- Peter Petrelli: [punches Nathan in the face] You son of a bitch!
- Nathan Petrelli: Let him go. Easy, Pete. That's our mother you're talking about.
- Niki Sanders: I want you out of my son's life.
- Paulette Hawkins: Yeah, well, people in hell want ice water doesn't mean they're going to get it.
- 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.
- Nathan Petrelli: [Nathan is picking out a tie] What do you think? Red or blue?
- Peter Petrelli: I don't know. Blue?
- Nathan Petrelli: I'm gonna go red. The president wears red.
- Peter Petrelli: Listen, I-I tried it again.
- Nathan Petrelli: Tried what?
- Peter Petrelli: What do you mean what? What do you think that I mean? I-I tried to fly.
- Nathan Petrelli: Would you keep your voice down?
- Peter Petrelli: You were there. Last night I could fly. This morning, nothing. I nearly broke my neck trying.
- Nathan Petrelli: Well, that would have solved one of our problems.
- 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.
- [first lines]
- Mohinder Suresh: [voiceover] When evolution selects its agents, it does so at a cost. It makes demands in exchange for singularity. And you may be asked to do something against your very nature. Suddenly, the change in your life that should have been wonderful, comes as a betrayal. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation. Survival.
- Hiro Nakamura: Ando!
- Ando Masahashi: Where have you been the last two days?
- Hiro Nakamura: I teleported myself into the future!
- Ando Masahashi: Haven't we been over all this?
- Hiro Nakamura: Then explain this.
- [shows Ando the comic book]
- Hiro Nakamura: It tells the whole story of my heroic journey.
- Ando Masahashi: Is this how you spend your time?
- Hiro Nakamura: Read it! I'm on the subway in Japan.
- Mohinder Suresh: My father only cared about proving he was right. He left his country, his family, chasing this insanity. And now I'm wasting my life trying to prove him sane.
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: Can you tell me what I'm thinking?
- Matt Parkman: No. I really can't control this. It just sorta happens.
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: Give it a shot, Karnack. I'm wide open.
- Simone Deveaux: I found all your junk. The drugs, all of it. I flushed everything.
- Isaac Mendez: How am I supposed to paint the future?
- Simone Deveaux: Nobody can paint the future! That's the drugs talking.
- Isaac Mendez: I don't want to lose you, Simone. But if you don't believe in me, then you shouldn't be here.
- Simone Deveaux: Fine. You think you can paint the future. Paint one without me in it.
- Ando Masahashi: Who are you calling?
- Hiro Nakamura: The comic book author. To warn him about the future. He keeps hanging up on me.
- Ando Masahashi: That's because you're crazy. I'd hang up on you too, if I could.
- Hiro Nakamura: A young girl dressed in a school uniform will step in front of a speeding truck. And we have to save her. See?
- Matt Parkman: You want to tell me why I'm still here, or am I just gonna follow you around?
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: We need you to talk to her. Find out what she knows.
- Matt Parkman: Talk to who?
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: Molly Walker. The little girl you found. We're keeping her here where it's safe until we can figure out what to do with her. She's been through a severe trauma. Both parents murdered right in front of her. She hasn't said a word since we brought her here.
- Matt Parkman: What makes you think she's gonna talk to me?
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: Well, if you're really a mind reader, she won't need to.
- Ando Masahashi: I'm confused. You said you called me when you went in the future.
- Hiro Nakamura: Yeah. So?
- Ando Masahashi: So, shouldn't I be at home waiting for your call?
- Hiro Nakamura: We're changing the future. By taking action, we've changed something.
- Ando Masahashi: What if we make it worse? And if there's going to be a nuclear explosion, shouldn't we be flying away from the bomb?
- Hiro Nakamura: A hero doesn't run away from his destiny. My only concern is whether I need to hide my true identity. Perhaps a costume?
- Ando Masahashi: You even mention tights and a cape, I'm going home.
- Peter Petrelli: [to Simone] Look, the truth is, I've been trying to save the world, one person at a time, but, I'm meant for something bigger. Something important. I know it now.
- 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?
- Peter Petrelli: To destiny.
- Simone Deveaux: Mmm.
- Peter Petrelli: May we recognize it when we see it.
- Simone Deveaux: To love. May we stay away from it when it's no good for us. You know earlier today, when you were telling me how you'd changed?
- Peter Petrelli: Yeah.
- Simone Deveaux: I noticed it. There's just something different. It's like a look in your eye. A confidence.
- Peter Petrelli: There's something I should tell you. Something, uh... I didn't think was right to say when I still worked for your father. Something I wouldn't have even said to you two days ago. I've been in love with you since the minute I first laid eyes on you.
- Nathan Petrelli: As many of you might have read, my brother Peter had an accident. But what I've kept from the press thus far is that, Peter barely survived a suicide attempt. My first instinct was to keep his illness hidden but no one should suffer alone because we are all connected somehow. Everyone in this room. You, me, everyone in this city. And we need to look out for each other.
- Ando Masahashi: [about a car] Suppose she doesn't have that exact car?
- Car Rental Girl: You're in luck. We have one left.
- Hiro Nakamura: [holds up keys to car] It's our destiny.
- Eden McCain: Well, this is macaroni and cheese. It's what Americans eat when they want to commit suicide slowly.
- [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!
- Micah Sanders: Why don't you believe that Dad's innocent? I mean, you should be trying to help him.
- Niki Sanders: I know that you wanna believe in your father. But I know what's best, Micah. They're gonna catch him and he's gonna go away for a long time.
- Micah Sanders: They'll never find him.
- Niki Sanders: How do you know that? Micah, do you know where he is?
- [a uniform cop approaches]
- Niki Sanders: It's okay. Is there a problem, Officer?
- Uniform Cop: Mr. Lindeman wants to see you.
- 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.
- Matt Parkman: I don't know how else to explain this. I heard a little girl call for help. I went to her. That's all that happened.
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: So you just waltzed right in, found a kid hiding in a wall, then pulled the name Sylar out of your ass, when only a handful of us know that name.
- Matt Parkman: It was like someone was talking to me, except it was in my head.
- FBI Agent Audrey Hanson: The voices tell you anything else? They want you to do things? Rob a store? Kill the President?
- Hiro Nakamura: Suddenly, I'm in New York! Five weeks in the future!
- Ando Masahashi: Been hitting the sake?
- Hiro Nakamura: I found the book's author, but he was dead! Then there's a nuclear explosion. Ka-boom! It all happens in five weeks, and you and I have to stop it!
- Ando Masahashi: Definitely the sake.
- Hiro Nakamura: Look, you're in it too!