Heroes Voiceover Quotes

Season 1

• Episode 0: In His Own Image (Unaired Pilot Short Version)
  Mohinder: "Where does it come from? this quest? This need to solve life's mysteries, when the simplest of questions can never be answered.Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all. Not delving, not yearning. That's not human nature. Not the human heart. That is not why we are here."
  Mohinder: "This quest. This need to solve life's mysteries. In the end, what does it matter when the human heart can only find meaning in the smallest of moments? They're here. Among us. In the shadows. In the light. Everywhere. Do they even know yet?"
  
  
• Episode 1: Genesis
  Mohinder: "Where does it come from? this quest? This need to solve life's mysteries, when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all. Not delving, not yearning. That's not human nature. Not the human heart. That is not why we are here."
  Mohinder: "This quest. This need to solve life's mysteries. In the end, what does it matter when the human heart can only find meaning in the smallest of moments? They're here. Among us. In the shadows. In the light. Everywhere. Do they even know yet?"
  
  
• Episode 2: Dont Look Back
  Narrator: "Five strangers across the globe began to discover they have extraordinary abilities. From the cheerleader who realized she’s invincible -- to the office worker who can bend space and time. These strangers are discovering they were meant for something more. And as a son seeks the truth by finishing his father’s work, -- he’s forced to run from the man surrounded in mystery.A man who’s more connected than anyone imagined."
  Mohinder: "We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate. But have we truly any choice in when we rise or when we fall? Or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction? Is it evolution that takes us by the hand? Does science point our way? Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe?"
  Mohinder: "For all his bluster, it is the sad province of man that he cannot choose his triumph. He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes. Hoping that he'll have the courage to answer."
  
  
• Episode 3: One Giant Leap
  Narrator: "Five strangers across the globe begin to discover they have extraordinary abilities – from the cheerleader who realizes she’s invincible. To the artist that sees the future in his paintings. The single mother with a deadly alter-ego. The two brothers who realize they can fly. A police officer whose special powers -- get him into trouble. And the office worker who teleports to New York. But the evil that wants to destroy them is closer than they realize."
  Mohinder: "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.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 it hope and trust."
  
  
• Episode 4: Collision
  Narrator: "Ordinary strangers across the globe discover they have extraordinary abilities. From the artist who paints the future -- To the brother who wants to know more. The office worker who can stop time. The cop who can hear thoughts is made to lose consciousness by a mysterious stranger. The single mother with a deadly alter-ego – sees that her past is more dangerous than she ever imagined. And the indestructible cheerleader -- wakes up in places she never expected."
  Mohinder: "Sometimes questions are more powerful than answers. How is this happening? What are they? Why them and not others? Why now? What does it all mean?"
  
  
• Episode 5: Hiros
  Narrator: "The cop who hears thoughts is captured by a myterious stranger. The office worker who stops time -- tests his powers in Vegas -- but gets into trouble. The single mother gets an unusual offer. Her alter-ego takes over ... but can’t stop the politician from being taken. The indestructible cheerleader escapes the morgue – to take revenge on the boy who attacked her. And a brother’s search for answers leads him to the ultimate encounter."
  Mohinder: "When a change comes, some species feel the urge to migrate. They call it zugunruhe—the pull of the soul to a far-off place, following a scent in the wind, a star in the sky. The ancient message comes, calling the kindred to take flight and to gather together. Only then can they hope to survive the cruel season to come."
  
  
• Episode 6: Better Halves
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discover they have extraordinary abilities. Claire searches for the answers to her powers. While her father shows a darker side. While Nathan escapes the face of evil, -- Niki and her son are about to get a visit from her fugitive husband. And Peter gets a message from the future -- that will define their destiny."
  Mohinder: "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. Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process. Morality loses its meaning. The question of good and evil reduced to one simple"
  
  
• Episode 7: Nothing To Hide
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discover they have extraordinary abilities. The cheerleader sought her birth parents for answers. But was it real? The cop who reads thoughts, used his abilities to save his marriage. The single mother’s alter-ego revealed a deadly secret. And in a battle with her husband – lost her son. The brother who could fly fell in love with his patient’s daughter. And is still uncertain of his powers."
  Mohinder: "You do not choose your destiny. It chooses you. And those who knew you before fate took you by the hand cannot understand the depth of the changes inside.They cannot fathom how much you stand to lose in failure. But you are the instrument of a flawless design. And all of life may hang in the balance. A hero learns quickly who can comprehend and who merely stands in your way."
  
  
• Episode 8: Seven Minutes to Midnight
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discover extraordinary abilities – and their destiny is bringing them together. The cop who hears thoughts uncovers a mystery he didn’t want to solve. And an extraordinary new hero is discovered. As an artist paints the impossible, The face of evil is after him. And a son turns his back on his father’s search for heroes."
  Mohinder: "The earth is large. Large enough that you think you can hide from anything--from fate, from God. If only you found a place far enough away. So you run. To the edge of the earth. Where all is safe again, quiet and warm. The solace of salt air. The peace of danger left behind. The luxury of grief. And maybe for a moment ... you believe you have escaped. You can run far. You can take your small precautions.But have you really gotten away? Can you ever escape? Or is the truth that you do not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny? But the world is not small. You are. And fate can find you anywhere."
  
  
• Episode 9: Homecoming
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discover extraordinary abilities. A single mother lost her son – and gives in to her dark side to save him. A new hero is discovered. But meets a tragic fate. And another hero goes back in time to rescue her. Peter solves the mystery of his destiny. And a father will stop at nothing to avert catastrophe. Tonight. Their destinies will unite them – to save the cheerleader and save the world"
  Mohinder: "We are, if anything, creatures of habit ... drawn to the safety and comfort of the familiar. But what happens when the familiar becomes unsafe? When the fear that we have been desperately trying to avoid finds us where we live? We are all, at our cores, the sum of our fears. To embrace destiny, we must, inevitably, face those fears and conquer them. Whether they come from the familiar. Or the unknown."
  
  
• Episode 10: Six Months Ago
  Mohinder: "To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose. The earth spins at a thousand miles an hour as we desperately try to keep from being thrown off. Like the first blush of winter that signals a great migration. Was there any warning of their arrival? A sign, a single event that set this chain into motion? Was it a whisper in God's ear? Survive. Adapt. Escape. And if we could mark that single moment in time, that first hint of the prophecy of approaching danger..Would we have done anything differently? Could it have been stopped? Or was the die long ago cast? And if we could go back, alter its course, stop it from happening ... Would we? This list."
  Mohinder "These people ... Their future is written on their DNA. ust as the past, it seems, is written in stone. Was the die cast from the very beginning? Or is it in our own hands to alter the course of destiny? Of all our abilities, it is free will that truly makes us unique. With it, we have a tiny, but potent, chance to deny fate. And only with it can we find our way back to being human."
  
  
• Episode 11: Fallout
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discovered extraordinary abilities. Niki’s alter-ego sought revenge. And took the ultimate retribution. Peter sets out on his mission--to save the cheerleader. But he was taken by the police. And, Sylar was finally captured. And Claire revealed the secret that would change her life."
  
  
• Episode 12: Godsend
  Narrator: "Last December, Heroes gave us a look into the future. But that was just the beginning. They were strangers who discover extraordinary abilities. Until they realized they were not alone. With the discovery of one thing. The list. The invincible cheerleader on a mission to find her birthparents. The mother with an alter ego makes a sacrifice to protect her child. And tonight, the search for new heroes begins."
  Mohinder: "In the beginning, there was discovery. A confusion of elements, the first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces made familiar ... new nightmares to challenge sleep. New friends to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order onto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle ...all in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here. And the earth shudders underfoot."
  
  
• Episode 13: The Fix
  
  Mohinder: "When we embrace what lies within, our potential has no limit. The future is filled with promise ... the present, rife with expectation. But when we deny our instinct and struggle against our deepest urges uncertainty begins. Where does this path lead? When will the changes end? Is this transformation a gift? Or a curse? And for those who fear what lies ahead. The most important question of all. Can we ever really change what we are?"
  
  
• Episode 14: Distraction
  
  Narrator: "For the ordinary people, who discover extraordinary abilities. The face of evil was captured, but found a way to escape. he office worker who stops time has met his ultimate adversary. And the mother with an alter-ego makes a sacrifice to protect her son. Peter met the man who could help control his power. And the invincible cheerleader finally found her real mother. And tonight, she’ll meet her daddy."
  
  
• Episode 15: Run
  
  Narrator: "For the ordinary people who discovered extraordinary abilities. The cop who hears thoughts lost his badge. The mother with an alter-ego was released from prison but her dark side took over. The face of evil set a trap but he was stopped and now that Claire’s found her birth mother. Tonight it's time to meet her daddy."
  
  Mohinder: "To survive in this world, we hold close to us those people on whom we depend. We trust in them our hopes, our fears. But what happens when trust is lost? Where do we run when things we believe in vanish before our eyes? When all seems lost, the future unknowable, our very existence in peril...All we can do ... is run."
  
  
• Episode 16: Unexpected
  
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• Episode 17: Company Man
  
  Narrator: "Ordinary people discovered extraordinary abilities. An invincible cheerleader searched for answers. What was the mystery behind her father? And who did he really work for? But two heroes have a grudge. And tonight, they’re out to get the truth at any cost."
  
  
• Episode 18: Parasite
  
  Narrator: "Ordinary people discovered extraordinary abilities. The face of evil joined a search for other heroes so he could steal their powers. And the invincible cheerleader was being hunted. So her father erased his own memory to protect her. And the artist who paints the future made a tragic mistake. As we head to the final chapter, you’ll finally meet the man pulling the strings. "
  
  
• Episode 19: .07%
  
  Linderman: "People think I collect art. What I really collect are lives fixed in paint. A perfect moment capturing an entire existence, made immortal. A monster's fight to survive and live to kill again. A mother willing to fracture her own soul to protect her child. outh struggle for innocence, despite life's cruelty. The double-edged lies needed to sustain a double-edged life. A wandering hero's pure joy at success. And his darkest hour, when all the world seems lost. All perfect moments frozen in time. Alone, each tells a single story. Together they can tell the future."
  
  
• Episode 21: The Hard Part
  
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discovered extraordinary abilities. They had one mission. 'Save the cheerleader, save the world!' And Peter fulfilled his destiny. But what if they can’t stop the bomb. What if New York is destroyed. What if they can’t save the world? Tonight Hiro will journey five years into the future to a world they hope they never see."
  
  Future Nathan: "We've all mourned. And we've all had to become soldiers, heroes. Protecting one another from the gravest of dangers. This is a battle that none of us wanted. One that we entered with a heavy heart knowing that the enemy was ourselves. We've won battlesthe world over. Not only against those that would do us harm, but against poverty, reclaiming the environment. The laws that we've had to pass to keep our citizens safe to preserve our way of life. 'm here to tell you that that day is today. I'm proud to announce that we have developed a treatment, a method to reverse the genetic code we can begin lifting restrictions. Cities and families can be reunited. And we can finally live without fear. We've been vigilant. We have been uncompromising and our efforts have paid off. The nightmare is over. The world is saved."
  
  
• Episode 22: Landslide
  
  Narrator: "Ordinary people across the globe discover extraordinary abilities. After seeing a nightmare future, Hiro returned to home to the present. Claire’s reunion with her real father didn’t go as planned. Suresh gained a new ally against the face of evil. But Syar only grew more powerful and eliminated the painter who could see the future. And tonight the pieces draw closer in the final battle to save the world."
  
  
• Episode 23: How To Stop An Exploding Man
  
  Mohinder: "Where does it come from? This quest? This need to solve life's mysteries when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd 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 will meet along the way. Who among the world of strangers will hold our hand. Touch our hearts nd share the pain of trying. We dream of hope. We dream of change ofire, of love, of death. And then it happens. The dream becomes real ad the answer to this quest, this need to solve life's mysteries finally shows itself like the glowing light of a new dawn. So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other -- our shared experience of the fantastic ... and the mundane The simple human need to find a kindred ... to connect ... and to know in our hearts that we are not alone."