Season One
As a total eclipse casts its shadow across the globe, a genetics professor in India is led by father's disappearance to uncover a secret theory -- there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer tries to convince his politician brother that he can fly. A high school cheerleader learns that she is totally indestructible. A Las Vegas stripper struggling to make ends meet to support her young son discovers that her mirror image has a secret. A fugitive from justice continues to baffle authorities who twice have been unable to contain him. A gifted artist whose drug addiction is destroying his life and relationship with his girlfriend can paint the future. A down-on-his-luck Los Angeles beat cop can hear people's thoughts, which puts him on the trail of an elusive serial killer. In Japan, a young man develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world…
Episodes
Genesis
Original Air Date: 25 September 2006
Different characters are introduced as they find out their individual abilities, including a man who paints pictures of the future, a woman who sees a different side of her in the mirror, a teen-aged girl who can not die, a Japanese man who thinks he can alter the time/space continuum and a man running for congress, who has a brother that believes he can fly.
Don't Look Back
Original Air Date: 2 October 2006
Nathan refuses to admit that he can fly. Peter discovers that his father had depressions and killed himself. Someone in Mohinder's apartment plants surveillance bugs, but he and his father's friend discover them. Hiro finds a comic book that shows exactly what happened to him last episode. The author of the comic book is Isaac and he goes to his apartment. There he finds Isaac dead. Niki realizes that her mirror alter ego is helping her in tough situations. We meet Matt, a cop who can hear what people say before they say it, who gets arrested for a murder because thanks to his gift he knows suspiciously much about it. And Claire continues to hide the truth about her, until her father, the evil man looking for our "heroes", sees her tape where she shows her abilities.
One Giant Leap
Original Air Date: 9 October 2006
Hiro gets back to Japan and using Issac's comic book he persuades Ando to help him save the world. They go back to the US. Nathan says officially that his brother is crazy and it upsets Pete, who is struggling to fly again. Claire gets killed and wakes up during the autopsy and Matt sees a mysterious man while helping to investigate the murders from last episode. Meanwhile, Mohinder discovers a strange apartment and Niki drives her son to his grandmother where we learn that Niki's husband is wanted for murder.
Collision
Original Air Date: 16 October 2006
Hiro and Ando arrive to Vegas, where they gamble and win thanks to Hiro's powers. Niki is also taken to Las Vegas, where the mob boss she owes money to wants her to pay. Mohinder meets with Pete, who in the meanwhile, is starting to think that his power is absorbing powers of other people. Claire, after escaping the autopsy room, takes a dark turn in dealing with the quarterback who tried to rape her. Nathan is going to Las Vegas too, and he is seduced by Niki, who is ordered to sleep with him by the mob boss, so he can blackmail Nathan with inappropriate photos. In the end, a message comes from a dark and evil future.
Hiros
Original Air Date: 23 October 2006
Niki is questioned by police about her fugitive husband's whereabouts; Matt's relationship with his wife, Janice (Lisa Lackey), benefits from his mind-reading abilities; Claire divulges her secret to her father (Jack Coleman); Hiro has a violent run-in with Las Vegas high rollers; Peter receives a life-changing message; and Mohinder contemplates leaving New York---and his father's research---behind.
Better Halves
Original Air Date: 30 October 2006