diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/backend.service.ts b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/backend.service.ts
index bfc629fc8c..ad76e0044b 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/backend.service.ts
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/backend.service.ts
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ export class BackendService {
     if (type === Hero) {
       // TODO get from the database and return as a promise
       return [
-        new Hero('Windstorm'), 
-        new Hero('Mr. Nice'), 
-        new Hero('Magneta')];
+        new Hero('Windstorm', 'Weather mastery'), 
+        new Hero('Mr. Nice', 'Killing them with kindness'), 
+        new Hero('Magneta', 'Manipulates metalic objects')];
     }
     let err = new Error('Cannot get object of this type');
     this._logger.error(err);
diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-detail.component.html b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-detail.component.html
index 6e32ecaade..0094c744d2 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-detail.component.html
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-detail.component.html
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 <hr>
-Hero name:
+<h4>{{hero.name}} Detail</h4>
+<div>Id: {{hero.id}}</div>
+<div>Name:
 <!-- #docregion ng-model -->
 <input [(ng-model)]="hero.name">
-<!-- #enddocregion ng-model -->
\ No newline at end of file
+<!-- #enddocregion ng-model -->
+</div>
+<div>Power:<input [(ng-model)]="hero.power"></div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-list.component.ts b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-list.component.ts
index 120665b0ec..b583d4f390 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-list.component.ts
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero-list.component.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export class HeroListComponent {
     this.heroes = service.getHeroes();
   }
 // #enddocregion ctor
+
   heroes:Hero[];
   selectedHero:Hero;
   selectHero(hero: Hero) { this.selectedHero = hero; }
diff --git a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero.ts b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero.ts
index 4ff4d73792..df6c37a0f5 100644
--- a/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero.ts
+++ b/public/docs/_examples/intro/ts/src/app/hero.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 export class Hero {
-  constructor(public name:string){}
+  id:number
+  constructor(
+    public name:string,
+    public power?:string){
+      this.id = nextId++;
+    }
 }
+
+var nextId = 1;
diff --git a/public/docs/ts/latest/guide/index.jade b/public/docs/ts/latest/guide/index.jade
index fb8b1ae3b7..8c59624adc 100644
--- a/public/docs/ts/latest/guide/index.jade
+++ b/public/docs/ts/latest/guide/index.jade
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ figure
   * What are the essential Angular building blocks and how do they help?
   * How do we minimize routine, mechanical coding in favor of declarative, higher level constructs without losing control?
   
-  This chapter is an introduction in two parts.
+  This chapter begins the journey. It's an introduction to Angular in two parts.
   1. [How to read this guide](#how-to-read)
-  2. [An Angular architectural overview](#architecture)
+  2. [An architecture overview](#architecture)
 
 .l-main-section
 <a id="how-to-read"></a>
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ figure
   
   The framework consists of several cooperating libraries, some of them core and some optional.
   
-  We write applications by composing HTML templates with Angularized-markup, 
-  writing "Component" classes to manage those templates, adding application logic in services,
-  and handing the top root component to Angular's bootstrapper. 
+  We write applications by composing HTML *templates* with Angularized-markup, 
+  writing *component* classes to manage those templates, adding application logic in *services*,
+  and handing the top root component to Angular's *bootstrapper*. 
   
   Angular takes over, presenting our application content in a browser and responding to user interactions
   according to the instructions we provided.
@@ -88,9 +88,12 @@ figure
   img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/airplane.png" alt="Us" align="left" style="width:200px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
 :marked
   Of course there is more to it than this. 
-  We're cruising at high altitude in this chapter. 
-  We're looking for landmarks. We should expect the details to be fuzzy and obscured by occasional clouds.
+  We're cruising at high altitude in this overview. 
+  We're looking for landmarks. We should expect the object below to be fuzzy and obscured by occasional clouds.
+  Details become more clear and precise when we land in the chapters themselves.
+<br clear="all">
 
+:marked
   An Angular 2 application rests on seven main building blocks:
   1. [Component](#component)
   1. [Template](#template)
@@ -112,11 +115,11 @@ figure
 figure
   img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/hero-component.png" alt="Component" align="left" style="width:200px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
 :marked
-  A **Component** controls a patch of screen real estate that we could call a "view". 
+  A **Component** controls a patch of screen real estate that we could call a *view*. 
   The shell at the application root with navigation links, that list of heroes, the hero editor ... 
   they're all views controlled by Components.
   
-  We define a Component's "application logic" - what it does to support the view - inside a class.
+  We define a Component's application logic - what it does to support the view - inside a class.
   The class interacts with the view through an API of properties and methods. 
   
   <a id="component-code"></a>
@@ -131,9 +134,11 @@ figure
   The developer can take action at each moment in this lifecycle through optional [Lifecycle Hooks](#).
 .l-sub-section
   :marked
-    Our example shows the service arriving via the class constructor.
-    Who calls that constructor? Who provides the service?
-    For the moment, have faith that Angular is going to deliver an
+    We're not showing those hooks in this example 
+    but we are making a mental note to find out about them later.
+    
+    We may wonder who is calling that constructor? Who provides the service parameter?
+    For the moment, have faith that Angular will call the constructor and deliver an
     appropriate `HeroService` when we need it.
 
 .l-main-section
@@ -143,11 +148,11 @@ figure
 figure
   img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/template.png" alt="Template" align="left" style="width:200px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
 :marked
-  We define a Component's view with its companion **Template**. A template is a form of HTML
+  We define a Component's view with its companion **template**. A template is a form of HTML
   that tells Angular how to render the Component.
 
   A template looks like regular HTML much of the time ... and then it gets a bit strange. Here is a
-  template for our `HeroList` Component
+  template for our `HeroList` component
 +makeExample('intro/ts/src/app/hero-list.component.html')
 :marked
   We recognize `<h2>` and  `<div>`. 
@@ -272,7 +277,8 @@ figure
 
   **Two-way data binding** is an important fourth form
   that combines property and event binding in a single notation using the `ng-model` directive. 
-  We didn't have a two-way binding in the `HeroListComponent` template; here's an example from a different template:
+  We didn't have a two-way binding in the `HeroListComponent` template; 
+  here's an example from the `HeroDetailComponent` template (not shown):
 
 +makeExample('intro/ts/src/app/hero-detail.component.html', 'ng-model')(format=".")
 :marked
@@ -285,7 +291,7 @@ figure
 figure
   img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/component-databinding.png" alt="Data Binding" style="float:left; width:300px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
 :marked
-  We don't know all the details yet 
+  We don't know all the details yet
   but it's clear from these examples that data binding plays an important role in communication 
   between a template and its component ...
 <br clear="all">  
@@ -303,7 +309,7 @@ figure
   img(src="/resources/images/devguide/intro/directive.png" alt="Parent child" style="float:left; width:150px; margin-left:-40px;margin-right:10px" )
 :marked
   Our Angular templates are *dynamic*. When Angular renders them, it transforms the DOM 
-  according to the instructions given by a **Directive**.
+  according to the instructions given by a **directive**.
   
   A directive is a class with directive metadata. In TypeScript we'd apply the `@Directive` decorator
   to attach metadata to the class.
@@ -315,7 +321,7 @@ figure
 .l-sub-section
   :marked
     While the **component is technically a directive**, 
-    it is so distictive and central to Angular applications that we chose
+    it is so distinctive and central to Angular applications that we chose
     to separate the component from the directive in our architectural overview.
 :marked
   There are two *other* kinds of directives as well that we call "structural" and "attribute" directives.