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Heroes
Season 1, Episode 6 (30 Oct. 2006): “Better Halves”
by Natalie Chaidez, Greg Beeman

Heroes - Season 1, Episode 6

Title: “Better Halves”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 30 Oct. 2006

Publisher: NBC
Written by: Natalie Chaidez
Directed by: Greg Beeman

Keywords: evolution, battle, survive, perish, hero, journey, Hinduism, morality


1 characters in this story:

Character
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Affiliation
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[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Hiro Nakamura Hiro Nakamura hero
CBR Scale: S Bushido / Buddhist
Asian NBC 70

Timecode: 1 minute, 40 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] : Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process, a battle between what exists and what is yet to be born. In the midst of these birth pains, morality loses its meaning. The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice, survive or perish.

Timecode: 20 minutes, 27 seconds:

There is a poster of a Hindu god in the backround. This scene takes place in Chandra Suresh's apartment.

Timecode: 35 minutes, 48 seconds:

[This conversation takes place in Japanese]

Hiro Nakamura: Maybe I'm not the hero I thought I was.

Ando Masahashi: Every hero is on a journey to find his place in the world. But it's a journey. You don't start at the end. Otherwise, they can't make a movie about it later.

Timecode: 37 minutes, 16 seconds:

Sandra Bennet: Was it what you were hoping for?

Claire Bennet: Not really. I mean, I don't know what I was hoping for. I guess I just wanted them to tell me who I am. They don't know any better than I do.

Sandra Bennet: Baby, no one can tell who you are. That's just something you've got to figure out for yourself.

Timecode: 42 minutes, 31 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process. Morality loses its meaning. The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice, survive or perish.