Watched the last episode of "Heroes" last night, and was left unsatisfied. A season marked with inconsistent but mostly excellent writing build up to an epic confrontation that wasn't terribly epic. So, since I do this sort of thing, I'm writing my own version. DO NOT READ if you haven't seen the episode, spoilers rather obviously abound. Go to www.nbc.com/heroes and watch it first, then come back.

Ready?

Up till the ending, I would change only two things.

DL is lying, dying, in Linderman's office while NIKI urges him up, as before. Make this bigger, he has to get up and get them out, the guards will be there any second, so he finally drags himself up and PUSHES her through the WALL. NIKI turns, exhuberant, to see that it was his last act to get her safe. Only half of him made it through before he died.

And in the Sylar/Hiro standoff earlier on, I would do this:

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SYLAR
So we'll just have to see if you can go through time faster than--

HIRO disappears. SYLAR whips back around to see ANDO gone.
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The way it was done, Sylar had all the time he needed and more to kill Ando. The director is showing us too much, it gets harder to accept that the other people in the shot don't have the same time to react.

And then the final scene, with as few changes to the original as possible: