String web

String web
In the future, Hiro has constructed a web of history.
First mentioned:	.07%
Owned by:	Hiro Nakamura (explosion future), Peter Petrelli (exposed future)
Current status:	Hiro's: Confiscated by Homeland Security Peter's: In Peter's apartment

The string web is set of interconnected strings arranged by Future Hiro around Isaac Mendez's apartment in the explosion future. Future Peter, arriving from the exposed future, also built a similar web.

About

Each string represents a person, with notes and newspaper clippings representing important events in their lives. A connection among the strings indicates a meeting of the people represented. After the explosion Hiro Nakamura constructed the web to help him determine at what point in time he should intervene to alter history.

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After accidentally teleporting into the future, Hiro and Ando go to Isaac's apartment to seek advice on what they should do to prevent the explosion. Entering, they find the apartment wrecked, and a complex web of strings has been erected within.

Graphic Novel:String Theory

Future Hiro uses the string web to determine where and when he can meet Peter Petrelli in the past and deliver the message.

Five Years Gone

Future Hiro explains the purpose of the string web to Hiro and Ando. Later, Mohinder Suresh investigates the apartment at the President's request. He determines that Hiro was using the web as a map of time. He concludes that Hiro intends to use time-travel to alter history. He shows the President how some lines cross at certain points. He cuts some of the web to demonstrate how changing the past at a certain time would alter history.

The Butterfly Effect

In his apartment, Peter creates a string web coming off of his own version of the map.

Notes

• In Hiro's web, each color represents a different person:
  • Red: Hiro Nakamura
  • Black: Sylar
  • Yellow: Claire Bennet
  • Rope: Noah Bennet
  • Blue: Nathan Petrelli
  • White: Peter Petrelli
• A newspaper clipping titled "Petrelli Wins" is connected to the spot just before Nathan's string crosses Sylar's string in Hiro's web.
• In Hiro's web, Hiro's string connects with Sylar's string just after Nathan's string crosses Sylar's string.
• A newspaper clipping titled "NYC Devastated" is connected to the spot just after Hiro's string crosses Sylar's string in Hiro's web.
• Future Mohinder identifies two focal points of Hiro's web: the bomb (November 8, 2006) and the day Future Hiro delivered the message (October 4, 2006).

Trivia

• When Hiro and Ando visit Isaac's apartment, a number of scratched-out dates are written on the door. The dates--3/3/07, 6/2/07, 3/5/8, and 4/7/08--may be dates to which Future Hiro has time traveled in an attempt to change the Explosion Future in which he lives.
• Many of the newspaper articles on the string web were written by Timm Keppler, Andrew Chambliss, and other personal assistants.

Gallery

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  Future Hiro has been working on the string web for years.
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  He has placed various events on the timeline that shaped the future.
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  One article proclaims Nathan Petrelli's strength in crisis.
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  Hiro examines the complex timeline.
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  He closely examines a newspaper article...
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  ...that tells of the aftermath of the explosion.
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  Hiro knows he must somehow ensure that the cheerleader is saved in order to stop Sylar from exploding.
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  Hiro decides that October 4 is the best time for him to go back in time.
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  Mohinder cuts the black string representing Sylar...
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  ...and the whole web comes crashing down.
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  Each string color represents a different person's timeline.