Heroes (TV Series)

Chapter Eight 'Seven Minutes to Midnight' (2006)

Sendhil Ramamurthy: Mohinder Suresh

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Quotes 

• [closing voice over narration] 

  [a heroin-addled Isaac is frantically painting away at a large canvas] 

  Mohinder Suresh : You can run far; you can take your small precautions, but have you really gotten away?

  [cuts to Isaac's painting of Hiro and Ando standing below and gazing upward at a blood-drenched homecoming banner] 

  Mohinder Suresh : Can you ever escape?

  [dissolves into Clare on the living room floor creating her homecoming banner as her father looks on somberly from his recliner] 

  Mohinder Suresh : Or is the truth that you do not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny? But the world is not small, you are...

  [scene ends up back into the Burnt Toast diner where Ando is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Hiro. Camera closes in on a picture that is tacked to a bulletin board among a sea of other photos; it is a picture of Hiro and the waitress smiling over her birthday cake] 

  Mohinder Suresh : And fate can find you anywhere.

• [first lines] 

  Mohinder Suresh : [voice over]  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... To the edge of the Earth, where all is safe again. Quiet and Warm. 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.

• Mira Shenoy : It's the sort of cutting-edge science we used to talk about late into the night.

  Mohinder Suresh : [laughs]  The world's worst pillow talk, I'd say.

• Mohinder Suresh : It's an odd country, America. Everyone there seems so lonely. Including me. Ah, I'm not sure what I accomplished by going there. Only seeing things I wish I never had.

• Mira Shenoy : I've been promoted at the company. Head of all genetic research - can you imagine?

  Mohinder Suresh : Good for you.

  Mira Shenoy : No, good for you.

• Mira Shenoy : We didn't say hello.

  Mohinder Suresh : Hello, Mira.

  Mira Shenoy : Hello, Mohinder.

• Mohinder Suresh : Who are you? What do you want?

• Mrs. Suresh : I know you miss him. And I know you feel guilty, too. Don't.

  Mohinder Suresh : I had a dream last night. You and father were talking before he left. In it, you persuaded him to go.

  Mrs. Suresh : It's just a dream, Mohinder.

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

  Mrs. Suresh : Your father and I were married for thirty three years.

  Mohinder Suresh : 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 Suresh : [to his Mom]  In the dream you said that I could never take the place of her. Who did you mean?

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

  Mohinder Suresh : A sister?

  Mrs. Suresh : Her name was Shanthi. She was five years old when she died, two years after you were born.

• Chandra Suresh : The world needs to know my findings. That's all that's important.

  Mohinder Suresh : It is one thing to publish a book in the comfort of a university, it is another to leave everything behind. Chasing a theory that is pure fantasy.