Zach

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Zach

Interpretado por	Thomas Dekker
Primera aparición	Genesis
Historial
Habilidad conocida	Ninguno
Nombre formal	Zachary
Género	Masculino
Hogar	Odessa, TX
Residencia	Zach's home
Occupación	High school student

Zach es un adolescente de Odessa, TX que asiste a la Secuendaria Union Wells. El es el mejor amigo de Claire Bennet y el único queconoce sus poderes.

Historia del Personaje

Genesis

Claire filma junto a Zach, un video donde ella utiliza su habilidad. Ella salva a un hombre de un tren incendiandose.

Don't Look Back

El vídeo desaparece, y el promete encontrarlo.

One Giant Leap

Zach continua diciendole a Claire lo genial que es poseer esas habilidades, aunque Claire solo quiere tener una "vida normal".

Collision

Claire le cuenta a Zach lo que Brody hizo en la fiesta. El intentó denunciar el hecho, pero ella le pidió que lo mantenga en secreto.

Zach camina hacia su casa con Claire antes de encontrar a los supuestos padres biológicos de Claire, Hank y Lisa. Ellos le hablaron de los poderes de Claire y les preguntaron si había relacion entre ellos. Zach dice que ellos no son "especiales", porque sino tendría que haber "algo" que a Hank y a Lisa haga especiales.

Nothing to Hide

Zach comes over unannounced to Claire's home to give her back the tape that disappeared from his backpack. He tells her he found it under his bed while looking for his PSP even though he checked the bed "like fifty times". He is riding his bike while Claire is chasing her brother after Lyle finds out her abilities, and comes to her aid. Claire and Zach chase Lyle into the Bennet SUV.

Zach "rescues" Claire.

Homecoming

Zach helps Claire win Homecoming Queen by getting the 'freak' vote; all the unpopular people voting for the unpopular candidate. While Claire is grounded by her foster-father to avoid her getting killed, Zach sends her a text message saying he's outside her window. She opens it to see him, and he says "I'm here to rescue you". Zach and Claire start talking about what was said about him at school earlier that day (Jackie implied that he was gay). During their conversation, he says he is happy with who he is and has accepted the 'freak' inside. He says that Claire should accept the 'freak' in her, and be happy with who she is.

Fallout

Zach brings Claire all the tapes that they made of Claire's experimentations with her powers. She destroys them, then tells Zach that her father knows that Zach knows about Claire's powers, and asked her to make sure that Zach wouldn't talk to anyone about them.

Later, Claire calls Zach and asks him to meet her on the football field; she is scared because Lyle has no memories of her powers. Zach accuses her of calling him "out of the blue" after "not talking to [him] since sixth grade;" Zach's memory has obviously been erased by the Haitian.

Godsend

As Union Wells opens again after the death of Jackie, Claire meets up with Zach in the hall. They talk and Zach comments that lately there are a lot of things he can't remember, but he shrugs it off with a comment about the water. Claire asks Zach to look at her and tell her if he believes they could ever be friends. Zach looks at her briefly and then says plainly that he doesn't think so.

Some time later, after Claire has talked to the Haitian, she once more seeks him out and brings him to the abandoned refinery where they originally filmed her tape. There she tells him to take his camera and film her, as she climbs up the construction and jumps once more.

The Fix

At the Bennets' home, Zach helps Claire search for clues about her father's deception on the family computer, but they're unable to find anything. When Mr. Bennet arrives home unexpectedly, Claire and Zach pretend to be working on a school project about manatees.

Later, at the Burnt Toast Diner, Claire and Zach review newspaper articles from 14 years ago. Zach finds an article about a fire in an apartment in Kermit, TX in which a woman named Meredith Gordon was killed, supposedly along with her 18-month-old daughter. Zach theorizes that the kid was actually Claire, and suggests Claire look for one of Meredith's relatives in order to find out more about her parents and possibly even find out who her father is.

Claire calls Zach later to update him on her progress looking for one of Meredith's relatives, but is interrupted by her father.

Distractions

Zach helps Claire with her plan to see her birth mother without anyone finding out; they use their manatee research project as an excuse. Claire's mom questions Zach about the condition of his car, and when he tells her it has had its oil changed and his only tickets are parking tickets, she lets them go.

Once they reach Meredith's trailer, Zach gives Claire some encouraging words and then heads out, returning at the end of the day to pick her up and take her home.

Memorable Quotes

"Oh, is the gay boy your date? You should tell him that only one of you gets to wear the tiara!"

- Jackie (before Claire punches her) (Homecoming)

"You've got to embrace your inner freak."

- Zach (to Claire) (Homecoming)

Notes

Unless he was driving illegally, Zach is at least 16 because he drives Claire to Kermit to see Meredith without another licensed adult driver in the car. (The Fix)
Early comments from Zach led to a great deal of fan speculation concerning his sexual orientation. In an article in Out, Tim Kring confirmed that he originally intended Zach to be gay. However, NBC's publicity department and Thomas Dekker's management have both claimed that the character is straight. Zach has never explicitly stated his sexual orientation.
- At the Heroes Q&A at Wizard World Los Angeles, it was revealed that Thomas Dekker's management "didn't want him to be playing a gay character" for career reasons. It was also acknowledged that they'd originally conceived of the Zach character as gay, and that the ambiguity was a result of an "unfortunate miscommunication." [1]
Zach's MySpace page has been updated to reflect that he suspects a prank from the cheerleaders. He references Claire being added to his friends and things being changed, added and removed even though he has no memory of doing it.
Thomas Dekker, on his MySpace page, made a bulletin entitled "The Truth About Heroes" explaining the sexuality of the character Zach and his absence on new episodes of Heroes. In the bulletin, Thomas explains that he has previously played gay characters (at ages 12, 15, and 17) and that neither him nor his management have ever had a problem with him playing a gay character. He said he created and developed the character Zach to be heterosexual and wanted him portrayed as an outcast with a burning love for Claire, based on the original script which stated that Zach was in love with Claire. Thomas goes on to state that he was never under any contract with NBC and was hired per episode. He was no longer allowed to be cast in episodes for Heroes after he landed the part of John in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. He also stated that he would like to portray a gay character again in the future with full knowledge of that characters sexuality so he can give the character the kind of development and performance the character would deserve. [2]
Thomas Dekker told SyFy Portal, "[Zach] was never intended to have any kind of importance in the story, but his presence just kept growing and growing."

Trivia

According to his MySpace page, Zach is a practicing Wiccan.
Zach text messages using the handle FILMSBYZACH. (Homecoming)
Zach's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 710m running the KDE desktop manager, which is most commonly used on Linux. (The Fix)
According to his MySpace page, Zach's birthday is on March 15th.
In the script for the unaired pilot, Zach's character was supposed to be an "artsy looking gawky" girl named Zoe.