2009 TV Preview: 'Heroes: Fugitives'

As one volume ends, so another begins.

If you've watched the conclusion to Villains, you'll already have seen the first couple minutes of Fugitives, the twelve-episode fourth volume of Heroes.

The new volume sees our Heroes placed in a Guantanamo Bay style situation, on the run from persecution, after double-crossing senator Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) spills the beans on their identities and abilities.

In the first episode, a new character called The Hunter (Zeljko Ivanek) arrives on the scene, capturing many of the Heroes and loading them onto a transport plane.

"We've all been bagged and tagged and we're on our way to being killed," Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) revealed to us a few months ago. The key words there are "on our way" because, of course, things don't go exactly to plan.

In transit the plane comes crashing down - and not everyone survives.

Meanwhile, Sylar is getting an apprentice. Luke, played by Dan Byrd (Aliens In America, The Hills Have Eyes), is a young kid with microwave-strength radiation power who joins up with Sylar seeking "adventure and excitement". He's probably going to get his wish. Some way or another.

In the new volume we'll also meet Sylar's father, played by Smallville's John Glover. "When Sylar meets his father, he's going to see a path ahead of him that he doesn't want to take," a source told Entertainment Weekly. "He has a lot more in common with his father than he realised."

The traumatic events at the start of the volume tear apart the show's new favourite couple, Daphne (Brea Grant) and Matt. But that's not the only problem the lovebirds face - someone from Matt's past is back...

Heroes: Fugitives airs from February 2009.

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