At the Company headquarters, in one of the Level 5 prison cells, a bald man screams that he is Peter Petrelli.

She remains conscious as Sylar lays her on a table and examines her now-exposed brain, claiming he is looking for answers.

Sylar leaves, and Sandra and Lyle return home to find Claire crying, still with dried blood on her forehead.

In his office at Yamagoto Industries in Japan, Hiro Nakamura tells Ando that he is bored without a quest.

In the closing scenes of the episode, Mohinder narrates the William Butler Yeats poem "The Second Coming", the title's namesake.

As he walks across the desert, he stops in front of a rock where the picture of the earth exploding is painted, identical to the one behind Mohinder.

[1] On December 5, 2007, at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, Tim Kring showed a video-preview of volume three.

Finally, during the featured Heroes panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the entire first hour of the first episode of the "Villains" arc was shown.

[4] In July NBC began airing a teaser for season three featuring Noah Bennet talking to Claire stating, "Since before you were even born, I was finding these people and locking them away so that they couldn't hurt anybody.

Now a dozen of them have escaped, and they will kill...and they will terrorize...and they will conspire...and they will cause...unimaginable destruction to the world...they're villains, Claire," while a montage of clips play.

[5] Zachary Quinto, who plays Sylar, has stated that the Villains story arc will last for thirteen episodes.

[6] At San Diego Comic-Con in 2008, Kring screened the first part of "The Second Coming", which received a positive response from fans.

He hoped that the Petrellis would continue to get focus, and questioned the choices made by Hiro and Mohinder, saying that their actions did not seem to reflect anything they would have learned from their past experiences.