Nathan Petrelli quotes from Heroes

Peter

What happened?

Nathan

You don't remember?

Peter

No.

Nathan

You jumped, Pete.

Peter

Jumped?

Nathan

Off the roof of a fifteen story building. You tried to kill yourself.You were a little wound up yesterday, but I thought you were just you being you.

Peter

What are you talking about? I didn't try to kill myself. You were in the alley below. I jumped, and you... you flew.

Nathan

I what?

Peter

You flew up and you caught me.

Nathan

You jumped, Peter, twenty five feet to a fire escape. I climbed up and carried you down. That's what happened. The rest is just crazy talk. You understand?

Peter

[standing on the roof, preparing to jump]: Tell me what happened, Nathan. When I jumped.Tell me you flew. I wanna hear you say that you flew. Tell me or I jump again.

Peter

Good luck on your campaign when I'm splattered all over the ground below.

Nathan

All right. You want the truth?

Peter

Yeah.

Nathan

We both flew, Pete. I caught you and I lost control. You were too heavy. We both started falling to the ground and just before we... just before we hit, you flew. You.

Peter

[incredulous]: Are you lying to me?

Peter

You are.

Peter

You're tryin' telling me what you think I wanna hear. You're lying to me, again!

Peter

Did you see that? Did you see that? That- I flew!

Nathan

I know, I know.

Peter

Listen, I-I tried it again

Nathan

Tried what?

Peter

What do you mean what? What do you think that I mean? I-I tried to fly.

Nathan

Would you keep your voice down?

Peter

You were there. Last night I could fly. This morning, nothing. I nearly broke my neck trying.

Nathan

Well, that would have solved one of our problems.

Nathan

You have any kids?

That's another question

Nathan

Right

One. Boy Genius.

Nathan

Boy?

Boy

Nathan

I've got two boys. Not geniuses, just boys.

Peter

... I-I think he was trying to read my mind. They were all like us!

Nathan

Dysfunctional?

Hiro

Mr. Isaac bad news, sword not there. Original owned by a man named Linderman.

Nathan

[coming out from behind a painting] Did he say Linderman?!

Hiro

[after spotting Nathan] Flying Man!

Hiro

The bomb, it come from the street, destroys everything, everything turn into dust, poof!

Nathan

Your English is a lot better.

Hiro

I met a waitress in Texas.

Nathan

Hmm?

Hiro

She teach me many things.

Nathan

Good for you.

Hiro

[in broken English] You will help too!

Nathan

Me? What makes you so sure?

Hiro

You're flying man! Woooooosh!

Nathan

Shh! Will you keep it down?

Hiro

[quietly] Whoooosh.

Hiro

Dunno probably bad guy.

Nathan

Bad guy?

Hiro

Yes. Like billain.

Nathan

What's that..?

Hiro

..Billain.

Nathan

Billian?

Hiro

Billain.

Nathan

Villain.

Hiro

Vi-

Nathan

Vi-

Hiro

Viiyun

There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning.

Nathan

I'd like to have both.

Can't be done. Two very different paths. To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

Nathan

If you know all this, then you also know the exploding man is my brother.

As I said, we all have our roles to play.

Nathan

Japanese Feudalism. Renaissance. Rome. Mayan. Peruvian. 20th Century. You must bring all your first dates here. What do you do with all this stuff?

I protect it. I shield it from a selfish and greedy world.

When my day of judgment comes, Nathan, I'll be remembered as a humanitarian. I care about the world, I just want to save it. To heal it. And for that, I need you.

Nathan

What could you possibly know about healing? (Linderman looks over at a dead plant and heals it.)

A few things.

Nathan

Ma?

Nathan.

Nathan

Where is he? (Nathan approaches Peter's dead body.)

He's gone, Nathan.

Nathan

(crying) No! Peter! He wasn't supposed to die this way. He wasn't supposed to die this way... What do we do?

We hide it.

Nathan

What?

'Till after the election. The last thing he would've wanted was to bring you down with him.

Peter

What do you do with something that killed you?

Nathan

You could put it underneath your pillow.