The following is a compilation of Heroes spoilers from around the web. All original sources are cited and where exclusive content is presented it will be noted. Please note that in most all cases, The Deveaux Society refers to episode numbers by chapters as referenced within the series opening credits.
(Original Airdate: April 30, 2007)
04.11.07 - NBC changes the title from "String Theory" to "Five Years Gone".
Source: HeroSite.net
03.31.07 - Official description for episode released:
HAVING STOLEN THE SWORD AND TELEPORTED FIVE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, HIRO AND ANDO BEAR WITNESS TO A GRIM, HARROWING FUTURE FOR THE "HEROES" - Thrown five years in the future, Hiro (Golden Globe nominee Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) discover that people with extraordinary abilities are not only widely known about - after the destruction of New York City and the deaths of millions - but are being registered, imprisoned, hunted and even killed as "terrorists." As the President takes his first step towards a "final solution," the pair get swept up in what could be the "Heroes" final battle and encounter a range of new and darkly familiar faces. If they survive the experience, can they still get back to the present and save the world? Santiago Cabrera, Jack Coleman, Noah Gray-Cabey, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Leonard Roberts and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Stana Katic, Jimmy Jean-Louis and Zachary Quinto guest star.
Source: HeroSite.net
03.19.07 - "There's an episode (called 'String Theory') that happens five years in the future, and it's a possible outcome of what situations now might dictate in the future. It's not a definite, finite reality, but it's a possibility."
Source: Kristin on E!Online
03.18.07 - The title for this episode is Chapter Twenty "String Theory".
Source: HeroSite.net
03.05.07 - All the heroes dies in episode 20.
Source: Kristin on E!Online
03.05.07 - The battle for control between Niki and Jessica leads to "a merging of the two," Ali Larter says. "And we have an episode coming up that's set in the future. There is definitely a winner then."
Source: TV Guide
03.01.07 - Greg Grunberg reveals: "We're shooting an episode... we're about to shoot, where it's five years in the future, and it's not the Matt Parkman that anyone is used to seeing. My character is in a place that is really dark, and I'm not going to play it like this menacing, evil guy. I'm just going to play it as normal as possible. That, to me, is the way to make the most impact. Let the actions speak louder than the words."
Source: The A/V Club
02.28.07 - Jack Coleman, during an interview with an L.A. radio station on Monday, revealed that Episode 20 will be set five years into the future. What he didn't say is that Hiro and Ando would be the ones making the trek.
Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
02.19.07 - According to Adrian Pasdar, the Jessica/Nathan relationship will take an interesting turn in Episode 20. "Tick-tock." That's the tease "The family is only as strong as the secrets we keep."
Source: TV Guide Online
02.16.07 - In an interview in the April 2007 issue of Sci-Fi Magazine, Tim Kring, Aron Coleite, and Joe Polaski revealed we would actually see the world and time that future Hiro came from in episode 20.
Source: Sci-Fi Magazine, April 2007 Issue (via SpoilerFix)
02.13.07 - This episode features Andy, a handsome and big hearted Texan. There will also be an event at an upscale gentleman's club.
Source: SpoilerFix
01.19.07 - Kring says the still untitled episode 20 deals specifically with the idea of time travel and it blows the doors off of a lot of what were doing with the show. He promises this will be the most talked about episode of the year.
01.18.07 - Episode 20 is a "very future" episode and has answers to things we've been dying to discover.
Source: Kristin on E!Online
(Original Airdate: May 7, 2007)
04.09.07 - According to Heroes creator Tim Kring, "We learn about [Sylar's] home life and where he came from, and after that episode, your opinion of him may change."
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.18.07 - The title for this episode is Chapter Twenty-One "The Hard Part".
Source: HeroSite.net
(Original Airdate: May 14, 2007)
03.19.07 - Adrian Pasdar says about Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose), "She has a big part to play in my life and Peter's life and Claire's life... And the question of how my father died is something that gets answered in 22. It wasn't Sylar, but it's not what we were told. He turns out to be somebody we don't expect."
Source: Kristin on E!Online
03.19.07 - The title for this episode is Chapter Twenty-Two "Landslide".
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
03.13.07 - Sylar is eating a certain Hero's brain. Kristin says that this "eating brain" is going with the "other big death" spoiler released a few weeks ago.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
(Original Airdate: May 21, 2007)
04.09.07 - Sources tell me that Tawny Cypress, who plays Simone, is not off the show for good. Far from it! I'm told that even though she was "killed," Simone is coming back, along with her father (Peter's patient), in the season finale. It turns out she has abilities of her own, and as my source put it, "There are people on the positive and negative side. And Simone is on the negative side." Oh, and according to another source, "Simone and her father may have some ties to some other characters that we had no idea about before."
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.30.07 - Grunberg tells TV Guide "We all come together and we have a mission, all for various reasons, and we don't necessarily work as a "Super Friends" team, but we're all at the same place at the same time with the same mission, and it's just awesome. Like I worked with Adrian [Pasdar] the other day and I worked with Sendhil, people you never see me interact with ever on the show, so it's really fun. The dynamic is exciting when we get to work together. Audrey (played by Clea DuVall) returns in the last couple of episodes of the season, and hopefully will carry into next season."
Source: TVGuide.com
03.19.07 - The title for this episode is Chapter Twenty-Two "How to Stop an Exploding Man".
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
03.19.07 - Kring - "The whole thing converges in New York, ... and they're all there, and all of them play a role," Kring said in an interview at Wizard World in Los Angeles on March 17. "Even though some may feel like they're less significant to the final event, when you analyze it, each one had to play that role in order for the final event to be solved, and so there really was a kind of destiny quality to them coming together and having each one fulfilling one thing and one specific role."
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
03.17.07 - The episode will feature a Paris Hilton-like blonde woman in her late 20s, an Asian woman also in her late 20s and a male model.
Source: SpoilerFix
03.09.07 - I hear there's a good chance Clea DuVall (F.B.I. Agent Audrey Hanson) will pop up in the May 21 season finale.
Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
04.03.07 - According to Tim Kring, a third meaning for the Heroes symbol soon emerges, in addition to the description of the symbol as either a helix or a combination of two Japanese characters.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.26.07 - Look for lots more Heroic relatives (like Shanti) and family history next season, because I'm told the second season is called Volume Two: Generations, and it's all about the ancestors and descendants of the Heroes we know and love.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.17.07 - Here is a summary of what Kristin said in a Vine Show with Milo Ventimiglia: The scar Kristin mentioned in previous spoilers has nothing to do with what Sylar started doing at the end of "Parasite". Peter will surely come in contact with Candice as he'll soon have a shapeshifting ability. Sylar will stick around for season two as he will eat the brain of a highly important hero and this superpower is needed in the future.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.13.07 - Zachary Quinto will be made a series regular for season two.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.12.07 - Tim Kring, the creator of NBC's hit SF series Heroes, told fans that the show will eventually bring all of the main hero characters together before the season is out.
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
03.05.07 - By the end of the season, either Niki or Jessica win out and have sole control of Ali Larter's once whip-creamed body.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
03.02.07 - According to Tim Kring, the upcoming second season will constitute a new volume in the multi-volume series, with new characters and an entirely new storyline. "If you remember, the opening of the pilot pronounced the episode as the beginning of Volume One," Kring said in an interview. "Volume One comes to a conclusion at the end of episode 23, and Volume Two starts with the opening of season two. And Volume Two is a different story." Kring added: "We could have new people and new storylines and new ideas and new threats and new bad guys and new heroes. So I would prepare the audience for that idea, that it's not just a continuing serialized storyline about only these people. It's a little more the 24 model than the Lost model." Kring also confirmed that some of the current heroes just might not survive this season, but added: "Many of your favorites will live to fight again."
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
02.21.07 - Tawny Cypress says she is not the only Heroes actor set to die before season's end. "I know of one other person who's going to get it," she says. She's set to make at least two more appearances on Heroes, one of which is the show's two-hour finale, set to shoot at the end of March.
Source: USA Today
02.14.07 - There are actually two big Heroes deaths coming up. One's on Mar. 5, the other is in the run-up to the season finale.
Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
02.13.07 - Matt can help Nikki. You picked up on how Matt is the only one who can hear Nikki and Jessica's thoughts, right? Well that will definitely come into play later on, as Matt grows even more of a backbone and once again encounters Linderman's new hit man (Jessica). HRG's intentions are true. Sure, his actions seem about as well-intended as Sylar's, but from what I hear, HRG is nowhere near the hair-raising evil that our boy Sylar is.
Source: Kristin @ E!Online
02.12.07 - According to Kristin yes, someone is going to die and you aren't going to believe what I just heard. According to sources, Masi Oka, who plays Hiro, is not going to be with the cast for season 2. So, it sounds like his character will be the death, right? Well, actually, I know who it is, and it isn't Masi's character. According to sources, the reason Masi will be away from the cast is that his character will be in another century. As for who's dying, here's a juicy little little tease. It's someone you think they can't (with finger point of emphasis) kill off because this Hero has an important power. But, that power will live on in Sylar, who will suck it out of his or her brain.
Source: Kristin at E!Onine
02.06.07 - In a followup interview to Chapter 14, Tim Kring reveals that it's the eve of the election and suddenly the secret daughter Nathan thought was dead isn't. A scandal rises up. He'll have to drop everything to go stomp out this brushfire. We're going to explore the idea of evolution and family connections in a big way. There will be other revelations about the inherited nature of these powers. he idea of a lineage lends itself better to some characters than others. We may find out later on that Matt has some connections to other lives, but not right now. He's not secretly somebody's long-lost brother. And if you think recent events are causing the rise of the heroes - think again, Kring reveals that people with abilities have been around for millenia - there's just a whole lot more of them now.
Source: TVGuide.com
02.06.07 - There's one person you probably think they would never kill off because of his or her special role on the series. But what if there were someone who could instantly absorb that person's special role?
Source: Kristin at E!Onine
01.30.07 - Sylar holds the Bennets hostage. Get ready for a squeal-worthy, edge-of-your-seat episode next week, because Zachary Quinto (Sylar) is not messing around. And Mama Bennet is gonna have a rude awakening about what her beloved Rim Job (aka Horn-Rimmed Glasses, aka Mr. Bennet) has been up to all these years. Radioactive Guy is coming back. Rena Sofer (Nathan's wife) is also coming back. She told me at the Fox party (doing press for that other amazing show she's on, 24) that "they just called," so we see her closer to the end of the season. She also said cryptically of her character's future, "Next time you will see me in a wheelchair, but who knows?" Something tells me Eric Roberts is playing Linderman. Call it a hunch. As for the biggest reveal coming up in February sweeps the identity of Claire's father well, let's just say that, just like mommy, her daddy also has an ability. And it is truly an amazing twist!
Source: Kristin at E!Onine
01.30.07 - As for the cliffhanger? "It's not necessarily a cliffhanger in terms of what has been set up so far storywise," he added. "It's more of a cliffhanger as to the welfare and well-being of several of our characters. ... Obviously it plays into where we kick off at the [beginning] of season two." Don't expect the villainous Sylar (Zachary Quinto) to go away. "I love Zach Quinto, and I love what he's doing for the show," Kring said. "And the truth is I would like to continue and have him in the second season." There's a reason he's being kept alive by his mysterious captors, he added: "They really want something from him. The organization that Jack Coleman's character [H.R.G.] works for is on some sort of obvious research-oriented, as we call it, tag-and-release program. So there are things that they are gleaning by getting each one of these people. And remember, he is a character who seems to be exhibiting more than one power, which is intriguing to them as to how and why."
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
01.24.07 - Thanks to chat regular attendee Darcy, we have a glimpse at the HERO spread from the January 29th issue of TV Guide. Here are the spoilerish bits: Tim Kring reveals that a regular will be killed off and it's someone who has been on the show from the beginning. He points out that some of the dead ones may pop again in other episodes. He says that "we actually DO have plans for the character who's dying." Kring reveals that Linderman will be revealed after the February Sweeps, that a winner will be declared in the whole Niki/Jessica battle, and that we will see more of Micah and his ability to manipulate machines. He adds that Matt and Ted will face again, and Simone and Mohinder will not get powers.
Source: SpoilerFix BuddyTV Spoilers Chat
