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Because we love Heroes and wish to see it reach its full potential, we're critical of the show from time to time - but let us proudly say of this episode:

What an ending!

Go read our full Heroes recap right now, as we don't wanna give anything away... but it was damn good!

The last few minutes answered at least one nagging question from the season, while also laying the groundwork for an interesting story line, one that can provide a constant theme and narrative throughout the rest of the chapter, something sorely needed.

What did you think of "Angels and Monsters?" Talk about it now in our forum!

According to actress Brea Grant, we'll find out who her character is working for on tonight's Heroes episode. Any ideas? We predict Arthur Petrelli.

What else is in store for Daphne this season? Grant spoke to TV Guide about upcoming developments...

TVGuide.com: Future Daphne seems a lot more mellow than the thief Hiro has been chasing. Will there be friction when Parkman doesn't find the Daphne he's expecting?
Grant: He's a little thrown. We definitely seem like opposites at this point in time. Daphne is very playful, but she has to make some hard decisions about where her life is going, so she may calm down a bit. She sees all these things happen involving the formula and she has to make decisions about who she ends up with – which may or may not be the future that you saw.

TVGuide.com: Is that why she was so hung up on the track medal? Wouldn't winning a high school meet be boring for her?
Grant: That would reveal a secret I can't tell you. But it will play a bigger part than people realize. Her motivations for what she's doing are complicated, and some of the decisions she has to make involve who she's working for.

Tonight on Heroes, Claire tracks down a villain... and comes face-to-face with a displeased adopted father.

Hiro and Ando also discover the consequences of digging up their former nemesis, Adam Monroe. We wonder how that reunion will go.

Come back to our site following the episode for a full recap, complete with the latest Heroes quotes and photos.

For now, talk about past and future developments on the series in our forum...

As always, we appreciate all entries to this week's Heroes Caption Contest.

We received a whopping 30 comments and we'd like to thank everyone that played - but the winning caption goes to "Anhelus."

Check out this user's entry below the photo, and then scroll down to see other options. Did we make the right choice?

Thanks again for playing! Please do so every week.

I forgot my chopsticks at home... I wonder if I can kill the fly with Hiro's belt.

Coming up on the next all-new Heroes episode...

• Nathan takes Tracy home to meet mom;
• Claire tries to take down her first villain, and is confronted by her father;
• Arthur Petrelli makes an appearance.

Here's a video preview for "Angels and Monsters."

Here's a quick Heroes spoiler, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly's astute television critic, Michael Ausiello:

Casting is underway for a new character named David. He's described as "teenage angst incarnate" and he'll be featured in at least three episodes of the "Fugitives" arc, which is the title given to chapter four of Heroes.

Flint didn't have much success as a villain on Heroes. How will the new character of David fare?

Yesterday, we shared with readers a look at what's in store for Ando and Hiro as season three progresses.

Now, let's take a look at the upcoming relationship between a certain former cheerleader and her father.

According to E! Online's Kristin, Claire and HRG are headed for a showdown in the very near future... like next week!

Will evil Claire soon confront her occasionally evil father?

Here's what Jack Coleman told the TV columnist about upcoming story lines:

"Around episode five, Claire and Noah collide in a most unexpected and kind of horrific way - I don't mean horrific...I just mean as a father, let's just say she just turns up in a place where I'd least like her to turn up when I'm doing work that I don't want her to know about."

Hmmm, any theories on what that could mean, readers?

Last week, we suggested that Heroes take a page from Lost; i.e. focus more on individual character development each episode and really give fans a chance to watch these characters in action, as opposed to dizzying our heads with non-stop twists and turns.

This week, we have an even simpler recommendation:

Heroes needs to act more like... every other show on TV!

Why can't the writers carve out a season that simply involves these individuals fighting a problem in the present day? We hoped that would be this chapter's set-up, as its dubbed "Villains" and it opened with a handful of bad guys being released from Level 5. Perfect. Let's go after them!

Instead, only one of those villains (Knox) remains on the loose. But more importantly, the focus of the season has shifted to stopping a dangerous future from occurring... again. Didn't we see this already in season one?

The trouble with constantly jumping into the future, and the back again in order to change it, is two-fold:

1. It's pretty darn confusing;
2. It gives the writers unlimited freedom to make stuff up.

The first point speaks for itself. So let's focus on the second.

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Now that Hiro and Ando have dug up their long-time nemesis, Adam Monroe, what do future Heroes episodes have in store for this duo?

Kristin from E! Online went to the ideal sources for such a question: Masi Oka and James Kyson Lee. Here are highlights of what they had to say:

Is Ando really a villain? "If I zapped him, it's probably for a good reason. But we don't know if he's turned bad, or if I've turned bad, or if he's betrayed me," Lee said of the season premiere scene that saw Ando zapping Hiro to death. 

Could Hiro become a villain? We never thought it would be possible, but Masi Oka says Hiro Nakamura could one day become evil. "I don't know if it will happen, I don't know if it has happened, but I do think it needs to go there eventually."

How will Ando acquire his abilities? "We learn this season that in order for people to obtain abilities, there has to be a combination of factors - both physical and environmental elements," Lee said. "We think the eclipse might have to do with it. Maybe the formula we are trying to find is closely linked to it, and of course Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) is trying to do experiments to find out, but he's not finding the answers either."

The worst part of this week's Heroes episode, by far, was the lack of Jack Coleman on screen. We need our weekly HRG fix!

Fortunately, this is unlikely to be a regular occurrence. And at least our friends at BuddyTV sat down with the Heroes star recently. Here are excerpts from that interview:

What was it like coming back after the strike and going into this new partnership with Sylar?
We were gone for so long it just seemed like forever, so when we came back it took a couple days to get the wheels working and the joints oiled. It was laid on me pretty early that HRG was going to be in partnership with somebody very different, and at first I thought it was going to be Claire.

When it turned out to be Sylar I thought that was very cool. I was a little concerned about the transition from mortal enemies to cooperating on a mission together. That worried me a little bit to start out that way, but I think the fact that they have the two of us kind of scheming against each other even as we work together, I think that works well.

Are we going to see more of that back story with HRG's relationship to these villains?
You see a little of it. There's not all that much. What you will see more of is in a great episode, it's episode eight, and it's a flashback episode that's kind of a prequel to the pilot. It sort of dovetails into the pilot, and you see how, for instance, HRG and Elle are complicit in sort of the creation of Sylar.

It's a really good origins episode of how Sylar got to be the way he is, and the relationship between HRG and Elle. It was hinted at last year when Suresh says to me, "You know her?" and it's like, "Oh yeah." It's never really explained in what form, how it is that I knew her, so you really see more of that. In that episode you will also see Knox and see where he came from, so you do see the villains there. But there's not a tremendous amount of HRG and the villains back story.