- Sylar: We're all at war with ourselves; that's what it means to be human. Trick is figuring out how to be on the winning side.
- Arthur Petrelli: You had one job to do, and now I have to come clean up your mess. That's what I get for sending a boy to do a man's job.
- Nathan Petrelli: [about Arthur] I thought the man was dead. I don't even know what to do with my life, now that he's alive.
- [first lines]
- Mohinder Suresh: [voiceover] When the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, strange fascination takes root in the heart. And suddenly, anything is possible. Its power is undeniable; its beauty mesmerizing; its lure biblical; its meaning unknowable. And as quickly as it comes, it disappears, leaving us to dwell on our own insignificance, in the face of God.
- Mohinder Suresh: [voiceover] It starts with light, and it ends with light. And in between, there is darkness. Nothing there is beyond hope; nothing that can be sworn impossible; nothing left unimagined, since Zeus, father of the Olympians, made night from midday, hiding the light of the shining sun, and raining dark fear down upon men.
- Tracy Strauss: For your plan to succeed, you need a public face. Now, normally that would be you. Problem is, the world thinks you're dead.
- Arthur Petrelli: A thorny issue, I admit.
- Tracy Strauss: But I think Nathan can be that face. The bad news: he's on the fence. The good news: I can push him over. You scratch my back, and I will make sure he lands on the right side.
- Peter Petrelli: This isn't your fight. I need you to stay...
- Claire Bennet: Stay what?
- Peter Petrelli: Innocent.
- [Peter tries to prevent Claire from fighting the villains]
- Peter Petrelli: Claire, just... go home! Please.
- Claire Bennet: No. That's not gonna happen. And it's all your fault. You should've never come to Odessa to save me; you should've never become my friend or my hero. And now I can't leave you because *I* have a favor to return.
- Claire Bennet: When Sylar attacked me, he saw something. He took off the top of my head... He said I was different from everyone else - special. I didn't understand what that meant until today... I think I'm the catalyst.
- Hiro Nakamura: Ando, why are you so old?
- [looks in a mirror]
- Hiro Nakamura: And why am I so old?
- Ando Masahashi: How old do you think you are?
- Hiro Nakamura: What are you talking about? I'm ten!
- Elle Bishop: I will kill you, you son of a bitch. You murdered my father!
- Sylar: Yes, I did.
- Elle Bishop: [shrieking] How could you do that to me!
- Sylar: I'm not gonna insult you by saying I'm sorry. You deserve so much more than that, Elle; you deserve vengeance. I'll take whatever you've got.
- [Elle lightens Sylar up]
- Sylar: You saved my life once, Elle - gave me the will to live. Don't you see I owe you?
- Elle Bishop: [slowly] I only saved you so we could use you, like a lab rat.
- Sylar: You were just following orders... But I forgive you. Now you need to forgive yourself.
- [Sylar is experimenting more or less successfully with the new power he got from Elle]
- Elle Bishop: Keep it up, you'll be a gunslinger in no time.
- [Peter is facing Knox and Flint, who have captured Claire]
- Peter Petrelli: You got two choices: let her go or you die.
- Flint: You and what army?
- Tracy Strauss: You are a U.S. Senator. You've got an entire constituency riding on you for having a clear vision for what you believe in. You gotta snap the hell out of this. You have to get yourself together.