[Season 1 !Season 2 !Season 3 ]
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 1]
Genesis (a.k.a. In His Own Image)
Ordinary people all over the globe discover that each possesses a strange super power that may be needed to save the world.
In India, a Genetics Professor learns that his father was murdered in NYC. Aware that someone was after the old man's research, the Professor travels to America to find the killer.
In NYC, Peter Petrelli meets his girlfriend's other boyfriend, an artist. Then he has a psychic vision of his brother, Nathan - flying!
In Japan, Hiro [the little Asian guy from Scrubs] thinks he can control the space-time continuum. His sidekick is too busy ogling Internet stripper Ali Larter ...
In Nevada, Ali Larter juggles raising a Child Prodigy son with paying off a big-time loan-shark, Mr Linderman. She has a split personality with a repressed tendency for ultra-violence. But is this really a superpower?
In Texas, high-school cheerleader Claire Bennett [ Hayden Panettiere ] has an unpleasant tendency to self-mutilate. The thing is, she automatically regenerates each time!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 2]
Don't Look Back
Now that the main characters have been introduced, we start to get hints of the show's story arc.
In LA, LAPD officer Matt Parkman [Greg Grunberg - Alias, Lost ] tries to help FBI Agents Clea Duval and Stacey Haiduk catch a serial-killer named Syler. Syler is the world's first known supervillain; he uses superpowers to scoop his victims' brains out!
Hiro discovers that in 5 weeks time, a huge explosion will destroy NYC. He has 5 weeks to save the city!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 3]
One Giant Leap
Clare gets to know her new BF better.
LAPD officer Matt Parkman [Greg Grunberg - Alias, Lost ] gets to meet Mr Horn Rim Glasses.
Hiro and his sidekick travel to the USA.
Peter's relationship with Isaac's GF takes a new twist.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 4]
Collision
Hiro and his sidekick decide to work their system in Las Vegas. Nikki is also in Vegas, paying off her debt to Linderman. She must provide companionship to a visiting politician.
Mohinder meets the Petrelli Brothers. His faith is failing. And then Peter gets a visit from Future Hiro!
Clare must deal with the aftermath of her night out.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 5]
Hiros
As the title suggests, this ep has more than one Hiro. The future Hiro (clad in the nearest thing this show has to an actual Superhero costume) gives Peter Petrelli a good piece of advice. Save the Cheerleader, save the World!
The present-day Hiro meets the other Petrelli brother, and tries to explain what's going on.
Nikki finally gets home, her fifty grand debt written off a lot easier than she ever expected. She has unexpected visitors ...
Clare's father shows the lengths he will go to. Whatever threat she faces, it must be quite extreme!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 6]
Better Halves
Nikki's husband comes a-calling. Her Dark Twin has plans as well.
Clare's dad gives in to her badgering, and invites her biological parents to visit.
The Petrelli Brothers sort out their relationship.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 7]
Nothing to Hide
Nathan and his wife plot their election strategy. Is Peter dependable?
Matt and Audrey are on Syler's case ...
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 8]
Seven Minutes to Midnight
Psi-Cop Matt and Clea Duvall interrogate the Firestarter.
Hiro and his sidekick meet a beautiful waitress. Is she Hiro's love interest? And who's that familiar Syler-shaped figure lurking in the background?
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 9]
Homecoming
It's the big night, and Cheerleader Claire wants to have her night of glory. Unfortunately, Sylar wants to attend Homecoming as well ...
The Petrelli Brothers have a falling-out. Nathan tries to protect his brother from his heroic impulses.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 10]
Six Months Ago
Hiro jumped 6 months back, so we get to see what everyone else was doing back then. It seems that they all more or less suffered extreme stress at the same time, and thus developed their powers simultaneously ...
Niki is attending Alcoholics Anonymous, when she is visited by her father. Nathan Petrelli decides to indite Mr Linderman, and faces the consequences. The Professor tests a potential mutant who looks like Sylar ...
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 11]
Fallout
With most of the loose ends tied up, Nicki is still on the loose. She goes after her husband, intent on killing him and reclaiming her son.
Eden plans to get rid of Syler.
Peter Petrelli has another vision of the future. He realises who the exploding man will be. And he also catches a flash of Christoper Eccleston [ Dr Who 2005 ].
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 12]
Godsend
Hiro and Ando get to NYC. Isaac shows them a picture of Hiro with his sword, and it's apparent that his new quest is to find the samurai blade. We also discover that the recurring mysterious Asian symbol means Godsend.
Nicki is in jail, facing the Death Penalty.
Peter meets Claude Rains ... an invisible man!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 13]
The Fix
Peter tries to persuade Christopher Ecclestone to teach him how to control his powers. This doesn't make much sense - Ecclestone is a down-and-out who lives on the rooftop of Peter's employer's building. Meanwhile, Nathan and Mohinder try to persuade Peter they can help him.
Nicki is in a rubber room. Her shrink thinks she can cure her ... Meanwhile, her son tells D.L. another secret.
Claire tries to track down her birth-mother. Meanwhile, her adoptive dad has to deal with Syler ...
Hiro and Ando are nabbed by MIBs. We don't know who they work for ...
The chubby cop submits his FBI report to a LAPD committee. Then he has to decide - stand by his report (and be called a fool) or denounce it (and call himself a liar). He may have a superpower, but he lacks the natural ability to see the obvious that normal people have.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 14]
Distractions
Claire goes off to find her birth-mother. We even discover who her birth-father was. However, her adoptive father has trouble with Syler.
Nicki's shrink wants to meet Jessica. And Mr Linderman's lawyers get involved.
Hiro and Ando meet Hiro's dad ... George Takei [ Star Trek: TOS ]!
Ecclestone makes progress teaching Peter to control his skills. But Peter's girlfriend is meeting up with her ex, Isaac!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 15]
Run!
Claire tries to meet her real father.
Mohinder finally gets to meet Syler.
Hiro and Ando get to Vegas. Before they can get the sword from Linderman, they must help Vegas showgirl Missi Pyle get her luggage back from someone's hotel room. Then things get interesting!
The chubby cop takes advantage of his free time, and moonlights as a bodyguard. His first job is to protect Linderman's lawyer, who was trusted to return the 2 million that Niki stole. He doublecrossed Linderman and kept the money - but Linderman sent Niki to get paypack!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 16]
Unexpected
Hiro tries to save Ando. He discovers that Stan Lee is now a bus driver!
Company Man's wife is showing side-effects of the multiple erasures. Clare is the only one who realises it, which leads to disaffection with her dad.
The ex-cop and the pyro-guy team up. Someone else has discovered what the Company Man is up to, and clues them in. The ex-cop has another falling out with his wife, and has nothing to lose.
The psi-artist takes the necessary measures to save NYC. This leads to a confrontation with Peter, which has terrible consequences.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 17]
Company Man
The ex-cop and the pyro-guy hold the Company Man [and his family] hostage. Yes, this is the Desperate Hours episode - but it's actually quite good. It concentrates on his relationship with his daughter, and with his employers.
We finally get vast amounts of exposition. Several guest stars are fitted into place in the scenario - Christopher Ecclestone [ Dr Who ], Eric Roberts [ Dr Who: USA ] and George Takei [ Star Trek: TOS ]!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 18]
Parasite
Syler runs into trouble that he hadn't expected.
Claire decides to ditch the plan, and goes off on her own. Meanwhile, her father has to clean up the artist's mess. His new sidekick is a shapeshifter who loves playing mind-games with victims.
The Politician and the Evil Twin meet up at the Casino again. They have business with the Boss, Linderman [Malcolm McDowell - Tank Girl, Clockwork Orange ]. But he knows a lot more than he ought to.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 19]
.07%
The Petrelli clan have an ad-hoc get-together.
There's another breakout from the Company's holding cells. They've got a pretty lousy record of holding on to prisoners, it would seem!
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 20]
String Theory
Hiro and Ando are in the future! Modern Hiro is captured by Greg the Cop, who now works for President Nathan. Ando goes on the run with Future Hiro, who teams up with whatever other survivors of the explosion and the purge are willing to help. Half the cast are dead, and the living envy the dead.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 21]
The Hard Part
Hiro and Ando stalk Syler. They want to kill him before he destroys New York. Syler doesn't actually want to be a villain, so he visits his mother and explores his options in life.
All the other characters decide to visit NYC as well, for various reasons.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 22]
Landslide
Linderman wants Mycah to rig the election for Nathan. Mycah's parents want him back, so they infiltrate Linderman's HQ.
The Cop and the Company Man also infiltrate the HQ, to get hold of the tracking system. This leads to another confrontation.
Hiro enters the final stages of his preparations.
A couple of supporting villains are quickly written out. However, the main confrontation is left for the next episode.
Heroes [Season 1, Episode 23]
How to Stop an Exploding Man
The surviving central characters all bump into each other for the final confrontation. Can Hiro stop Syler? Will Peter himself explode?
Compared to the rest of the series, this is something of a let-down. The confrontation is brief and anti-climactic, both visually and in terms of story-telling.
The epilogue is somewhat predictable, but we finally get to see the eclipse.
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 1]
Four Months Later...
The story starts about 4 months after the end of the previous Season. Except for Hiro - he's in the 1600s, and his story takes up exactly where it left off. David Anders [ Alias ] has a most surprising appearance.
Hiro's dad and Peter's mum have both received death threats.
Peter wakes up in a cargo container in Cork, Ireland. He's taken in by a trio of very unlikely Oirish villains - Holt McCallany [ Freedom ], Dominic Keating [ Enterprise ] and a token Black guy!
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 2]
Lizards
In science class at school, Claire discovers that certain lizards can actually re-grow severed limbs.
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 3]
Kindred
The loveable Oirish gangsters want to do a big robbery. They persuade Peter to help.
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 4]
The Kindness of Strangers
Micah's in New Orleans, staying with his Grandma [ Nichelle Nichols ] and his cousin Monica. It turns out that Monica has some powers of her own!
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 5]
Fight or Flight
Elle Bishop [ Kristen Bell ] arrives in Cork. She's after Peter, and she's eeevil in a way that the loveably murderous Oirish gangsters can't deal with!
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 6]
The Line
Peter and his GF arrive in Montreal. And worse - he forgot how to use his time-travel power!
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 7]
Out of Time
The Nightmare Man is on the loose. Matt is the only one who can stop him.
Bennett's plans are unravelling.
Peter confronts the future, and the terrible consequences of the virus. And the plot takes a turn for the worse!
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 8]
Four Months Ago...
Peter flashes back to his missing time.
We see what happened to DL.
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 9]
Cautionary Tales
The Company goes after Claire. She's MIA from home - and her dad thinks she's with her boyfriend.
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 10]
Truth & Consequences
Claire is torn emotionally after the events of the previous ep.
Mohinder tries to get the cure to Nikki. But Syler has different plans.
Adam takes Peter to find a woman named Victoria Pratt. She's the only one who can tell them where the virus is stored.
Hiro goes back in time, and finds out the truth behind Adam's initial incarceration.
Micah's comics are stolen by gang kids. His cousin tries to get them back ...
Heroes [Season 2, Episode 11]
Powerless
Peter and Adam try to get into the vault. Hiro, the Cop and the Senator try to stop them ...
Micah tries to get his mother to save his cousin.
Syler holds Mohinder and the others hostage.
There are cliffhanger endings for everyone!
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 1]
The Butterfly Effect
We start by discovering who shot Nathan Petrelli. His mother is the only one who knows what's going on. She has a power of her own - The first one you manifested, she says - dreaming the future. So evidently he didn't borrow it from Isaac Mendes!
Sylar goes after Clare. Her power, of course, will allow her to regenerate even if he gets her power ... And if he never had it to begin with, how could he survive being shot by Parkman in Season One? But let's just ignore that, and forget about Save the Cheerleader, save the world.
Hiro's dad sends him on a quest - posthumously, of course. Hiro must protect a chemical formula which, in the wrong hands, can destroy the world. Naturally, he takes it out to look at it - and it gets stolen by a speedster girl who looks like a cross between Gigi Edgely and Ashley Scott .
Mohinder has the serum which can give people superpowers. Should he destroy it, to prevent the Company getting it, or should he use it himself?
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 2]
Dreamtime
Sylar goes for an all-you-can-eat buffet at the Company's cells. This has a very bad result for Elle, and may have bad repercussions for everyone else. There's a mass break-out, so a few villains are running free - and a couple of the good guys!
Mohinder tries to adapt to his new powers. However, they seem to be in flux ...
Hiro and Ando track the girl to Paris. Hiro no longer entirely trusts his poor sidekick.
Parkman's on a vision quest. Not his idea, of course, but he might trim his weight down as a result.
The Governor [Bruce Boxleitner - Babylon 5 ] and his advisor [ Ali Larter ] want Nathan on their team. But Nathan's busy playing chess with the ghost of Mr Linderman [Malcolm McDowell].
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 3]
One of Us, One of Them
Mrs Petrelli's first priority is to retrieve Peter and the Fugitives. She re-hires Noah, and pairs him with a new partner. This is the most unlikely team-up ever!
Hiro and Ando close in on the second half of the formula. However, the Speedster girl turns them against each other.
Tracey ( Ali Larter ) investigates her own history, to see how she was linked to Jessica.
Claire tries to get her mother to teach her how to fight. There's a lot of friction between her two mothers. It seems like the senility inflicted by the Haitian's memory-wipes was only temporary.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 4]
The Year of Our Lord
This episode messes up all established facts about the superpowers.
Parkman continues his Walkabout. The guide teaches him how to have visions. It's not just people who were born with it that can use that power, it seems.
Hiro and Ando are in The Company's holding cell. Being the old boss's son doesn't cut much ice.
Tracey discovers the truth about her origins. Nathan debates with the ghost of Linderman.
The two Peters go four years into the future. Mohinder has turned into the Jeff Goldblum character in Cronenberg's version of The Fly . Syler has changed even more!
Peter needs Syler's power, for some reason. This is a bad idea, because it turns out that the power itself is addictive. Apparently THAT is why Syler went on his rampage in Season One. But why did he do it in Season Two, when his powers were stripped from him? And what happened to Peter's power to automatically regenerate from Death?
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 5]
Angels And Monsters
The heroes have to address their villainous side. Peter now has Syler's hunger. And Mohinder has a hunger of his own!
Hiro and Ando must team up with Adam. And it turns out that Nathan's not the only one who can see Linderman. Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) may have something to do with it.
Clare goes bounty-hunting. But is the escapee she corners any more dangerous than Tracey? And now her dad is teamed up with Syler. Who is the more murderous - Syler or HRG?
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 6]
Dying of the Light
Clare's biological mother is in the clutches of the Puppeteer. Clare and her mom go to the rescue.
Nathan and Tracey visit Mohinder. They want his help, but he's got plans of his own.
Hiro goes after the African Precog. Daphne the speedster-girl is on her recruitment drive. She's beginning to have serious doubts about the people she's working for. She goes after Syler and the villains in the Company cells. She even speaks to Mohinder. And then she meets Parkman ...
The big bad guy has possibly the best power of all. He uses it on Adam Munroe.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 7]
Eris Quod Sum
Daphne is ordered to kill Matt Parkman. Can she go through with it?
Elle and Claire team up.
Syler tries to save Peter ...
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 8]
Villains
Hiro's vision of the past takes him back to the events leading up to Season One.
Company Man Eric Roberts hunts down a pair of pyrokinetics - Claire's mother and uncle.
Mr. Petrelli was Linderman's lawyer - and his main investor!
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 9]
It's Coming
Hiro and Ando escape - sort of. Hiro thinks he's ten years old, and can't remember the events of Season One or Two.
Syler gets a long-awaited confrontation with Elle.
Nathan can't decide whether to join his dad. Tracy plays her card.
Peter and Claire go on the run from the Thugs.
Mohinder closes in on the secret of the Formula.
Matt tries to help Mrs. Petrelli.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 10]
The Eclipse : Part 1
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 11]
The Eclipse : Part 2
Without their powers, Elle and Gabriel find themselves hunted by the bloodthirsty HRG. Claire herself is on her deathbed.
Hiro and Ando visit the local well of knowledge ... the Comic Shop! Seth Green [ Austin Powers ] and his co-workers have the entire collection of 9th Wonders comics, so they are able to hint as to how Hiro can get his memory back.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 12]
Our Father
Hiro and Claire go to the past. She goes to protect the baby version of herself.
Hiro poses as his family's new chef
Peter and the Haitian go after Petrelli Snr. But Nathan has come to be more appreciative of his father's work. This leads to Fraternal conflict.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 13]
War
Syler is back! Yes, Gabriel has turned evil again ... for no apparent reason. He can control his powers so he doesn't NEED to open someone's skull to take their powers. He just opens their skull because he LIKES it!
Syler traps Bennett, Claire, Meredith and Mrs Petrelli in the Odessa facility. He stalks them, playing mind-games with them.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 14]
(Volume Four: Fugitives) A Clear and Present Danger
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 15]
Trust and Blood
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 16]
Building 26
Claire helps a mutant escape from the MIBs. Then she sets her parents against each other, in the mistaken belief that destroying her father's life will make things better.
Syler and his teenage sidekick are on the run. The MIBs are after them, of course. We get to watch Syler develop as a character, which is a nice development in itself.
Hiro and Ando are in India, trying to prevent an arranged marriage. Hiro thinks he will get his powers back.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 17]
Cold Wars
Bennet gets interrogated by the fugitives. Each has their own agenda, and it's nice to see everyone's motives get revealed. The flashbacks show how he got dragged into the MIB conspiracy, and how the Hunter began to take it over.
Nathan has to fight with a bureaucrat for continued funding. He wants incarceration for the mutants, while the Hunter wants to kill them all.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 18]
Exposed
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 19]
Shades of Gray
The Cheerleader has to decide what kind of hero she will be. Rebel wants her to run an underground railroad - but will she help reformed supervillains?
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 20]
Cold Snap
The Hunter has taken over the operation. HRG tries to gain his trust. The plan? To hand over Rebel.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 21]
Into Asylum
Peter and his mother hide out in a church. Nathan and his daughter go on the run in Mexico, and try to survive by gambling on drinking games.
Yet another dysfunctional partnership appears. Syler and the Hunter team up to take on a murderous shapeshifter.
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 22]
Turn and Face the Strange
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 23]
1961
The fugitives meet up at a disused camp in the California desert. Mama Petrelli explains (through a series of informative flashbacks) that Dr Suresh (senior) ran the camp back in the 1950s,
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 24]
I Am Sylar
Heroes [Season 3, Episode 25]
An Invisible Thread
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 1]
Orientation
Nathan Petrelli is having an identity crisis. No wonder.
Tracy Strauss ( Ali Larter ) is back from the dead, killing people she thinks might hunt her down.
Robert Knepper ( Hitman ) sends super-fast killer Ray Park ( X-Men ) to retrieve a magical compass from the Hunter.
The cheerleader is now at college with the punching girl from Californication.
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 2]
Jump, Push, Fall
Claire investigates her friend's unlikely death.
Parkman is in rehab, avoiding using his superpower. But he has his old job as a detective back ...
Knepper convinces Hiro that it is his mission in life to go back in time and put right what once went wrong.
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 3]
Ink
Robert Knepper ( Hitman ) tests Peter Petrelli's boundaries.
Matt Parkman discovers that being a psychic cop and having Syler infesting your subconscious are not compatible.
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 4]
Acceptance
Hiro goes back in time to stop an employee ruining his own life. But every time Hiro saves him, the employee messes up again.
Nathan Pirelli discovers an unpleasant secret in his past. He manages to fall foul of someone even worse than his own mother ...
Tracy Strauss ( Ali Larter ) tries to get her old job back with Governor Bruce Boxleitner ( Babylon 5 ).
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 5]
Hysterical Blindness
Peter meets the Synesthesia woman again, and discovers what her power is. Her mother ( Louise Fletcher ) is a doctor in Peter's hospital.
Syler is back. Physically, at least. He has complete amnesia. Police Chief Ernie Hudson ( Ghostbusters ) treats the poor unfortunate like a perp, although he has no proof Syler comitted any crimes and is clearly a victim.
Claire is invited to join a Sorority by the Token Black Chick from Veronica Mars (S2) ). But Californication girl seems to be acting creepy. Either that, or an invisible stalker is framing her!"
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 6]
Tabula Rasa
Syler is welcomed by the Carnies, who help him recover his memories. This involves forcing him to remember all the murders he committed. Luckily he seems to have lost his killer instinct.
Peter and HRG go looking for a boy with healing powers. Hiro is in hospital, looked after by the Synesthesia woman.
One of the murders Syler flashed back to was Charlie the waitress in Season One. Hiro goes back in time (Three years!) to save her!
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 7]
Strange Attractors
Claire and her roommate go on a special scavenger hunt for the Sorority. They start to work things out ...
Parkman is still haunted by Syler. Can he sort things out?
HRG and Tracey try to save the boy from the local redneck sheriff. This is more difficult than it should be.
67. 4- 8 2 Nov 09 Once Upon A Time In Texas 68. 4- 9 9 Nov 09 Shadowboxing 69. 4-10 16 Nov 09 Brother's Keeper 70. 4-11 23 Nov 09 Thanksgiving 71. 4-12 30 Nov 09 The Fifth Stage 72. 4-13 4 Jan 10 Upon This Rock; Let It Bleed 73. 4-14 4 Jan 10 Let It Bleed 74. 4-15 11 Jan 10 Close to You
Heroes [Season 4, Episode 1
]
Return to the TV Reviews
Return to the ORBzine Homepage.
© Speculator 2002-10