Spoiler:Villains

Villains
Season:	Three
Episode number:	308
First aired:	November 10, 2008
Directed by:	Allan Arkush
Previous spoiler:	Eris Quod Sum
Next spoiler:	It's Coming

This article contains archived spoilers about Villains. See the main article to see how they panned out. For general spoilers about upcoming episodes, see Spoiler:Heroes.

NBC Blurb

To prepare for the confrontation ahead, Hiro (Masi Oka) explores what forces -- and familiar faces -- helped twist Sylar (Zachary Quinto), Flint (Blake Shields), and Arthur Petrelli (Robert Forster) into villains -- Malcolm McDowell, Eric Roberts, Kristen Bell and Jessalyn Gilsig also guest star.

To prepare for the confrontation ahead, Hiro (Masi Oka) follows respected businessman, husband and father Arthur Petrelli (guest star Robert Forster) in the days before he “died” -- to discover what drove him to create rival company Pinehearst and strike at Angela (Cristine Rose). Later, a moment unfolds where Sylar (Zachary Quinto), horrified and guilt-ridden, might have stopped his murderous pursuit of abilities -- that is, if H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) and Elle (guest star Kristen Bell) had swayed from their monstrous assignment. Finally, under the wing of Company man Thompson (guest star Eric Roberts), agent-in-training Meredith (guest star Jessalyn Gelsig) watches her new life go up in smoke, following the arrival of her hot-headed brother. Greg Grunberg, James Kyson Lee, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Dania Ramirez and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Jimmy Jean-Louis, Malcolm McDowell, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ron Perkins, Blake Shields, and Jeff Staron guest star.

Published Spoilers

• 11/10 -- New Short Promo and More - Kristin from E!Online reveals Peter and Sylar are indeed twins
• 11/10 -- Tim Kring Reveals More Details
• 11/07 -- Episode 8 Trailer From Global TV
• 11/07 -- It has been revealed that Flint is Meredith Gordon's brother
• 11/04 -- Behind the Scenes Filming - The Petrelli 41st Anniversary Party.
• 11/04 -- Four new Sneak Peeks
• 11/03 -- Two New NBC Promos
• 11/03 -- Episode 3x08 Villains - Petrelli Centric and More
• 10/29 -- Episode 3x08 Sneak Peek Video
• 10/28 -- New Spoilers for the episode 3x08.
  • Episode 3x08 Various Set Photos of Elle and HRG working together and Peter and Mohinder in a flashback scene.
• 10/27 -- Episode 3x08 - Canadian GlobalTV Promo - Extra scenes of Sylar, Elle, Arthur and Angela
• 10/27 -- Episode 3x08 - NBC Promo
• 10/27 -- More about Sylar's Abilities Will be Revealed
• 10/25 -- Episode 3x08 - Danger on the way for Matt
• 10/23 -- NBC Promotional Pictures
• 10/20 -- Press Release.
• 9/16 -- The title of this episode has been revealed.
• 9/01 — Heroes director and executive producer Allan Arkush reveals some nice hints and spoilers about season 3 and Episode 3x08 ( he's the director of episode 3x08)
  • Episode 3x08 will fill in holes from Season 1 all the way through Season 3.

Fan Theories

• Sylar will get his second ability in this episode and it may be freezing.
• Sylar will find that he doesn't have to kill to obtain one's ability.
• Meredith's "hot-headed" brother is Flint.
• Peter's memories in Eris Quod Sum were clips of scenes from this episode.
• Arthur will be working with Linderman to get Nathan elected.
• Arthur ordered Linderman's men to attack Nathan and Heidi in an attempt to inspire sympathy so people will vote Nathan.
• Matt's villainous friend was Flint.
• Arthur will realize Hiro is trying to take him down and will take away his powers.
• Meredith will be the one who locked Flint up in Level 5.
  • Flint will kill Meredith with his power, vengeful that she locked him up.
    • Meredith is immune to fire so she could not be killed by Flint.
      • Flint could use a conventional killing method instead of fire.