Masi Oka, who plays the time-traveling Hiro in NBC’s Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will have a resolution of the first season and a cliffhanger in the last three minutes that will lead directly into season two. “I think it’s great the way the finale ends,” Oka said in an interview May 10 at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif., where he was honored for best supporting actor in a television series. “It’s a wrapping up of volume one, which is [called] ‘Genesis.’ And it wraps up the whole bomb storyline. So it’s a nice finale, and there’s a great cliffhanger with everybody, I would say. And you do get to see a little bit of volume two, which is called Generations“

Oka also talked about the return of guest star George Takei, who plays his father on the show and has some involvement with the mysterious O.W.I., or Organization Without Initials. “It’s going to be pretty fantastic,” Oka said of the next episode, titled “Landslide.” “[Takei is] there, and we get a little bit of a training montage, like a Karate Kid thing. … He might be part of the O.W.I. We don’t know. The whole O.W.I. could be something bigger than we think. And as I say, volume two is called ‘Generations.’ What does that mean? Does that mean the past? There’s going to be some more things with generations of other families, or is it generations in terms of years? Eras? Who knows?”

As for the final episode, Oka said it was a difficult shoot, but the efforts of the cast and crew paid off in the end. “The big finale has been amazing because we had a lot of long nights,” he said. “Because of the location, we had to shoot overnight. So we’d have 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. day after day after day. It was tough on the crew, tough on the cast. … But it’s going to be fantastic. The finale’s going to be the bomb. Literally and metaphorically.” Heroes airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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NBC’s Heroes episode #22 ‘Landslide’ that will
air Monday, May 14 2007 at 9/8C on NBC TV