'In His Own Image' Story Code: '101' by Tim Kring

Care worker Peter Petrelli dreams of flying through the skies above New York, much to the annoyance of his brother, Nathan, a ruthless politician currently standing for election… Trying her best to support her son Micah, single mother Nikki Sanders is forced to sell her body via an internet webcam; when she is later assaulted by two debt-collecting thugs, Nikki blacks out; coming to, she is shocked to find that her attackers have somehow been brutally murdered. As Nikki leaves her house, she glimpses her reflection in the mirror – the image moves independently, and smiles knowingly… Elsewhere, high school cheerleader Claire Bennet explores her newly-discovered indestructibility, surviving a fall from eighty feet and then saving a man from a burning building... Artist Isaac Mendez tells his girlfriend, Simone, that the pictures he paints under the influence of heroin can foretell the future; however, one of these images portrays a nuclear explosion in the heart of New York… In Tokyo, office worker and comic book nerd Hiro Nakamura astounds his co-worker Ando with the revelation that he can bend space and time; then Hiro teleports himself to Times Square… Meanwhile, Madras University lecturer Mohinder Suresh learns that his father, pioneering genealogist Chandra Suresh, has been murdered whilst driving a New York cab. Vowing to find out why his father was killed, Mohinder decides to continue Chandra’s work into the manifestation of super-human powers, seen as the next stage of Mankind’s evolution. However, soon after arriving in New York, Mohinder finds that someone else is after his father’s work – and they will stop at nothing to get it…

Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Ali Larter (Niki Sanders), Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders), Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura), Santaigo Cabrera (Isaac Mendez), Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins), Tawny Cypress (Simone Deveaux), Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli), Deirdre Quinn (Texas Tina), Ashley Crow (Mrs. Bennet), Thomas Dekker (Zach), Jack Coleman (Horn-Rimmed Glasses), James Kyson Lee (Ando Masahashi) , John Prosky (Principal), Tohoru Masamune (Boss at Yamagato), Randall Bentley (Lyle Bennet), Greg Wrangler (Fire Chief), David Ury (Super), Milos Milicevic (Big Guy), Claudia Difolco (Reporter), Max Amini (Cabbie), Brian Tarantina (Weasel), Richard Roundtree (Charles Deveaux), Shishir Kurup (Nirand)

Directed by Dave Semel
Produced by Jim Chory
Executive Producers Tim Kring, Dennis Hammer, Allan Arkush and Davil Semel
Created by Tim Kring

TX (Us - Sci-Fi Channel):
25th September 2006

Notes:
*Introducing Peter Petrelli, Nathan Petrelli, Niki Sanders, Micah Sanders, Claire Bennet, Hiro Nakamura, Isaac Mendez and Mohinder Suresh