 
After much effort, for the first time Hiro jumps back in time ... by one second Hiro Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis"
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Ando's cubicle. Hiro
excitedly
tells
his best
friend
what
just
happened!
Dialog
shown
in the
comic
panel
is from
Episode
1, but
this
drawing
of Ando's
cubicle
(modified)
was also
used
for the "sake" conversation
in Episode
3. Hiro
wears
a jacket
after
returning
from
NYC,
however,
that
he didn't
wear
inside
the office
in Episode
1.
Hiro
and Ando
Painted:
9th Wonders
Issue
#14,
this
panel
seen
in Episode
2 "Don't
Look Back"
Event happened: Dialog from Episode 1 "Genesis" -
Visual from Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission train wreck; Claire rescues a man from
the flaming wreck
Claire and Zach
Painted: Episode 1 "Genesis"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
We first meet Simone, just before Isaac explains his ability to paint
the future to her. After Simone thinks the bus bombing "prediction" wasn't
authentic, Isaac shows her this painting that he'd made that morning.
This sequence in the original pilot was later cut from Episode 1.
The painting shows up without explanation laying around Isaac's studio
in Episode 3.
The serigraph Simone carries is an example of some (non-Heroes) artwork
that was created by Tim Sales, the artist who really draws the paintings
we see in the show as Isaac's.
Isaac and Simone
Painted: Original Pilot "In His Own Image" - later cut; reappears
in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis"
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Terrorist bombing in Israel that Isaac sees photo of in a newspaper
Isaac Mendez proves to Simone that he can paint the future
Painted: (* 3 weeks before show) - painting seen in Episode 1 "Genesis"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis"
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The eclipse (shown here as witnessed by Niki Sanders through Micah's science-project
box)
Isaac, Mohinder, Peter, Hiro, Ando, Claire and Zach, plus Niki each watch
the eclipse
Painted: Episode 1 "Genesis"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
Hiro theorizes to Ando that he will be able to teleport once he develops
his power
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 2 "Don't
Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
Ando and Hiro down a few beers after work as Hiro attempts to explain how
the space-time continuum works. Ando dares Hiro to teleport into the
women's restroom. Hiro gets forcibly thrown out of the bar.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 3 "One
Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
Ando calls Hiro a pervert after Hiro's caught in the women's restroom.
Ando tells Hiro to stop being different and try to be the same as everyone
else.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 3 "One
Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
After an arguement in the street outside the bar, Ando and Hiro part company.
Hiro wants to become someone "special," Ando sarcastically
calls him "Super-Hiro"
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 2 "Don't
Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
On the train ride home, Hiro wonders if he can teleport himself to NYC,
and succeeds!
Hiro
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this cover seen in Episode 2 "Don't
Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
After seeing the "flying" picture in Isaac's studio, Peter calls
Nathan to meet him in an alley. Peter "jumps" from the roof above.
Isaac made this painting before ever meeting Peter.
Peter and Nathan
Painted: Episode 1 "Genesis"
Event happened: Episode 1 "Genesis" |
 
OOPS! Hiro
examines
his prize
for the
first
time:
a comicbook
telling
Hiro's
own story!
We glimpse
this
drawing
(left
side
sketch)
in Episode
3. The
COVER
of the
9th Wonders
comicbook
seen
in that
panel
is the
promotional
art for
Hiro
(right
side
sketch),
instead
of the
cover
showing "Yatta/I
Did It" that
was actually
shown
when
Episode
2 aired.
Hiro
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
Hiro searches for the comicbook's creator. The centerfold (not seen before
Episode 11) shows Hiro asking a comicbook shop owner about Isaac. It was
probably drawn as a promotional poster for the pilot's premiere at ComicCon,
but never seen acted out. Hiro finally reaches Isaac's address and inside
notices a comic panel (in progress) on the work table. A short-cut in the
artwork here: the sketch of Hiro looking at the drawing table is a mirror-image
of the sketch used to represent Hiro being interrogated by the police,
and was also used in the very first panel (above) as Hiro sits at his cubicle
in Japan.
Hiro
Painted: Centerfold - Episode 11 "Fallout" (the characters act
as if it happened as shown)
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, this panel seen in Episode 7 "Nothing
To Hide" when Hiro is showing his comic book to Micah
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
Searching the studio, with the nuclear explosion visible on the floor,
Hiro looks down to to see a pool of blood... then a gun... then Isaac's
body.
Hiro (looking at Isaac's body)
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
Isaac
could
not foresee
his own
death
(until
he was
ready
to die). In
Episode
11 "Fallout," Hiro
and Isaac
talk
together
about
the comicbook.
Hiro
reveals
that
in the
future
Isaac
was dead
with
his head
cut off.
The comicbook
shows
Hiro
reacting
to the
body,
the corpse's
arm,
the "arc" of
the open
skull
spilling
blood...
but Isaac
was unable
to put
a "face" upon
his own
death!
Hiro (looking at Isaac's body)
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 11 "Fallout"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
 
Super
Genome
Symbol
(SGS) -
A half-helix
of DNA.
Hiro's
trip
to the
future
shows
many
paintings
of this
symbol
in the
studio.
Back
in the
present,
we also
see it
when
Isaac
awakens
following
his overdose
during
the eclipse.
A few
early
appearances
of the
SGS are
seen
on Hiro's
comic,
in the
pool
by Matt
at the
Walker
murder
scene,
on the
necklace
of the
Haitian,
on Chandra
Suresh's
book "Activating
Evolution" and
in the
computer
screen
saver
at Mohinder's
apartment
[enhanced
for visibility].
Below,
it appears
in Peter's
doodle.
It is
later
seen
on Claire's
geometry
book,
Jessica's
(bad
Niki's)
shoulder,
at the
Greyhound
bus stop
where
DL catches
runaway
Micah,
and on
future-Hiro's
Katana.
(Recent
additions:
In Mohinder-the-lizard's
tank
Ep.12,
Formed
by glass
broken
by Sylar
next
to Sandra
Bennet
Ep.14,
and a "dolphin" ice
sculpture
in the
casino
kitchen
Ep.15)
Unifying Theme - seen around most
characters in some small way.
Painted: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" and ongoing appearances |
 
Peter attempted to fly after visiting Isaac. He wakes up in the hospital
and doodles a crude image of himself flying above Nathan on a rooftop.
Notice that both images have the SG Symbol in them (its airbrushed into
the smoke rising from the chimney in the action footage).
Peter and Nathan
Painted: this was the first time Peter used Isaac's power, Episode 2 "Don't
Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
The police question Hiro at Isaac's murder scene and they place a call
Ando in Japan. Hiro has been missing 5 weeks. There is a shockwave and
Hiro turns to see the explosion.
Hiro (and Ando on phone, Isaac's corpse being wheeled out)
Painted: seen on Isaac's drawing board in Episode 2 "Don't Look Back"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back" |
 
The explosion Hiro witnesses on his October 2nd (in a future Nov. 8th)
just before teleporting back to his original timeline in Japan. Do you
see an exploding manin the stem
of the mushroom cloud?
Hiro
Painted: Episode One "Genesis"
Event happened: Episode 2 "Don't Look Back"
Happened during Hiro's trip to the future, now in Hiro's past timeline.
Can it be averted? |
 
After returning to the current timeline, Hiro tries to explain his teleportation
to NYC and the big explosion to Ando. Hiro presents the comicbook as
proof; Ando remains a skeptic.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
Zach is upset Claire wants to ignore her powers; Claire just wants to be
normal and not limit her choices in life to "freak or guinea pig." Simone
tries to take this painting away to sell in her gallery, but Isaac grabs
it back from her (its still in the studio when Peter and Isaac are painting
together in episode 4).
Zach and Claire
Painted: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
Hiro attempts to prove the power of the comicbook's prophecy to Ando; they
arrive at the plaza just before the time shown on a clock in the panel
previous.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
" Stop that truck!" Ando causes it to swerve onto the sidewalk. Hiro
steps outside of time.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap |
 
Ironically, after Ando made the truck swerve, the attempted 'rescue' is
what actually caused the accident that threatened the little girl.
 
This poster-sized version of the rescue appears in Mr. Linderman's private
collection.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
and in Mr. Linderman's collection, seen in Episode 19 ".07%"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
Hiro explains to Ando their "heroic destiny" as they fly to LA
(while laughing at his discomfort)
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
Hiro says they must rent a Nissan Versa because the comicbook shows it.
Eerily, Hiro sets the book beside a brochure on the rental counter -
you see his real-time finger pointing at a picture of the car right beside
his comicbook hand pointing at the same image in the book!
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
Once renting the Nissan, Hiro tells Ando to head to Las Vegas because thats
what is shown in the book. The sequence of actions occurs as predicted,
but we don't get an actual visual of the on-ramp to Interstate 15 as
shown in the comicbook.
Hiro and Ando
Painted: 9th Wonders Issue #14, seen in Episode 3 "One Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
After Peter's humiliation by Nathan at the campaign rally, Simone 'consoles'
Peter outside
Simone and Peter
Painted: (* 7 weeks before show), painting seen in Episode 3 "One
Giant Leap"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
This painting was displayed in the private art collection of Mr. Linderman
(first glimpsed during Episode 18}. Claire returns from the dead (for
the first time).
Claire
Painted: Pre-eclipse, first seen in Episode 18 "Parasite"
Event happened: Episode 3 "One Giant Leap" |
 
To settle her $50K debt, Niki is coersed into helping Linderman blackmail
Nathan. Niki refuses to go through with it, but Jessica "does what
it takes."
Niki and Jessica
Painted: first seen Episode 19 ".07%"
Event happened: Episode 4 "Collision" |
 
" Just take the one." The Haitian (off-screen) and Mr. Bennet prepare
to abduct Nathan from Mr. Linderman's Corinthian Casino.
HRG, Jessica/Niki and Nathan
Painted: first seen Episode 19 ".07%"
Event happened: Episode 4 "Collision" |
