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[doctor70094]

Airdate: September 15 22, 2008 from 9 pm

[[p]

Real? Its airing in Septemer? cool can't wait, seriously it's been too long. I'm sure they'll redeem themselves from the shocking 2nd season. GO THE WRITERS 

[rex]

I'm glad Tim Kring and Co. are taking they're time and not just rushing something to us.  I didn't watch the second season as much as the first (meaning I haven't watched season 2 as many times as season 1), and while I liked most of the individual storylines I thought season 2 lacked the co-hesiveness that season 1 did.  So here's to season 3, may she be all we've hoping and waiting for.

[guaxini]

04/23 - Jesse: 28-38, Male. Jesse is an intense guy with an explosive temper. Violent. Cruel. A mean looking S.O.B. Recurring Co-Star. Reporter #1 & #2: 28-38, Male or Female, any ethnicities. An ambitious TV reporter covering the news in Odessa, Texas. Co-Star. E.R. Doctor: 32-48, Male or Female, any ethnicities. A skilled E.R. doctor working in Odessa, Texas. Co-Star. News Commentator: 32-45, Male or Female, any ethnicities. A TV anchor on a national news program. Co-Star. Scary Guy #1 & #2: 25-35, Male, any ethnicities. Two scary thugs preying on innocent civilians in New York city. Co-Star. Paramedic: 30-40, Male or Female, any ethnicities. A paramedic administering emergency care to a seriously injured patient. Co-Star.  Source: SpoilerTV

[doctor70094]

---In the first three minutes one of the lead heroes is going to bust a cap off at one of the other lead heroes. And oh yeah, the guy she pulls the trigger on just might be the guy she's playing tonsil hockey with in real life. She also tells him (on cam), "I always loved you." We're gonna see Claire-bear with dark hair and this also involves a shift in time. Source: Kristin on E!Online

[S1L3N7 HUN73R]

Airdate: September 15, 2008 from 9 to 11 p.m.

Doesn't this episode air on September 22?

[Hellish Gnome]

"The Butterfly Effect", huh? That's a great title

[serojay]

Ali Larter will be coming back as a completely new character with a completely new power in this episode.

[doctor70094]

 07/27 - Here is a live blog report of the airing of the season premiere at Comic-Con. There are some typos but since we haven't seen the episode, it's difficult for us to correct/clarify the report. Read the text between brackets if you want to be that spoiled. You've been warned.

 [Opening scene Future Claire and Peter, she tries to shoot him but he stops time and disappears. Future Peter is the shooter! Nathan dies on hospital bed, but he wakes up when Peter is standing there. We see Hiro with Ando in Japan Hiro gets a random DVD from his dad. Sylar attacks Claire he is invisible to her. Maya is with Mohinder, he realizes the source of powers and wants her to get mad. Hiro and Ando watch the DVD and his dad tells him never open the safe but he does. Then dad says "I told you not to open and there is a secret formula to protect." Formula is chemistry but Daphne steals even after he stops time. Peter looks for a gun but Matt stops him. Future Peter transports into Peter and tells Matt that he had to stop Nathan because future is messed up. T makes Matt disappear. Nathan leaves the hospital but Peter is following him to make sure that he does not tell the news reporter. Nathan does not. And Peter does not shoot him. Back to Mohinder and Maya nothing major. Sylar attacks Claire and gets her head cut open. Be is talking to Claire and playing with her brain!! Asks if he is going to eat it and he says that's disgusting. He takes her powers and then saves her. Telling she is special that she can't die and neither can he now. Maya tells Mohinder to destroy the formula he has. Peter and Nathan in hospital again nayhab says hand of god saved him. Linderman appears in his dream. Are Niki with s politician but is Tracy now. Matt stuck in dessert. Hiro goes to the future and area Ando with a super power and kills future Hiro. Mohinder injects himself. Back at hospital Angela with Nathan. She can see the future via dreams!! She knew what Peter would future Peter trapped Peter uh a villain in level 5. We see Knox and other villains ends with Mohinder with a power!!]

Source: SpoilerTV

[serojay]

Episode 1 summary.

    * We open four years in the future, with the oft-talked about scene where Future Claire aims a gun at Future Peter and pulls the trigger. Well of course you can’t kill a guy who can stop time. Future Peter does just that and disappears into the past, where …

    * 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 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.

    * 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?

    * Maya goes to Mohinder for help. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and 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. [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.]

    * So what’s up with Nathan? Well, he was shot, then he survived. How? Who knows. He just wakes up in the hospital and 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 the Petrelli Brothers that they are destined for great things.

    * 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 stabs him. He of course doesn’t die. Eventually, Sylar captures her, and slices her head open. 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.”)

    * 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 videotape from his deceased father telling him that he must safeguard a piece of paper containing some formula that holds the lives of half the world’s population at stake. The paper is inside a safe, where Hiro, unable to stop himself, takes a peek at it. Oops! Daphne, the speedster, shows up and steals the paper! Instead of using his time powers to go back in time to stop her, he decides to go into the future to see the damage losing the paper has cause. Here, Hiro witnesses an argument between Future Ando and Future Hiro, apparently over the missing formula. And get this — Ando apparently uses a superpower (described as bolts of electricity!) to blast Hiro!

    * Some notes: 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.

[guaxini]

here's another summary that someone who saw the premier at comi-con posted on another forum, which says basically the same thing as serojay's post, but with a few more details.

Episode 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MAJOR SPOILERS FROM NOW ON GUYS. PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED!

10:58
"4 Years in the Future" Future Claire is holding a gun to Future Peter

10:59
Peter is begging Claire to let him go back to "The day they all found out" Claire shoots a bullet at peter and he stops time and merely steps out of the way.

10:59
We're now in present day! "Chapter One: The Second Coming"

11:00
FUTURE Peter puts on a black trentcoat and walks into the press briefing at the end of Generations. And SHOOTS Nathan!
11:01
Matt and some officers chase after Future Peter. Cut away to Claire's house. Claire sees the news footage and calls Peter to ask if he needs her blood to save Nathan.
11:01
Cut to a hospital. Hospital workers are working feverishly to save Nathan.
11:03
"Present" Peter has been at Nathan's side this whole time. A doctor comes into the waiting room and tells Peter "I'm sorry." Peter is now visiting Nathan who is apparently dead on the operating table. Nathan SPRINGS up out of bed after Peter touches him. Opening credits!
11:04
Now we're with Hiro. He's in his father's old office messing with an old clock (making it spin in circles) Ando walks in. Hiro's wondering wht's next for him. He's bored at Yamagato.
11:05
Hiro's father has left him a DVD message "About his Destiny"
11:05
We're now with Claire. She's playing with Mr. Muggles, and opens her door. SYLAR is there!
11:06
Sylar "I want what you have" Claire DECKS Sylar with a trophy and tries to make an escape but all of her doors are closing & locking via TK
11:07
Claire grabs a knife to defend herself. She's alone with Sylar in her kitchen. He's showing up in reflections behind her.
11:08 [Poll popup] Should we continue with plot details past the 2nd Act? View Results
11:09
There's a scuffle and the scene is cut short. We're now in Mohinder's apartment. Maya is scared, standing next to the door holding something heavy while someome tries to enter.
11:10
Mohinder walks in, Maya swings and misses, but realizes who it is. They're talking about her power. And how the adrenal gland is linked to everyone's power. "Everyone's stress levels affect their powers"
11:12
Hiro begins watching the DVD of his father. "You have a sacred duty" " It is in my personal safe" "In the wrong hands this secret could destroy the world." "It is now your duty..... to NEVER open the safe" Audience laughs.
11:13
Hiro (of course) opens the safe out of curiousity. Hiro scans his thumbprint and the door opens. Inside is a manilla envelope. "Pres Play" It's another DVD. When Hiro plays it it's his father, "I told you NEVER to open the safe!"
11:13
Nakamura "The only one who can safeguard the Heroes is one with pure blood."
11:15
Inside the envelope is a very detailed chemical chart. Hiro looks at it for a second and a rush of wind comes through the room. The chart is gone. Hiro stops time and there is a trail of "soundwaves" left from our "Speedster" Daphne.
11:16
Daphney decks Hiro and speeds away.
11:17
We're now with Peter, he's rifling around the evidence room. Matt walks in holding the gun with HIS fingerprints on it. Matt is trying to read peter's mind and all we get is feedback. Peter morphs into future peter and pushes Matt out of the room with TK. Taking the gun with him.
11:17
End of Act 2
11:18
Nathan wakes up in his hospital room, Peter is walking into the hospital. By the time peter gets to his room nathan is gone.
11:19
Nathan walks into a church. "I saw God today. I was dead and he gave me another change. And now I know the reason I'm here. To do great things. To do his bidding."
11:19
Peter is in the church, ready to "finish" Nathan off.
11:21
Nathan gives a statement about how "we are all connected" all about destiny and fate. Peter changes his mind once Nathan breaks down and starts crying.
11:22
We're now back with Mohinder and Maya. They're looking at the results of his tests on Maya's blood. He's made a vial that could potentially "give" powers to anyone.
11:22
We're back at Claire's with Sylar. She's locked herself in a closet and Sylar can't get to her.
11:23
Sylar's found some files of villains at level 5. While he's distracted clare comes up behind him and stabs him in the chest. This doesn't phase him. He pins claire against a wall and cuts off the top of her head.
11:25
Sylar is rifling through Claire's brain, she's sill conscious and they're holding a conversation! Claire "What are you doing" Sylar "I'm looking for answers before I bleed to death" Claire "Are you going to eat my brain" Sylar "Claire, that's disgusting!"
11:25
Sylar finds her ability. Claire is still amazingly alive. He pulls the knife out of his chest. It begins to HEAL!
11:26
Claire apparently dies when he finds her abiliity. Sylar begins to walk out but sees the top of her head. He puts it back on her and she comes back!
11:27
Claire: "Aren't you going to kill me"

Sylar "You aren't like the others. You're different, you're special, I couldn't kill you even if I wanted to. You can never die. And now I guess, niether can I"
11:28
We're back with Mohinder and Maya -- Maya wants mohinder to destoy the vial. She's afraid of what powers would manifest in random people.
11:28
Mohinder is excited about the possibilities of the vial. Of course -- because HE wants powers!
11:29
We're back with Nathan. Peter has brought him back to his hospital room.
11:30
Nathan is having delusions of grandeur. "We could be Angels, all here to do God's bidding."
11:31
Peter: "I don't expect you to understand what I did to you, but I hope some day you'll forgive me" he leaves.
11:31
A voice comes out from the conver of the room when Peter leaves.

11:31
MAJOR SPOILER!
11:31
"Life is funny, Isn't is Nathan."
11:31
IT'S LINDERMAN! ALIVE!
11:32
Linderman healed Nathan. "We're meant to do great things. Great things, Nathan"
11:32
We jump to a quick scene with Niki/Jessica and a Governor. They chat about Nathan.
11:33
Now we jump to a scene of a Desert. It's Matt! He's stranded in a desert thanks to Peter.
11:34
Now we're with Hiro and Ando - Hiro and Ando talk about Daphne. Ando says that Hiro needs to go to the past to find out why she wants their secrets. Hiro says he'll go to the future instead. We see a quick scene with Future Hiro and Future Ando.
11:35
Future Ando and Hiro have an argument. Future Ando strikes future Hiro down with a red energy blast! Ando has a power!
11:35
present Hiro runs around the corner and sees an apocolyptic vision of Tokyo being destroyed!!!
11:36
We're now back with Mohinder. He's about to throw the vial in the Harbor. He changes his mind at the last second and INJECTS himself! He quickly collapses.
11:36
We're now with Nathan. Angela is now by his side! Angela talks to peter. Her ability is indeed the "Dreams" he used to have.
11:38
Angela and Future Peter are now arguing.

Angela "What did you do with my son?"

F Peter "Somewhere safe."

We're not in Level 5, Mohinder's monologue begins. Several prisoners are yelling "I'm Peter Petrelli!" Mr. Bennet is also in level 5!
11:38
Matt is walking through the desert and sees a painting on a rock of the world exploding.
11:39
Linderman stands over Nathan. Niki looks as if she's plotting something. Theives find Mohiner lying on the ground and try to rob him at the harbor. Mohinder grabs their cutn and bends it backwards. Super Strength!
11:40
Mohinder looks at his hands and the camera pands to the Mural of the world exploding. "To Be Continued..."

[rex]

Damn it, damn it, damn it!  Damn NBC for showing it early, damn the spoilers (but not those that "spoil", thank you guys), and damn my NO WILL POWER HAVING A$$ for just not reading the spoilers!  There, had to get that out.  Wow, that sounds pretty kickass and its just episode 1.  I can't wait even more now.

[Isaac Mendez]

This part SUCKS! I like the whole "powers are genetic" thing. Makes me saddened....

Maya goes to Mohinder for help. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and 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. [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.]

[guaxini]

hopefully the powers still are genetic, but are activated through adrenaline.  this could mean that mohinder already had the genetic traits for an ability (his sister did have an ability after all), but they had not been activated up to that point.  because i agree, it would be stupid if they let anyone get an ability through some high dose of adrenaline.

[guaxini]

08/13 - [Season 3] kicks off moments after shots rang out, as the shocking identity of Nathan’s assassin and the reasons why the Texas press conference had to be cut short are revealed -- immediately throwing Peter and Matt into unexpected, uncharted territory. With his powers partially restored, Sylar decides a visit to Claire could give him a boost. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Hiro and Ando are charged with safeguarding a family secret that could split the planet apart, and discover that the path to a grim future starts with shady speedster, Daphne (guest star Brea Grant). In New York City, thanks to Maya, Suresh makes a startling breakthrough that could change the world -- or just destroy his. And who is Tracy Strauss? Noah Gray-Cabey, Ashley Crow, Randall Bentley, Jimmy Jean-Louis, George Takei, Malcolm McDowell, Carlon Jeffery, Jamie Hector, Bruce Boxleitner, Francis Capra and Blake Shields guest star. Source: NBC