear Kensei, because he’s the greatest swordsman Japan has ever known. One asks, “Why does he keep talking about himself in third person?” or something. Hiro time leaps to steal all their swords, then their bows. As they run away, he says that should write about the event in their history books and call it “The Battle of Twelve Swords.” Hahaha. The swordsmith’s daughter joins him on his horse. Aww!

Peter is trying to get out of his ropes, and he suddenly slips right through the ropes. Right through them. D.L.’s power. Then when thugs come in to try to attack the girl who was helping him, Peter defends her with his Sylar power and his Caveman Ted power. Peter’s super-awesome.

Claire’s Creepymutantstalker is telling Claire about Mohindar’s book and they should study the genetics of lizards together.

Aw. Hiro and the swordsmith’s daughter end up in a cherry blossom grove, and they see a deer. Hiro says that deer are the messengers of God, and if you give a deer a message, he can take it anywhere for you. Just like Patronuses! Swordsmithette is so taken with Hiro Kensei, and Hiro says that Kensei’s love for her will be the stuff of legend. She wants a kiss and closes her eyes. He makes the cherry blossom petals fall on her and teleports out. Frank and I feel like we’re watching a Zatoichi movie.

The Haitian does have the Mutant Disease. Mohindar says he works for a company, and the Haitian says, “Yes. There is always a company.” And Mohindar wakes up in Midas’s office with no memory of being in Haiti or of meeting the Haitian. So he has obviously cured the Haitian, or the Haitian couldn’t have taken Mohindar’s memory. Midas says the virus is contained.

On the Guatemala/Mexico border, things are very dangerous, and they are about to go through a tunnel into Mexico. Maya and Alejandro get into the tunnel, but she acts like a girl and gets all scared, holds them up and all that. Maya gets into Mexico, and the friend is about to die because Maya’s Black oil problem is coming out. This time, we see the black oil coming from Maya’s eyes. Maya’s brother was left behind in Guatemala, making him conveniently *not* affected by the Black Oil.

Maya has been crying, and her mascara is running really bad. Her brother is really good at saying it’s not her fault. Now we realize that this only happens if the Mascara Twins are separated. Now that they’re back together, he fixes everything and makes it alright. He seems to heal her by bringing all the Mascara into his own body. Huh. It also cured their friend who helped them into Mexico. She calls them evil and runs away, back into Guatemala.

Claire goes to see HRG at Fedex KinkosCopy Kingdom. She tells him her car has been stolen, and by the way, she left it unlocked. She starts wondering if she can cure people, if she is missing out on helping people by going into hiding, and HRG tells her that if she’s caught, she’ll be subjected to a ton of tests.

Parkman questions Mrs. Petrelli. She says she didn’t need Mr. Nakamura’s money, and she hasn’t slept with him in a very long time. She also says the symbol is the symbol of her husband’s law firm. So… I wonder if Hiro is her son. Or is Peter or Nathan Sulu’s son? Parkman gets inside her head and hears her saying someone wanted revenge for something terrible they did. Parkman starts to question her about revenge, and she screams inside her head, “Get out of my head!” He jumps, and she looks surprised by his reaction. He leaves to see MahmoudNathan, and while they two are talking, Mrs. Petrelli is attacked by someone invisible. Maybe she’s imagining someone attacking her, or it’s The Invisible Man? Parkman busts in, and she shows him the picture of her face with Kensei’s symbol over it. Dun dun dunnnn.

Back in Ireland, the Irish girl wants to know how Peter did all that stuff. Ricky, her brother, walks in and yells at Peter for saving his sister. Ricky says Peter has to help him with a heist, and then he can have all his stuff back.

Hiro tells Kensei that everyone is already talking about his bravery. The swordsmith’s daughter runs in and gives Kensei the famous sword, then runs out. He tells Hiro he’s in if it means more rewards and more of the swordsmith’s daughter. Hiro and Kensei leave the bar as Hiro tells Kensei that it’s a deal as long as Kensei stops drinking. They get outside, and Kensei is shot in the chest with three arrows from the men Hiro beat earlier. NOOOOOOO! IT LOOKS LIKE MISTUH SAHHHK IS DYING, AND I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS! HE’S DEAD! NOOOOO! BOOO! Oh. He came back to life. That’s good. He’s a self-healer like Claire. Lots of lizards this episode.

Mohindar returns home and calls HRG to tell him the mission was a success. The Haitian arrives at Copy Kingdom, and the two old friends shake hands. Aww.

Claire is at home, painting her toenails. She spies a pair of scissors and decides she’s going to cut off one of her toes. At least, I assume that’s what happened, because the DVR cut off at that point. GRR. ARGH.