It must have been crazy over at the “Heroes” set too, what with Hayden and Milo sharing scenes together as Claire Bennet and Peter Petrelli.

Kristin dos Santos of E! Online dispelled all the rumors of the break-up as FALSE. According to her sources, the couple are as happy (and as private) as ever.

But she does have a Heroes spoiler that is most likely true –

Hayden Panettiere will be in a steamy underwater kissing scene with new-comer Justin Baldoni, who earned the nickname Aquaboy for his abilities to breathe underwater. Hayden’s character Claire is hiding Alex (Justin) in her bedroom and Justin spoils that an on-screen chemistry is developing between their characters. Says Justin of Hayden  –

"She’s the best actress I’ve ever worked with, and we really connected."

Watch for the kissing scene in the March 2 episode “Expose”.

Image: Newscom

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But currently, Heroes is still filming some of its last episodes. And in these behind the scene photos, Nathan Petrelli is shown with his daughter Claire (Hayden Panettiere). The father and daughter are shown in a lighter moment, where Nathan gives Claire a necklace and picks her up and carries her. Maybe this is part of the last few episodes (a happy ending?) or maybe this part of some happier family times (I doubt it). Although it’s uncertain what scene or episode this is part of, the images below certainly show that the Petrelli family know how to care.

Hayden  Panettier and Adrian Pasdar appear in a scene together:

Hayden Panettiere and Adrian Pasdar film a scene for “Heroes” volume 4.  Credit: Kevin Perkins, PacificCoastNews.com

More images after the cut.

  Hayden Panettiere and Adrian Pasdar film a scene for “Heroes” volume 4 Credit: Kevin Perkins, PacificCoastNews.com

Hayden Panettiere and Adrian Pasdar film a scene for “Heroes” volume 4 Credit: Anthony Monterotti, PacificCoast

 
Hayden Panettiere and Adrian Pasdar film a scene for “Heroes” volume 4. Image: Anthony Monterotti, PacificCoast

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Uh oh. Claire Bennet isn’t as indestructible as we thought anymore. The second eclipse took away her powers. She has been shot, and is losing plenty of blood.

If she dies, the catalyst dies with her. But if she lives and Arthur Petrelli gets her blood, then more people will have powers in the future, and that’s not such a good thing either.

Is Claire Bennet worth saving? Will she ever get her powers back?

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Milo Ventimiglia talked about "Heroes" episode 3.09 "It’s Coming" and the scene in his apartment where he asks Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) to keep away from all the violence and fighting. The video is Milo’s take on the sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes I previously posted.

But he adds something spoilery and it has to do with Claire’ character and the formula.

Watch the video –

Thanks to Sherrie!

Image credit: NBC / Photo: Adam Taylorr

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Now this is a more interesting trailer than the other one. But I have to warn you this is so spoilery that you might want to pass…

Nah! It’s too good not to know!

(OK, I warned you!)

The serum that Mohinder injects into people triggers a mutation because something is missing -  a catalyst. Daddy Petrelli corrects that the catalyst is not something, it’s someone. Can you guess who it is?

So Pinehearst wants to capture Claire, and I assume, use her blood to stabilize the serum.

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Even after the Level 5 fiasco, I never doubted that those who possess Sylar’s powers – him and Peter – can do the greatest harm. That is, until dad comes along. Arthur Petrelli is scary. He is now virtually unstoppable and everyone around him is dispensable.

But first let’s see what went down –

Knox took Adam Monroe in to see a bedridden, immovable Arthur Petrelli, and for the first time Adam was scared for his life. Arthur only had to touch him and Adam’s powers and life source transferred to the incapacitated elder. Adam dried out and turned to dust right before our eyes! Is this goodbye for David Anders? Man, he wasn’t really given enough scenes to shine in volume 3. It’s a shame.     NBC Photo: Adam Taylor

Meanwhile, Meredith is hostaged by Eric Doyle, a puppeteer who can control a human’s muscles and movement. Claire and her mom Sandra try to save her only to be held captive themselves. A game of Russian roulette points the gun at Claire and Sandra shoots her daughter. Eric Doyle’s mad laughter at the sight of a dead Claire was short-lived when Claire regenerated and hit the puppeteer’s head unconscious. HRG finishes the job by putting Doyle into a coma and bringing him back to Level 5.

Now for a good news and a big ‘whew’!

Ando Masahashi is not dead. Hiro Nakamura faked Ando’s death by going back in time and tutoring his best friend how to fake a death. That sword -jabbing we saw last week was all play-acting. Good call, Hiro! I just can’t accept that you’d be anything other than good. Daphne instructs Hiro to find Usutu, the African bushman and bring him alive back to Pinehearst. After unsuccessful attempts at trying to get the African, Hiro finally learns his lesson and Usutu shows him a painting of the Pinehearst villains.

Meanwhile, Pinehearst Industries’ newest delivery girl Daphne begins recruiting evolved humans to join the Industry. She starts with Matt Parkman, who was at the airport flying in from Africa and expecting to find her. Matt tells Daphne they have a future life together and taken by his seeming kindness, she asks him to wait until she ends her errands. Later on she tells Matt to stay away from Pinehearst instead, since he didn’t seem like the other monsters that she’s been collecting for her new boss.

Daphne goes to Level 5 and recruits Flint and Sylar. Sylar refuses and insists that he no longer wants that kind of life. Instead he wakes up Peter from his coma and asks his brother to help their mother, who mysteriously went into her own coma. Sylar learned that his future self is able to control his urges but Peter wants it taken away from him at once. Peter and Sylar spars their frustrations out and Peter won the fight. Peter locks Sylar in Level 5 again by inducing a coma.

Eager to find out how to remove their powers, Nathan and Tracy go to the professor’s lab. Suresh traps them into believing he can help them. Tracy tries to get Suresh’s sympathy and freezes his arms. She frees Nathan from the straps but Suresh stops them both.

Peter goes to Pinehearst Industries, ready to avenge his mother’s condition and bring down this new villain. He is shocked to find his father is alive and behind all these new killing. But Arthur extends a welcome embrace to Peter, who makes the mistake of taking it. A white aura flowed from Peter to Arthur, taking away all of Peter’s evolved powers.

So again, Arthur Petrelli is one big badass. He can take the powers and life of anyone he wishes to touch. We can only guess that he grows stronger and more powerful with every transfer. It is starting to make sense – Sylar’s and Peter’s powers are similar to their dad’s, except in the delivery. Whereas Sylar has to take the powers directly from the brain, Peter only has to be near a post human and he will absorb that person’s powers.  But nothing beats daddy. Arthur Petrelli has the ability absorb a person’s powers by touch, essence and more than anything, lifeforce. We can only assume he’s had years of using it before his two sons ever did. How did Arthur get these powers? What did he do to Angela and what else can he do?

[UPDATES: Thanks to readers Lewey and Dylan, who pointed out that Arthur doesn't take life forces, only powers.]

images used with permission by NBC / Photos: Trae Patton and Adam Taylor

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Here’s what we know now:

• Benjamin Washington Knox (Jamie Hector  of The Wire) has fearful powers – He gains strength when he’s in the presence of fear.  Although good at heart, he was raised by a murderous street gang in Los Angeles. Now he wants payback for being locked up and treated inhuman. Knox plays the group leader of villains locked in Level 5, and yes, they all escape!
• Does Sylar eat brains? We’ll know by season premiere if he does. Sylar will be called upon ot cultivate sides of his persona to survive. “There’s a part of him that doesn’t want to be this sick, creepy guy.  He wants to be special and good,” adds Zachary Quinto. Will he get a new leash in life?
•  Claire becomes an action hero, and she will be in collision course again with Elle Bishop (Kristen Bell).
• This season, expect the unexpected, says Tim Kring, as they explore the various theories connected with having powers. Are they evolutionary or gifts from God?

Read the complete interview at the TV Guide September 22 issue featuring “Heroes: The Good, the Bad and the Wacko“, which hit newstands September 18.

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“Heroes” released a lot of promotional videos in the past month, but it’s really just the same long video clip retold, cut, built up and repeated over and over. It gets old after a while. NOT THIS ONE! Oh no.

• Nathan Petrelli dies (autopsied dead) at the hands of his brother.
• Nikki sees herself (or her twin/clone?) cold as dead in a coffin.
• Peter shift-changes right before our eyes, but another prisoner says he really is Peter! What’s really going on?
• And then Peter brings Nathan back to life.
• IS that Ando fighting with Hiro?! 
• Meredith (Claire Bennet’s bio mom) shows off her powers to Noah Bennet.
• Sylar is hurt. Did Claire do it?
• new character Knox knocks Peter off his feet.
• spidey-Mohinder makes out with Maya
• and the clincher, Claire asks Sylar as he looks at her open skull, “Are you gonna eat it?” The villain’s reply? “Eat your brains? Claire that’s disgusting!”

Watch the vid after the cut.

Get the scoop on the rest of Heroes volume 3 “Villains” episodes here.

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Claire is still pretty much a teenage but she’s bent on doing things her way even if her parents say ‘no’.

Says Hayden Panettiere of her Heroes alter-ego, “You think, okay you can say no. I hope you say yes because that would make this whole thing a lot easier – but I’m going to do what I want to do, and I’m determined to head down this path that I’m aiming for.”

In a move that imitates life, Claire will try to make it on her own and gets her apartment (peek at Claire Bennet’s living on the Heroes set).

Unfortunately, that move will cost Claire Bennet her brain, as Sylar sucks the powers out of her in a scene that pays homage to Scream. Good thing she can regenerate or that would have been the end of our teenage hero.

But she does get to play hero uncle Peter (or real life bf Milo Ventimiglia), who is all bloodied and weak as revealed in these set photos.

images: NBC / Chris Haston

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Heroes episode 3.02 “Butterfly Effect“
Airdate: September 22, 2008

If you were at the SD Comic Con ‘08, these pictures might already look familiar, if they were shown in the first hour of the premiere for “Heroes: Villains”

The promotional pictures show almost all the cast members but very little is revealed, except maybe Mohinder and Maya’s scene. And I take it Claire just saw Sylar standing at her doorway.

Thanks to Watching Heroes and ODI for the heads-up! Aren’t you guys just pumped about the new season? I think it will live up to hype!

Get the scoop on the rest of Heroes volume 3 “Villains” episodes here.

Images used with permission from NBC / Paul Drinkwater; Chris Haston

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