"Heroes" blows up

Excellent episode of "Heroes" tonight - Horn-Rimmed Glasses' (Jack Coleman) surprisingly resonant backstory (though still no explanation of what it is exactly that he's up to); lots of action, inspired use of Eric Roberts' grizzled mug, grisly makeup effects and Hayden Panettiere spitting blood. Just one question:

How was Parkman (Greg Grunberg) captured and sedated after sort of, for once in his life, having the upper hand? Particularly given that the cops and neighbors were all around when the house exploded? (The one set I really hung out at when I visited the "Heroes" set, and now it's ashes. Does that make me a jinx?) How was all this explained to the police and neighbors, anyway? Why did it take the cops so long to respond to a call in a small Texas town? (Last time I had to call cops in a small Texas town - yes, it sounds unlikely, but true story - they were there within a minute.)

OK, so that's four questions. But questions, quite likely, that the show's creators hope we overlook and/or forget pretty quickly because, quite frankly, I'm not sure they have any good answers.

Ah, well, I'm sure that over on "24" tonight they had twice as many and even bigger plot holes.