Ammer wrote:
Thanks Yoshi for that, I didn't notice any mention of Linderman in this episode.
Oh, another question, if Claire wasn't killed by Sylar as everyone thought she was, why wasn't Hiro successful in killing him? Because he said Claire's power was taken by Sylar yet Claire was still alive in that future. The only time Sylar had her power was near the end and that was because he tracked her down and killed her.
Oh Ammer, time travel is very confusing. I will attempt to help clarify it for you, if I understand what you are concerned about.
Here's how time would have worked out, had nothing extraordinary happened.
Sylar killed Claire at Homecoming, therefore PresentHiro couldn't kill him after the explosion, therefore the horrible future happened. In that horrible future, Claire was dead, and FutureHiro thought that by goinb back in time and saving Claire, PresentHiro would be able to kill Sylar and stop the horrible future. So FutureHiro went back in time, said "Save the Cheerleader, save the world", and then went back to the Future.
This caused Peter to saved Claire in the present, but PresentHiro never knew about that and therefore FutureHiro wouldn't know about it, either. That's how Claire was alive in the future in last nights episode. Obviously, even with Claire saved, PresentHiro did not kill Sylar, so the horrible future still happened. That's why FutureHiro was confused.
But now that PresentHiro knows that he has to kill Sylar, he can do so, thus the horrible future will not come to happen.
Hope that answers your confusion. However, then we get into the whole drama-that-is-time-travel: If you travel to the past to stop the future, then you'll never be in the future to travel to the past to stop the future.... ugh. Luckily Heroes is an awesome show. I try to avoid time-travel issues as much as humanly possible.
I would like to say I'm not confused anymore, but I still am.
However, you did lift some of the confusion, and like you, I think I'll just ignore this time travel business altogether!