Episode 3-01 ‘A second coming’
premiered today at the 2008 San Diego ComicCon.

The ODI and Newsarama so far posted a report, and -obviously- the’re stuffed with spoilers, including who shoot Nathan, if Nathan is alive or not, if Mohinder has special powers or not, who’s Saylar going to… well, you got the point…click on ‘continue…’ to read the spoilers

The episode picks up at the end of the abbreviated Season Two, with the attempt on Nathan Petrelli’s life. Nathan flat-lines on the operating table — but then he comes back to life, pale as a Casper and twice as grateful.

Then we learn that it was Nathan’s brother Peter – from the future – who came back in time to kill Nathan, to prevent him from revealing to the world the existence of super-powered people. Matt figures it out, and gets banished to the desert for his troubles.

Hiro is in Japan, a titan of industry running his family’s company. He tells Ando he’s bored, that after saving the world — twice — he’s a man without a quest. And right on cue, he’s delivered a dvd with a message his father recorded for him before his death.

The message? On the dvd, Hiro’s dad Kaito Nakamura (George Takei) explains that he is now the protector of a secret that, if it falls into the wrong hands, could destroy the world. It’s in his safe, and he’s instructed to NEVER open the safe.

“It’s half of a formula…It’s the light, to combat darkness,” Nakamura says in the recording.

After Hiro and Ando open the safe (and get chided for it posthumously by Hiro’s father). Season 3’s new villain, a blonde named Daphne, AKA Speedster (Brea Grant) shows up and steals the formula.

Sylar’s back! He shows up and terrorizes Claire in her home in a scene obviously written by someone with affection for the “Scream” horror franchise. Their scenes together were the highlights of the episode, simultaneously tense and funny.

“I know you’re scared Claire,” Sylar says. “I would be too if I were here with someone like me.”

Claire stabs him in the heart with a huge kitchen knife. But Sylar overpowers her and then proceeds to pull a Hannibal Lector and cut the top of her head off and then pokes around in her brain and absorbs her power.

As he walks out, Claire asks Sylar why he didn’t kill her.

“You can never die, Claire, “ he said. “I guess now, neither can I.”

Like Matt the intrepid cop, Niki Sanders gets short shrift in the episode. She shows up only briefly in a hotel room, scantily clad, with a political figure (played by Bruce Boxleitner) who’s interested in the newly-evangelical Nathan.

Nathan, you see, after his near-death experience has seen the light. “We are all connected. Save ourselves. Save the World.”

Meanwhile, Suresh makes a breakthrough. After watching Maya’s powers manifest themselves, he determines that the genetic building blocks for powers lie in the adrenal glands, and triggered by bursts of adrenaline.

He sees the opportunity to create superheroes on demand, with specific powers. Maya thinks it’s going against nature, and that he should destroy it.

But Suresh juices himself anyway, and wouldn’t you know he gave himself super-strength??

The episode had two HUGE reveals.

Hiro, curious to see what the future holds if they don’t get the formula back, jumps forward and sees himself betrayed and struck down by a suddenly super-powered Ando! We get a quick glimpse of the potential Apocalypse as well.

Then, after Angela warns Future Peter that he’s messed up the timeline with his actions, we learn that Present-Day Pete has been trapped inside the body of a prisoner in Level 5 of the company, the same place HRG is incarcerated.

Fade to black, episode ends.

SOURCE: NEWSARAMA

Hey All,
Just got out out of the Heroes and LOST panels. Amazing stuff…!

Episode 1 of Season 3 of Heroes was aired and it was AWESOME!!

Here is my live blog report:

MAJOR SPOILERS!!

Titled A Second Coming

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 her 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

Sweet graphics!!

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

Tmakes 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

He 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

Niki with a politician but she is Tracy now

Matt stuck in the desert

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 do as future Peter and trapped Peter villain in level 5

We see Knox and other villains ends with Mohinder with a power!!

SOURCE: the ODI