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And now, on with the show! Did you know there are other Heroes in Simtown besides Mohinder and Sylar?

Meet the Petrelli family!

Here's Peter, the littlest Petrelli, showing off their fancy new house in Simtown.

Peter is a paramedic. His superpower is being emo. Also something about copying other people's powers, whatever.

Peter's favorite person is his big brother Nathan. Nathan and Peter are close. Really, really close. Like if you were in the same room with them, it would be all awkward and you wouldn't know where to look and you'd be kind of afraid they might start making out with each other, that close.

Nathan is a big important politician.

As such, Nathan gets into all sorts of mischief.

Luckily, their mother Angela is always there to take care of things.

After getting settled in his new house, Nathan decides to go out to meet the neighbors and see if they'll vote for him.

Unfortunately for Nathan, the neighbors are these guys.

Nathan: "Two men kissing in front of my house! Fantastic! That sort of thing does not make me at all uncomfortable because I am very open-minded about alternative lifestyles!"
Mohinder: "Oookay. Well, it was nice meeting you, we'll just be on our wa-"
Nathan: "Say, have you two thought about the next election?"
Mohinder: "Sorry, I can't vote, I'm an alien."

Mohinder: "Sylar. No, seriously, I'm a citizen of India, I can't vote here."
Sylar: "And I can't vote because then the police would find me."
Mohinder: "HA HA SYLAR, YOU'RE SUCH A KIDDER. See you, Nathan!"
Nathan: "What a nice couple!"

Meanwhile, what have Sylar and Mohinder been up to since we last saw them?

Mohinder is still unemployed after Sylar's hilarious shape-shifting prank got him fired.

Sylar still has his job at the Hot Dog Spot but it doesn't pay a lot.
Sylar: "But we get all the free hot dogs we want!"
Mohinder: "Only because you steal them."

Mohinder: *sigh* "This budget just isn't working. And I can't keep eating hot dogs for every meal. I'm afraid we'll have to-"
Sylar: "No! We already discussed this! It's unacceptable!"

Mohinder: "-we're going to have to cancel your XBox Live subscription."
Sylar: "NOOOOOOO! Look, I'll just sell some more kidneys, OK?"

Mohinder: "You can't keep selling your kidneys. I'm really not comfortable with those black market guys. You're going to get us into trouble."
Sylar: "My kidn-? Yes. My kidneys. That's what I've been selling. Um. I'm just going to take out the trash. Because that is what this bag contains. The trash."

And when Sylar came back inside...

Sylar: "Newsaper's here."
Mohinder: "I thought we canceled that too."
Sylar: "Yeah but the neighbors didn't. Heh heh."

Mohinder: "Oh, for goodness' sake- hey, there's going to be a new national research lab opening in Sim City. It says Senator Petrelli arranged the funding for it. Isn't he the guy who just moved in down the road?"

Mohinder: "I wonder if he would put in a good word for me. I'll give him a call."
Sylar: "Now aren't you glad I compusively break the law all the time?"

So Mohinder got a new job at a fancy government lab. Way to go, Mohinder!

So they have money again. One day, Mohinder comes home from work...

Sylar: "Hey, Dr. Sexypants! I made dinner."
Mohinder: "Mmm, what did you make?"

Sylar: [mumble mumble]
Mohinder: "What?"
Sylar: "It's hot dog soup, OK? We still had a bunch left over."
Mohinder: "We have money now, we don't have to keep eating hot dogs."

Sylar: "..."
Mohinder: "I promise you can keep your XBox Live!"

Sylar: "Fine! But my hot dog recipes aren't all that bad! Just taste it... Oh... Oh god, that's awful."
Mohinder: "Hello, Pizza Shack?"

Mohinder: "I almost forgot; something, uh, interesting happened at work today."
Sylar: "Yeah?"

Mohinder: "Senator Petrelli came by to see how the lab was doing. The press were there and everything."

Nathan: "And this is a workplace that values diversity! This is my good friend and neighbor, Dr. Suresh. He's Middle Eastern or something-"
Mohinder: "Indian."
Nathan: "-AND he's a homosexual!"
Mohinder: "actually, I'm sort of bi-"
Nathan: "He and his 'life partner' are coming over to my house for dinner this weekend, aren't you Mohinder?"

Sylar: "Hah, I wish I'd been there when you told him where he could stick his smarmy dinner invitation!"
Mohinder: "..."
Sylar: "You said 'no,' right? Right??"

That weekend...