The Second Coming (Heroes)

"The Second Coming"
Heroes episode
Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) sees a painting of the Earth splitting in half.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 1
Directed by	Allan Arkush
Written by	Tim Kring
Production code	301
Original air date	September 22, 2008
Guest appearance(s)
Bruce Boxleitner as Robert Malden Ashley Crow as Sandra Bennet Jimmy Jean-Louis as the Haitian Jamie Hector as Knox Francis Capra as Jesse Murphy Brea Grant as Daphne Millbrook George Takei as Kaito Nakamura Malcolm McDowell as Daniel Linderman Randall Bentley as Lyle Bennet
Episode chronology
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List of Heroes episodes

"The Second Coming" is the first episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and thirty-fifth episode overall. It was written by series creator/executive producer Tim Kring and directed by executive producer Allan Arkush. It first aired on September 22, 2008 as the beginning of the "Villains" storyline.

The episode begins four years into the future. Peter, who has a scar on his face, is being chased and enters a hangar. Claire tries to shoot him, but Peter stops time and time travels to the present day, taking Claire's gun with him.

At Nathan's press conference, Future Peter shoots Nathan, as seen in "Powerless". Nathan is rushed to the hospital, where he dies. A short time later, Nathan awakens, prompting him to believe that God gave him a second chance at life. Nathan is later visited by Mr. Linderman, leading him to believe Linderman was the reason he was healed. The governor of New York watches Nathan on the television, and breaks the news to the woman he slept with: Tracy, a woman who looks identical to Niki. He tells her he thinks he has found what he is looking for.

Matt later catches Future Peter trying to find the gun he had hid earlier, prompting Future Peter to teleport him to the desert because he knows too much. When Angela Petrelli arrives at the hospital, she tells Future Peter she knows he is impersonating his past self, and tells Future Peter that he actually got the ability to dream the future from her. Future Peter tells Angela that he put his present day self somewhere safe. At the Company headquarters, in one of the Level 5 prison cells, a bald man screams that he is Peter Petrelli. Noah Bennet is also locked up in an adjacent cell.