Heroes Update: Zach's Coming Out Scene Cut

SyFy Portal's Michael Hinman has an interesting report on this:

"The scenes were shot and edited that had Zach coming out," the source said. "The scene where Zach and Claire (Hayden Panettiere) was left intact, except it was just missing the final line, the one where he tells Claire he's gay."

The cut was made just before the episode, "Homecoming," aired around Thanksgiving break, the source said, possibly just days before. It was unclear why producers, however, were beholden to Dekker and his management team to make such a change, and the source was unwilling to shed light on that for fear of exposing his involvement with the show.

This is the scene we discussed in this post. What remains is: Zach tells Claire he's "OK with who" he is, but stops short of defining just what the meaning of "is," uh, is.