And she does look okay - or alive at least, if you didn't count the still open wound. She held her arms out open for him, still smiling that gentle smile. Just because Road didn't feel any empathy for humans didn't mean she didn't know what it was that they wanted to see.

Sylar will find himself able to approach his mother, able to let her hold him if he wants to, and he might even hear her calling him Gabriel when he does. But soon enough she'll collapse onto him, dead again, slowly starting to decompose in front of his eyes.