IMDB has some studio pics of the cast. There's 2 people in there I haven't seen in the first ep. A white policeman and a token black guy.

So, wait a minute. Hiro was five weeks ahead of everybody else's timeline? That explains certain things, such as the clock on the bus. I thought they just didn't care about that or had some other way to explain it - I really hadn't realised that he'd traveled into the future. It makes much more sense that way though. The fact that it was the future also explains why the painter would've killed himself. So now we have a deadline for the apparent nuke going off...

Ewwww. Her head got turned all the way around. She should've projectile vomitted right then and there. But her surrogate father... I knew he at least suspected, but I was stupid enough not to figure that he had the tape already.

I knew it. I knew it was the both of them. I just didn't know the specifics. I'm not totally as into that bit of plot development with the suicidal father and such as I am the other ones.

Dissociative Fugue? What is her superpower, being fucked up in the head? And how/why was the tape erased, and did her other personality do all of that in just four hours?

In Hiro's future, Isaac had painted the symbol that appeared in Prof. Suresh's genome code. I want to know MORE.

No, I don't think Isaac truly killed himself. If you noticed, his skull was cut clean off and appeared to be hollowed out. This mimicks the crime from Los Angeles, where the man was blast frozen and his brain was removed.

In Suresh's apartment, there was a message on the answering machine, including a brief discussion with a man named "Cyrus". Cyrus was Study #0, according to Suresh's son, and that the elder Suresh helped Cyrus become what he is.

Cyrus was linked to the murders in Los Angeles, mostly by having the same pattern as a set of older murders. Officer Parkman subconsciously picked up on the name from his chief officer.

As for the gun found in Isaac's apartment, I'd wager that it's something of a red herring. Perhaps Isaac attempted to use it in his own defense but never got the chance.

But it seems that Hiro can visit the future and see things, albeit in a different sense that Isaac does.

It's possible that Claire Bennett's father is this "Cyrus" character. He's already been sighted in NYC once, presumably to kill Suresh. (There was the message before the murder, after all.) Suresh was most likely seeking a way to stop Cyrus.
Therefore, Cyrus's ability, which he evidently has, probably revolves around "conspicuous consumption", which is the arcane belief that eating the vital organs of one's victim will grant you their strengths. Cyrus may be able to manifest the knowledges and talents of those whose brains he eats. If that's not it, then it's likely something along those lines.

Point taken, Crash. They did make sure that we knew that the dude in LA had his brain removed - I wish I'd made that connection. I also somehow missed the name connection - it was dropped from my memory during the commercial break. I'm thinking Cyrus was the first to find out about his powers and, since the commercial man says that the Heroes' powers are "growing", I'm gonna assume that Cyrus is the most powerful.

On another note, I'm surprised at the level of gore allowed to be seen on this show. Those two dudes that we are lead to believe Niki killed, Cyrus' victims - possibly including Isaac - all are pretty graphic. Seeing Isaac's open head was a "holy shit" moment for me. This show seems to be full of them, but for a variety of reasons.

I noticed that she said "D.L." to that lady friend of hers. D.L. just happens to be the prison inmate character whose power is phasing.