Heroes Unmasked (2007) s01e09 Episode Script

In the heart of London, four Heroes are facing the flashbulbs, having just landed on British soil.
Their arrival is all part of the world wide Heroes Tour, a chanche to meet the press and thank the fans.
It's been quite a year for the cast and the crew! For us to be sitting in an amazing building, over London, a year and a half since the show started, it's very surreal.
The European Tour has been unbelievable.
It's been a real whirlwind of, you know, we flew from Los Angeles to Munich, where we last there for two days, flew to Paris, we lasted two days.
Now we're here.
We're probably What do I find nice about british men? Your accent's quite nice.
The show is obviously a hit and to what degree we'll find out soon.
Only 18 months ago, Heroes was just a figment of creator Tim Kring's imagination, but as the cast attend radio and tv interviews across the capital, the likes of Peter Petrelli and Claire Bennet have become household names.
Well, do you know? I'll tell you what mr.
Bennet is all - Oh, hi John.
- Hey! Good to see you, you're my favourite character! So what is it about the show that has made it such a global success? And why do people queue in their thousands for a glimpse of their favourite hero? If you don't know the answer by now, this Heroes catch-up week-end will show what you've missed.
Well, the title Heroes could have been dangerous, because automatically people would think: "Oh, heroes! They're running around in tights and a cape", and that's just not what the show is about.
It's extraordinary abilities, but set in the real world where people have to pick up their kids, work, deal with any kind of personal issues.
So I think it's that combination of the unreal with the real.
Heroes has mystery, adventures, laughter, sadness.
There's fantasy stuff going on, there are really personal, emotional moments.
Epic storytelling, sci-fi in its scope and nature, but with much more of realistic, human consequences.
It's about about the characters, not necessarily about their powers.
So that the story of the powers is part of it, but it's always about the characters.
These are characters that everyone can relate to, they're ordinary people.
There's the japanese drone employee who's been living this mondane life for so long, yet he goes home and reads comic books and he just ravels in the fact that there are heroes that are out there.
There's the cop who wants to be a better cop, wants to pull his marriage together.
There's a single mother who's just trying to raise her child.
The politician, he is given this ability and, does he share it with the public? Would that scare them away? His brother, the nurse, who has never really taken a stand for himself and knows that he's got some sort of a destiny.
And then of course there's Isaac, this painter, who's struggling with the fact that he paints incredible paintings predicting the future, but he can only paint them when he's on drugs.
And trying to make sense of it all, is the teenager from Texas, a cheerleader who is growing up a little too fast.
This is Claire Bennet.
That was attempt number six.
Oh, myoh, my God! Oh, my God! But thousands of miles from Texas, Hayden has left her pon-pons at home to attend an interview on T4 with her on-screen dad, Jack Coleman.
This is a very cool set.
- How you doing, Steve? - Hey, Jack! - It's a real pleasure.
- Nice to meet you.
- How you doing? - I'm very good.
Hi Jack, I'm Jean.
Nice to meet you.
This is a great set! Coming in studio! Five! Four! Three! Welcome back to T4 Sunday, we're joined by two US stars who come crashing to your tv screens in the new hit sci-fi drama, Heroes.
Please welcome the gorgeous Jack Coleman and the beautiful Hayden Panettiere.
Now, Hayden, let's talk about Claire Bennet your character in the show, now she, to me, has got the best power of all.
The great thing is you can't never be killed off.
Ah, the producers have beg to differ from that.
They remind me all the time not to take my job for granted.
"You know, we can kill you.
" Claire's ability is regeneration and she's not indestructable, as she has been described.
Claire! Claire! You see her on the slab and she is dead.
Had that thing not been removed when it was, she would have died.
And from that moment on it is clear that she is touched, she is one of the specials and everything changes from that point forward.
Is it right for me to say that Claire has been miserable? Yeah, but, you know, that puts a little damper on her life.
She is a teenager that's pretty self evolved, I mean.
Well, present company escluded.
And, you know, she wants what any teenager wants, so she's had to hide it.
It's not a fun thing, you know.
Teenagers don't want to be different, they want to blend in.
That sort of apply what's probably Tim Kring point of the whole thing, this need desperate to be normal and to fit in.
I really loved the idea of teenage, you know, that sense of being, feeling that you're indestructible.
But I also was fascinated by that feeling most teenagers feel that their parents aren't exactly who they say they are.
The world feels like, at that age, that somehow the world is lying to you.
Your mother told me that you've been asking about your birth parents.
I think it's time that I know.
Well, I have a few questions first, not the least of which is "Why now?" Just wondering, that's all.
You know, what they're like.
What thay can do.
What they can do? The beauty about Claire's character is all of those things are actually true.
As opposed to most people, where is kinda not true.
In her case is very much true.
Her father really isn't who she thought he was, and, the world really is lying to her and there are conspiracies.
I'll promise I'll be your little girl for as long as I can.
But you can't protect me forever.
I know.
And it breaks my heart.
I think that moment really kind of set the table for how much of the season would be played.
Where you would see moments of genuine caring and love for Claire, combined with this other spin which was creepy and dark and sinister and possibly not at all looking out for Claire's best interests.
Is he pure evil? - Pure evil? Nooo.
- Nooooo.
I'd put it to you, sir, that he would do away with his own daughter Mhm.
You keep watching.
It really does brake my heart.
On the other side of town, Adrian and Milo are making friends with the great and the good, on radio 2.
Milo, I'm Johnatan, how do you do? Johnatan.
Milo.
Very nice to meet you.
How are you? They're much better looking in real life,uh? So what is it about our heroes that has such an enduring appeal? My wife and daughter made Sylar their favorite, and they're quite taken by him.
I think everyone at any point had a dream of being a superhero, I mean I had a phase of putting a cape on me running around the house.
And I think it's just an idea of being, you know, believing that you have something special, something unique.
I think Heroes has tapped into wish fulfillment the way any superhero story would do.
But in the best tradition of Spider-Man or something, you have somebody with this ability, but the ability is as much of a curse as it is a blessing.
I've got the Bishop Game next week, S.
A.
T.
is in october, Homecoming is three weeks from today and I'm a freak-show.
You're being a little melodramatic, don't you think? No, I don't think! It alienates you and it makes you a freak, and it's not necessarily the greatest thing in the world.
My life as I know it is over, okay? What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that you could read people's mind or bend time and space? What would you do? Would you be Would you use it for good? Would you use it for evil? Would you be excited? Would you be scared of it? These are the questions we ask.
I did become fascinated by the idea that most of us would treat this as some sort of an affliction or a curse.
And very few people would sort of embrace it as something very positive, to begin with.
That's this morning paper.
Look at the number on the bus.
This happened yesterday.
Yesterday.
Something's wrong with me.
They don't want this power.
They're freaking out by it.
They don't know what's going on with them.
They're kind of: "What is this?".
They don't know where it's coming from.
I'm seeing things.
Like I keep feeling someone's watching me.
Someone I can't see.
I think maybe Hiro's character is the only one that, which is a very good element and, I mean, very refreshing, 'cause he takes us somewhere else when he's the only one who embraces his abilities.
Yatta! We hope that audience would connect to at least one of the characters, if not all of them.
And find there's a piece of them in everyone of the characters.
And know that these guys are just normal human beings.
Just like you and me.
And these characters have earned themselves a few famous admirers along the way.
For people who are not sci-fi fans, and I wasn't, I was never a nerd, I've never liked comic books, I've never liked any of this stuff, this is amazing, it really surprised me.
And if you think you won't like this, then you're wrong.
Wow, I've never been so excited about shows since "24", - I think it's absolutely brilliant.
- Oh, thanks.
Yeah.
What do you think of "Extras"? - I think it's great.
- Yeah.
I've seen the last show with David Bowie, and it was my favourite.
Yeah? He'd like more.
Keep going.
- No, it's good - I think you're wonderful.
We're big fans.
Did you get? Wait, wait, I spoke earlier.
What? I said you're wonderful.
We're big fans.
Wonderful.
If this is for France or Italy, subtitle it.
Wonderful.
As our heroes wind up their tour, it's time to sit back and reflect on their roller coaster ride around Europe.
It's been a good trip.
Like, good company, dinners, a lot of laughs, a lot of laughs.
Yeah, we've had a great time.
And it's hard to see the end, but we're just going back to work and we'll carry on that, some future days with more press, it's been a good run, everybody's been terrific and London's been one of the best experiences for all of us.
So, with their time in London at an end it's back to Hollywood for our heroes, where more earth shattering and world saving adventures await them.
This show is breaking new ground in a lot of ways.
I think it's more or less showing that you can put an hour-movie on television every week, if you do it right and you keep your stories right.
It's an amazing ride for all of us as actors, I mean you just I think for everybody on the show.
You know, for the cameramen and women, for the set design, set construction and locations.
We never know where it's gonna go, so the surprises are just as shocking for us as they are for the viewers, when they watch the final episode.
All of us are excited about being on the show, we're like dying to know what's gonna happen.
With that show you never know where we're going next and what's gonna happen, and it really keeps us on our toes.
The show just keeps talking itself one episode after the other.
Every episode ends with this great cliffhanger that makes you think: "Oh, my God! Did they just really end it that way?".
All these seemingly unrelated people, and you see, these people, like, paths cross, their all destinies, you know, crossing.
And people are growing.
We're not fully developed into these powers yet, so, I mean, maybe they're gonna go away? Maybe they're gonna stay? And who's gonna come together? And it's all really up in the air.
So many questions asked, and so many questions answered.
It's impossible to keep the show up, and they do it, and the take it to a new level, and it's just keeps getting better.