Heroes!
Dude. Duuuuude! Dude? (And the rest of you, too, but Lilalo has been the most firm believer I've been discussing Heroes with, and the most often.)
I'll be the first to embrace the brilliant exit out of the HRG dilemma, although in other situation I'd have called cop-out. But dude, you don't just take out one of your most intriguing and dynamic characters. (You separate him from his family and let them think he's dead, now that's a kinder fate... :D)
I'm kind of torn about Mohinder, though. I mean, our kind Mr. Bennet was about to kill "Bob" in cold blood in front of his totally ga-ga daughter, but "Bob", well, to say he's dirty is to offend slime.
I really felt for Mrs. Bennet the most, though. Claire has a (potentially unusually long) life in front of her, and West to hold her hand now (and the hope to find a better guy in the future...), but Mrs. Bennet only has the weight of his lies to keep her company.
Matt is sliding frighteningly well into mind control mode. And you can't blame him, because that's how it starts - I need to convince the boss of this, to extract that info out of someone.
Hiro and Kaito's trip down memory lane felt somewhat superfluous, though I felt for Hiro at the end.
One thing not even Lilalo can deny about this season is that it's been sort of unbalanced and scattered. Nothing new on the Sylar and twins front, for example, nothing new on Nathan and Peter, and we haven't seen Monica and Micah in quite a while. They haven't done as good a job as in the first season of keeping most of their stories in parallel progress, and now with the writers' strike I'm afraid the end is going to be very abrupt.
But hey, at least HRG is alive! Captive, in for a world of unpleasantness, no doubt, but alive, ironically saved by Claire's blood, for which he'd been killed in the first place. And he was just as brilliant at manipulating as ever, since some doubts seem to have sneaked into the uncharted abyss that must be Elle's mind.