Four Months Later...

"Four Months Later..."

"Four Months Later" is the first episode of the second season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes, which is set to be broadcast on September 24, 2007.

Plot

Hiro lands in a grassy meadow. As he looks around him, he spots a group of samurai archers raising their bows towards him — he turns to run, but realizes that it is Takezo Kensei, poised behind Hiro, that they are about to attack. The subtitles then note that Hiro is outside Kyoto, Japan, in the year 1671. In a moment of confusion, Hiro curses in Japanese. Before anyone can act, the entire landscape is darkened by a total solar eclipse which creates the logo seen at the beginning of each episode.

Mohinder is approached by a strange man named Bob, who offers him a job with a mysterious company. Mohinder realizes the company is his enemy and tries to penetrate the organization.

Claire and Noah are under the assumed name of Butler and she goes to a new school. Claire nearly gets run over by a boy named West (played by Nicholas D'Agosto), who we later learns can fly. She has a run in with head cheerleader Debbie, does a backflip- and breaks a bone, she then uses her powers to heal herself.

At the end of the episode, three thieves are looking for iPods in a Irish shipyard. When they break into the container that they were looking for they find Peter Petrelli, chained to one of the sides. Expecting to find something else there, they angrily threaten him. He defends himself with a bolt of unknown energy (probably a controlled Ted Sprague-like blast). He then reveals that he doesn't know where the contents of the shipping container are, and he doesn't even know who he is.

Mistakes

• In 1671, Japan had been consolidated under the Tokugawa bakufu for over 50 years, and the Samurai class had fallen out of the traditional service like that shown. Also, the only Europeans allowed near Japan were the Dutch, not the English, and were strictly monitored by the Japanese government. Takezo Kensei being an Englishman is very suspect. Also the Japanese (including bandits) used firearms and other gunpowder weaponry rather commonly by this point.
• In Brazil, people speak Portugese, not Spanish as is often mistaken.
• Clair's chemistry class seemingly out of nowhere speaks about Darwin, which has no connections to Chemistry but rather should be either in biology.

References

Official description from NBC posted at NBV Universal Media Village.

[1], as reported by The National Enquirer.

External links

IMDB