Updated on 22nd September 2008 : More Season 3 Premiere info at ” Season 3 Premiere Preview ” and ” Season 3 Premiere Discussion ” .
Heroes Episode 3×01 “A Second Coming” just premiered at Comic Con. Bellow you can read full episode summary so make sure you think twice before your read it.
New Summary With More Details
- We open four years in the future, with the oft-talked about scene where Future Claire aims a gun at Future Peter and pulls the trigger. Well of course you can’t kill a guy who can stop time. Future Peter does just that and disappears into the past, where …
- Future Peter shoots Nathan at the press conference, as seen at the end of “Powerless” in Season 2. His reasons: to stop Nathan from revealing the existence of super-powered people. After shooting Nathan, Future Peter assumes the identity of Present Peter. [We later find out where Present Peter has been keeping himself throughout all this.] Future Peter’s ploy doesn’t fool Matt Parkman, who can read his mind. Unfortunately for Matt, Future Peter teleports him to the desert seen in the promos. As it turns out, it’s more a question of when then where Matt has been teleported. [It is hinted at, I believe, that Matt has been transported back in time. Way, way back in time.] Mama Petrelli later shows up at the hospital where Nathan is being kept, and presumably through the use of her powers, knows that Peter is not Peter.
- Where is HRG? In a Company prison cell. Also, that fat guy who claims to be Peter Petrelli that we’ve previously talked about, in the cell next to HRG’s? I think he might just be Peter after all. After all, where has Present Peter been kept while Future Peter is out there assuming his identity?
- Maya goes to Mohinder for help. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and can in fact be transferred from person to person, basically power on demand, in a syringe. At the end of the premiere, Mohinder injects himself with the power, and becomes super strong. [The Comic Con episode ends here, with a "To be Continued..."] [Newsarama clears this part up a bit: Mohinder discovers that the powers come from the adrenal glands, and are activated by bursts of adrenaline.]
- So what’s up with Nathan? Well, he was shot, then he survived. How? Who knows. He just wakes up in the hospital and heads to a church, where he claims to have been given a sign from God. It appears Nathan now believes he is an angel, sent to do good things. Is this why Future Peter shot him? How was Nathan revived? Later, Linderman, alive and well, shows up at the hospital and tells the Petrelli Brothers that they are destined for great things.
- As for Claire and Sylar, it’s “When a Stranger Calls” remake, apparently, as Sylar goes to Claire’s house for her powers. They fight. She stabs him. He of course doesn’t die. Eventually, Sylar captures her, and slices her head open. LITERALLY. He then steals her powers by studying her brain. LITERALLY AGAIN! After taking her invulnerability power, he tells her that she can’t die, and indeed, when he replaces the top of her skull (Holy crap!), she heals. (Sylar tells Claire, “You can never die, Claire, and now neither can I.”)
- So what’s Ando and Hiro been up to? Apparently becoming boss of his father’s empire has made Hiro’s life very dull. He longs to be a hero again. He’s in luck. A lawyer arrives with a videotape from his deceased father telling him that he must safeguard a piece of paper containing some formula that holds the lives of half the world’s population at stake. The paper is inside a safe, where Hiro, unable to stop himself, takes a peek at it. Oops! Daphne, the speedster, shows up and steals the paper! Instead of using his time powers to go back in time to stop her, he decides to go into the future to see the damage losing the paper has cause. Here, Hiro witnesses an argument between Future Ando and Future Hiro, apparently over the missing formula. And get this — Ando apparently uses a superpower (described as bolts of electricity!) to blast Hiro!
- Some notes: Nikki (now going by Tracy Strauss, perhaps?) is alive and well, and is mistress to the New York Governor. Is this Bruce Boxleitner’s character? Possibly. [Newsrama confirms that the Governor is indeed Bruce Boxleitner, but it's not made clear if Nikki/Tracy is married to him, or his mistress.]
- There are no appearances by the New Orleans brood.
 
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Wow, this is really looking good. Cannot wait till September 22! This is gonna be awesome. oh, yeah. Just pre-ordered Heroes Season 2 and the Volume 2 graphic novel. Can’t wait till they get here!
wow, that’s Sylar’s bit of goodness for this season, that’s why claire doesn’t mind sylar in the car, I hope we get to see sylar vs peter, I can’t understand what happened to present peter when future peter transformed into him??? Can’t wait for 28th September
Im so glad i could make sense of all of that :/
Brain hurt. Too much stupidity and plot holes and fail.
I can’t beleave Sylar took Claude’s ability
Could be real stuff, but we’ll have to wait and see.
The bit about sylar doing… unelective surgery on claire and seeing how her power works ( part of her brain that’s “broken” according to him) sounds plausible. After all this is heroes we’re talking about….. Then again, we don’t know if claire survives sylar’s examination in the dark future (season 1, ep 20), so it seems real plausible.
A well placed shotgun blast can still take care of them. The source of the powers is in the brain.
Maybe this formula mohinder develops works on portions of the brain. For instance, maybe it’s designed to overstimulate portions of the brain and thus cause the user to manifest a EHA(Evolved Human Ability).
Matt Parkman’s ability is caused by a overstimulation of the part of the brain responsible for hearing, so which why he can actually “hear” thoughts, as opposed to being able to actually “see” thoughts.
Interesting….
Puck
Woo hoo! talk about action packed
yeh that page defintly needs retyping cause so many errors i think we could have waited a few minutes for u to put in some understandable speech
LOL Agree but this post was live blogged so… surely, I will fix and update it today. Cheers!
oh crap, i can’t wait any longer. thanks for the update matej.
omg
no more needs to be said
Sylar doesn’t took claude ability. Sylar took more abilitys in the episodes that didnt show. Remember that.
One is invisivilty, and other can be Flying. Because when he goes to kill the women with the power of enchanded hearing she said to him, that “SHE DIDN’T HEAR YOUR STEPS” and Sylar Tells something like HE NEVER STEP THE FLOOR.
@vanecher
most welcome, that’s why I’m having this site after all
Wait but comiccon already happened which means they already saw it
Hmmm yes we know that. What do you want to say?
this is soooo coool
i can’t wait to see it!
I wanted to say omg has anyone uploaded it i’m dying to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanna know how Sylar can be “invisible”… Claude is still alive…. and last time I checked Claude didn’t have accelerated healing like Claire or Adam… we’d have seen when Bennet shot him on the bridge. Claude would have healed before he vanished.
Sylar doesn’t need flight 2 not touch the the ground because he has telekinesis, which means he can most likely lift his own body through the air.
this season sounds like its gonna be awesome, does anyone know if there is a video posted of this anywhere?
Sounds enthralling. Can’t wait for it!
Where is Matt gone to? Or rather in what year is he now?
Ando with a super power? That’s very weird. So…does this mean that Future Pete is in the body of Present Pete and Present Pete is in the body of some big bald guy? Someone answer me please?
Thanks god.
Matt`s back.
I thought Episode One supposed to be called “The Butterfly Effect”?
Where’s Adam?
Everyone seems to have forgotten about him because there has been no spoilers and news of him at al
He’s not going to stay buried, is he?
What about Adam?
Everyone seems to have forgotten about him because there has been no spoilers or news about him.
He’s not going to stay buried, is he?
Alex, I’ve heard Adam is supposed to get freed at some point but I don’t know when. While Adam is interesting, I really want some good news about Claude!
His new bride is supposed to save him you can read here some of it : http://www.heroestelevision.com/heroes-spoilers-kenseis-blood-is-not-permanent/
Mohinder is getting a power now, I didn’t want him to get a power. Now it seems every star on the show is going to have a power and I wanted him to be the normal one. I hope adam comes back too even though I don’t really like him that much but he has the potential to be a badass, although he is now but he can still be badasser.
Brandon Mathewson , if Sylar has invisibility, he didn’t get it from Claude.
DUDES!!!! You all seem to forget that Sylar has three other abilities that have yet to be revealed. Remember Mohinder saying that he killed 6 people on the list prior to Zane Taylor. And remember the pictures the Noah “HRG” Bennet show to Eden of Sylar’s victims and a few of them you never seen before. so theres a 23% chance that Sylar has a Levitation (not Flight) ability and a 77% chance that hes just using Telekinesis to lift him self up.
…if Mohinder gets powers, I’m going to cry.
And oh god, the Sylaire fans are going to have a collective fangasm. @_@;
can’t wait
:D this season is gonna be the best yet, has anyone got footage of it.
so this is what happens.
I’m so glad claire doesn’t die, she’s one of my favorite, i didn’t believe sylar could do any goodness but i’ve been proved wrong.
i already like the plot of this first episode, im gonna love season 3
About Sylar and the invisibility thing, could it be plausable that he got enough of the illusion ability from his prior captor but wasn’t able to actually put it to use because of the virus? If I recall correctly, he did try to take her power but it didn’t work…. at the time.
Hey guys…The episode 1 title is changed?
No, that’s just the first hour of season premiere, second part is called “The Butterfly Effect”….
Season premiere is a two-hour Heroes film, we have seen (only lucky ones) only the first part….
hey matej!…
when will you tell us about the 2nd part?
Hey, I don’t know, 2nd part was not showed, only the 1st was…
All (mostly) spoilers I know - I post them on here
Make sure you check all previous spoilers I have posted http://www.heroestelevision.com/category/spoilers/ , it’s a huge collection
SORRY GUYS/GIRLS
“The Second Coming”, formerly called “The Butterfly Effect”.
Scheduled to premiere with a 2-hour block on September 22 of this year (after a one-hour special episode to help viewers catch up to what’s happened previously)
So it means, EPISODE 1 TITLE WAS REALLY CHANGED… It’s really confusing because some sites say that it was changed, some say that it wasn’t …
if this is the first epsiode i cant even begin to imagine where thety are going to take us this season. so sylar doesn’t eat brains… ando can now be spcial and stand up to hero. linderman is back what..i want more. now sylar can heal he can have a fiar fight with Peter. They have to give us a sylar peter BIG fight. this season is crazy. we need a flashback of how the older generation all interacted with eachother. Now sylar is immortal his motives may change. i can now see him being semi good from time to time and forming alliances with other villains rather tha just kill them. he doesn’t want to be alone forever. he will relaise like adam years back that he needs followers.
Wow, maybe Mohinder did have a special ability all long, like his sister did. Maybe by injecting more adrenaline in his body, he was able to activate his powers. Maybe the powers do come from specific genetic codes but then activated by bursts of adrenaline.
How can you people be excited about this unimaginative drivel. one maybe two more seasons and this show is dead.
thats all i need.
adrenaline??….eh i know the first episode was shot before the movie Wanted came out but still. Am i crazy for seeing the similarities.
So Sylar just studies the brain huh? then they’d better not create a plothole and leave out what he actually did with those brains he studied before since they were all missing.
OH MY GOSH
Wow
i cant wait to see it
Heroes ROCKS!!
I love the part about were sylar examines the brain
I Don’t see why people are shocked about Ando having a super power Mohinder said powers can be transferred from person to person, Ando is like a mole on Hiro that never goes away (for lack of a better analogy) and just because Claude is the only known hero with the invisibility ability doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t have it. And i think a few of you may be forgetting the extra Sylar footage taken at the start of the writers strike before he ran off to play Spock.
43 Days 23 hours 16 minutes and 15 seconds till Heroes Comes back
WOO CANT WAIT
If Sylar has actual invisibility, he didn’t get it from Claude. Sylar was pulling disappearing acts when we knew Claude was alive and well. SO whatever this power is, Sylar got it elsewhere. Oh and I miss Claude
Wow what a spoiler!! a did anyone see the first 15 mins of episode one on youtube the picture maybe bad but you can still see what happen in the episode before September 22 checkout yo.
“a 77% chance that hes just using Telekinesis to lift him self up.” (Brandon Moran)
Most likely i’d say 100%. With the ability of telekinesis one can “move” things with their mind. Telekinesis isn’t a limited ability, if a person can move others with their mind, why not themself?
i’ve come up with something about Sylar - How he always gets away with death.
Since he knows how things work, it could be possible that he telekinetically moves any internal organs before impact - He gets hurt (badly) but can sustain injury just for a brief period of time.
Also, the creators have to go find something new to do with existing powers.
Superstrength - With the amount of strength in the body, a person can use their “legs” to push themselves up to perform a “high jump”.
Technopathy - With that ability, to know how technology works and to communicate with it, you’d think that Micah (A child prodigy) would build something like a “death ray” xD
I look forward to this season. Let’s hope it won’t be a disappointment.
in session 1 epesode ”five years gone” wen hiro and ando go five years in future do u ever think we can watch that fight betwen sylar and peter in a later episode?
I think Niki is the one who frees Adam from the coffin thats lyin in Japan next to Kaito Nakamura’s grave. Niki manages to escape the explosion building & the New York Governor finds out about this & he tells Niki a big secret about how she’s connected to Adam Monroe / Kensei. Bruce Boxleitner tells Niki the whereabouts of Adam. She then frees Adam & the two of them then heads to Primatech as I have seen a promo pic of volume 3 ”Villains” of Niki, Adam, Knox & Maury together somewhere inside Primatech. U can see it at http://spoilertv-heroes.blogspot.com/
Sylar who is my fave villain & character. I think one of the 6 people that he killed from Chandra Suresh’s LIST, one of them had the Levitation power which will explain how Dale Smither didn’t hear Sylar’s footsteps. I wud love if Sylar hooked up with Adam Monroe next season. I also think he is now very protective of Claire, why cos she is part of the Petrelli family. Angela Petrelli tells Sylar that he was once adopted & he was hidin with his foster dad; Arthur Petrelli.
Here is a better picture of Adam, Niki, Maury, and Knox together.
http://www.alilartersource.com/visuals/displayimage.php?album=417&pos=0
This was also used in the very beginning of the Alternate Ending in Season two, so I am not positive it is going to be used in the future episodes.
thank you
the people commenting either don’t have an idea what the hell they’re talking about or they just simple don’t know english. arrgghh…..
things are sooo getting interesting!!! claire, elle and peter (hottie dude, will be his super hero name) are my fave characters, if all 3 of these go… I GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why so few episodes for this season? Has LOST ruined what has already become a shorter and shorter season all around? Remember when series had 24-25 episodes a season? Now were down to 13 for Heroes… Or is there a chance they will be green lit for more for this year? I want my sci fi escapism!!!
It has been announced that there will be a Volume 4 that will round out the season, with I think 11 more episodes.
**SPOILERS***
Name of the Volume is Fugitive
**End of Spoilers
Bobski, it isn’t only 13 episodes its 25. The whole of third season will be 25 episodes, and the first 13 episodes will be titled as Volume 3 “Villains”. The last 12 episodes will be titled as Volume 4 “Fugitives”. Its 2 volumes in one season.
Maybe Matej should post this.
Hey everyone, Sorry about the lack of posting lately…but the vacation is over now and it looks like I have a lot to catch up in Heroes world… better start writing..cheers!
wow.
spoilers rule
i think i speak for everyone by saying comicon and nbc rule for doing that
now where can i see a leaked/pirated version of season 3 ep 1?
Nowhere, here’s only the first 15 minutes - bad quality
good god. i have restored faith in TV becouse of heroes. life feels meaningfull again. the strike almost made people kill them selves becouse of no hope for an ending. i would go insane if heroes doesent end. i bought all the seseons.
I LOVE HEAROES. if you r noty watching heroes then ur missing out on the greatest tv show made. before this in the good old days we had manimal, night hawk, automan and last but not least HIGHWAYMAN. that was like 20 years ago and in that time they never mad A single tv show that made people like me watch tv again with a passion. i never paid for movies or tv shows but i bought both seseans even though i could watch them any time on netflix. but i have faith in HEROES. of course am very anxiouse about villans. WATCH HEROES DOGNAMET.
Mohinder will soon discover the formula behind everyone’s special abilities, and he’ll manufacture a shot which can give anyone powers. Including himself.
- latest from Kirby
w’sup nathan mohamed! Man, you just mentioned some of the best retro tv shows from yesteryear (although I think you mean STREET Hawk, don’t you… like Knight Rider but with the motorcycle? And how could you forget Airwolf?? And Blue Thunder??? I VAGUELY remember Highwayman, but Manimal was baaaaaaaaad… meaning good! Not many people of my age seem to remember it though… which is odd. I can only think that The Haitian must have got to them!).
But to neatly end my comment… since this is a HEROES discussion page… The Blue Thunder movie - as opposed to the TV series - had none other than Malcolm McDowell (Linderman) starring in it! Of course, he played the bad guy…
(WOW! SOMEBODY OUT THERE REMEMBERS MANIMAL! SO I DIDN’T IMAGINE THE 80’s THEN!!!) lol
*** …and now back to the Heroes Universe…***
There are so many awful plot holes here it’s terrible. I used to like this show, but it’s now as if it was written by every other shitty writer on NBC. This is pure garbage. I cannot honestly like something this terrible. My viewership is now exclusively with Showtime and Fox, sorry NBC, you don’t have a single good drama left.
This show is going crazy. Everyone is going to have power - genetic & non-genetic!?!
Well, although as much as many others, I don’t want Mohinder to have any power but he could barely protect himself. If I was to give Mohinder any power, I would give him Teleporting and Invincibility to get away from Sylar and all of those who want to bother him with the formula. I truly think that anyone can change, even Peter, from good to evil but I believe in Mohinder.
I don’t like the idea of reviving. It makes everything more complicated. First, Sylar and now Linderman? I have no idea what Linderman is after now but I don’t like twisted characters and he is one of them.
Sylar stole Claire’s power. That’s going to make it more difficult to blow up his brain. Good luck, Peter! (Or anyone else who wanna try!)
I’m starting to dislike this show…
hi,
the show sounds interesting& complicated also. but i share in the excitement. you guys in the U.S are so lucky , it starts tomorrow. there.
how can i get to view it, (apart from waiting months or even a year for our stations to air the show)? i am in south africa?
enjoy it!
hey whatever happened to that girl that could send messages through sattalites and stuff, when she met Ted and Matt, the all black leather suit, i don’t remember
One way to kill Sylar - Suppressed barrett .50 cal to the head.
the only reason sylar didnt kill claire was because it would be kinda pointless as all someone would have to do would stick the top of her head back on and if the powers are transfered by blood claires father has a power now too
I love season 3 but somebody tell me why does Peter get more and more stupid as the show progresses? is he Heroe’s Clark Kent from Smallville? I mean the mistakes he’s made since season 2: not telepathically reading Adam’s mind to see his true intentions and frying Hiro instead, taking 20 minutes to open the bank vault telekinetically instead of just phasing through it, his future self teleported back in time to ”fix” things only to make things worse and now leaving his guard down in front of daddy, who’s surrounded by mass murderers and people that wanted him dead either now or in the future. I know every show has to have a village idiot, but Hiro’s enough.
regarding this week’s hottest topic: no not Madonna’s divorce, not the beginning of the world series, no not a world summit to discuss the possible upcoming recession, I mena Peter losing his abilities. I mean I give props to Tim kRING and his fellowship of the pen. They wanted to get us talking worried, literally craving for the following episode, well now they have it. Like every normal fan, watching Peter (idiot or not) lose his powers annoyed me like a splinter at the roof of my mouth annoys me. But just like some fans mentionned, maybe being powerless for a while will give him a purpose again, less whinny and more driven. and for those who are worried: OF COURSE HE WILL GET HIS POWERS BACK. By coming back in the past, his future self unintentionally initiated a series of events that will lead to the future he was trying to change, which is called: predestination paradox (the terminator movies and TV series are a good example of that). That being said, future Peter has the same powers or more as present Peter: then it means that at some point present Peter will get his abilities back. In the mean time he will get that new trademark scar on his face otherwise how could he have gotten it if he had his abilites? Unless he was fighting somebody near the Haitian or Haitian himself, it’d prove that at some point Peter lost his powers. So he will get his abilites HOW? ang WHEN? That’s another matter. I’d say in 2 or 3 episodes he will get them back the ”how” is probably either Claire’s blood, because like Suresh said in ”5 years gone’ for those who are innate evolved humans, they are a different species and their abilities is hard coded in their DNA. I don’t think daddy will let Peter boy take his abilities back from him so i would assume that either the injection or Claire’s blood will do the trick. Maybe Sylar will open him up to ”toy” with his brain in order to ”fix” him, and by the same means acquiring Peter’s innate and collected abilities, making him officiallly Peter’s equal. I get we’ll just have to keep on watching the series, which precisely what NBC wants us to do
*mean…*guess oh and I forgot: Hiro can just teleport back in time and save Peter…but that might create a plot hole