According to Tim Kring, producer of Heroes, tonight there’ll be major cliffhangers for every “Hero”. He said that, he designed this episode as Pilot one, for everyone gets a chance for a moment to shine.

The pilot had cliffhangers for every single character, so it forced you to come back in the next episode to the same idea,” Kring said. “By the fifth episode, we were able to winnow that down so that we could tell fewer stories. In episode six we basically told two characters’ story. It was Claire [Hayden Panettiere] and Niki [Ali Larter]. And we’ve sort of fallen into a pattern of three or four stories per episode now.