"Ordinary people across the globe discover they have extraordinary abilities." "Claire searches for the answers to her powers." "I think I'm old enough for you to tell me who my real parents are." "While her father shows a darker side." " He tried to force me." " The quarterback?" "Claire is a very special girl." "Do you understand me?" "While Nathan escapes the face of evil." "Niki and her son" " are about to get a visit from her fugitive husband." " He's here!" "D.L. Hawkins is a killer." "And Peter gets a message from the future." " This is what you've been waiting for." " That will define their destiny." "The girl, you have to save her." "Save the cheerleader, save the world!" "We are all connected." "If this thing that you painted, this bomb, is true, we're all dead." "And now, Heroes continues." "Chapter Six" " Better Halves" "Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process." "A battle between what exists and what is yet to be born." "In the midst of these birth pains, morality loses its meaning." "The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice:" "survive or perish." "We have to save her." "Ignore it." "It's a wrong number." "Some Japanese guy keeps calling, leaving messages." "Hello?" "Mr. Isaac?" "Isaac Mendez?" "Who is this?" "Uh...my name is Hiro Nakamura." "My name is Peter Petrelli." "I have a message for you." "What did he say?" "He has a message for you." "What message?" "What message?" "Save the cheerleader, save the world." "Save the cheerleader, save the world." "Cheerleader?" "What cheerleader?" "Where?" "What cheerleader?" "Where?" "I don't know where she is." "Yeah, but you painted these." "So did you." "We don't know who she is." "We don't know where she is." "We just know that we need to save her." " Tell him about the guy from the future." " He is the guy from the future." "A Hiro Nakamura from the future, who speaks English and carries a sword stopped time to tell me that I have to save the cheerleader." "That's... that's all I know." "You came from the future and... told them to save the cheerleader." "And you had a sword." "I had a sword?" "Get to New York." "We'll find out where the cheerleader is." "I had a sword." "Grab that side." "We must be missing something." "Some sign of where they are." "See, these paintings, they fit together like pages in a comic book." "There's a panel missing." "What was right there?" "Nothing." "This is everything I painted last night." "But there's a piece about that size." "I painted it weeks ago." "Simone has it." "Simone." "She took a bunch of my paintings to sell." "It's with them." "What was it of?" "I don't remember." "I was high." "Then we need to get it back." "Tell her a guy from the future said you needed it." "I'm sure she'll love that." "DeeDee wants to breed Mr. Muggles with her poodle." "A poodle, for God's sake." "They call it a Pomapoo or a Pooranian." "Mr. Muggles doesn't want anything to do... with a breed that has "poo" in its name." ""No, I don't," says Mr. Muggles." "Honey, I think we left those cupcakes in too long." " Smells like something's burning." " They look okay." "I thought Mr. Muggles doesn't like poodles, anyway." "Not after what happened at the dog park." "I thought that big dog was gonna chew your hand off." "Which would've put an end to your cheerleading career." "It looked worse than it was." "And my cheerleading career is scissor-kicking off the field as we speak." "At least I'm playing my part in the bake sale." "Cupcake?" "Only a dollar for a very good cause." "Not right now, Claire Bear." "You've been on the phone for an hour." "Who you been talking to?" "Yeah, about that." "You know how you've been wanting to" " meet your biological parents?" " Yeah?" "I just got off the phone with them." "Turns out they want to meet you too, tomorrow." "Wait just a minute." "What about school?" "We can't just drop everything for these people." " Who do they think they are?" " I didn't say yes." "Nobody's dropping anything." "Unless Claire wants us to." "This doesn't have to happen now." "You don't have to do this." "Not unless... you're absolutely ready." "I'm ready." "You look beautiful, Nik." "D.L." "How the hell did you get in here?" "The police are right outside." "If I scream, they will be in here in two seconds." "Then I hope you don't scream." "You're not wearing your wedding ring." "I think that you better leave." "You being here." "Come on, that's not a good idea." " Micah doesn't need this." " Micah needs his father." "And I need my wife." "This is still my home." "I'm not going anywhere." "You can either believe me or not." "I'm going to check on our boy." " Open the door, ma'am." " I'll let you get the door." "Ma'am, please open the door." "Ma'am, we thought we heard something inside the house." "Is everything all right?" "I was, uh..." " I was just talking with my son." " Well, if you need anything, we'll be out here till tomorrow morning, okay?" "Is something wrong?" "If you want us to come inside, just nod your head." "I'm fine." "You know, God, it's just been a really long night." "Then we'll let you get back to bed, okay?" " Just remember, we're here if you need us." " Thank you." "You're welcome." "Good night." "Okay." "So tell me what happened." " I planned the job..." " I know that you planned the job." ""Baby, it's gonna solve all out problems."" " It was $2 million." "Enough to get us out of Vegas." " The money that you stole from Linderman." "And if we ran with Linderman's money, he wouldn't just kill me." "He'd kill you, Micah." "So I stepped out." "Only someone stepped in after me." "Someone who knew the plan." "Someone who killed my crew." "Oh, and they just made off with all the money?" "You have no idea who that is." "I know it was a woman." "A woman?" "There's a guy in North Vegas, cleans money." "Heard he just cleaned somebody $2 million, so I'm gonna pay him a visit tomorrow and see if I can't squeeze a name out of him." "Baby..." "Baby, don't worry." "How am I supposed to ask someone if they're a freak when they're probably just gonna lie about it like I do?" "Why don't you just ask them what happens when they cut themselves?" "Or you could just cut them and find out." "Probably just think I was all bitter because they gave me away." "You're a little bitchy sometimes, but I don't think you're all that bitter." "About the adoption thing, I mean." "I'm not." "I mean, I'm curious about it." "And it's a little weird and maybe a little sad, but I'm not mad." "I mean, I love my parents." "What if your biological parents raised you, though?" "It'd be an entirely different scenario." "What if they can do what I can do?" "What if they're like me?" "Well, I hope they're not." "No offense, but I like..." "I like that you're the freak." "It makes you more..." "special or whatever." " Are you flirting with me?" " No." "Believe me, no." "Um, look, do you plan on coming out to your parents?" "I mean, the ones who raised you?" "N o." "My dad would unspool." "He's a really simple guy." "He'd never be able to wrap his mind around something like that." "It would break him." "He's gonna find out." "What happens if we get to New York... and it explodes?" "If we get to New York... it won't explode." "That's the idea, it's the heroic journey." "It's your heroic journey." "It's our heroic journey." "You don't have to have superpowers... to be a hero." "So why didn't "future you"... come to see us?" "Why did he go to some Peter guy... in New York that we've never met?" ""Future me" was afraid of causing a rift... in the space-time continuum." "You're talking out of your ass." "You don't know how any of this works." " I know exactly how this" " Stop!" "It's the High Roller you cheated!" "I cheated?" "Quick!" "Teleport us somewhere!" "It's okay." "I just want to talk to you." "I told you." "We no cheat." " Japanese people very lucky." " I know you cheated." "I just don't know how." " Now it's time for a little payback." " Huh?" "Claire, honey, your guests are here." "Hi, I'm Lisa." "You sure you don't want me to shove 'em into something on the way out?" " So how are we gonna do this?" " We don't." "You're couching me?" "What do you think, D.L.?" "You think you can just strut back in here like nothing's ever happened?" "Do you have any idea what I've been through the last six months?" " No." " No, you don't." " I didn't want to leave you." " But you did." "It was going fine." "We were making it." "Oh, 30 grand a year doing construction." "That wasn't enough for you?" "No, Nik, it wasn't enough for me because that business doesn't fly when you have a family." "When you left, I became another person." "I don't care that you took off your clothes on the Internet." "I'm not mad about it." "Look, you did what you had to do." "Look, you can stay here tonight." "But you need to leave in the morning." "If that's what you want." "Come to bed." "We've won enough." "We need to leave, our mission awaits." "We still owe him more, we can't leave yet." "Give them good cards, but not too good." "Hey, Japanese guy, you in or not?" "I'm in." "So what's your system, huh, pal?" "Some ancient Oriental voodoo?" "No system." "Japanese people very lucky." "Japanese people better run out of luck soon." " I'm starting to think I'm getting hustled." " Easy, Ernie." "It's a friendly game." "No one's getting hustled." "No hustle." "Only good fortune." "Well, let's go." "I'm in for $400." "I will bet... $1,000." "Sorry." "Beg pardon." " We must use bathroom." " Now?" "We're in the middle of a hand." "Sorry." "Must go now." "Too much beer." "You guys go to the bathroom together?" "Yes." "It is how we roll." "I don't need to pee." "They're going to kill us!" "What?" "The man with the scary face... has a gun under the table pointed at me." "A gun?" " Hey, who invited her?" " What should we do?" "We?" "No." "You." "You need to get us out of here now." "What's that?" "What are you doing?" "I need to stop it." "I couldn't save them." "I just hid in here." "A hero doesn't hide..." "He does if he wants to live." "We need to get out of here." "Before whoever did this comes back." "Your hair is getting so long." " It's a mess." " I like it." "Reminds me of when we first met." "God, we were kids." "It was fly." "Oh, you should get some sleep." "You didn't get much last night." " I slept as much as you did." " Uh-uh." "I heard you getting up." "Trying to be all quiet." "I did?" "When?" "What's wrong, baby?" "Dad?" "Oh!" "I missed you." "I missed you, too." "I guess the flying Petrelli didn't fly." "We were on the train together, then suddenly he started carrying on about a mysterious traveler who stopped time and told him to save a cheerleader." "It was all very fascinating." "I should write a paper on the experience." "Maybe you provoked him with sarcasm." "Peter Petrelli went from steady as a clam to, as you say, crap-house rat in a blink." "No provocation whatsoever." "Except maybe from a time traveler." " You'd like that, wouldn't you?" " Yeah, well, so would you." "Did I tell you that the man who paints the future is a heroin addict?" " Did you see any of the paintings?" " I didn't see him." "After what I witnessed on the train, I doubt he even exists." "Now what?" "You just take Papa Suresh back to India?" "Just get on a plane and that's it." "Yes, that's exactly it." "And what about Mohinder?" "We were no good for each other anyway." "Thank you, Eden." "For all that you've done." "For both me and my father." "You're welcome." "You know, you can go back and scatter those ashes, but you're always gonna wonder if maybe there was something to what your father was doing if you just looked again." " Will I?" " Oh, yeah." "You're not done here." "That's why I'm not even gonna say good-bye." "Good-bye, Eden." "See you later." "Like I said... see you later." "You're still reading these, huh?" "Remember all those comics my granddad used to have." "Tales From the Crypt." "Vault of Doom." "Ooh!" "9th Wonders!" "Told you not to read them, but you had to do it anyway." "Scared you silly." "I am Luru the Invincible!" "I'm sorry for not being around." "How's your mom?" " How's she doing?" " Okay." "You're looking after her, right?" "'Cause you're the man of the house when I'm not around." "I know." "I'm trying." "Dad..." "How'd you get out of jail?" "Between you and me..." "I walked out." "Out of prison?" "How'd you do it?" " Ain't no jail can hold your old man." " Why not?" "'Cause I got a secret." " Like Superman?" " Yeah." "Just like Superman." "Got a bunch more comics." "Want to see?" "Big Daddy, go get 'em." "It's gonna crush him when you run again." "There won't be any more running." "Not after today." "This is not just gonna go away." "It will when I get that woman's name." "I guess I could hunker down in your backseat, and you could give me a lift." "Every cop in Vegas is looking for me." "So you want me to take that risk." "I want you to hear that I was set up from the horse's mouth." "I know you, Nik." "You're starting to believe me because I'm standing here staring you in the face." "But once I'm out of your sight, you're gonna start to wonder." "And I don't ever want you to wonder about me again." "She has your mouth and your nose, doesn't she?" "Yeah, it looks like it, doesn't it." "I wonder what else of yours I have." "Can I get anybody anything to drink?" "Lemonade, just made a pitcher from scratch." "We have sodas, iced tea." "We have cupcakes, don't we, Claire?" "Just made 'em last night." "The two of us." "Sort of a thing we do." " I would love some lemonade, thank you." " Me too." " Claire?" " Yes, please." "Three lemonades coming right up." "So, what can we tell you about ourselves?" "I don't see a welcome mat." "It's all right." "I know these guys." "We used to get stuff done for Linderman." "Wasn't that locked?" "Guess not." "Come on." "Maybe they moved." "They didn't move." "Go back to the car." "Go back to the car now." "Come on, let's get out of here." "Come on." " Come on." "Come on!" " No!" "Oh, uh, we're not together anymore." "As high school sweethearts, we didn't even make it to graduation." "Once Lisa got pregnant, it was over." "He wanted to keep the baby." "You." "And I didn't." "You probably think I'm a bad person for giving you up." "No, I don't think that." "This is so awkward I've got lip sweat." "Should you be eavesdropping?" " Yes." " Oh, I guess." "What else are we gonna do?" "So is there anything I should know?" "Like, medically." "Anything weird or out of the ordinary." "Well, there is something." "I have diabetes." "Diabetes." "All you gotta worry about from my side of the family is a history of cancer and heart disease." "Great." "Sorry!" "Sorry." "Hello." "Yeah." "Yes, how are you?" "Hold on a second." "It's work." " Yeah, go ahead." " Suresh just left for India." "Then stop him." "I tried." "We both know you can try harder." "He's already gone." "But he'll be back." "What about Peter Petrelli?" "He claims he can fly, but I don't have confirmation." "Also, there may have been an encounter with somebody who can stop time." "Really?" "That's cool." "Evidentially he had a message for Petrelli." "He told him to save the cheerleader." " Are you still there?" " Yeah." "Thanks for the update." "So what do you want me to do with the precog?" "Bring him in." "I've never seen anything like that." "I have." " In the garage." " In the garage?" "After you left," "I borrowed money from Linderman." " How much?" " 30." "I got behind on the rent." "Micah's tuition." "I didn't know what else to do." "I'm sorry." "When didn't I pay Linderman back in time, he sent two guys to collect." "It got physical." "I got knocked out." "When I woke up, they were dead." "And it looked like what we saw today." " What, they were torn apart?" " Uh-huh." "I have gone over it a thousand times in my head." "I didn't see anything." "Anyone." "I was the only person there." "It was me." "Nik, look at me." " You did not do this." " What if I did?" "W-what if I got up in the middle of the night and I went..." "Baby, you are being played." "Whoever set me up set you up, and they're making damn sure I can't clear my name." " I don't..." " But the one thing they're not counting on... is us." "Us?" "Mom, have you seen my backpack?" "Did you leave it at Tina's?" "No, I had it when I came home." "Okay, honey, will you just give me another minute?" "We need to tell the police." "They'll never believe us." "The only way I can clear my name is to find the person that did this myself." "Okay, it's been a minute." "I'll come help you." "Micah." " Micah, where'd you get that?" " Get what?" "Your backpack." "You just gave it to me." "I did?" "Yeah, Mom, you were just in here two minutes ago." "You told me to pack some clothes and that we were going to Grandma's house." " Mom, are you okay?" " No." "No, you know what?" "I just..." "I need to go lay down." "I'm not feeling well." "God... what's happening to me?" "No!" "You need to pull yourself together." " You're not real." " Oh, I am as real as you are." "No." "No, I have a tumor or something." " This is..." " Poor little crazy girl." "A hallucination." "Is that what you think you are?" "Oh, we're a lot of things, Niki, but we're not crazy." "Micah, where's Mom?" "She's in her bedroom." "She didn't feel good." "Yeah." "Yeah, she's had a hard day." "What do you think D.L. is gonna do when he finds out what we've done?" "What we've done?" "Are you and Mom gonna get back together?" "Most of the time... in relationships, when somebody makes a mistake, the other person just pretends it didn't happen." "But when someone thinks you made a mistake and you didn't, it..." "It just gets a lot more complicated." "We framed him." "We killed his crew." "Stole $2 million." "We killed those thugs in the garage." "Killed those little bitches at the poker game." " We've been very busy." " Those men were ripped apart." "Yeah, well..." "What can I say?" " But they didn't do anything to me." " Leaving witnesses would be sloppy." "I did what had to be done." "Like I always do." "Are you getting back together or not?" "I don't know." "I hope so." "And this is what we're gonna do now." "You're gonna get the money, and you're going to take Micah as far away from D.L. as you can." " I'll do the rest." " D.L. can take care of me." " I don't need you." " Niki..." "He'll think you're crazy." "And then he'll take Micah away from us." "He'll put it all together, and when he does... it's really only a question of whether he kills you before he leaves." "Dad, you know how you have a secret?" "Mm-hmm." "Mom has a secret too." "So you have a choice." "You can let D.L. take our son away from us forever, or... you can do exactly what I say." "Where's the money?" "Good choice." "I should have saved them." "You'd have been killed." "I've been given a gift, Ando." "I'm supposed to use it to help people." "To save people." "I failed." "You're being too hard on yourself." "Maybe I'm not the hero I thought I was." "Every hero is on a journey to find his place in the world." "But it's a journey." "You don't start at the end." "Otherwise, they can't make a movie about it later." "What if I'm on the wrong path?" "What if I was supposed to save those people?" "You can bend time and space." "Maybe when you can do it better... you can come back here and fix things." "Like a do-over?" "Exactly." "A do-over." "I like that." "Where's your father?" "I mean, not your biological father, but, you know, your dad." "He's walking out the bio-parents." "Is that what you're calling them, the bio-parents?" "Oh, that's so cold and impersonal." "And fitting." "Thanks again for coming out." "I know your visit meant a lot to Claire." "When I was her age, I had enough weighing on my head." "I'm glad I could help." "Thanks." "Thank you." "I think that went pretty well." "Yeah." "If there's anything else you need..." "I'll keep you posted." "Was it what you were hoping for?" "Not really." "I mean, I don't know what I was hoping for." "I guess I just wanted them to tell me who I am." "They don't know any better than I do." "Baby, nobody can tell you who you are." "That's just something you gotta figure out for yourself." "Can we throw these away?" " Are they burnt?" " No." "I'm just afraid I'll eat 'em all if we don't." "You know, I have to hand it to your dad." "This isn't the first time we've tried to find those bio-parents." " It's not?" " Un-uh." "When you were a baby... we thought you had something wrong with your chromosomes." "Some disease." "We needed to screen your parents to see if they were carriers." "I was scared to death, and they were nowhere to be found." "What kind of disease?" "How did you know there was something wrong with me?" "Nothing was wrong with you." "You were fine." "It's just, I don't know, one of those things." "Of what things?" "Was I doing anything abnormal?" "You had a cough, Claire." "Don't turn hypochondriac on me." "Your brother's bad enough." "Mwah!" "Come on, you." "Come on." "So..." "Was that as scary for you as it was for me?" "You're a very brave man, Dad." "Oh, God." "All this time." "I can explain." "You played me for a fool." "Set me up." "No, I can explain everything." "I know..." "I know what this looks like." " I loved you, Niki." " No, there is this other person." "I can't control it." "I don't know what's happening to me." "I'm taking Micah." "And I'm taking the money." "Good-bye, Niki." "You're not taking anything." " Mom, is everything okay?" " Everything's fine." "Your dad and I are just moving furniture." "Go to your room." "So this is how you got out of jail." "Mom?" "Isaac Mendez?" "Who are you?" "I'm an admirer of your work." "May I come in?" "Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process." "Morality loses its meaning." "The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice:" "Survive or Perish."