Six weeks after Matt and the others wiped Sylar's mind, the Heroes attempt to go on living normal lives. We are introduced to "family" of carnies with abilities. Angela Petrelli and H.R.G. are in the works of restoring The Company while Claire makes new "friends" at school. Tracy is still hunting everyone from Building 26. Meanwhile, Hiro and Ando start a "Heroes for Hire" business.

House engages in a battle of wits and wills against the attending physician in charge of his detox program. When he starts to lose, House resorts to blackmail to gain the upper hand.

After sharing a kiss at the beginning of the summer, Robin and Barney are unsure how to handle their mutual attraction. After some consideration they tell the gang they have decided to remain just friends, but secretly continue seeing each other. They are able to get away with their secret romance for a couple months, but are discovered when Ted, Marshall and Lily walk in on them together. They explain to the gang that they are happy with their casual relationship, and didn't want to complicate it by defining it. This is unacceptable to Lily, who pressures them to label their situation, and ultimately locks them in Robin's room to force them to address it. Meanwhile, Ted is anxious about his first days as a professor at Columbia, which is made worse when he shows up at the wrong class and starts his lecture.

Another former Tree Hill resident returns, while Haley and Mia has problems with selling records. Nathan has to deal with being seperate from his loved ones, but Clayton reminds him that he's in NBA. Dan finds a new friend in an unlikely ally, and Brooke tries looking for a new model for Clothes over Bros. But they didn't expect it when death comes on their way.

Turmoil surrounds the Suttons as the rivalry between Tay and Nate Ray comes to a head, Lizzie must choose whether popularity is more important than what is right, the police continue closing in on Charles who begins to doubt Cassie's support, and Jenn may risk her marriage by voicing her problems with Dana and Eddie's friendship.

A group of 16 celebrities, the largest to date and their dance partners hit the stage for their first competition.

Billie, a newspaper film critic, just went through an ugly breakup with her boss, who still wishes to mend their relationship. After a fling with a much younger guy, Billie ends up pregnant and decides that she really wants to keep the baby - and the guy she hooked up with.

Claire and her new friend Gretchen investigate the death of Claire's roommate Annie, while Noah comes to Peter for assistance. Samuel and Edgar recover the compass, Hiro realizes his new destiny, and Matt is tormented with mental images from a dangerous foe.

Charlie must make a difficult decision about his future and with which woman he wants to spend his life: Chelsea or Mia.

It's Dry Weekend at Cyprus Rhodes University, and Casey plans a non-alcohol party night amongst all of the houses but, when she and Evan are partnered together to patrol each of the houses for signs of any prohibited beverages, they each have a brownie at the Psi Phi house unaware of its secret ingredient, causing them to hide out in the ZBZ bathroom until the effects wear off. Meanwhile, Ashleigh frantically tries to find Casey, and Fisher offers to help, making her further question whether or not she should take him back. Also Grant's high school girlfriend, Whitney surprises Grant andd Calvin by visiting for his birthday. So Calvin enlists Rebecca's help on a double date as he patiently waits for Grant to tell Whitney the truth about himself. And Rusty learns that he earned a new nickname in the engineering school because of his slipping grades so, he decides to approach the infamous Dr. Larsen to see if he will sponsor Rusty in an experiment and, Cappie joins him for moral support and attempts to flirt with the engineering girls.

Blair, determined to have her Queen status at college, starts her first day at NYU along with Dan and Vanessa. However, Georgina, who was assigned as Blair's roommate, sets out to ensure that she does not retain the Queen status. Serena gets ready to move into her dorm at Brown, but has a fight with Chuck before hand. This leads her to search out Chuck's enemy, Carter, to help her get even with him. Meanwhile, Nate and Bree's relationship continues to grow despite the tension their relationship could cause between their families.

When Sheldon learns the guys tampered with his expedition data he got from the arctic, he leaves to Texas in disgrace. This results in the guys following him, which threatens Leonard's hope for some romantic time with Penny and the guys' friendship with Sheldon.

We pick up where we left season 7, with Delko trying to survive after being lost in the Everglades. While helping him through the tough time, Horatio flashes back 12 years to remember how the team was created. Meanwhile, a new CSI replaces Delko.

When the new season begins, Castle is wrestling with how to repair his relationship with Beckett, while struggling to finish his soon-to-be-published bestseller, Heat Wave. But circumstances force the pair back together to investigate the mysterious murder of a man found dead, tangled in the limbs of a tree.

Guests include actress Jennifer Gardner, Rep. Barney Frank, along with the current news headlines.

A shame-faced Nathan wakes up from an erotic dream initially about Sammy who then turns into Layla.

Sammy's father Tony is facing the first hearing of his trial tomorrow, and she has to go along as moral support for her mother Trish. She's given a boost when Nathan insists he'll take the day off work and accompany her- a seemingly generous act, although he's really doing it as much to avoid Layla after their cocaine-fuelled kiss as to help his wife.

After the first hearing, Nathan is called back to work, where Layla notices his fixation on her - so she subtly strokes the flames. This leads to Nathan having another erotic dream - and when he guiltily 'takes care' of his urge in the bathroom, Sammy catches him out. Having previously refused sex with her, Sammy is understandably concerned.

Nathan waves off her worries, determined to keep himself under control - until Layla makes a brazen suggestion. She knows he's interested, his work is being affected - so why not sleep together? Nathan is shocked. What will he do now his fantasy has the chance to become reality?

Over at the Karandonis house, Artie is preparing for her first day of work at the boat club with Ben. Carbo, who's aware of his romantic feelings for her, is happy with her choice of job - after all, how much trouble can she get into under the watchful eye of Ben? But he hasn't met her co-worker Lexi, a cheeky young trouble maker, yet. The pair strike up a friendship and it isn't long before Lexi leads Artie astray much to Carbo's dismay.

Chrissy finds herself having a surprising and unwelcome fantasy of her own... about Dave. And an unexpected romance blossoms between Warney and Trish.

Ichigo continues searching for Byakuya, and encounters the spirits of Tobiume and Haineko, who are looking for Hyourinmaru. Momo and Rangiku arrive to fight their zanpakutos while Ichigo continues the search. Momo uses a kido spell to knock Tobiume into Haineko, causing the two to begin arguing. Ichigo encounters Hyourinmaru, who cannot remember his name or that of his master. He attempts to freeze Ichigo and leave, but Toshiro confronts him. Elsewhere, Muramasa kills a large number of hollows, including several Menos Grandes.

Michael is not happy when Connie undermines him. Connie is given the green light for her robotic surgery project. Donna tries to lift Maria's spirits and tries to get her to make friends with another patient on the ward.

Rose is stalked by the man who got her thrown off the police force. Innocent bystanders may end up drawn into a cat and mouse scenario as the crew attempts to deal with a rapist & murderer before he escape justice again.

After Don starts dating a much older woman he finds it hard living in her grown up world. Sam becomes friends with a man from the university who is caught going through her draws by Don.