When last we saw Hiro Nakamura, he had sliced into brain-eating super-villain Sylar, and then was thrown from current-day New York City back to 16th century feudal Japan.
Masi Oka, who plays the time-and-space traveling Hiro on the hit series "Heroes," told SciFi Wire that his character will remain in Japan for at least eight episodes before he returns to the present.
"Season 2 is going to begin with two parallel timelines going on," Oka said in a July 17 interview at the Television Critics Association press tour. "One starting four months after the explosion and another -- mainly Hiro's storyline -- starting 400 years in the past. And we'll see how they kind of affect each other."
While in ancient Japan, Hiro will encounter some of the characters from the stories of his childhood, including the legendary samurai Takezo Kensei.
"There's a princess," Oka said. "Princess Iako, played by [Japanese pop star] Eriko Tamura, who's going to be in that world, as well as David Anders, who plays Takezo Kensei. But David Anders, last time we checked, he was Caucasian. So there's a mystery there."
"Heroes" returns to NBC on Sept. 24, and will air Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. |
