This is the latest scoop from Heroes created Tim Kring from an interview with TV Guide.
Claire finds her birth parents. Peter vanishes. Hiro’s father shows up, and so does a startling new Israeli hero with high-tech capabilities. Someone will die. NBC’s Heroes is headed for an explosive February.
Hit us with the bad news first. Who’s dying? Are we going to hate you? Some people will be upset, sure. During February sweeps we are going to kill off one of our regulars, someone who has been with the show from the very beginning.
Someone from the beginning? Oh man this is going to have some emotional impact. Not to worry though because he hints that due to “our ability to bend time and change things” they do actually have plans for whoever is going to die.
We’ll see Claire’s biological mom — played by Nip/Tuck’s Jessalyn Gilsig — on Jan. 29. How will that unfold? Claire sets out to locate her birth mother and finds her living in a trailer park in an old Airstream. That’ll be a shock, but the identity of Claire’s father will be a bigger shock.
Very nice. I guess she will go on the road for this discovery and after that she will have a “need” to locate other Heroes.
Continuing with your “Meet the Parents” theme, Hiro’s father — played by George Takei — also pops up Jan. 29, right? And it’s going to be blow-your-mind cool. The character will provide a gateway into a whole world back in Japan that we will explore in Season 2 — a story about Hiro’s family and his past.
Will Hiro regain control of his powers? He’ll be a little handicapped for a while. Hiro can’t be so powerful that he becomes a crutch for bad writing. That’s why we had him fail to save the waitress. We can’t have him go back in time and fix everything. Hiro’s quest for the sword will take him from naive boy to a real man.
Hiro’s past and family? Once he gets his sword, what are the odds that he is actually the samurai Kensai they spoke of the recent episode. Certainly Hiro must be a relative of his anyway.
The mysterious, unseen mobster Linderman is growing in importance. Hiro and Ando are headed to Las Vegas to find him, and we know he has connections to Niki, D.L., Simone and Nathan. Will we see him soon? He will continue to grow as a force and be revealed after February. The casting on this one is tricky. We’ve already built such a huge aura around Linderman that we don’t want to disappoint, yet it could be cheesy to suddenly see a big-name star in the role. This isn’t that kind of show.
So there you have it. Sounds like this is going to be a great season to watch.
TV Guide - A Hero Will Die! Brace yourself for shocking revelations and unexpected plot twists
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