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MVO: 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. (Mohinder is back in India, scattering his father's ashes in the sea) To the edge of the earth. Where all is safe again, quiet and warm.

(On Screen: Chapter 8-Seven Minutes to Midnight)

MVO: 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.

Mrs. Suresh: Mohinder. You mustn't look back, Mohinder. Your father's moved on to the next life.

(Mohinder looks saddened by his mother's words)

(Eden enters the room where Isaac is locked)

Eden: Welcome back. I thought I'd clean you up a little bit. You've had a rough couple of days, but you're doing great. You'll be completely clean in no time.

Isaac: And you're sure I'll still be able to... paint?

Eden: After I teach you, yes. The drugs were just a facilitator. We're gonna help you, Isaac. That mural on the floor? We're not gonna let that happen.

Isaac: You seem pretty sure.

Eden: I am pretty sure.

Isaac: Because...

Eden: Because I went through the same thing myself.

Isaac: All right.

(Eden walks into another room where there are some of Isaac's paintings. She sees the one of Claire on the steps)

(Hiro and Ando are back at the roadside diner. Hiro keeps admiring the red headed waitress)

Charlie: All right. You need anything else, Sheriff? Lloyd?

Sheriff: Mm-hmm. Gun to shoot Will Shortz.

Charlie: Let me see.

Sheriff: Ghandi burial ground, 11 letters. Something...Ganges, maybe?

Charlie: Mm, Kanyakumari. K-A-N-Y-A, and then you got the rest right there.

Lloyd: How the hell did you know that, Charlie?

Sheriff: That one of the stops on your trip?

Charlie: Oh, trip around the world's pricey. Right now, I can only make it as far as Oklahoma City.

Lloyd: Who won the Academy Award for best actor in 1981?

Sheriff: She's not Google, Lloyd.

Charlie: Henry Fonda. On Golden Pond. You know, I preferred Dudley Moore in Arthur, but if you really wanna test me, you oughta ask me if I remember your credit card numbers.

(Another part of the diner)

Ando: No wonder everyone in America is so fat... all there is to eat is waffles and French fries.

Hiro: You like French fries.

Ando: I gained four kilos from French fries.

Hiro: We need our strength. Soon we'll meet Peter Petrelli and help him save the Cheerleader's life. It is...our MISSION.

Charlie: Hey, anything looking good, guys?

Hiro: Everyseeng good o-looking.

Charlie: Wow. You two are a long way from home. We don't get a lot of tourists out here.

Hiro: Turisto? How you know we turisto?

Charlie: It's just a guess. What's that on your jacket? Bachigai. That means, "I don't belong here," right?

Hiro: You know Japanese?

Charlie: Well, I got this Japanese phrase book for my birthday about six months ago, and I started poking

through it last week. Um... "One Bento Box... with shrimp, please." I'm still learning. Tokyo...is going to be the third stop on my trip someday.

Ando: You learned all that from a book in just one week?

Hiro: Very good memory!

Charlie: Yeah, I remember lots and lots. It's just something that my brain started doing lately. Whether I want it to or not. Um... so what'll it be?

Hiro: You pick. Someseeng delicious for me. And, uh, for my friend, he needs food for fatto, fatto.

Charlie: Okay. Well, I got just the thing. One chilaquiles, and one cottage cheese plate coming right up.

(From another corner of the restaurant they are being watched)

Hiro: Who says no one in America is nice.

(Mohinder is in India)

Friend: Please tell me you're not going back there again.

Mohinder: There are no answers for me there. I belong here.

Friend: I'm glad to hear you say that.

Mohinder: You think I was a fool to go.

Friend: I think you had to.

Mohinder: It's an odd country, America. Everyone there seems so lonely. Including me. I'm not sure what I

accomplished by going there. Only seeing things I wish I'd never had.

Friend: Mira came to pay her respects to your father, Mohinder. Maybe there's more waiting here for you than just your professorship. The new semester begins...on Monday. I didn't cancel your classes. You can move into your father's old office, Mohinder.

Mohinder: Thank you.

(Mohinder is at the school and enters his father's old office. Mira enters.)

Mohinder: Mira.

Mira: I wasn't sure you'd speak to me at the funeral. I didn't want to take that chance, so I left.

Mohinder: I won't lie to you. I was surprised to see you there. Or anywhere, for that matter.

Mira: I said some terrible things to you. About your father, about his theories. But now that he's dead, I feel...

Mohinder: What's done is done.

Mira: Is it? Your mother tells me you're not returning to New York.

Mohinder: New semester starts next week. My life is here.

Mira: I've been promoted at the company. Head of all genetic research. Can you imagine?

Mohinder: Good for you.

Mira: No, good for you. It's the sort of cutting-edge science we used to talk about late into the night.

Mohinder: The world's worst pillow talk, I'd say.

Mira: I was hoping I could convince you to come in for an interview with the partners. Only I'd have to know that your father's work, all of his theories, would stay right where they are.

Packed away in that box. I don't expect an answer right now. But you will think about it, won't you?

Mohinder: Yes.

Mira: We didn't say hello.

Mohinder: Hello, Mira.

Mira: Hello, Mohinder.

(Matt is in a hallway with Audrey and her boss)

FBI Boss: I need you to handle this. I'll give you one hour.

Audrey: You're an idiot, Parkman, do you know that?

Matt: Wow, good morning to you, too.

Audrey: You think I wouldn't find out about you assaulting a fellow officer?

Matt: I didn't assault him. I... I just hit him.

Audrey: This is why I don't like needing people. Nine times out of ten, they let you down.

Matt: Wow, that's an optimistic view of the world.

Audrey: Just an observation.

Matt: And how'd this get to be about you?

Audrey: Because it was a stupid rookie move, and you could've jeopardized my investigation.

Matt: How serious is this?

Audrey: Are you getting suspended?

Matt: I'll work it out.

Audrey: Did he deserve it?

Matt: Yeah. Yeah, he deserved it.

(They are outside a room where Ted is)

Matt: Is he talking?

Audrey: Nope. And he's got one hour before Homeland Security sends him down the rabbit hole as a suspected terrorist.

Matt: Terrorist? We both know he's not a terrorist. His wife was dying. He lost control.

Audrey: Of what? This guy puts out 1,800 curies of radiation without ever coming in contact with nuclear material. We still don't know how that's possible. You know, three months ago, my job made perfect sense to me. And then I pulled the Sylar case. Crime scenes with no fingerprints. Bodies frozen, brains removed. And now this guy. That's two people wh...Make that three people who can do things I just can't explain.

Matt: What're you saying, you think I'm like them?

Audrey: I don't know what I think. But if we're gonna find Sylar, I need answers.

Matt: I have no idea how this happened.

Audrey: Well, then, I guess that just leaves Ted here.

Matt: What's this?

Audrey: Detects radiation levels. A s long as that's dark green, we're good.

Matt: Oh... Okay, what's the bad color?

Audrey: Not green.

(Charlie and Hiro are talking)

Charlie: The dance floor...lights are cool."

Hiro: Perfecto! You ready for disco.

Charlie: I got it right?

Hiro: Almost.

Charlie: Well, don't let me off easy, now.

Hiro: Okay. (They talk in Japanese)

Charlie: "I don't like this song...let's get a drink."

Hiro: You learn very fast.

Charlie: Yeah, lately, I sorta remember everything I read. It's kind of a skill, I guess.

Hiro: My skill much more complicated.

Charlie: Oh, yeah? What can you do?

Hiro: I can teach Japanese to anyone.

Charlie: You're sweet. Sweet means nice. Cute.

Hiro: That's not in book.

Charlie: No. It is just true. I like the way your cheeks wobble when you concentrate. Yeah. Oh, oh, sorry.

Someone's Denver omelet's up. "I'll be right back." Here?

Hiro: I'm sweet!

(Matt and Audrey are in the room with Ted)

Ted: They won't even let me go to my wife's funeral. All I wanted was to be left alone.

Audrey: We need you to answer a few more questions.

Ted: You can't get your partner here to look inside my head?

Audrey: We need to have it on the record. You burnt that doctor to the bone.

Matt: Ted, Ted! If you don't let us help you they'll take you away and no one will listen to you.

Ted: It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. I killed my wife.

Matt: Audrey

Ted: Just look me up, execute me. Leave me the hell alone.

Audrey: I wish we could, Ted.

Ted: I don't know anything about any nuclear materials.

Matt: Ted, Ted. You know what? Just relax.

Ted: Do you want me to be the terrorist, huh? Do you want me to be the bad guy? Fine, I'll blow this place apart.

Matt: Ted!

Audrey: Ted. Stop!

Matt: Ted! Just stop!

Ted: Do it.

Matt: Ted.

Ted: Do it! Do it!

Matt: Ted, I know what you're going through.

Ted: Yeah, sure, you do. Yeah, like hell you do.

Matt: Come on, Ted! You've seen what I can do. Okay? Something is happening to me, too. Ted, I was able to read your wife's dying thoughts. We're just trying to understand what it is. Ted. Come on, Ted. Relax. Come on. Just take me back. Take me back to... to when this all started, okay? Just... start from the beginning. Good. Probably gave your wife cancer. How'd you do it? Ted.

(Matt hears him)

Ted: Blacked out. And when I woke up, everything started dying.

Matt: You blacked out. How long were you out for? Were you drinking? When you came to, did you have bruises on your arms?

Ted: I'll do you one better.

(Ted shows a bruise on his shoulder)

Audrey: What's the matter, Parkman?

(Matt has the same bruise on his neck)

(Mohinder is at his father's packing away his things. He finds a key)

Chandra: I'm going.

Mohinder: Don't walk away. It doesn't matter what you think. I'm not asking your opinion.

Mohinder: Yes. How could I have forgotten...You never have before. Why should now be any different?

Chandra: It is my life! I'm going, and that's final.

Mohinder: Has it never occurred to you that your actions could affect anyone else?

Chandra: I don't have time for anyone else's feelings.

Mohinder: Clearly!

Chandra: I have to go and research my findings.

Mohinder: No one cares. No one at the university cares.

(Mohinder is watching this past conversation from afar)

Mohinder: You're becoming a laughing stock. I can't cover for you anymore.

Chandra: I'm not asking you to.

Mohinder: How will you support yourself. What will you do for money?

Chandra: Oh, I'll get by.

Mohinder: How? Do you know what Doctors do in the United States. They drive taxi cabs. It is one thing to publish a book in the comfort of the university. It is another to leave everything behind... your wife, your family, your job... chasing a theory that is pure fantasy. It's a fool's errand.

Chandra: We'll see who will be the fool, won't we?

Mohinder: Yes, I guess we will.

(Chandra is near his home with Mrs. Suresh)Mohinder is right.

Chandra: I am abandoning my family, my job.

Mrs. Suresh: You are. But I know you, Chandra, better than you know yourself. You will not stop thinking

of this if you don't go. It will consume you and, eventually, all of us with it.

Chandra: He'll hate me for it.

Mrs. Suresh: I'm not sure that he doesn't already.

Chandra: I should try to stay for his sake.

Mrs. Suresh: Why? He will never take her place in your eyes. That has always been the case.

(Mohinder catches a ball. There is a little girl)

Mohinder: Who are you? What do you want?

(Mohinder wakes up)

(Ted's interview room)

Ted: I was in, uh, Kansas a couple months back. I'd just made a big sale to the university hospital. Dialysis machines. Commission was gonna give Karen and me enough money to...I…went to the, uh, the hotel bar.

Buy everybody a few rounds. There weren't many people there. A couple from Wyoming. Some professors.

A student from, uh, Haiti. The next thing I…I know, I'm waking up in my car. It's two days later, and I'm in Tempe, Arizona. These weird cuts and bruises all over me. A couple of days later, I start to notice things. I'd buy my wife flowers, and they'd wilt.

Matt: Okay, what about your health? I mean, were you sick? Do you have headaches?

Ted: Yeah. Headaches. But, uh...Karen. The doctor said she had radiation poisoning.

Matt: From you?

Ted: I was killing her.

Audrey: Are there any other bodies out there we don't know about?(Matt gives her a look) I'm just saying

Matt: This is not his fault. He's just trying to figure this out. Look, the same thing happened to me. Okay, I blacked out. I lost two days.

Audrey: You should've told me about this.

Matt: I should've done a lot of things. Up until now, I haven't told anyone. Not even my wife. And now I can't stop hearing people's thoughts. It's painful. I'm hearing things that I should not be hearing.

Ted: Like what?

Matt: Things that could ruin lives. Things that...could end marriages. The guy that you described, the student. He was, uh, Haitian. Big guy? Bald?

Ted: Yeah, yeah.

Matt: I'm telling you, I think I saw this guy right before...right before I blacked out, too.

Audrey: What are you guys talking about? A Haitian guy?

Matt: These things that we can do, th--they're not normal. We were cut. W-we were injected. Blacked out, who knows what they did to us? Or how they changed us.

(The FBI boss enters the room)

Agent: Time's up.

Matt: What?

Audrey: Just a couple more minutes.

FBI Boss: And you, you shouldn't even be here. Your badge has been suspended. Did he tell you where

the nuclear material is?

Officer: Move it.

FBI Boss: He's coming with me.

Matt: What? No, you can't take him right now.

Audrey: Yeah, they can.

Ted: Find the Haitian. Find him!

(They all leave the room except Audrey and Matt)

Matt: You gotta get him back in here.

Audrey: I can't.

Matt: What do you mean you can't? You heard what he said. He's gonna help me figure out what happened to me.

Audrey: Why did you lie to me about being suspended?

Matt: Okay, so I left that part out. But you have come to me and asked for my help. And I come running to you every single time. So now I'm asking for your help. All right, get him back in here, so I can talk to him!

Audrey: I'm sorry. It's out of my hands.

(HRG is at his office)

HRG: That's good.

Rufus: Mr. Bennett.

HRG: Rufus.

Rufus: Ooh, I-I got next month's parking sticker. Just need you to sign for it.

HRG: I'll take care of that later, Rufus.

Rufus: Ooh, sorry, sorry.

(He enters a room where Eden is)

HRG: How's he doing?

Eden: Heroin's out of his system. His body doesn't want it anymore, but his mind still does.

HRG: Coherent?

Eden: Very. You ready to meet him?

HRG: Yeah.

(They enter Isaac's room)

Eden: Isaac. This is Mr. Bennett, the man I told you about.

HRG: Hello, Isaac. Drawing anything interesting?

Isaac: It's nothing.

HRG: Oh, you know that's not true. You have the ability to paint the future. That's something. Something very important.

Isaac: Feels like a curse.

HRG: No, it's a blessing. Don't let anybody tell you differently. We're gonna help you understand that.

Isaac: I'm grateful you're helping me. I'm just not sure why you're doing it.

HRG: To be 100% honest with you... I need your help.

(The diner)

Charlie: How we doin'?

Man: Good.

Charlie: Okay.

(Hiro goes to the bathroom and Charlie enters the back room. She is killed by Sylar, who cuts open her head and removes her brain. The waitress screams when she finds Charlie)

Waitress: Oh, my God!

Sheriff: Charlie...she's dead.

(Hiro comes out of the bathroom to the chaos in the restaurant)

(Mohinder is talking with his mother)

Mrs. Suresh: I know you miss him. And I know you feel guilty, too.

Mohinder: Don't. I had a dream last night. You and father were talking before he left. In it, you persuaded him to go.

Mrs. Suresh: It was just a dream, Mohinder.

Mohinder: No, I need to know if it was true.

Mrs. Suresh: Come. Your father and I were married for 33 years.

Mohinder: That is not an answer.

Mrs. Suresh: Yes, it is. A marriage doesn't last that long without allowing the other person to be who he has to be.

Mohinder: But how could you allow him to abandon everything? Just like that.

Mrs. Suresh: I'm afraid that answer is not as easy.

Mohinder: In the dream, you said that I could never take the place of her. Who did you mean?

Mrs. Suresh: I suppose it's time that you knew, now that your father's gone. Mohinder...you had a sister.

Mohinder: A sister?

Mrs. Suresh: Her name was Shanti. And sh--she was five years old when she died, two years after you were born.

Mohinder: Well, why didn't I know this?

Mrs. Suresh: Because it was too painful to talk about, especially for your father. He loved her so much, he was afraid that you would compare his love. From the moment she was born, he was convinced that she was special.

And she was special.

(HRG is with Isaac)

HRG: These dates. Suicide bomber, 15 people dead. Train derailment, 9 dead. Earthquake, 81. This girl, the one you've painted here, and here, and there...she's my daughter. My Claire. This man here...goes by the name of Sylar. He's gonna kill her tomorrow night at her homecoming game.

Isaac: Why?

HRG: Because she's special. Like you. And that makes her a target.

Isaac: Like me.

HRG: You're not the only one with special abilities, Isaac. There are others. Sylar is killing them. One at a time.

Isaac: If you know who he is, then why can't you stop him?

HRG: Because nobody knows where he is. I need your help. I need you to paint this painting.

Isaac: I'm sorry. I've been trying. I can't. Not without the drugs.

HRG: Fine. I promise we will help you use your abilities without this, but right now, there just isn't time.

Isaac: I'm fighting to get my life back, and you want me to just throw it away.

HRG: You know...for many years now, a number of us have been tracking, locating, monitoring people like you. Sometimes the process goes smoothly, as in your case, and other times...well, let's just say some people

misinterpret our motives, and then it can go... very wrong. 14 years ago, there was just such a case, which, sadly, ended in a death. The woman left behind a baby girl who had no one to take care of her. My wife and I had been having a hard time...conceiving a child of our own at the time. And...and it was like... God had reached down and given us a miracle. Isaac. This is my daughter we're talking about. I'm begging you.

Isaac: Let me try one more time. Without it.

(Mohinder enters his room to find the little girl there)

Mohinder: Who are you? What are you doing here? (She runs away) Hey, wait! Stop! Come back here.

(He is suddenly in the United States)

Chandra: I have a pickup at 59th and Broadway to JFK.

(His father is killed)

Mohinder: No! Father! Father! Fath...Father! Stop! Stop. Stop, stop.

(He watches his father's death and then the child gives him a key. Mohinder wakes up)

(Claire is at her dad's work)

Claire: Dad?

HRG: Claire? Honey, is everything all right?

Claire: Yeah, everything's fine. Can't a girl just visit her dad at work?

HRG: You never visit me at work.

Claire: Okay. I'm busted. I have an emergency. A paper emergency.

HRG: A paper emergency.

Claire: A paper emergency. Ms. Roberts says we need a banner over the trophy case, and Jackie was all,

"We don't have paper that big. They don't make paper that big." So I thought I'd stop by and try to be a hero.

HRG: Well, if it'll make you a hero and maybe knock Jackie down a few notches, we might be able to find

something that'll work.

Claire: Best dad ever.

(Eden walks up)

Eden: I'm sorry, Mr. Bennett. We just have a little situation.

HRG: You know what? The sample room is right down there, Claire-bear. You take anything you need. Okay?

Claire: Thanks, Dad.

HRG: First door on your left.

Eden: I'm sorry. I didn't know she'd be here.

HRG: So what's the problem?

Eden: It's not working. He can't do it. He tried. He's just not there yet.

HRG: We tried his way. Now we do it mine.

Eden: He has worked so hard to get clean. You can't ask him to do this.

HRG: I'm not going to ask him. You are.

Eden: No! No, you can't make me do that.

HRG: You knew this was a possibility.

Eden: You said when we started that I would never have to do it again. You promised me.

HRG: I know what you think. Who do you think taught you? Do you even remember what you were when I found you? You're the easy way. I think we both know the hard way.

(Eden goes in and convinces Isaac to use the drugs)

(The diner where everyone is still shocked about Charlie's death)

Sheriff: Did she say anything? Sounded like she was scared?

Ando: No. She seemed very nice.

Sheriff: She was. Too nice... to die like that. Head ripped open. I ain't never seen anything like it.

Ando: We're very sorry.

Sheriff: Y'all stick around. Need to take your statements.

Hiro: She was killed...same way as the painter, Isaac, when I saw him in the future. That can't be a coincidence.

Then we should be extra careful. There has to be something I can do.

Ando: She's already dead.

Hiro: I can bend time. I can go back.

Ando: No…

Hiro: Why else did I get these powers...if I'm not supposed to help?

Ando: We're already on one stupid mission... you don't need another.

Hiro: I didn't do anything when those poker men died. I can't just sit back and do nothing again…

Ando: Sure you can! It's easy.

Hiro: I'll just go back...to yesterday. I'll stop her from coming to work. If she's not here... she can't be killed.

Ando: But YOU can be! You don't have to control over your powers yet. The last time you tele-ported...you ended up in the future. In another country!

Hiro: If I'm too scared to use my powers... then I don't deserve them. I have to try.

Ando: What about the Cheerleader?

Hiro: I won't be late. Just count to five... and I'll be back. We'll celebrate...my victory.

Ando: Hiro? PLEASE.

(Hiro disappears)

Ando: Three...four...five. Hiro?

(Janice is looking at a photo album when Matt enters)

Matt: What is that? Ensenada?

Janice: Mm. Pam Auden called...to ask me why you punched Tom McHenry. I told her you didn't. Did you?

Matt: Yeah. Yeah, I punched him.

(He hears her)

Janice: He knows. Damn it, I knew it.

Janice: You punched a superior officer? That has to have some kind of repercussions.

Matt: He may outrank me, but "superior's" taking it a little too far. I got one month's suspension. No pay.

Janice: Jesus, Matt. Something happened... between me and Tom.

Matt: You slept with him.

Janice: Yes.

Matt: Is it over?

Janice: Yes. Are we?

Matt: I don't know.

(He answers the phone)

Matt: Yeah, it's Matt.

Audrey: He's gone.

Matt: What?

(Audrey is at the scene of a fire)

Audrey: Ted. He escaped.

Fireman: Watch out!

Audrey: Do you hear me?

Matt: Yeah. Yeah, I heard you.

(Mohinder is sitting in his office holding the key. He uses it to open a drawer. He finds a file inside marked Iyer Sanjog which contains picture of the little boy)

(Isaac is painting in his drug induced state. Eden watches from afar)

MVO: You can run far. You can take your small precautions. But have you really gotten away? Can you ever escape?

(Claire is at home painting a homecoming sign. Her father is watching her)

MVO: Or is the truth that you do not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny?

Claire: What?

HRG: Nothing.

Claire: Tsh.

MVO: But the world is not small. You are.

(Ando is still at the diner waiting for Hiro to return when one of the pictures on the wall changes)

MVO: And fate can find you anywhere.

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