Heroes

- I think we've found someone who can help us fix the past.

I need you to send me back.

You have a rare gift, you know.

To right the wrongs of your life, undo your mistakes.

- You can never change the past.

It's bad, always.

Everything is connected. It's the butterfly effect.

I had a friend once.

She knew she was dying, but that didn't push her

Off her th.

Her name was charlie.

oh, my god!

I can't believe I left her off the list.

- You promised you would stay in bed.

- ¶ stop the world and let me off ¶

¶ I'm tired of going round and round ¶

Charlie!

Cute butt, hon.

- ¶ so stop the world and let me off ¶

- Freeze, them's my daddy's clothes you're stealing.

- Oh, I'm sorry, but this is a matter of life and death.

Destiny has sent me here to save the life

Of the woman I love.

Love?

There ain't no such thing.

Oh, yes, there is.

My love's name is charlie.

You've heard the story before.

Boy meets girl.

- Hey, anything looking good, guys?

What's that on your jacket?

That means "I don't belong here," right?

Boy falls in love with girl.

- Perfecto. You ready for disco.

Girl dies.

Boy travels back through time to try to save her life.

Charlie was my heart, my world.

My happily ever after.

I did everything I could to try and save her life.

But life isn't a fairy tale.

No matter how hard I tried, the brain man, sylar,

Always killed her.

When she died,

I lost a part of myself.

My greatest failure.

Now I've come back in time to try again.

To save charlie, and this time I will defeat the brain man.

What's a brain man?

It's okay.

I will make sure he doesn't hurt anybody.

I'm the good guy.

Good guys wear white hats.

Bad guys wear black hats.

Do you mind?

He was wearing a black hat.

Oh, boy.

How's arnold?

Dying.

It might be tonight. Sooner, I don't know.

My family is shrinking, and our graveyard's getting bigger.

We need hiro nakamura.

You said he was on a path.

And it's a damn long walk.

We need him now.

It's not going to be easy.

- Oh, come on, you can convince an apple

That it's an orange.

I know.

We need him to fix the past.

It's just-I don't know how I'm going to convince him.

- Desperate times, desperate measures.

And all of that.

He's in love.

- Her name is charlie. Hmm.

There's a problem.

She's dead. Three years ago.

- That's not a problem. That's a... Opportunity.

There's more.

There's a lot more.

Now how are you going to get back there?

- I'll have to ask my dying friend to help me again.

You can't.

- We all have sacrifices to make.

Desperate times, desperate measures.

And all that.

- ¶ what you lost when you left this world ¶

¶ this sweet old world ¶

Warm you up?

Well, if you please.

Oh, nice watch.

That's a, um, sylar field edition, right?

You know, those were modeled after the watch

That allied commander john pershing

Brought back from russia after world war I.

Are you a collector?

I'm-no.

No, I just-I read about him in a magazine

And just remembered.

Just something my brain's been doing a lot of lately,

Just remembering everything.

Everything.

I'm my very own wikipedia.

- Okay, who won the nobel peace prize in 1964?

Martin luther king.

- 1986? - Elie wiesel.

- What's the most common cause of death?

Heart attacks.

- What's the best thing on the menu?

Tahitian pancakes.

Fruit cocktail, with coconut shavings,

It's yummy.

- Do you think that your genius memory

Is because of that blood clot in your brain?

how did you-?

I have a gift too.

I can see how things work...

And how to fix them if they're broken.

One look at you,

It's plain as day.

Uh, I will try those tahitian pancakes,

Thank you very much.

- Smart move, hiding like that.

- You, from the carnival- butterfly man.

- We need to talk, hiro. Now.

- No, that's not what I'm saying, sandra.

Of course I want to be there for homecoming.

I don't want to disappoint claire,

But I don't control my work schedule.

I'll-I'll pick up milk on the way home.

And the greenies for muggles, right. Okay.

Love you. Bye.

Sorry I'm late.

Traffic was actually a bitch.

Homecoming, hooray!

Everything okay?

Yeah, fine.

- 'cause you're making the face.

I'm not making the face.

- Yeah, you are. - I don't make faces.

Yes, you do.

- Every time you lie to sandra,

Your eyebrows furrow, and you get this line right here.

- I wish that I could tell her the truth.

I wish I could tell her that the reason

I'm going to miss homecoming is because I'm trying to catch

A deranged serial killer with super powers.

You know what?

I'm trying to save our daughter's life,

And I can't even tell her.

- The lying sucks. It does.

Especially to family, I mean,

I wish I could tell my mom that I missed

My nephew's bar mitzvah because I was busy bagging

A guy who can shoot fire out of his nose,

But I can't. - So what'd you tell her?

Pms.

- I... I don't think that would work for me.

This is nice.

What is nice?

- Being able to, you know,

Not be so guarded, not be on-

Just nice to have a friend I can talk to.

- Is that what this is? Two friends talking?

What would you call it?

Flirting.

It's just been so long, you don't recognize it.

No, it's not.

- We've been having breakfast twice a week for months now,

Miles out of town.

I mean, the pancakes are not that good.

No, they're not.

- You and I-we can talk about anything.

It's more than friends.

And you're such a cowboy, you'd never admit it,

So I'm taking the initiative, and I...

Booked a motel room.

Crazy, right?

Or not.

Yes.

No, no, no, no. I will be right there.

Don't do anything until I get there.

Ethan's here with the sylar paintings.

- Go. I'll meet you at the office.

- Are you a time traveler too? Are you following me?

What are you doing here, butterfly man?

- The question is, what are you doing here?

I'm here to save charlie.

- And why would you be doing something like that?

- You told me I could right the wrongs of my life

By stepping on the right butterflies.

This is the biggest. It's mothra.

I'm here, hiro, to make sure you understand the magnitude

Of your endeavor.

To protect you.

This isn't a simple spilled slushy.

Look.

You were on a specific path. Everyone was.

Sylar and peter and claire.

I'm making a tremendous sacrifice

To make sure you succeed, hiro.