"Heroes" Chapter One 'A Clear and Present Danger' (2009)

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator)
Tim Kring (written by)

TV Series:

"Heroes" (2006)

Original Air Date:

2 February 2009 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Two months after the destruction of both the Primatech and Pinehurst, and the death of Arthur Petrelli...

Plot Keywords:

Cult Favorite | Explosion | Death | Shape Shifter | Prison

Cast

Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Tracy Strauss
James Kyson Lee	...	Ando Masahashi
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Adrian Pasdar	...	Nathan Petrelli
Zachary Quinto	...	Sylar
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Brea Grant	...	Daphne Millbrook
Ntare Mwine	...	Usutu (as Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine)
Ned Schmidtke	...	Martin Gray
Assaf Cohen	...	Hesam

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Tailwind Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the satellite view of the airstrip, the hangers are beside the runways at a 45 degree angle. As the plane takes off, Nathan is standing watching the plane take off from the front door of the hangar. This means the plane is taking off at 45 degrees to the runway.

Quotes:

Claire Bennet: I hate you.
Nathan Petrelli: I know.

A very intense beginning to the new storyline

Well, the new "volume" is certainly starting off with a bang... This storyline feels bleaker and scarier than any of the previous ones, because the enemy isn't just one shadowy corporation, or even two competing ones, but the US government. And given the atmosphere of paranoia in the US since 9/11, that makes it feel disturbingly realistic. The atmosphere is much less comic book this time around and much more dystopian political SF.

It's lost none of its ability to keep me on the edge of my seat, either... the three episodes I've seen so far of the new volume have all been tense, suspenseful and effective. It's hard to see how this all could possibly end well, but it's very gripping seeing just how scary things are going to get before they maybe, somehow get better. And in the meantime, it's almost as effective as political commentary as it is as entertainment.