We have some spoilers for you below, including the brand new promo for season 3, and some interesting tidbits about Brea Grant’s character Daphne in regards to Hiro.

First, here is the promo:

Season 3 is called “Villains” and will pick up right where season 2 ended due to the writer’s strike. We’ll find out what happens to a few of the characters during that time, like Nathan Petrelli who was was shot.

But as far as Grant goes, she was formerly named Joy when we told you guys about her, but that changed to Daphne now.

She’s going to be The Joker to Hiro…in other words, his arch nemesis. This interview was found at Heroes Volume 3 thanks to io9.

“I’m stealing a secret that’s been kept in Hiro’s family for a long time that he’s just now found,� Brea Grant told The Associated Press during a break in filming on location in a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles. “He stops time right as I grab it, but in that second it took him to grab it, I almost make it out of the office.�

Grant isn’t totally sure about Daphne’s powers, but apparently she had three speeds and leaves a sonic wake behind her. We’ll see it when Hiro stops time during one of her blistering runs.

“Her character is supposed to be Hiro’s Joker,� said Masi Oka, who plays Hiro. “Batman has The Joker. Hiro has Daphne. This is the season where Hiro finally finds his arch nemesis, and it happens to be this Speedster. I kind of equate it more to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, except Daphne says more than ‘meep-meep.’�

Sounds good to me. I’m starting to have high hopes for next season.

Monday’s episode was fantastic…exactly what we’ve been waiting for all season long. And next week’s looks highly promising as they intend to show us exactly what happened after the explosion last season.

Still…we’ve waited so many episodes for something good to happen that it begs the questioning of whether or not we’ll go back to long, drawn-out stories.

Regardless, let’s revel in the story and excitement from last night. Spoilers ahead, so don’t read if you haven’t seen it yet.

So many things happened that it’s hard to track it all. Okay, let’s spell it all out:

1. Hiro steals Kensei’s woman, causing him to pledge revenge.
2. Hiro thinks he killed him, but we all knew he would be back
3. Hiro disappears, thus not allowing Kensei his revenge…
4. Someone named Adam puts together this first group of people…the “adults”, who are being killed by Parkman’s dad.
5. Parkman’s dad is the tool of Adam
6. Adam is Kensei

Yummmmmy!

I am just stoked that Adam is Kensei who was Sark on Alias, one of the baddest dudes to be on that show. He’s a solid, very solid evil guy and I like his role here. I thought I saw that coming earlier this season…I know I figured since he could live forever, being immortal almost, that he would come back into play.

The boredom of the last few episodes totally made that thought disappear from my mind.

Now, that being said…it’s hard to tell what is going on and who actually is evil.

Adam wants Peter Petrelli’s help…but for what? For evil? His goal is to take down the The Company apparently, since he’s killing everyone off, so does he need Peter to finish the job? Did he see the fall of Parkman’s dad coming?

Is The Company good in some way?

Obviously Adam’s entire goal must be to ruin Hiro…so what history is he changing that he needs Peter’s help with? A secondary goal to Hiro? One history is already set that we see – the virus spreads, killing everyone. Does Adam hope to contain it and thus be a hero?

It’s awesome to think Adam is the top bad guy in this show. Granted, Sylar is spectacularly evil but he just took a back seat to Adam Kensei. Adam has obviously has lived for a long time, wandering the world, waiting for the time Hiro returned.

Let’s talk about the paintings that the Horned-Rimmed Glasses guy burned:

1. Hiro fighting Kensei – happened by the end of the episode
2. Noah (glasses) shot through the eye, with Claire in the background kissing someone
3. Nicki pounding a door down – happened now
4. Someone holding a vial – maybe the virus? Was it Suresh already or something in the future?
5. Peter next to a radioactive logo, with Adam? in the background.
6. Suresh holding a smoking gun

It’s hard to imagine that Noah will be killed, but he has turned careless and evil. It would be a great twist in the show to actually have Suresh follow through and kill him as predicted in the paintings.

The Parkman twist was good, with his father being trapped in his own nightmare. Although I have to chuckle a bit to think his son was suddenly more powerful than him, without the years of practicing the new powers.

What did you think? What did I miss? Any theories?