Spoiler:A Clear and Present Danger

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A Clear and Present Danger
Season:	Three
Episode number:	314
Written by:	Tim Kring
Directed by:	Greg Yaitanes
Previous spoiler:	Dual

This article contains spoilers about A Clear and Present Danger. For general spoilers about upcoming episodes, see Spoiler:Heroes.

Published Spoilers

• NEW! 12/31 -- Episode 3x14 A Clear and Present Danger - Episode Description
• 12/22 -- Jack Coleman's blog confirms that Tim Kring wrote this episode, and Greg Yaitanes will direct the episode.
• 12/22 -- Episode 3x14 - BTS Set Video and Interviews Confirms Mohinder is also a part of the Heroes who are captured.
• 12/22 -- Volume 4 Episode 3x14 - New BTS Set Photos Reveals that Claire, Tracy, Hiro and Peter are captured on the transport plane
• 12/18 -- Episode 3x14 - New Sneak Peek - Scene with Claire and Angela
• 12/15 -- Volume 4 Fugitives - Episode 3x14 NBC Promo - First Official Look at The Hunter
• 10/21 -- The title of this episode has been revealed.

Trivia

• The phrase "clear and present danger" refers to language used by the Supreme Court in its ruling on Schenck vs. the United States. Under this ruling, the government could restrict someone's right to free speech if, by their actions, they presented a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Subsequent Supreme Court cases have changed the standards for judging whether restricting free speech is acceptable.
• "Clear and Present Danger" was also used as the title for a Tom Clancy Novel [1] and a film based upon it.

Fan Theories

• Due to his dad's fortune Hiro will sue the the government for being captured when he does not have an ability.
• The hunter is Sylar's mind in another body by using his mental powers.
• The title refers to the hunting of the heroes by the government as lead by the President and Nathan.
• The government will not only make this hunt nationwide, but also worldwide and may begin to threaten different countries to round up and hand over the evolved humans.
• The title refers to The Hunter.
• Nathan will not give up the names of Angela or himself.
• Sylar will be resuscitated by The Hunter and the US government. He will be used to help hunt down the other evolved humans.
• Angela and H.R.G. will use find a way to infiltrate the government. This will be how HRG keeps Claire from being apprehended.
• Monica and Micah will return.
• The government is ready to take some actions by bagging and tagging the evolved humans one by one.
• The Kill Squad will show up in this Season, murdering all the evolved humans, one at a time, causing them to be Fugitives.
• Harry Fletcher will show up, revealing his fake death.
• More will be revealed about the Company founders in this volume.
• The title refers to a worldwide knowledge of the evolved humans and the danger of a terrorist attack by them is now.
• The title may refer to a speech by the President who calls the heroes a clear and present danger to the world, which would tie into the Volume Four being named "Fugitives."
• The title refers to something that has been in Heroes since the start of Season 1 and has only just become clear in this episode.
• The title refers to Angela's Team.
• Simone will return, alive, with the power of cloning, revealing that the Simone that died in Unexpected was actually one of her clones because she was warned of her upcoming death --possibly by Angela who saw it in a dream -- and was captured by the government and used for testing, trying to use her blood to make soldiers clone themselves to make a massive army.
• Nathan will be the president of the US throughout Volume 4.
• Peter's powers will grow back to rival his former strength when united with all the Heroes on the plane as he absorbs their collection of powers.
• Angela removed the piece of glass from Sylar's head before leaving Primatech, trying to regain his trust for the upcoming challenges.
• Ando and Hiro return home, but the Tokyo bikers confront them to end an old conflict. Ando succumbs to grandeur and uses his new ability to overthrow Fumio Fukazawa.
• Daphne falls in love with her nemesis
• Arthur Petrelli did not fully take Hiro's powers, so Hiro will get them back by Ando supercharging the remnants of his powers.
• The title refers to Claude Rains, who can be clear (invisible) and present simultaneously.
• The Exposed future will happen again, similar to the one Future Peter came from.
• Sylar will become the father he is in the exposed future.
• The time line will drastically change, making it an even worse Exposed Future. Since the one in Volume three had the formula involved, and it has now been destroyed, the "few" heroes that are left are the ones who are going to be hunted down and possibly "slaughtered" as Future Peter once described.
• In this episode, Peter will get his scar.
• In the preview for this episode, there were people in captivity, covered in suits and masks. On IMDB it stated that Dana Davis would be returning to the Heroes Episode, Duality, as Monica Dawson. In that preview, we saw two hands grasp each other. The hands appeared to be african-american. Monica and Micah, possibly?
• In this preview there was a man with gloves. Must be some evolved human with an ability manifesting from his hands. Maybe Flint, or someone with similar power?
• The President is Sylar in disguise, again.
• Matt Parkman will have an affair with Daphne and Janice, and in doing so, will discover that while he still loves Janice, he is also madly in love with Daphne.
• Molly may have a nightmare about this when her powers develop further, and she discovers, while trying to find Matt using her powers, that he is in the same location as both new mommy and old mommy.
• Daniella's mother might be the subject of a great deal of fan speculation, but after an episode entitled "Eight Months Later," her actual mother will become readily apparent.
• Nathan Petrelli becomes the US President after succeeding the President seen in Dual in an election.
• Harry Fletcher will return in Volume 4 and aid Angela
• Fletcher is a future version of Peter
• Future Peter returns and finds out that the past hasn't changed.
• The Future they were trying to prevent in season 1 and season 3 (Evolved Humans being hunted -under the Presidents orders; (Nathan Petrelli (Sylar) & Current President (with the aid of Nathan) will come to play in Volume 4 - under different circumstances.
• As Peter injected himself with The formula in the Volume 3 Finale, he will gain the powers of all the evolved humans while on the plane in Volume 4, using his original ability of Empathic mimicry.