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Heroes
Season 1, Episode 2 (2 Oct. 2006): “Don’t Look Back”
by Tim Kring, Allan Arkush

Heroes - Season 1, Episode 2

Title: “Don’t Look Back”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 2 Oct. 2006

Publisher: NBC
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Allan Arkush

Keywords: destiny, fate, choice, evolution, God, Good Samaritan, suicide, trials


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Hiro Nakamura Hiro Nakamura hero
CBR Scale: S Bushido / Buddhist
Asian NBC 70

Characters: Mohinder Suresh, Peter Petrelli, Angela Petrelli, Hiro Nakamura

Timecode: 1 minute 0 seconds

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate. But have we truly any choice in when we rise? Or when we fall? Or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction? Is it evolution that takes us by the hand? Does science point our way? Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe?

Peter Petrelli

Timecode: 3 minutes 7 seconds

A newspaper with the headline "Mysterious Good Samaritan Saves Man."

Newspaper headline: Good Samaritan

Timecode: 24 minutes 0 seconds

In this scene, Angela Petrelli informs Peter that his father's death was really suicide.

Peter Petrelli's mom tells him his dad committed suicide larger image larger image

Timecode: 41 minutes 59 seconds

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] For all his bluster, it is the sad province of man that he cannot choose his trials. He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes, hoping that he'll have the courage to answer.

Hiro Nakamura on subway