On tonight’s episode of “Heroes,” Nathan Patrelli will die. And unlike the last two times, this death will be final.
Actor Adrian Pasdar tells USA Today that he’s grateful for the run he’s had on the show but he understands why it’s time for his character to really and permanently shuffle off this mortal coil tonight.
“Some deaths really need to stick,” Pasdar says. “I’m happy to have had the opportunity to have this long of a run.”
“On a show where you put characters in life-and-death situations with real stakes, characters have had to die,” creator Tim Kring says. Writers initially hoped to have Pasdar and some form of Nathan in all 19 episodes of Season 4 – aka “Volume 5: Redemption” – “but we were starting to run out of ways to keep that character around,” he says.
Kring says it’s a double loss. Pasdar is a “loved member of the cast,” and the brothers’ relationship has been central to the series. He called the brothers’ final scene “heart-wrenching. … Adrian has never been better, and Milo has never been better.
The episode airs tonight at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.
D. C. says
This is completely bogus. Nathan died at the end of Season Three (sorry if that’s a spoiler). All they’re “killing” now is an aspect of Sylar that thinks he’s Nathan.
Jeff says
Holy crap, thanks for the Spoiler in the headline guys! The one piece of plot that was keeping me watching this show was finding out who was going to die and how long they would hold it out teasing us. Thanks for ruining tonight’s episode for me.
Put a little thought in to the spoiler posts next time.
Andrew McDonald says
Does anyone really still care about this show?
Kyle Nin says
I do.
ImportantComments says
I was a HUGE fan of Heroes up until tonight. They took such an amazing concept and made such a mockery of the intelligence of the viewers who follow it. There are so many small details that all used to come together. No not anymore…
1) Sylars powers work around peter in the elevator (taken from the Hatian) then do not after he gets out… real dumb
2) Peter can erase any/all memory in Sylar he wants with the Hatian’s powers….. bye bye Sylar … oh wait no writers wont follow through with a story line they wrote
3) Kill off one of the main actors who people love …. time for new writers who can actually think of what to do with their talented staff instead of having to get rid of them.
One more rant on this dumb random carnival … back in the day there used to be a simple but powerful story line “save the cheerleader save the world”… now its “watch us make sh*t up around some stupid carnival nobody cares about then go online to nbc.com to see more sh*t of new characters you dont care about either”
Hopefully the Olympics give these moron writers some time to bring this show back to it’s glory or they lost another viewer.
Joshed says
Many thanks for spoiling it as well. I noticed several different websites posting about NBC spoiling the surprise by saying someone would die, but that it self spoiled it for me, and all of them were the headlines only. I was unaware there was a death coming as I DVR my programs and don’t watch the promos. Your post blatantly ruined it further, again with a headline.
Lisa from Indiana says
I don’t Heroes, but even I knew that Nathan was dead! It’s been published everywhere and Pasdar discussed it in interviews. And you still don’t know how he’s going to die….
Michael Hickerson says
This really a non-SPOILER SPOILER.
The fact that Pasdar is leaving and that Nathan is dying was in the news for weeks before the episode aired.
TallGrrl says
@ D.C. “This is completely bogus. Nathan died at the end of Season Three (sorry if that’s a spoiler). All they’re “killing” now is an aspect of Sylar that thinks he’s Nathan.”
Ah! So when you were all in the Writer’s Room, did you all come up with this idea…or was it just YOU?
Sheesh.
@Important Comments
So…will the person or people who have been FORCING you to watch, now untie you and give you back the frackin’ remote so you can go watch…well…something else on Monday nights?
@Andrew McDonald
People still watch the show.
People…not…you.
Damn! I wish everyone who hates the show would move on to something else and stop frackin’ winjing about it.
“I hate Heroes! I hate Heroes!!”
Well even without cable you must have at least 5 or 6 other channels to pick from (or you can go read a m.f’in’ book or watch a DVD). Why the hell are you so concerned about ONE TV SHOW THAT YOU DON’T LIKE?!
You don’t like Heroes?
Watch something else and quit yer bitchin about Heroes!!!!!
I mean…WTF, people?!
WTFFF?!!!
Kyle Nin says
“1) Sylar’s powers work around peter in the elevator (taken from the Haitian) then do not after he gets out… real dumb”
That’s because it’s not automatic. Peter has to make a mental effort to use his powers, just like everyone else. I thought that was fairly obvious.
Keiran Halcyon says
Actually, I thought the obvious bit was that the Hatian’s suppression power was ambiently always on, though thinking back I don’t think there’s proof of that one way or another.
@Michael Hickerson: That is why some of us *avoid* news sources that don’t warn readers before posting spoilers.
KG says
Uhm.. he DIED last season. Did ANYONE really think they’d keep Nathan over Sylar? This is a NON-SPOILER in every sense of the term.
Love this season… it’s got a lot of the season one vibes.
Michael Hickerson says
Well, Nathan’s “death” was the biggest non-event ever.
Seriously….how many times can we not kill Sylar?!?
He’s the most dangerous person with powers in existence and every time we have a chance to take him out, we don’t take it?!?
Or at least find a way to nullify his powers somehow.
The problem is that Tim Kring should never be allowed to write for this show again…
Ken says
Heroes is a show that feels like it’s being ad libbed, with stuff being made up along the way. For some reason, I seem to keep watching it but after each episode, I ask myself why.
Why is Claire now a lesbian? It just doesn’t seem to have any reason or purpose and the chemistry between Claire and Gretchen is non-existent.
Peter was made super powerful in the first season and it worked. Then they decided he was too powerful so the writers stripped him of his powers. Then they gave him the ability to borrow powers. Well, it seems every time he needs a certain skill, someone with just that skill conveniently comes along. You know, if you want him to be able to do all sorts of stuff, just let him have his powers. There are much more creative ways to limit them.
Of course, there’s Sylar and his multiple personality disorder. He’s evil. He’s sympathetic. He’s good. He’s bad. He’s single-mindedly determined. He’s confused about what he wants. For heaven sakes. All that’s really happening with him is he’s getting boring. Another character who changes who and what he is because it’s convenient to do so for the current story line.
Claire and Noah. I thought these two had figured out their relationship – several times over. The whole push/pull thing between them is old.
Hiro is the comic relief and somehow he plays a part in everything. However, we never really know just how and when the connection is revealed, do we really even care anymore? As for the comic relief part, it’s not really that funny.
Matt Parkman really needs to stop being such a whiny wimp. ‘Nuff said.
All this carnival stuff. Boring.