Chapter One 'Genesis':
Volume: One
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: David Samel
Original airdate: September 25, 2006
Synopsis:
In a lavish apartment in New York City, Peter Petrelli dreams of himself flying before he’s awakened by Simone, the daughter of a man he is taking care of in his role as a nurse.
Elsewhere in India, as Professor Mohinder Suresh gives a lecture on human evolution, he is informed by a friend that his father has died while in New York City, one of the places his father went to in an attempt to prove his radical theories about human evolution. Suspecting foul play, Mohinder decides he has to go to NYC to find out what happened to his father and try to continue his work, telling his friend that his father feared he was being followed.
In Las Vegas, a woman named Nikki Sanders poses seductively on a bed, a camera nearby, broadcasting her to the internet where someone asks her to remove more of her clothing but balking at the idea of sending her more money to do so. Nikki stops the broadcast, staring oddly at a mirror before she goes to wake her son, Micah, up. When he’s not in his room, she panics but finds him working on his computer elsewhere in the house. When some suspicious looking me show up to their house, Nikki grabs Micah and escapes, taking him to his private school, but the school president is adamant that because she is behind in her tuition payments, Micah will need to be removed from school, despite Nikki’s donation of $25,000 to get him into the school in the first place. As they leave, Nikki finds herself staring oddly at the reflective glass of a fish tank.
In Japan, a man named Hiro Nakamura stares at the clock on his desk at work, concentrating hard, when suddenly the clock stops,and the second hand moves backwards one second. He is ecstatic at this and rushes over to tell his friend Ando but he himself is nonplussed. Later as the two hang out after work, Hiro tries to tell him about the significance of this and how he could delve his powers to bend time and space, but Ando plays it off as a joke, making references to Star Trek. Later at a bar, Hiro talks about how he would never use his developing powers for personal gain while Ando dares him to use his power to teleport himself into a ladies restroom.
In Texas, a cheerleader named Claire Bennett stands atop an old abandoned oil rig while her friend Zach watches from afar, filming her as she plummets to the ground far below. He rushes up to her and she gets up, her arm dislocated, cuts on her skin, but immediately the cuts begin to heal and she puts her arm back into place, completely healed and unharmed. As they walk home together, she spots a train crash that caused a fire. She rushes in, saving a man who was trapped, but as the firemen tend to her and the man, they see she has absolutely no burns on her before she rushes off.
Mohinder goes to his father’s apartment only to discover someone there in another room talking on a phone. He notices a pair of horn rimmed glasses nearby and quickly grabs some things, taking a picture of a map and rushing out before the man sees him. Later, Mohinder returns to the room, finding it has been roughly searched, everything overturned and emptied. He decides to rent the room, and while cleaning up finds a tape labeled Sylar.
Peter meets with his brother, Nathan, who is running for Congress, and tells him of his dream of flying but Nathan is dismissive as they rush out to bail out their mother whose husband died a few weeks ago and was just arrested for shoplifting, something Peter attributes to her just needing attention. Nathan also offers Peter a job with his campaign, one, because he’s a good people person, and two, because Nathan will appear more of a family man if he takes the job. Peter leaves and gets in a cab, noticing the eclipse happening overhead. As the cab drives off, he talks with the driver, Mohinder, about the feeling of being special and meant for something more in life. After dropping Peter off, another man gets into the cab and starts asking him about his name, and his father, leaving him to become suspicious, seeing the man wearing glasses he had noticed in his father’s apartment on his first visit there. Mohinder stops the cab suddenly and runs off leaving the man behind.
Simone finds her boyfriend Isaac ruining his paintings and wondering why. Isacc is frantic as he reveals that his paintings have been predicting future events, showing her something he painted weeks ago and the newspaper that showed the events happening the day before. He admits he has been using drugs again and that the paintings are evil, not even remembering painting them. He yells at Simone and she leaves, returning to her fathers apartment to try and find morphine to help Isaac. Peter goes with her but they find Isaac passed out on the floor, and they call 911, but Peter notices another painting that Isaac painted, one of him, in the exact outfit he’s wearing, seemingly flying in the sky.
Nikki returns home to grab some things but is captured by the thugs and forced to start to remove her clothes. As one thug videotapes the ordeal, Nikki pauses and is punched by the other thug. When she awakens, she looks around in horror as she sees both men dead, killed in gruesome ways, with the video camera still running.
As Ando walks outside the bar, joining Hiro who was just kicked out of the bar being in the ladies room, seemingly having teleported himself into it, Hiro tries to convince him of what he did but again, Ando denies it being real. Hiro rides home alone on the subway, staring at a poster of NYC on the wall. He closes his eyes, and suddenly time starts moving and when he opens his eyes, he finds himself standing in the middle of NYC.
At Claire’s home, she talks with her mom and her brother Lyle, later washing the dishes and getting her hand cut up in the garbage disposal before it once again heals itself back to normal. As Mrs Bennett greets her husband coming in the door, he is revealed to be the horn rimmed glasses man, the man who was in Mohinder’s apartment and cab.
Back in NYC, Nathan goes to an abandoned alleyway, asking Peter why he is there. A cell phone drops from above and he looks up to see Peter there, quickly jumping off the roof. As Peter falls, Nathan suddenly flies up and catches him and holds him, midair, but suddenly loses his grip as Peter starts to fall again.
Back-issues:
Tim Kring got his start writing for television (as R. Timothy Kring) with an episode of Misfits of Science and Knight Rider. He then wrote several scripts, including the TV movie Bay Cove starring Tim Matherson, Pamela Sue Martin, Barbara Billingsley, Jeff Conaway, and Woody Harrilson, as well as Teen Wolf Too starring Jason Bateman. Before creating Heroes, he also created the shows Providence and Crossing Jordan.
Cristine Rose played Angela Petrelli, a character actor with 137 roles to her name. She played the mom in Ferris Bueller’s TV series.
Zach was played by Thomas Dekker, who is most known for Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles where he plays John Connor. He was in other series like The Secret Circle (a teenage witch discovering her powers) and Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show.
Jacqueline Pinol played Janice. She’s a character actor who did additional voices in Across the Spider-verse.
Ntare Guma played Usutu and will be back in the show in later episodes. A character actor with several recurring roles including The Chi (coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption), Treme (Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture), and The Lincoln Lawyer (idealist runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car)
Chapter Two 'Don't Look Back':
Volume: One
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Allan Arkush
Original airdate: October 2, 2006
Synopsis:
Peter wakes up in a hospital, his brother Nathan nearby, explaining to him how he jumped from a roof and tried to kill himself, waving off Peter’s claims that Nathan flew and saved him as crazy talk. Angela, their mother, goes to see Peter and tells him that their father actually committed suicide and tried many times to do so, explaining it away as a disease that Peter may have inherited.
Claire talks with her dad and due to her conversation with her mother from the previous day, he tries to discourage her from wanting to meet her birth parents, telling her to keep things light and fun for as long as she can, that meeting her birth parents can be a very adult issue.
Mohinder returns to his apartment and finds a man underneath a table messing around with some wires. The man gets up suddenly and tries to pass himself off as an exterminator but seeing Mohinder isn’t buying the excuse, a fight ensues with the man pulling a gun. He tries to escape but runs into a female neighbor, dropping the gun and enabling her to grab it. The man shoves Mohinder at her and runs off while the woman, Eden, and Mohinder talk and she receives the news that his father died. It turns out Eden often made dinner for his father and became friends.
In Texas, the police arrive at Claire’s school and due to the rescued man in the fire wanting to thank his savior, they question the cheerleaders about who saved him. One officer suggests it was Claire, but another cheerleader steps forward to claim responsibility. Zach later finds Claire and tells her that the tape they made of her continually trying to kill herself, is missing.
Nikki in Vegas returns with Micah to their house to gather their belongings, with Micah wondering what is going on. She goes to the garage and finds no trace of the deadly killing, but a key to a car parked outside with a registration in her name. A note tells her to follow the map in the trunk, which also contains the dead bodies of the thugs. Together she and Micah travel to the desert, and while Micah sleeps, Nikki begins to bury the bodies in a location seemingly littered with other long buried skeletons.
In Los Angeles, officer Matt Parkman is patrolling a crime scene where a husband and wife were killed, the top of the man's head cut clean off, and the brain removed. The detectives inside talk about the case, theorizing that it is Sylar all over again, but Matt Parkman walks inside past them, hearing someone in his head scared of being found and being hurt. He finally finds a little girl, Molly, hidden away in a cupboard under the stairs. One of the detectives, Audrey Hanson, questions how Parkman could know where she was, and calls into question his integrity, how he failed at his detective test multiple times and that maybe he planned this murder so he could look like a hero. Parkman explains it was Sylar, a name he shouldn’t know because it’s highly classified, and thus she arrests Parkman on suspicion of murder.
Back at his apartment, Mohinder and Eden listen to his father’s phone messages and a man named Sylar calls him, saying that Chandra can’t leave him like this, that he made him this way. Chandra is adamant he did not make him a murderer and hangs up. The two then discover a usb drive and upon examination, Mohinder sees his father did actually find a way to track and find people with special abilities.
Back in Texas, HRG tells Claire that he made some calls, and that the process of her meeting her birth parents is now underway, telling her that he just wants her to be his little girl. She says she will, but that he can’t protect forever. As she leaves, he admits that that thought breaks his heart, as he watches the tape that Claire and Zach made of her demonstrating her abilities.
Back in NYC, Peter once again stands on the edge of a building, telling Nathan to admit what really happened the previous day. Nathan admits that he flew, but then dropped Peter and then Peter himself flew as well. Peter gets angry, accusing Nathan of just saying what he wants to hear but Nathan points out that at that very moment, Peter is levitating off the ground.
In NYC, Hiro goes to find Isaac after discovering a comic book he drew that details the exact conversations Hiro had with Ando previously. Unfortunately, he finds Isaac dead on the floor with the top of his head cut clean off, his brain missing, and a gun nearby. He picks up the gun just as police raid the place and take him into custody. They end up calling Ando to help explain, but Ando explains that Hiro has been missing for 5 weeks, despite his own watch telling him it’s been just hours since he teleported from Japan. A loud boom pulls their attention to the window where a large explosion is building a few blocks away. Hiro concentrates and suddenly finds himself back aboard the subway train he was on the day before.
Back-issues:
We’ve seen director Allan Arkush before, he directed Dawson’s Creek S01E07 'Detention’. He also directed Caddyshack II.
Tawny Cypress played Simone. She most recently stars in Yellowjackets (super good girls high school soccer team becomes stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash). She was also a recurring character on the show Unforgettable (Carrie Wells, a former police detective, has a rare ability to remember virtually everything she experiences including detailed visual recall. She returns to police work and uses her ability to solve crimes) and The Blacklist Redemption (a failed spinoff show. Covert operative Tom Keen joins forces with Susan "Scottie" Hargrave, the brilliant and cunning chief of a covert mercenary organization that solves problems that are too dangerous for the government).
Brody, Claire’s boyfriend, was played by Matt Lanter, of Timeless fame. He also voiced Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and other Star Wars animated series, Aquaman in several DC animated movies, and Flash Thompson in The Ultimate Spiderman animated series. He was the lead in the parody Disaster Movie and the rebooted 90210 series.
Stacy Haiduk played the FBI agent, Elisa Thayer. She has appeared in Superboy as Lana Lang, Young and the Restless as a couple characters over 200+ episodes and is currently on Days of Our Lives in over 370 episodes so far.
Clea Duvall was FBI Agent Audrey Hanson. She was in about half of the total Veep episodes (26), a lead in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (series), in all episodes of Carnivale (during the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell, with Clancy Brown), and is the lead in Housebroken with Lisa Kudrow (dog named Honey who runs group therapy sessions to help neighborhood animals manage the neuroses brought on by their owners and each other).
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