Heroes (TV Series)

Chapter Three 'One Giant Leap' (2006)

Hayden Panettiere: Claire Bennet

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Quotes 

• Jackie Wilcox : I love your glasses, Mr. Bennet!

  Mr. Bennet : Well thank you, Jackie. Rumor has it you're a local hero. Pulled a man out of a burning train car.

  Jackie Wilcox : You heard about that? O.M.G., does everybody know?

  Claire Bennet : It was on the news. You told half the school to set their Tivo's.

  Jackie Wilcox : It's gonna be the cornerstone of my campaign for class president. I'm running on a platform of moral, mental, and social advancement through good deeds. What do you think?

  [walks away] 

  Claire Bennet : I think I need to get something out of my locker.

• Zach : Claire. What are you doing running off to an away game? That tape with all your attempts at bodily harm is still missing.

  Claire Bennet : Yeah, well, if someone finds it, we'll just tell 'em you're some visual effects geek who did it with his computer. Now, can I get back to my life, please?

• Zach : So that's it? You're-you're just gonna go just pump your pom-poms and pretend you're no different than any other girl on the squad?

  Claire Bennet : Yes, actually.

  Zach : But you are, Claire! You are different. Don't you see that? Don't you see that none of this matters? School spirit doesn't matter. Being-being a-a pretty blonde cheerleader doesn't matter. It's not who you are anymore.

  Claire Bennet : Who am I? So what, I can crawl through a woodchipper and live to tell about it. That narrows my choices in life to freak or guinea pig, in most cases both. What's wrong with wanting to be normal? You should try it.

• Brody Mitchum : Jackie told me you wanna meet your real mom and dad.

  Claire Bennet : I told Jackie that in confidence.

  Brody Mitchum : You do realize you were talking to Jackie, right? Is that why you're bummed? The whole adoption thing? I mean, you didn't like just find out, did you?

  Claire Bennet : Oh, no. No, no, no. They told me when I was really little. Why would you think I'm bummed?

  Brody Mitchum : You don't seem like yourself. Thought maybe something was wrong.

  Claire Bennet : You don't know me well enough to know when I'm not being myself.

  Brody Mitchum : You never drink plain milk. It's always chocolate. You draw mermaids in the margins of your notebook, you put crackers in your sandwiches to make them crunch, and you're usually the first person to laugh at a joke. But I haven't heard you laugh in a while. Lately you seem sort of sad.

  Claire Bennet : Have you been spying on me?

  Brody Mitchum : Claire, my goal tonight is to hear you laugh.

  [Claire's dummy explodes] 

  Claire Bennet : Did you put firecrackers in his head just for me?

• [last lines] 

  Mohinder Suresh : [voiceover]  This force, evolution, is not sentimental. Like the earth itself, it knows only the hard facts of life's struggle with death. All you can do is hope and trust that when you have served its needs faithfully, there may still remain some glimmer of the life you once knew.

  Claire Bennet : Holy sh...

• Brody Mitchum : You're gonna hurt yourself.

  Claire Bennet : No! No, stop it! What are you doing? No!

  Brody Mitchum : This is gonna happen.

  Claire Bennet : Get off of me!

  Brody Mitchum : Don't be a bitch! Let it happen.

  Claire Bennet : No, please!

  [he pushes her and her head gets stabbed by a branch] 

  Brody Mitchum : Claire! Claire!

• Mr. Bennett : So is that the quarterback?

  Claire Bennet : Who?

  Mr. Bennett : The boy that you like right over there.

  Claire Bennet : I don't "like" him. I mean he's a very nice boy, but... Yes, he's the quarterback.

  Mr. Bennett : You really wanted to make me happy, you'd only date nerds. Well it worked out very well for your mother.