July 26th, 2008
Heroes Season 3 Premiere Episode SPOILERS (WARNING!!!)
I don’t go around using the words “Warning” a lot in post titles, and I certainly am not prone to using not one, not two, but three exclamation points after said “Warning” label. So when I tell you that this post contains a SCENE-BY-SCENE SPOILER of the upcoming Heroes Season 3 premiere, you should understand that I mean it contains a scene-by-scene spoiler from the upcoming Heroes Season 3 premiere. Got that? I’m not playing around here. Don’t even continue reading unless you want to know.
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Okay, here they are, from two sources, Movieweb and Comingsoon, who both had writers at the Comic Con when they showed the Heroes Season 3 premiere. I’m still going to guess that we’re talking about the first hour, and not the complete 2-hour premiere that will be airing September 22nd. [Note: Much of what follows is what I've extrapolated from the two articles; there are a couple of contradictions, and I've done my best to clear them up.]
Update: Additional SPOILERS from Newsarama and Popcritics have been added to the original article.
[First up, the first episode's title may or may not have been changed from "The Butterfly Effect" to "The Second Coming".]
Four Years in the Future: Future Claire and Future Peter
- We open four years in the future, with the oft-talked about scene where Future Claire aims a gun at Future Peter, tells him she’s “always loved him”, pulls the trigger. Well of course you can’t kill a guy who can stop time. Future Peter freezes time, takes the gun from Claire, and disappears, leaving Claire frozen in time. It appears Future Peter has returned to the past …
Future Peter Shot Nathan in the Past
- 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 is chased by Present Peter and Matt Parkman. We don’t see what happens, but Future Peter quickly 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, and tells Future Peter to leave, because he’s messing up the timeline again.
HRG and Level 5
- 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? My guess is that when the Level 5 cons escape, it’ll also be how Present Peter and HRG escapes.
Maya and Mohinder
- Maya goes to Mohinder for help to rid herself of her “curse” aka her poers. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and that the building blocks that creates these powers 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. He uses his new powers on a couple of thugs trying to steal his watch when he wakes up after having injected himself with the syringe and bee knocked unconscious. [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.]
Nathan Petrelli
- So what’s up with Nathan? Well, he was shot, then he survived. How? It isn’t made clear. He just wakes up in the hospital, alive and well, but seemingly “out of it”. He quickly 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 Nathan that he is destined for great things. [Popcritic clears up that Linderman only shows up to Nathan, and not both brothers.]
Claire and Sylar
- 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 gives it to him pretty good, and even manages to stab him in the chest with a big ol kitchen knife. He of course doesn’t die. Eventually, Sylar captures her, and slices her head open as she lays twitching on a table. 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.”)
Ando and Hiro
- 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 DVD from his deceased father telling him that he must safeguard a piece of paper containing a formula to saving the world, and that if the paper should fall into the wrong hands, a lot of people will die. The paper is inside a safe, where Hiro, unable to stop himself, takes a peek. Oops! Daphne, the speedster, shows up and steals the paper! [Apparently when Hiro freezes time, Daphne can still move in regular speed, their powers effectively canceling each other's out; of course, against Present Hiro, yes, but what about badass, Samurai sword carrying Future Hiro?] Instead of using his time powers to go back in time to stop her [he is afraid of altering the timeline once again], he decides to go into the future to see the damage losing the paper has caused. Here, Hiro witnesses an argument between Future Ando and Future Hiro (again in badass Samurai garb) apparently over a paper containing the missing formula. And get this — Ando apparently uses a superpower (described as “red bolts”!) to blast Hiro! It is also here that Hiro glimpses another incoming disaster that destroys the city, ala New York City in Season 1’s pilot, thus setting him on yet another quest to stop it. [Did Ando get these powers the same way Mohinder got his? In future, anything's possible.]
Nikki, New Orleans, etc
- 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.
As other sites report from the Con with their own SPOILERS, I will continually update this page with articles that clears up some things, or reinforces other things. I.e. As more people publishes their articles, our article of spoilers should also get clearer.
