Five Years Gone

"Five Years Gone" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. It is the last episode before the three-part finale of season one. This episode was originally known as "String Theory." The title was changed to "Five Years Gone", and "String Theory" was used as the title of Chapter 30 in the graphic novels. This episode focuses on Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi traveling five years into the future,... more

"Five Years Gone" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. It is the last episode before the three-part finale of season one. This episode was originally known as "String Theory." The title was changed to "Five Years Gone", and "String Theory" was used as the title of Chapter 30 in the graphic novels. This episode focuses on Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi traveling five years into the future, showing where the world will be if the explosion isn't stopped. Future Hiro, last encountered in the episode "Hiros", is featured more prominently, this time as the world's most wanted terrorist and a master of Battōjutsu. Ando was killed in the blast, which according to Peter, is the reason why Hiro lost his humorous side and became obsessed with changing the past. Nathan Petrelli is now the President of the United States, with Mohinder Suresh as his Chief Medical Advisor and Matt Parkman as the head of Homeland Security with the Haitian at... less