- Mohinder Suresh: [voice-over] For every being cursed with self-awareness, there remains the unanswerable question: 'Who am I?' We struggle to find meaningful connections to one another. We are the caring friend, the loving father, the doting mother, the protected child. We fight and we love, in the hope that somehow, together, we can understand our significance in the universe. But in the end, no one can share our burden. Each of us alone must answer the question: Who am I? What does it mean to be alive? And in the vast infinity of time, how do I matter?
- Hiro Nakamura: Here's the plan. You're bait. The bad guys capture you, reveal the location of their secret lair... I rescue you and then we defeat them. Bait will likely be rendered unconscious. I can't stop time if I'm unconscious.
- Ando Masahashi: And I can't become the "Crimson Arc" if I'm unconscious.
- Hiro Nakamura: The Crimson Arc?
- Ando Masahashi: My superhero alias. What do you think?
- Hiro Nakamura: It's good. Dangerous yet... ladylike.
- Ando Masahashi: I understand. This has always been your "me time". But now it's "our time".
- Hiro Nakamura: "Our time"?
- Ando Masahashi: It's like Batman visiting Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
- Hiro Nakamura: You think I'm like Superman?
- Ando Masahashi: You're noble like Superman, believe in truth and justice like Superman. You're a little fascist like Superman.
- Hiro Nakamura: I'm not a little fascist.
- Ando Masahashi: You're a lot fascist. You don't like me being a superhero.
- Hiro Nakamura: You need to get over this. I got you the Ando-cycle, didn't I? I just think "Crimson Arc" has unfortunate connotations.
- Ando Masahashi: You're not the only one with a destiny, Hiro. I'm not your sidekick! This Batman can do it all by himself.
- Ando Masahashi: Hiro, if we're equal partners, you can't make plans without consulting me.
- Hiro Nakamura: Okay.
- Ando Masahashi: No more volunteering me as bait, or possum or prisoner without consulting me.
- Hiro Nakamura: Okay.
- Ando Masahashi: Okay? So we're agreed? Partners?
- Hiro Nakamura: Yes. Being Batman is great, Ando. But I don't want you to fight alone, with no one to trust. The Crimson Arc needs a partner. And so do I.
- Tom Miller: You don't want to startle me.
- Sylar: That's funny, there was a time when I wouldn't have given you a chance to be startled.
- Emile Danko: The past five years, I've lived... eight different lives, had wives and girlfriends, spoke six different languages, but at the end of the day, I still know who I am.
- Sylar: What's your point?
- Emile Danko: Whatever you're going through, this... identity crisis... you can survive.
- Sylar: How?
- Emile Danko: Find an anchor - something that reminds you of you. That way, when you're feeling lost, you'll have something to hang on to.
- Sylar: Agent Taub's a nothing. I don't like being a nothing.
- Emile Danko: Think of it this way: as Agent Taub, you can come and go, kill who you want to kill. If you're Sylar, I have no choice but to hunt you down - make your life a living hell. It's up to you.
- Sylar: I went to see my real father. He was so alone, so pathetic. I didn't want to become him, so I took this power, and now I can be anyone I want to be, anyone in the world. So tell me, mom - why do I feel so lost?
- Virginia Grey: You are not lost. You're my son! Maybe I didn't give birth to you, but I loved you. I wanted you right from the start. I saw how special you were.
- Sylar: But I killed you!
- Virginia Grey: And there was no one left to love you anymore. But now... I'm back.
- Sylar: How can I be special? How can I be anything... when I killed the only woman who ever loved me?
- Nathan Petrelli: I don't need to defend myself to you. You're pathetic. You're a psychopath. People like you are the reason I went to the President in the first place. If you think for one minute anybody's gonna believe you're me, you're wrong.
- Sylar: I'm not gonna be you - I'm gonna be *better* than you.
- Sylar: [as Nathan Petrelli, giving a speech] I know a way to bring real purpose back to the White House, back to this country, and I promise you that when the President agrees to meet with me, when he agrees to shake my hand, real change will come to this country, and nothing... will ever be the same.