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Heroes Season Premiere Recap

by brian on September 23rd, 2008

“Save Ourselves, Save the World.” No sci-fi show currently going refers to as many other genre shows or movies as Heroes, so it’s only fitting that they riff on themselves to begin this season.

The big question at the end of last season was Who Shot Nathan Petrelli? They don’t make us wait long for the answer.

Pictured: (l-r) Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet, Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli –NBC Photo: Adam Taylor

Spoilers after yon jump!

Things begin four years in the future with Peter telling Claire everything went wrong when Nathan revealed them all to the world at his press conference. Claire has a gun and wants to blow him away. How that would work with all Peter’s powers, I have no idea. And sure enough it doesn’t as he flies to the past and - shoots Nathan. What the - ? Then he places the Peter in our time into the body of an inmate at Level 5. Seriously, what power does Future Peter not have?

But Nathan somehow comes back and believes God has made him a messenger. He walks out of the hospital and into a church where with TV cameras rolling, he delivers a passionate speech about the meaning of life. Part of that speech is the show self-referential “Save Ourselves, Save The World.” Niki Saunders (we think) in the guise of a political handler named Tracy and her employer/lover the governor of New York see the speech. Niki/Tracy thinks Nathan would be perfect for a vacant Senate seat in New York. Linderman comes into the hospital and takes the credit for saving Nathan.

Claire’s having a rough enough day following her father’s shooting, then she opens the door and Sylar’s there. In the ensuing fight she stabs him, but he gets the better of her and opens up her head. She asks if he’s going to eat her brain and in a funny moment he tells her that’s disgusting. Sylar gets her power and Claire asks if he’s going to kill her. Sylar tells her she knows nothing about her power and that she can’t die. And now neither can he.

Hiro meanwhile is very bored. He’s longing for his new destiny and it comes in the form of a DVD from his father. His father tells Hiro that the family is trusted with a powerful secret inside a safe he shouldn’t ever open. Of course, he opens it and there’s another DVD telling him it must never fall into the wrong hands. It’s half a formula and no sooner than he takes it out a speedster makes off with it. Hiro’s time stopping allows him to catch her but she can still move and knocks him out.

To see what the potential effects of the formula could be, Hiro goes into the future and sees chaos of course. Even more than that, he sees Ando kill him with what looks like “force lightning.” I love this show.

Mohinder and Maya discuss her powers and she almost loses control. Mohinder figures out her powers are keyed by adrenaline and is able to make a serum that could give anyone powers. Of course, he ends up injecting himself with it despite Maya’s objections. A couple of guys attack him and get whooped up for their trouble. So it’s superhuman strength for him then? We’ll see, won’t we?

Matt Parkman catches Future Peter trying to make off with the murder weapon so he teleports him into the desert somewhere. Future Peter may end up being more dangerous than Sylar.

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