- Mohinder Suresh: Man is a narcissistic species by nature. We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet. But we are not the pinnacle of so-called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food. Remaining alive headless for weeks at a time. Resistant to radiation. If God has indeed created Himself in His own image, then I submit to you that God is a cockroach. They say that man uses only a tenth of his brain power. Another percent, and we might actually be worthy of God's image. Unless, of course, that day has already arrived. The Human Genome Project has discovered that tiny variations in man's genetic code are taking place at increasingly rapid rates. Teleportation, levitation, tissue re-generation. Is this outside the realm of possibility? Or is man entering a new gateway to evolution? Is he finally standing at the threshold to true human potential?
- Mohinder Suresh: This quest. This need to solve life's mysteries. In the end, what does it matter when the human heart can only find meaning in the smallest of moments? They're here. Among us. In the shadows. In the light. Everywhere. Do they even know yet?
- Sandra Bennet: So, what about you, Claire? Do anything special today?
- Claire Bennet: I walked through fire and I didn't get burned.
- [after jumping off an oil tower and getting up unharmed]
- Claire Bennet: This is Claire Bennet. And that was attempt number six.
- [last lines]
- Nathan Petrelli: [has just flown up and caught his brother in mid-air] Peter!
- Peter Petrelli: [shocked] You're flying Nathan! You're flying! How did you...
- Nathan Petrelli: I don't know.
- [Peter slips from his grasp and falls]
- Nathan Petrelli: No! No!
- Sandra Bennet: You should know who you are, and know that it's enough. Because who you are is special.
- Claire Bennet: About that... There's something I need to say. Something I never talked about because I thought it would upset you and Dad.
- Sandra Bennet: Sweetheart, you can say anything to us. You know that.
- Claire Bennet: I think I'm old enough for you to tell me who my real parents are.
- [to Hiro, on the usefulness of superhero powers]
- Ando Masahashi: Then what good is it? Can you teleport yourself into the women's bathroom? Now there's something useful. You won't learn your "purpose" in there but you might learn something about life.
- Hiro Nakamura: Fine. If I had to, yes I could teleport myself into the women's bathroom.
- Ando Masahashi: Great, then do it. I'll grab two more beers.
- Ando Masahashi: Tell me one useful thing you could do with this power. Can you make money?
- Hiro Nakamura: A super hero doesn't use his power for personal gain.
- Hiro Nakamura: Every ten year old wishes he had super powers. And I got them. Me of all people. Last in my class. Last on the sports field. I'm not a loser anymore.
- Mohinder Suresh: [voiceover] Where does it come from, this quest? This need to solve life's mysteries with the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all - not delving, not yearning. That's not human nature, not the human heart. That is not why we are here.
- Opening Title Scroll: In recent days, a seemingly random group of individuals has emerged with what can only be described as "special" abilities. Although unaware of it now, these individuals will not only save the world, but change it forever. This transformation from ordinary to extraordinary will not occur overnight. Every story has a beginning. Volume One of their epic tale begins here...
- Hiro Nakamura: Fine. Stay here. Be just like everyone else. I wanna boldy go where no man has gone before.
- Ando Masahashi: Hiro. Oy! That's right. You're special. You're 'Super Hiro'!
- Noah Bennet: He left everything behind but his computer. Research, the map. Yeah, let's get a team in here to bag and tag everything.
- Claire Bennet: I'm so depressed.
- Zach: What? What are you talking about? Why? I mean - I mean, besides the fact that it was so gross that I almost fudged myself, this is the single coolest thing to happen to this town, in like, a hundred years!
- Claire Bennet: Not if nobody finds out, it's not.
- Zach: Why'd you want me to tape it?
- Claire Bennet: I have my reasons.
- Zach: It's not like you're not going to be popular anymore!
- Claire Bennet: Popular? Who said anything about being popular? My life as I know it is over, okay? I've got the Bishop game next week, SATs in October, Homecoming's in three weeks from today, and I'm a freak show!
- Zach: You're being a little dramatic, don't you think?
- Claire Bennet: No! I don't think! I have busted, like, every bone in my body, stabbed myself in the chest, I've shoved a two foot steel rod through my neck, and I don't have a scratch on me!
- Peter Petrelli: I've been up here all night. Thinking about this. Thinking about my destiny.
- Nathan Petrelli: What you doing, Pete?
- Peter Petrelli: It's my turn to be somebody now, Nathan!
- Ando Masahashi: Fine, I'll humor you. Let's say you really do have this power. What do you do with it? Join the circus? No one ever got laid by stopping the second hand of a clock.
- Peter Petrelli: It happened two more times. Look, sometimes I'm falling, sometimes I'm flying - sometimes you're in them!
- Nathan Petrelli: I don't have time for this now.
- Peter Petrelli: They're not just dreams, Nathan.
- Nathan Petrelli: Hold this.
- Peter Petrelli: I thought they'd go away, but they're not!
- Nathan Petrelli: Jim, I need this back by six, please. Thanks.
- Peter Petrelli: This morning, when I got out of bed, my foot hovered before it hit the ground - hovered!
- Nathan Petrelli: [to assistant] Let me see the list.
- Peter Petrelli: For a split second, like I was - like I was floating! I'm telling you, I-I think I can fly!
- Nathan Petrelli: [hands clipboard to assistant] These all undecideds?
- [to Peter]
- Nathan Petrelli: Tell you what, you think you can fly? Why don't you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, see what happens.
- Peter Petrelli: Maybe, I ought to start with something a little lower, first, just like learning to walk.
- Nathan Petrelli: You're serious?
- Peter Petrelli: Oh, I'm serious.
- Nathan Petrelli: You need to snap out of it, Peter. See a doctor, get some drugs, but do not pull a Roger Clinton on me, man. I'm eight points down in the polls!
- Micah Sanders: I'm just working on my computer. The logic board was bad. So I had to build a new one.
- Niki Sanders: A new one. Did anyone ever tell you you're the smartest little man on the planet?
- Micah Sanders: You do. All the time.
- Peter Petrelli: Wow.
- Mohinder Suresh: Solar eclipse.
- Peter Petrelli: Yeah. Yeah, I wonder if it's gonna be total.
- Mohinder Suresh: Not here, no. In some other part of the world, yes. A global event. Makes one appreciate just how small our planet really is. And we're all quite small really, aren't we?
- Peter Petrelli: What's your name?
- Mohinder Suresh: Mohinder.
- Peter Petrelli: I'm Peter. Let me ask you something, Mohinder. Do you ever... get the feeling like you were meant to do something extraordinary?
- Mohinder Suresh: I'm driving a cab you may have noticed
- Peter Petrelli: No, I'm not talking about what you do. I'm talking about who you are. I'm talking about... being special.
- Mohinder Suresh: Yes, we are all special.
- Peter Petrelli: That's not what I meant.
- Mohinder Suresh: Some individuals, it is true, are more special. This is natural selection. It begins as a single individual born or hatched like every other member of their species. Anonymous. Seemingly ordinary. Except they're not. They carry inside them the genetic code that will take their species to the next evolutionary rung. It's destiny.
- Peter Petrelli: You didn't hear anything that I said earlier today, did you?
- Nathan Petrelli: About that bit how you can fly. Yeah I did. I'm gonna pretend for both our sakes you didn't say anything like that.
- Angela Petrelli: You, in the meantime, for all your selflessness, and sitting with dying people... What? You gonna retire on what you make?
- Peter Petrelli: Maybe I'll shoplift my socks.
- Mohinder Suresh: [about his father] I spoke to him two days ago. He was convinced someone was following him, trying to steal his research. He died because of his theories.
- Niki Sanders: [answering machine message] Hi, this is Nikki. Leave me a message.
- Micah Sanders: Mom, are you there? When are you coming to get me? I hate it here. You said you'd be back soon. Just come pick me up, okay?
- Simone Deveraux: You know, I don't know what he'd do without you - you've got a real gift.
- Peter Petrelli: I just do my job.
- Simone Deveraux: No, you're like a son to him.
- Peter Petrelli: Yeah, but that would make us like brother and sister. Might be - might be a little awkward if I ever wanted to ask you out.
- [chuckling]
- Peter Petrelli: I'm sorry. That was, uh, that was inappropriate.
- Simone Deveraux: No, it-it's sweet. It's... I'm dating somebody.
- Hiro Nakamura: You don't understand, I want to be special.
- Ando Masahashi: We are not special! We are Japanese!