Heroes (TV Series)

Chapter Nine 'Homecoming' (2006)

Thomas Dekker: Zach

Quotes 

• Claire Bennet : You're being so nice, I've never been this nice to you, I mean I've been nice but I could be nicer

  Zach : Then why don't you?

• Zach : I know who I am. I like who I am. I like who you are. I just, I just wish that you liked who you are.

  Claire Bennet : I'm finally realizing who my friends really are. That maybe being different isn't the end of the world. It's just who I am.

  Zach : Exactly. You've gotta embrace your inner freak. Because the only thing you'll regret is denying who you really are.

• [first lines] 

  Mohinder Suresh : [voiceover]  We are, if anything, creatures of habit - drawn to the safety and comfort of the familiar.

  Zach : Do they actually believe that grain is a vegetable?

  Mohinder Suresh : [voice over]  But what happens when the familiar becomes unsafe, when the fear that we have been desperately trying to avoid, finds us where we live?

• Claire Bennet : Everybody who wasn't my friend is now my friend, and everybody who was my friend, isn't.

  Zach : Well, it's not a popularity contest. It's an unpopularity contest 'cause you rocked the freak vote.

  Claire Bennet : I what?

  Zach : Look, everybody who's like Jackie voted for Jackie; and everybody who isn't voted for you. And in this school, the unpopular vastly outnumber the popular.

• Zach : What? What's with you?

  Claire Bennet : You're being so nice, I've never been this nice to you, I mean... I've been nice but I could be nicer.

  Zach : Then why don't you?

• Zach : She can call me whatever she wants. I'm not gonna be embarassed by it. I know who I am. I like who I am. I like who you are. I just... I just wish that you liked who you are.

  Claire Bennet : I'm finally realizing who my friends really are. And maybe being different isn't the end of the world. That's just who I am.

  Zach : Exaclty. You've got to embrace your inner freak. Because the only thing that you'll regret is denying who you really are.