The Chapter 2 closer was significantly worse than usual in terms of people-of-color representation.[*]  I hypothesize that this reflects the _Heroes_ trend of white people == main characters and people of color == supporting cast/background.[**]  The only non-recurring character in this episode was the thug from the Monica/Micah/Nikki plotline.

Numbers:

Total characters: 22
Female characters: 8 (38%)
Male characters: 14 (64%)
Characters of color: 7 (32%) [black: 2 (9%), e. asian: 2 (9%), biracial: 1(5%), latina: 1 (5%), s. asian: 1 (5%)]
White characters: 15 (68%)

Woo! I'm caught up!

Stats:

Total characters: 27
Characters of color: 12 (44%) [black: 5 (19%), e. asian: 3 (11%), latino: 2 (7%), biracial: 1(4%), s. asian: 1 (4%)]
White characters: 15 (56%)
Female characters: 11 (41%)
Male characters: 16 (59%)

Notes:

The unusually high percentage (41%!!!!) of female characters this week is due to some debatable choices on my part regarding which roles I counted. These are:

This was taken from the list of credited roles on the Heroes wiki, rather than note-taking while I watched the episode.

Statistics:

Total characters: 22
Female characters: 7 (32%)
Male characters: 15 (68%)
Characters of color: 11 (50%) [e. asian: 8 (36.5%), black: 2 (9%), s. asian: 1 (4.5%)]
White characters: 11 (50%)

Total characters: 27
Female characters: 10 (37%)
Male characters: 17 (63%)
Characters of color: 13 (48%) [Black: 7 (26%), Latino: 5 (19%), biracial: 1 (4%)]
White characters: 14 (52%)

Numbers for last night's episode:

Total characters: 27
Female characters: 7 (26%)
Male characters: 20 (74%)
Characters of color: 10 (37%) [e. asian: 6 (22%), black: 3 (11%), s. asian: 1 (4%)]
White characters: 17 (63%)

Note: there are plot spoilers in the list:

Summary:

Total characters: 26
Female characters: 9 (35%)
Male characters: 17 (65%)
Characters of color: 13 (50%) (e. asian: 31%, black: 7.5%, latino: 7.5%, s. asian: 4%)
White characters: 13 (50%)

Complete list of speaking parts in this week's episode behind the cut:

Here is the race-n-gender breakdown for all speaking roles in Ep. 2.05

Total characters: 30
Characters of color: 14 (47%) [Black: 7 (23%), E. Asian: 5 (17%), biracial: 1 (3.5%), S. Asian: 1(3.5%)]
White characters: 16 (53%)
Female characters: 10 (33%)
Male characters: 20 (67%)

Note: I perhaps should not have included Bruce Lee, but dude, it's Bruce Lee!