[Voiceover] Where does it come from? This quest? This need to solve lifes mysteries when the simpliest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we would be better off not looking at all. Not delving. Not yearning. But that's not human nature. Not the human heart. That is not why we are here. Yet still we struggle to make a difference. To change the world. To dream of hope. Never knowing for certain who we'll meet along the way. Who, among the world of strangers, will hold our hand. Touch our hearts. And share the pain of trying.
“How To Stop An Exploding Man” · Season 1, Episode 23
In this episode: Hiro Nakamura (4), Sylar (3), Claire Bennet (3), Nathan Petrelli (3), Peter Petrelli (3), Mohinder Suresh (2), Ando Masahashi (2), Noah (1)
Tell me you have a plan, dad.
I have a plan. I love you, Claire.
I love you too.
[Ando walks into Isaac's apartment and stops to look at a painting. Steps in a pool of blood, turns around, and Sylar pins him against the wall.]
Hmm, looks like you dropped something. [Sylar picks up a Ninth Wonder cartoon.] A comic book that predicts the future. What will they think of next? [Sylar turns to page showing Hiro stabbing him.] You're kidding. This is how Isaac thought I'd die? Stabbed by a silly little man?
Hiro is not silly!
You should've seen the look on his face when he tried to kill me.
You cannot take my brain.
Please. What would I want with your brain?
The future is not written in stone!
I'm afraid this one is.
[Having teleported to their Japanese office, Hiro hands Ando the Kensei sword.]
It is not the sword. It is the man.
[Ando stops Hiro just as he's about to teleport back to New York to face Sylar.]
You look bad ass.
[smiling] Really?
Haven't I killed you before?
Didn't take.
[chuckles] You think I'm gonna let you ruin it all? Take all the glory? [Parkman shoots at Sylar, but he stops the bullets and reflects them back.] Did you really think you could stop me?
Turns out you're the villain, Peter. I'm the hero.
[teleported in with sword] Sylar!
You!
[Hiro runs forward and stabs Sylar in the left lung.]
Yatta. (Note: Throughout the series, Hiro says "yatta," which means "I did it" in Japanese)
Please tell me there's another way.
There is no other way.
(Nathan suddenly flies in and lands between Claire and Peter)
Yes there is, Claire. The future's not written in stone.
I took his power Nathan, I can't control it.
I'm not leaving you Peter. There's another way to end this, and you know it.
I can't let you die.
And I can't let everyone else...
You saved the cheerleader, so we could save the world.
[Cut to Kirby Plaza in the aftermath of the confrontation, as Molly watches Parkman moved to an ambulance.]
[voiceover] We dream of hope,we dream of change,of fire,of love,of death,and then it happens,the dream becomes real. And the answer to the quest,this need to solve life's mysteries finally shows itself,like the glowing light of the new dawn. So much struggle, for meaning, for purpose, but in the end we find it only in each other. Our shared experiences of the fantastic, and the mundane. The simple, human need to find the kindred, to connect, and to know in our hearts that we are not alone.
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