Spoiler:How to Stop an Exploding Man

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How to Stop an Exploding Man
Season:	One
Episode number:	123
Planned airdate:	May 21, 2007
Previous spoiler:	Landslide

This article contains spoilers about How to Stop an Exploding Man. For general spoilers about upcoming episodes, see Spoiler:Heroes.

NBC Blurb

Heroes rise and fall in the shocking season finales written by executive producer/creator Tim Kring and directed by executive producer Allan Arkush -- With Isaac's horrible predictions all unfolding before them, the everyday people with extraordinary abilities face moments of pain and peril in Kirby Plaza with unflinching heroism, as "Heroes" first volume comes to a close -- and the next surprisingly begins.

Published Spoilers

• This is a two-hour season finale.
• 4/17 - Charles Deveaux (Richard Roundtree) and Simone Deveaux (Tawny Cypress) appear in this episode. (NBC description)
• 4/10 - Watch with Kristin reports that Simone just won't stay dead. Simone and her father will mysteriously reappear in the season finale as evolved humans. Her source adds "There are people on the positive and negative side. And Simone is on the negative side... [They] may have some ties to some other characters that we had no idea about before." Watch with Kristin, Spoilers Section
• 03/19 - The climax to season one will be built in a small arc consisting of the last three episodes of the year. These episodes will bring together all of the characters in New York City. Each character will play a unique role, a vital puzzle piece in the season one story. Kring says: "Even though some may feel like they're less significant to the final event, when you analyze it, each one had to play that role in order for the final event to be solved, and so there really was a kind of destiny quality to them coming together and having each one fulfilling thing and one specific role." Heads will roll in these closing episodes, but Kring warns "on a show like Heroes, you may not always stay dead. And with our ability to go back and forth in time, you may be dead, but you may show up on the show a few more times." (Sci Fi Wire)
• 3/12 -- Tim Kring says the show will eventually bring all of the main hero characters together before the season is out. (Sci Fi Wire)

Fan Theories

• Claire's power did not heal Sylar from Hiro's sword, Linderman's power did.
• How the future events unfolded:

• Hiro stabbed Sylar, but Sylar regenerated because it was not Sylar who he stabbed, it was Peter, who already has the healing power.
• The reason everyone thinks that it is Sylar exploding is because Candice is casting an illusion.
• Sylar learns of Candice's ability from seeing himself being framed for the explosion, and moves to consume Candice's ability.
• Once Sylar had Candice's power, he killed and consumed Nathan's power, and took Nathan's place as president.
• Peter's scar is from Nathan.
• In Peter's precognitive dreams, he sees Nathan come towards him. Peter tells him "I absorbed his powers and I cannot control it", and Nathan replies "Let me help you Peter".
• What Nathan helps Peter do is explode, so as to fulfill his 'destiny'. Nathan slashed Peter across the face with the piece of jagged glass that Claire pulled from Peter's head. Slashing Peter across the face caused Peter to lose control and explode, just as Theodore lost control in the Bennett's home when he was shot by Thompson.