skulldiggery

Heroes does seem to use a common event -- the eclipse -- as a trigger (like The White Event in Marvel's New Universe or the Wild Card Virus in Wild Cards) but from the two episodes so far this is a misdirect -- after all, Dr. Suresh was researching these people well prior to that, and Bad Dad seems to have been up to his skullduggery (and is he the one doing the skulldiggery we see?) long before.

Fall Season So Far Rogers 2006