Odessa, TX

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Odessa, TX
A sunrise over the oil fields outside Odessa, TX.
Language(s) Spoken:	English
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Odessa, TX is a city in western Texas, just east of the panhandle, with a population of about one hundred thousand. It is half of the Midland-Odessa metroplex. Odessa is the home of Claire Bennet.

Notable Locations

• The Bennets' home
• Union Wells High School (including the locker room)
• Primatech Paper Co. (including Sylar's cell)
• The Odessa Sheriff's Department
• The site of the train wreck
• The Abandoned refinery
• Claire's car crash site
• The hospital at which Claire and Brody stayed

Notable Residents

• Cynthia Acosta (Union Wells High School student)
• The Bennet family (Mr. Bennet, Sandra Bennet, Lyle Bennet, Claire Bennet)
• A cockroach
• Sheriff Davidson
• Tamara Greeer (Union Wells High School student)
• Hank
• Jody Kidd (Union Wells High School student)
• Lisa
• Lloyd
• Principal Marks
• The medical examiner
• Brody Mitchum
• Mr. Muggles
• The Odessa Fire Chief
• The Odessa mayor (pictured in Jackie's newspaper clipping)
• Darlene Price (Union Wells High School student)
• Officer Ramsford
• Rufus
• Lori Tremmel
• Bethany Wheelock (Union Wells High School student)
• Jackie Wilcox
• Zach

Notable Visitors

• The Haitian
• Eden McCain
• Peter Petrelli
• Sylar
• Nathan Petrelli
• Isaac Mendez
• Hiro Nakamura
• Ando Masahashi
• Matt Parkman
• Audrey Hanson

Notes

• Odessa in Heroes is quite different from real-life Heroes. For example, the abandoned refinery where Claire Bennet talks to the Haitian about Zach's memory being erased shows plateaus in the distance which is quite different from the actual area. Similarly, while all the homes in the Bennets' neighborhood have lush green lawns, such lawns are almost impossible to obtain without having a huge water bill due to the constant drought and extreme heat.

Trivia

• Odessa is also the setting for the book and film Friday Night Lights, which has been adapted as an NBC series and premiered as part of the fall 2006 schedule alongside Heroes (although the series itself is no longer set in Odessa).

Gallery

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  Zach and Claire walk through the Bennets' neighborhood in Odessa.
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  Mr. Bennet arrives at the Primatech Paper Co.
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  Students talk in the hallways at Union Wells High School.
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  A train derails in Odessa, TX.
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  The eclipse is visible in Odessa.