Heroes, Season 3 (Volume 3: Villains)

(Claire opens the door to her room and finds Sylar standing there)

Sylar:
Hello, Claire.

(Claire stares at Sylar in fear)

Sylar:
I bet you're wondering where I've been since you saw me last, huh?

(Claire backs up)

Sylar:
Let's just say I took a little...detour from my career path. Spent a little time south of the border. But...that's all behind me now like a long night after a bad taco.

Claire:
(in disbelief) No. I saw Hiro Nakamura kill you. I was there.

Sylar:
And yet, here I am. Fully recovered. Well...not fully. That's actually why I've come.

Claire:
What do you want from me?

Sylar:
The same thing I did last time I came for you. I want what you have, Claire. I want your power.

Claire:
Are you going to eat it?

Sylar:
(leans in, whispering,) Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting.

Claire:
Wait! What about me? Aren't you going to kill me?

Sylar:
Poor girl. There's so much about yourself you don't even understand. Your brain is not like the others, Claire. You are not like the others. You're different. You're special. I couldn't kill you even if I wanted to. You can never die. And now, I guess...neither can I.

T.V. Reporter:
Mr. Petrelli, earlier today you were about to make a statement, you had a message to deliver, are you ready to do that now?

Nathan:
God is the only one with a message it's a message of hope and urgency cause he's not going to wait much longer. His message is a simple one: we are all connected. Our hopes, our dreams, our children's future reflect back in each others' eyes. We fight our own personal battles, but we know we're not alone because only together can we make our short time on this planet mean something. Only together can we be the stewards of our own destiny. And we hold in our collective hearts one noble goal; save ourselves, save the world.

[Daphne suddenly moves even after Hiro freezes time]

Daphne:
How are you doing this? Are you a speedster too?

Hiro:
Speedster? No, I'm Hiro Nakamura. I stop time.

Daphne:
I got news. You don't stop it completely, or we're not having this conversation.

Hiro:
So you move fast?

Daphne:
Not fast. I move really fast.

Hiro:
Well, you stole something from me.

Daphne:
You mean this? [shows stolen formula]

Hiro:
Give it--

Daphne:
This whole time-stopping thing, how does it work exactly? I mean, if you chase me to Bangkok, will time stay frozen here in Tokyo?

Hiro:
I don't know.

Daphne:
Well...Something to think about when you get back on your feet.

Hiro:
But I am on my feet.

Daphne:
[Daphne punches Hiro, unfreezing time] Gotta go.

Angela:
You don't screw with time.

Matt:
Your cell. I gotta use your cell, I gotta call home.

Usutu:
No service here. Should have gone with Sprint.

Sylar:
(Noah shoots him six times. Sylar lies beside the wall, while the bullets all get ejected from his body.) Ouch. I got that from your Claire

Noah:
You son of a bitch!

Sylar:
You are not my mother

Angela:
But I am dear. I am.

Noah:
They're villains, Claire.

Future Peter:
Where is he?! Where'd they go?

Angela:
Escaped.

Future Peter:
No. That's not possible. That never happened.

Angela:
It's the butterfly effect, Peter. Just like I told you.

Future Peter:
I put him here to keep him safe. I put him in the body of the guy in THAT CELL. RIGHT THERE!!

Angela:
Jesse? You're gonna figure out where my son is and you are gonna bring him back here. You understand me?

[ Future Peter walks off]

Angela:
AND GO THE HELL BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

Sylar:
[After impersonating an FBI agent and ordering some local cops around, including an order for decaf coffee] You drink decaf, right Noah?

Hiro:
What are you doing?

Ando:
I'm being awesome!

Hiro:
Nemesis!

Daphne:
Stop calling me that. My name is Daphne.

Daphne:
There's supposed to be some sort of exchange going down at this theater and I'm waiting to intercept

Hiro:
You're telling us your plan? What kind of overconfident nemesis are you?

Daphne:
You're 0 for 2 against me, pikachu.That's just regular confidence.

Hiro:
Pikachu? We will find the other half of the formula before you and we will save the world.

Daphne:
Yeah. Good luck with that.

Tracy:
You called me Niki Sanders yesterday. Then...a reporter shows me this. [Shows video of Jessica and Nathan] Last year at the Corinthian hotel in Las Vegas. Just tell me who the hell she is.

Nathan:
I still kinda think that's you. I'm just waiting for this all to make sense.

Tracy:
It's not me. Look, I'm trying to find her. Talk to her. All I can get is an address in New Orleans. Tell me what you know about her.

Nathan:
You're really not Niki Sanders?

Tracy:
I need to go to New Orleans.

Daphne:
Domo arigato. That's all the Japanese I know.

Meredith:
All right, we'll start at the beginning. Survival.

Claire:
I've already mastered survival. I need to learn how to fight.

Meredith:
There are some things you can't fight, Claire. [manifests her power and begins heating up the metal box]

[Meredith is using her power to use up all the oxygen in the metal box that she and Claire are in]

Claire:
What's this supposed to prove? I've walked through fire before and I haven't gotten burned.

Meredith:
You've never been burned?

Claire:
I'm indestructible. I can't feel pain.

Meredith:
You ever suffocate? 'Cause I would imagine the air is getting pretty thin in here.

Claire:
Why are you doing this?

Meredith:
Why do you wanna stop bad guys?

Claire:
I told you. To help people.

Meredith:
That's what you keep saying. But I don't believe you. Do you know what waterboarding is, Claire?

Claire:
No.

Meredith:
It's a method of torture. You're not drowning but your body tells your mind that you are. You think you're gonna die. Trapped, you panic. Trapped. Does that remind you of anything?

Claire:
Stop it! Turn it off!

Meredith:
Is this how it was with Sylar, huh? You're indestructible but you couldn't get away, right? Well, that must have made you feel trapped. Helpless.

Claire:
Please stop! I can't--

Meredith:
Why do you wanna stop bad guys?

Claire:
To help people!

Meredith:
I don't believe you. You tell me why!

Claire:
To hurt him, okay! To hurt him for what he did! Like he hurt me!

Tracy:
Do you know me?

Dr. Zimmerman:
Know you? I created you.

Sandra:
School just called. Claire didn't show up today. You know anything about that?

Meredith:
Oh, I'm sorry. I just thought that since--

Sandra:
You don't get to do that - think about Claire. That's me. Not you. I'm the one who's been here. Changed her diapers, checked her spelling. Me, not you.

Meredith:
Sandra, I'm not trying to--

Sandra:
Do you think this is a game? She just got attacked. Hurt.

Meredith:
Yeah, that's right and she's looking to push back. And there's nothing you can do stop that. In fact, smothering her, that's the best way to drive her away real quick.

Sandra:
Don't you ever assume to know anything about me and my daughter.

Meredith:
I just did what I thought was best to keep her here. Safe.

Future Peter:
I've stepped one too many butterflies.

(Hiro and Ando have just dug Adam Monroe out of his grave)

Adam:
(grabs Hiro's neck) Hiro, you son of a bi- (episode ends)

Future Claire:
200,000 people died in Costa Verde. I want you to feel the pain of every...single death.

(She cuts Peter's chest with the scalpel. He groans in pain):

Future Claire:
That's one.

Hiro:
We are searching for a formula that...

Adam:
A formula? I knew it'd come back to bite them in the ass one day. Even I told them to destroy it.

Ando:
So you know who would steal it?

Adam:
Maybe... If I tell you, what's in it for me?

Hiro:
When we have finished our mission, I promise to put you in a most spacious cell.

Ando:
With a window!

Hiro:
And a vent.

Adam:
Forget it.

Hiro:
Okay, back you go (Squeezes eyes to bend time)

Adam:
Wait! (frustrated) You little Japanese Nazi! Let me think! Let's see, off the top of my head, I'd say your villain is Angela Petrelli.

Hiro:
She's the one who asked us to find the formula.

Adam:
I see. Well then, I'm fresh out of ideas.

Nathan:
If God didn't give us these powers, then who did?

Tracy:
A doctor in Reseda, California.

Peter:
I know exactly what I am doing. What other secrets are you hiding from me mother? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS! Or I'll rip open your head and I'll take them out myself.

Hiro:
We are badasses now.

Ando:
Yes, we are very badass.

Sandra:
Claire! Thank God. I was so worried. Are you okay? Because if you are, you are so grounded!

Stephen Canfield:
I won't be a monster!

Hiro:
Now you know what it's like to be killed by your best friend.

Ando:
Okay, now we're even.

Matt:
High five, turtle

Peter:
[To Sylar]You're too weak to stop me. [He punches him and Sylar falls to the floor.] I know how it feels now. [He lands another blow.] And with all this power- [Another punch. He bends down and pulls Sylar's face close to his so their noses touch.] -I'm the most special! [He knocks Sylar out.]

Arthur:
The bad guys are here.

Arthur:
You don't have your abilities anymore, Peter...because I have them now.

Lyle:
The bitch is back. (reference to Veronica Mars finale.)

Peter:
I'm gonna make you pay for everything you've ever done!!!

Arthur:
Son... until you change that attitude... you're grounded!

Mohinder:
What could possibly drive a father to put his children through such grief?

Arthur:
Have you ever met their mother?

Linderman:
So, Nathan, are the rumors true?

Nathan:
Excuse me?

Linderman:
I heard your office is about to launch a full-scale investigation into all things Linderman. Care to comment?

Nathan:
I'd shave my wrists. Handcuffs chafe.

Meredith:
They're trickin' you because you're dumb! You know what Daddy used to say; "God gave you a big sister instead of a brain".

Arthur:
You're my wife, Angela. I know you like I know my own heart.

Angela:
Really? So what am I gonna do now? Am I gonna kiss you, or am I gonna kill you?

Mohinder:
A child is born to innocence. A child is drawn towards good. Why then do so many among us go so horribly wrong? What makes some walk the path of darkness while others choose the light? Is it will, is it destiny? Can we ever hope to understand the force that shapes the soul? To fight evil, one must know evil. One must journey back through time and find that fork in the road, where heroes turn one way and villains turn another.

Arthur:
It's Coming

Sylar:
Empathy? What makes you think I'm capable of that?

Mohinder:
There is a moment in every war where everything changes. A moment when the road bends. Alliances and battle lines shift. And the rules of engagement are rewritten. Moments like these can change the nature of the battle, and turn the tide for either side. So we do what we can to understand them. To be ready for change, we steady our hearts, curb our fears, muster our forces, and look for signs in the stars. But these moments, these game changers, remain a mystery. Destiny's invisible hand, moving pieces on a chessboard. No matter how much we prepare for them - how much we resist the change, anticipate the moment, fight the inevitable outcome - in the end, we are never truly ready when it strikes.

Elle:
We can't take what we want anymore.

Sylar:
[Stares at Elle hungrily.] Says who?

[The pair dramatically kiss as the camera pans out to reveal a sniper.]

Noah:
That's right, run! I want you to be scared! Just like Claire was!

Sylar:
[Whilst attacking Sue Landers; he is about to slice her head open.] Don't worry. It won't hurt a bit. [Sue uses her ability to see he is lying. He shrugs.] Got me. That's a lie.

[He kills Sue and leans over her on the floor.]

Sylar:
I almost forgot how good this feels...

[Sue's friends burst into her office with balloons and gifts.]

Friends:
Happy Birthday!

[They see Sylar kneeling on the floor by Sue's corpse, covered in blood. He turns to them.]

Sylar:
Cake!

[We later see Sylar enter an elevator. He is covered in blood; his arms, his shirt are both soaked. The office worker looks at him with bulging eyes, and Sylar turns to him.]

Sylar:
Something wrong?

Worker:
...No. No. Not at all. [He shifts away slowly. Sylar nods.]

Sylar:
Huh. It does kind of tingle.

[Peter has a gun levelled at Arthur, and The Haitian is struggling to hold his power back while he waits for Peter to kill him.]

Arthur:
That's your problem son. Too much thinking not enough action. How could you be my son-

[Arthur uses telekinesis to slash a cut in Peter's cheek; Peter fires; the bullet is left hovering in mid-air. They all turn to see Sylar enter the room.]

Sylar:
[opening voiceover]] On the sixth day, God created Man in His own image, now it's up to us to figure it all out. Right...wrong...good...evil...in each of us is the capacity to decide what drives our actions. So what is it, then, that makes some choose selflessness, the need to devote oneself to something greater, while others know only self-interest? Isolating themselves in a world of their own making? Some seek love, even if only unrequited, while others are driven by fear and betrayal. There are those who see their choices as dark proof of God's absence while others follow a path of noble destiny. But in the end, good, evil, right or wrong...what we choose is never what we really need. For that is the ultimate cosmic joke, the real gift that God has left behind.

Flint:
I don't give a rat's ass about your brother. Or you.

Mohinder Suresh:
[ending voiceover] There is good, and there is evil. Right, and wrong. Heroes and villains. And if we are blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each where light streams through. We wait in silence for these times, when sense can be made. When meaningless existence comes into focus, and our purpose presents itself. And if we have the strength to be honest, and what we find there, staring back at us, is our own reflection. Bearing witness to the duality of life. And each one of us is capable of both the dark, and the light.. the good and evil, of either, of all. And destiny, while marching ever in our direction can be rerouted by the choices we make. By the love we hold on to, and the promises we keep.

(Sylar is holding Claire up against a wall)

Claire:
Where's Angela?

Sylar:
Well, you wouldn't pick before so, I had to up the stakes. Save Daddy. Or is it Granny?

Claire:
Let me go!

Sylar:
Why are you even pretending? We both know you're going after your dad. Even after all the lies he's told you. How he's neglected you. What does that say about you, Claire?

(Claire stares at Sylar)

Sylar:
That's the thing about the truth, Claire. It stings like a bitch.

Claire:
I cant believe you didnt tell me!

Angela:
Sorry Claire I've always found it easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission